Hardware: Tom Yager got his testing hands on Apple’s Power Mac G5 Quad and, while most of the review he is working on shall remain secret for the time being, he did offer one preliminary observation. “All I can say now is that the Quad is (ahem) faster than the dual 2 GHz Power Mac G5 that’s sitting next to it,” Yager wrote in Power Mac G5 Quad changes the weather.Best of the blogs: Ed Foster dissects Chase’s frustrating opt-out policy in The Gripe Line, and Oliver Rist on the virtues of Web-based outsourcing. The news beat: Yahoo strikes a deal to provide WordPress blogging software to its hosting clients. Sun offers a 60-day free trial for Niagara servers, one-third shorter than the company originally suggested it might be. And best practices are seen as key in IBM’s software portfolio. Listen now to the audio companion for this blog. InfoWorld Daily Podcast: Enterprise technology in 5 minutes or less.https://akamai.infoworld.com/podcasts/IFW_Daily_12-20-05.mp3 Technology Industry