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Ordinarily I tend to agree with many of the things PCWorld's John C. Dvorak has to say, but a column he wrote this week (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2343209,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000584)...

When things go wrong in the server room or the network operations center (NOC), employees are usually eager to point the finger somewhere else before it can be pointed at them. While absolving...

Oh, the poor beleaguered BlackBerry Storm. It just can't catch a break. Mobile phone company Orange delayed its launch in the UK last year because of undisclosed "software issues...

Few things are more cringe-inducing than admitting to your boss that you lost your company-issued laptop. No matter how careful you are about securing your computer, sometimes all it takes is a...

Unless you were unplugged and on living on a Himalayan mountaintop last week, you no doubt heard about the Great Facebook Flap of 2009. If not, then be sure to read Ron Miller's excellent recap...

As President Obama's economic stimulus package winds its way through the politico, people in the tech sector wait with bated breath to find out what it will mean for the IT industry. Of particular...

Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile made an interesting observation on his blog (http://openbookonbi.blogspot.com/) last week about what enterprise information systems need to do in order to appeal to...

A reader at Slashdot posed an interesting question (http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/222229) this week. His (or her?) company has instituted a new scheduling policy known as "9/80." It...

India-based IT company Satyam (http://www.satyam.com/) is facing scandal after its chairman, Ramalingam Raju, admitted he falsified approximately $1 billion of profit in the last several years. The...

Wired Magazine reports this month on Männerspielplatz (http://www.maennerspielplatz.de/), a playground of sorts that's designed specifically with men in mind. Located in Germany, guys come to try...

Quick, what segment of your IT setup uses the most electricity: your servers and network technology or the assorted PCs scattered around the cube farm? If you said the stuff in the server room,...

An IT expert within the Bush administration was killed in a plane crash over the weekend when his single-engine airplane went down just short of the Akron, Ohio, airport where he was trying to land....

I've been noticing a trend in recent weeks among large companies, small businesses, and consulting firms and I must say, it warms my heart. It seems that people are more interested in giving to the...

If you're a tech worker that's been recently laid-off, Silicon Alley Insider wants to talk to you (http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/seeking-laid-off-tech-workers). Beware, though, what they're...

No matter which political camp in which you choose to pitch your tent, it's hard to deny that technology is at the heart of President-Elect Barack Obama new plans for the United States. As we learn...

Proving that no holiday is sacred, The Register is reporting today on not one but two scams involving fake products to be on the lookout for this shopping season. Graphics card vendor HIS sent out an...

As if tech workers didn't have enough to worry about, now there's a study (http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/11/29/2003429804) claiming people who work in high-tech industries are...

Open source software is being taken seriously as a viable alternative to expensive proprietary applications but it's important to realize that, like its commercial brethren, it comes with a license...

Hands down, April Fool's Day is an IT worker's favorite "holiday" because there are so many ways to mess with an unsuspecting computer (http://www.aprilfoolzone.com/computer.htm) user. Halloween runs...

From the "some-studies-will-grasp-at-any-straw" department comes word that female tech workers are more likely than their male counterparts to get hurt in the workplace. If that's the case, I'll bet...

I'm sure this will come as a total shock to you, but a recent survey (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/10/20/daily54.html) by IT consulting firm Robert Half Technology has identified...

Transparency. We all talk about how companies, politicians, journalists, and even bloggers should strive for it. As a strangely intriguing way to maintain transparent business practices at marketing...

You have to give Japan-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. (http://www.kayac.com/) points for creativity. Many IT-centric businesses have a tech worker bee or marketing guru maintain the company blog,...

One of my favorite things about Twitter is how people can use it to live-blog conferences they're attending. Case in point: today, I've been watching Joseph Thornley (http://twitter.com/thornley),...

Think you've got the best sysadmin in the history of earth working for you? Help him or her win a brand new Apple MacBook Pro in this year's 2008 Sysadmin of the Year...

Twitter users are a loyal bunch and few would argue that it's a useful networking tool. The one thing Twitter is not, however, is private. While that's not a big deal for most people, it certainly is...

As I watch the founders of GeekPAC (http://www.geek-pac.org/blog/), a political action group aimed at defending the information rights of U.S. citizens, get themselves up and running I can't help but...

In case my recent post about the stress levels of IT workers (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3011.html) made you want to start looking for a new job, the least I can do is offer you some tips....

Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of the new corporate catch-phrases that many claim reduces a businesses operating costs while increasing its efficiency. The jury is still out on just how...

MindTouch announced today (http://wiki.mindtouch.com/Press_Room/Press_Releases/2008-07-23) at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/home) (OSCON) that a...

Tamar Weinberg's recently wrote about five good reasons to start using Twitter (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2287.html), the popular microblogging service. If it convinced you to take the...