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IT Jobs and the Economy: Strong at the Broken Places

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:55 AM ET | Nov 10, 2007

The IT job market and IT salaries remain strong despite the unsettled economic climate: oil at nearly $100 per barrel, inflation looming, and persistent uncertainty in the markets.

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HR | IT

Top IT Salaries Revealed

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:49 AM ET | Nov 7, 2007

Datamation's 2008 IT Salary Guide reveals that IT salaries continue to rise due to a shortage of talent. Demand for IT pros is higher than it's been in five years, the guide to IT salaries reports.

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HR | IT | Management

Meeting Miser Proves It: Time Is Money

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:42 AM ET | Nov 6, 2007

Meetings are known productivity killers, but how much productivity they push six feet under has not been easy to quantify. Until now.

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Accounting | Management

RIM Announces Blackberry Software for Small Businesses

Posted by Cora Nucci 04:21 PM ET | Nov 5, 2007

Smaller businesses are getting more attention than ever from vendors that used to steamroll by them on their way to enterprise customers with big bucks. The latest such vendor is Blackberry maker Research in Motion.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Mobile | Networking & Communications

Google Phone (Legend) Lives

Posted by Cora Nucci 05:24 PM ET | Oct 30, 2007

What has become the Loch Ness Monster of the mobile phone world, the Google Phone, is once again purported to exist.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Microsoft Wants to Stick XP on XOs

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:39 AM ET | Oct 29, 2007

Like an uninvited birthday party guest who shows up on the wrong date with an unwanted gift, Microsoft is "working to adapt a basic version of Windows XP so it is compatible with the non-profit One Laptop per Child Foundation's small green- and-white XO laptop."

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Mobile

Should Employees Experiment with Software, Mobile Devices on Company PCs?

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:57 AM ET | Oct 26, 2007

How much leeway should IT managers give employees? In a debate-style Wall Street Journal Online interview with two CIOs, one kept using phrases like "controlled" and "tightly managed." The other was from Google.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Management

NAC Gets Knocked Around

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:09 AM ET | Oct 25, 2007

"The vast majority of companies are deploying network access control (NAC) technology as a means of securing their endpoints -- but they aren't all happy about it," reads "Is NAC Dying?"

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Hardware & Software | Networking & Communications

World Series Ticketing System Crashes, Rebounds

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:20 AM ET | Oct 24, 2007

The Colorado Rockies were felled by "an external malicious attack" that crashed its online system Monday.

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Security

How Steve Jobs is Like Tom Brady

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:25 AM ET | Oct 23, 2007

On Monday, Apple announced that profits for its last fiscal quarter exploded to 67 percent. "They are the New England Patriots of the tech world, appearing to be an unstoppable force," Samir Bhavnani, analyst for Current Analysis West told InformationWeek.

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Hardware & Software

Take a Sober Look at Linux

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:35 AM ET | Oct 22, 2007

Last week's release of Ubuntu 7.10 marked another milestone on Linux's path from basement wonkitude to businessplace respectability. But the accolades for open source in general, and Linux in particular, often feel like a boozy lovefest.

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Microsoft's Unified Communications Suite: Will It Blend?

Posted by Cora Nucci 05:34 PM ET | Oct 18, 2007

Road warriors, be alert: Microsoft's army of communication evangelists is coming for you, armed "with a duffle bag full of unified voice, video, and data communications products."

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon Moves Linux Forward

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:53 AM ET | Oct 17, 2007

With each release of Ubuntu, its commercial sponsor, Canonical closes more of the gaps that separate Linux from Windows -- and eliminates more reasons for small and midsize businesses to shun and fear Linux.

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Conan O'Brien Foments a Cubicle Revolution

Posted by Cora Nucci 12:17 PM ET | Oct 16, 2007

Conan O'Brien's skills as a funnyman and TV talk show host are well known. But unwittingly, he may turn out to be the father of an office culture revolution and the hero of office workers from the shores of Cubetown to the outskirts of Cubeville.

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Management

IT's Dirty Little Secrets

Posted by Cora Nucci 03:14 PM ET | Oct 15, 2007

If you work in IT -- and if you're reading this, chances are very good that you do work in IT -- how about a sanity check?

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Oracle Makes a Play for BEA, What's in it for Midsize Businesses?

Posted by Cora Nucci 05:32 PM ET | Oct 12, 2007

Oracle made an unsolicited $6.6 billion bid for middleware maker BEA Systems today. Is that good news for small and midsize businesses?

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Hardware & Software

Lawmaker Embarrassed by Nude Pix on Flash Drive

Posted by Cora Nucci 10:03 AM ET | Oct 5, 2007

Is someone at the State Library of Ohio giving out free memory sticks loaded with hidden porn? How else to explain how a state lawmaker's PowerPoint presentation to a high school class Tuesday was briefly punctuated by images of topless women?

