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Michele Pepe-Warren

Webcast: Improve Your Hiring Practices
It's tough out there, and some SMBs don't even have the word "hiring" in their vocabulary right now, but if all the surveys are pointing in the right direction, many small and midsize businesses do intend to beef up their ranks in the coming months.

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Ed Hansberry

AT&T Announces Network Upgrades, Gets An Ear Full
AT&T sent out a letter to its wireless users explaining that they plan to spend between 18 and 19 billion dollars to upgrade their network. I'm not sure if they were expecting a pat on the back, but I am pretty sure they were not expecting to get blasted by their customers on their Facebook fan page.

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George Hulme

iPhone iOS Devices Jailbroken
Hackers are claiming to have uncovered a flaw within iPhone and iPod Touch hardware that will make it easy for users to jailbreak their devices. And, if these reports prove accurate, it’ll not be a trivial workaround for Apple to fix.

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Bob Evans

iPad Fever Hits SAP: 17,000 Units In Next 12 Months
SAP intends to dramatically expand its iPad rollout from the 1,500 employees who have the devices today to 17,000 by this time next year, equalling about 35% of SAP's global workforce, says computing.co.uk. And, not coincidentally, 17,000 iPads would match the number of Blackberries currently in use across the company.

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Julie Mohr

Five Quick Wins For IT Service Management
If you build it, they will come according to Julie L. Mohr, principle research analyst and author at BlueprintAudits.com, who, in this interview, discusses the challenges businesses face in changing processes to support consistency and provide scalability as well as why ITIL gets a bad rap and how to convince management that service management is valuable.

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Enterprise Efficiency

Your Business Isn't as Special(ized) as You Think
Does software as a service (SaaS) really need to be customized for your particular industry? These four questions can help you find out

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Nicole Ferraro

Feds Invite Public's Help With Challenge.gov
The US General Services Administration gets behind Challenge.gov, a new site for crowdsourcing solutions to problems

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Jonathan Erickson

Parallel Studio 2011: Now We Know What Happened to Ct, Cilk++, and RapidMind
Intel has released Parallel Studio 2011, a suite of tools intended to simplify and speed up the development of parallel programs running on multicore architectures. Based on the Parallel Studio package released last year, Parallel Studio 2011 adds expanded threading libraries and a threading advisor to its C++ compiler, error-checking and profiling tools.



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iOS 4.1 Fixes Proximity Sensor (For Most)

iPhone 4 users indicate the update resolves the proximity issue, though some say the problem persists even after upgrading.

Gov 2.0 Summit: Project Envisions Shared Government Technology

Civic Commons aims to bring federal, state and local IT operations and services together by sharing applications and IT resources.

Global CIO: CEOs Who Don't Bleed Green Must Go, Says Forrester

The 71% of CEOs who are more concerned with their company's financial health than with "the environment" should be fired, says a Forrester senior VP.

Adobe Acrobat, Reader Under Attack From Zero-Day Exploit

Turning off JavaScript in Adobe Reader advised to protect against the critical vulnerability.

Join The Discussion: Oracle, HP And Mark Hurd: The Fallout

Could HP's lawsuit against Oracle over hiring Hurd threaten the longstanding technology partnership between the two companies? Who else might might feel the impact? Share your thoughts.

Mozilla Updates Firefox 4 Beta

Firefox 4 Beta 5 features improved graphics and sound support.


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Doug Henschen

Reconsidering TPC Database Performance Benchmarks
Some say they are abstract if not downright misleading. But TPC benchmarks remain the only available standardized test of total-system performance and cost. Use them with caution.

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Eric Zeman

T-Mobile Makes HTC G2 With HSPA+ Official
T-Mobile announced on Thursday its first HSPA+ smartphone, the HTC-made G2. It will have a 3.7-inch screen, 800MHz Snapdragon processor, and 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video capture

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Fritz Nelson

InformationWeek 500 Preview: The Growth Imperative
The annual InformationWeek 500 Conference will commence Sept. 12-15. As organizations explore new ways to grow, this year's gathering will provide the fodder and inspiration to propel IT into the center of that discussion. Come join us at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, Calif.

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Bob Evans

Global CIO: CEOs Who Don't Bleed Green Must Go, Says Forrester
The 71% of CEOs who are more concerned with their company's financial health than with "the environment" should be fired, says a Forrester senior VP.

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Anthony Guerra

Guerra On Healthcare: Implementing EMRs Despite Reluctant Leadership
Hospitals must become meaningful users of electronic medical records, but not every hospital CEO is willing to step up and lead the charge. Here's how healthcare CIOs can get leadership on board and get the job done.

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: Why Some People 'Dread' Collaboration
If workers use certain collaboration tools just because they’re compelled to do so, they'll get lost in the white noise of misplaced communications.

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: VDI Is An Enabler, But Not A Big Cost Saver
Desktop virtualization may not save a dime over the long haul, but it will let IT use information and serve the business better.

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Chris Murphy

Global CIO: Chevron CIO Wrings Value Out Of Existing IT
A conversation with Chevron CIO Louie Ehrlich on IT opportunity and reshaping the role of the CIO.

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Craig Mathias

Mathias On Mobility: The Wireless LAN Architecture Question
Should the control plane be centralized or distributed, and should data from the Access Point flow through the controller?

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Briefs & Reports

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As virtual servers, storage and applications become the norm, vendors are offering products to consolidate host communications into a single channel.

Research: WAN Optimization Research: WAN Optimization
The notion of converged services and the buzz around private clouds are creating stress on the WAN. Are optimization appliances, physical and virtual, the answer?

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