Leopard mauls competition ... 10 career killers to avoid ... Microsoft's OneCare 2.0 due next week

In this issue:
- VeriSign to divest several lines of business
- Microsoft's OneCare 2.0 due next week
- Leopard mauls competition, takes half Japan retail market
- Nokia unveils successor to N95
- Judge to White House: Back up e-mail
- 10 career killers to avoid
- NASA research to ease drunkenness
- Win a Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt!


TODAY'S NEWS

VeriSign to divest several lines of business
VeriSign plans to refocus its business on its two core activities, managing DNS infrastructure and selling SSL security certificates for Web sites.

Microsoft's OneCare 2.0 due next week
Microsoft Corp. plans to release a major update to its Windows Live OneCare security suite next week, according to online retailer Amazon.com.

Leopard mauls competition, takes half Japan retail market
Apple's new OS X Leopard took a 53.9 percent share of the Japan OS market in October despite being on sale for only the last six days of the month.

Researcher: Half a million database servers have no firewall
Think your database server is safe? You may want to double-check. According to security researcher David Litchfield, there are nearly half a million database servers exposed on the Internet, without firewall protection.

Nokia unveils successor to N95
Nokia has unveiled a new high-end mobile phone with a 5 megapixel camera and a built-in GPS navigation system.

3GSM ASIA: China Unicom also open to iPhone talks, CEO says
China Unicom may be open to selling Apple's iPhone in China, giving Apple a second option for bringing its device to the world's most populous market.

Apple's new phones lead to iTypos
iPhone users make mistakes more often when texting compared to users of phones with hard keys, a new study found.

Former FBI, CIA employee pleads guilty to computer crime
A former employee of the FBI and CIA has pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship and accessing a U.S. government computer system to unlawfully find information about her relatives and the Islamic organization Hizballah.

Judge to White House: Back up e-mail
Judge Henry Kennedy in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a restraining order banning the White House from deleting backup copies of e-mail messages.


CAREER TIP

10 career killers to avoid
Thomas Hoffman, Computerworld

Like other types of workers, IT professionals can be vulnerable to committing career sabotage -- sometimes without even recognizing it.

To help IT professionals become more aware of potential career blunders, Computerworld spoke with John M. McKee, president of BusinessSuccessCoach.net, a Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based career coaching and consulting firm. McKee is the author of Career Wisdom: 101 Proven Strategies to Ensure Workplace Success. Here are 10 career-killers, with McKee's advice about how to recognize and avoid them.


ITWHIRLED

NASA research to ease drunkenness
Sometimes people grouse about all the tax money that goes to supposedly esoteric space-based research. How can it help us in the real world? Well, a test series NASA developed to detect Martian life is now being used to determine if a wine will cause the dreaded "red wine headache."

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