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Government | Storage

The IT Managers' Secret Weapon

Posted by Cora Nucci 08:49 AM ET | Oct 4, 2007

IT managers have to be alert and nimble to keep up with the constant swirl of changing technology, evolving standards, thorny compliance issues, demanding users, budget constraints, and looming project deadlines.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Management

Technological Changes Are Hard

Posted by Cora Nucci 12:59 PM ET | Oct 2, 2007

The payroll wreck being endured by tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers serves as a reminder that when software deployment goes wrong, the results can be truly disastrous -- no matter what size business is involved.

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Is Your Domain Name Safe From Porn Pirates?

Posted by Cora Nucci 09:29 AM ET | Sep 27, 2007

Avast. Pirates be boldly thievin' for themselves any toothsome domain name what puts a glint in their good eye. Recall the pair of scurvy dogs who battled for years over the rights to sex.com.

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XO Blazes Trail for Cheaper Laptops

Posted by Cora Nucci 09:03 AM ET | Sep 26, 2007

News this week that the so-called $100-dollar laptop (the XO) will be available to the general public at the still-friendly price of about $200 came with a number of caveats. As I wrote the other day, you'd go nuts trying to run a business on these Romper Room clamshells.

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Laptops for Kids, Not for Biz

Posted by Cora Nucci 08:58 AM ET | Sep 24, 2007

Would you be interested in a rugged laptop that comes with a camera, built-in wireless, flash memory, an open source operating system from Red Hat, a web browser, a word processor, and more, all for about $200?

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Yo' Right Clickas: Here Come MacBook Flippas

Posted by Cora Nucci 02:01 PM ET | Sep 17, 2007

Thirty years ago, rap music was considered little more than a fad. "Ignore it and it will go away," was the mainstream music industry's stance. A few years later, Apple Computer made a splash with its Mac Classic computer.

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Some Total! Calculator Whiz Smokes Competition

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:04 AM ET | Sep 13, 2007

Why is America losing the accounting wars? Outdated software? Slow servers? Legacy reporting systems? Wake up, people. It's because our business schools don't teach students how to add columns of numbers as quickly and accurately as the young woman in this video clip from Japan.

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Splunk and Ye Shall Find

Posted by Cora Nucci 09:57 AM ET | Sep 12, 2007

How often are you peppered with questions like this from your company's accounting department: "What happened to such-and-such transaction? Why didn't it go through?" Or maybe you find yourself spending hour after hour troubleshooting security, network, or compliance issues. If only there was a better, faster way to search your company's data -- a search engine, say. Just for IT data.

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IT to Execs: Go Back to School

Posted by Cora Nucci 08:14 AM ET | Sep 7, 2007

Steve Andriole, a professor of business at Villanova University and contributor to Datamation, ruffled executive feathers last month with Ten Things the IT Department Should Tell Management. Readers from the management ranks "argued that while being a smart ass was entertaining, it wouldn’t sell on mahogany row."

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Virtualized Servers Can Lower IT Costs

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:57 AM ET | Sep 5, 2007

"Within the next three to five years, all data centers are going to run out of either space, power, or cooling, and face some sort of resource crisis," says Mark Monroe, director of sustainable computing at Sun Microsystems.

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iWork's Play for the Small Biz Desktop

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:10 AM ET | Aug 29, 2007

"Productivity suite" used to mean one thing and one thing only: Microsoft Office. Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint. Love it or hate it, most of us use Office daily to grind out bargeloads of documents, spreadsheets, email, and presentations.

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Coming to Your Cell Phone: Ink-free Printing

Posted by Cora Nucci 07:58 AM ET | Aug 28, 2007

Remember the tantalizing promise of the paperless office? I'll believe it when I take delivery of the personal jetpack I've been waiting for since childhood*. But the idea of an inkless printer is almost as close as my next mobile phone.

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If iPhones are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have iPhones

Posted by Cora Nucci 11:59 PM ET | Aug 21, 2007

In Vermont and other states where AT&T coverage is spotty or nonexistent, owning and using an iPhone is an act of defiance. Winooski badass John Canning is a case in point.

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Skype Recovers from Windows Smackdown

Posted by Cora Nucci 04:43 PM ET | Aug 20, 2007

Skype service is "back to normal" as of Saturday morning after an outage last week knocked out the popular VoIP service for two days and left many small businesses fuming.

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If You Get it for Free, Don't Holler When it Breaks

Posted by Cora Nucci 02:26 PM ET | Aug 17, 2007

On Thursday, a software error sent online telephony service from Skype to the sidelines, where it remains, silent and broken, but apparently healing.

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When the Suits Come Marching In

Posted by Cora Nucci 05:18 PM ET | Aug 7, 2007

Heads up. The IT department is no longer a "suit"- free zone.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Management | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

When all you can think about is IT

Posted by Cora Nucci 12:41 PM ET | Aug 2, 2007

So, you think you don't need no stinkin' full-time IT department?

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Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Management | Technology/Telecom

KISS Me, I'm Connected

Posted by Cora Nucci 12:52 PM ET | Aug 1, 2007

I keep hearing Cisco marketing jabber about "the connected life". What is this connected life of which they speak? Does anyone really know? Is it an electrical outlet in every room? Cocktail parties in the Hamptons? A reference to people with webbed toes?

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