Mar 18th, 2009 - 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 has left me scratching my head. He asserts that the email system is fundamentally flawed and has pronounced it "dead." Email? Dead? What?
Dvorak gives readers nine reasons to...
(Read More) Mar 10th, 2009 - 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 oneself of wrongdoing is reflexive human behavior, it shouldn't override dealing with the problem at hand....
(Read More) Feb 27th, 2009 - 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." The Bold's much anticipated arrival in the U.S. got bumped back nearly six months. Now sales of one of Research In...
(Read More) Feb 27th, 2009 - 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 second for it to vanish in a crowded airport or bus.
To increase the chances of getting your laptop...
(Read More) Feb 23rd, 2009 - 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 at TechTreasures.
ComputerWorld's Frank Hayes posted a great article this morning that takes a look...
(Read More) Feb 16th, 2009 - 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 interest is the section of the bill that details how the administration plans to go about digitizing...
(Read More) Feb 10th, 2009 - Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile made an interesting observation on his blog last week about what enterprise information systems need to do in order to appeal to younger workers. He says that because the up-and-coming workforce is so completely comfortable with technology, their expectations will be...
(Read More) Jan 14th, 2009 - A reader at Slashdot posed an interesting question this week. His (or her?) company has instituted a new scheduling policy known as "9/80." It compresses 80 hours of work into only nine days, instead of the more traditional 10. In exchange for working longer days, employees get every other Friday...
(Read More) Jan 8th, 2009 - India-based IT company Satyam is facing scandal after its chairman, Ramalingam Raju, admitted he falsified approximately $1 billion of profit in the last several years. The incident, which some are calling India's Enron, may end up costing hundreds of IT workers in Australia their jobs and...
(Read More) Dec 27th, 2008 - Wired Magazine reports this month on Männerspielplatz, a playground of sorts that's designed specifically with men in mind. Located in Germany, guys come to try their hand at things many have only dreamed of: riding dirtbikes through mud, driving a backhoe, or operating jackhammers on mounds of...
(Read More) Dec 23rd, 2008 - 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, you're wrong.
According to recent data released by Forrester Research, desktop computers, printers,...
(Read More) Dec 22nd, 2008 - 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. Michael Connell has made headlines recently for his alleged part in the rigging of both of George W....
(Read More) Dec 19th, 2008 - 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 less fortunate this year than exchanging wacky Secret Santa gifts or having indulgent holiday...
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