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Eric Zeman

Latest iPad SDK Hints At New Touch Gestures
Late Tuesday, Apple made a new version of the software developers kit available for iPhone OS 3.2 for the iPad. As per usual, developers have made some interesting discoveries buried in the code, including some support for new finger gestures.

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Vanessa Alvarez

Management Tools Will Be Cloud Glue
The year has started out with significant M&A activity from vendors looking to deliver the necessary components for cloud computing. They all come to market with their own technologies and solutions, but there's one offering that's a must-have.

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George Hulme

As Celebrities And Millions Joined Twitter Criminals Followed
Anyone who has been using social networks for the past couple of years has anecdotally witnessed an increase in malicious activity and phishing attacks. Today, a security firm released its analysis of 19 million Twitter accounts and has quantified just how rapidly malicious activity on Twitter has grown. Hint: it's been significant recently.

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Bob Evans

5 Reasons To Raise CIO's Pay
The 30-year-old CIO of a Chicago-area public school district has a salary of $96,000 and until recently earned an additional $24,000 by serving as school-board treasurer. When the district's teachers accepted pay cuts due to budget limitations, they carped about the $24,000 stipend—so the CIO gave it up, but requested the board consider increasing his salary. Here are 5 reasons why he deserves a big raise.

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George Crump

Extending Your Storage
In our last entry we discussed what to look for in a new storage system. But what if you don't have the budget for a new storage system or your current system is not old enough that you dare bring up the subject of replacing it? The alternative is to look for solutions that can extend the usefulness of what you currently have.

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Enterprise Efficiency

Do Your Employees Hate the IT Department?
CIOs would do well to put the needs of their companies ahead of the comfort of their own departments

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Nicole Ferraro

Cisco Preps for Next-Generation Internet
Cisco unveils the CRS-3, which it claims will will set the 'foundation' for the next-generation Internet

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Stephen Blair-chappell

How To Do Parallelism Without Getting Egg On Your Face
The other day I put together a trivial parallel code example that was going to be used in a 'how-to' document. The code was nothing much more complicated than a parallel 'hello world'. The sort of thing you could write while asleep. I then sent the code to three colleagues for review. Well, embarrassingly the code came back, the reviewers pointing out that the code had a data race and the results of the program were inconsistent.





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CA To Buy Nimsoft For $350 Million

Acquisition of the system monitoring firm is a move toward growing CA's customer base in the cloud and managed service provider space.

Amazon Seeking Kindle Browser Refresh?

An Amazon job posting for a browser developer may signal changes to the top-selling e-reader's Web browser.

GDC: iPhone Developers Face Hidden Risks

Most iPhone developers don't fully understand the regulatory compliance challenges that accompany app distribution.

How CEOs See Cloud Computing

Patty the CIO has a chat with CEO Jack about the revenue-raising virtues of cloud computing.

Guerra On Healthcare: Vendors Vie For Platform Space

Vendors duke it out at HIMSS conference in bid to provide the healthcare platform that everyone wants.

Tibco Brings Analytics To Spotfire 3.1

The Spotfire Statistics Services option exposes S+ and R models within a layman's data analysis and data visualization environment.


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Bob Evans

Global CIO Quick Take: 100 Questions Your Boss Asks
What questions are top of mind among business executives? Here's a list of 100 from management consultant Patty Azzarello.

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Craig Mathias

Mathias On Mobility: Skype & Verizon Are Path To 4G
The landline/Internet communications services we so depend upon will be available in the mobile world sooner rather than later.

Howard Anderson
Howard Anderson

Global CIO: There's No Money Left
That sucking sound you hear is the sound of yearly software maintenance fees.

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Anthony Guerra

Guerra On Healthcare: Vendors Vie For Platform Space
Vendors duke it out at HIMSS conference in bid to provide the healthcare platform that everyone wants.

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: Electronic Healthcare Won't Be Denied
Obstacles abound, no doubt. But three huge constituents will demand it: government, large providers -- and the customers who will benefit.

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: Are You Neglecting Your WAN?
Web apps and consolidated data centers are adding pressure, and video will bring even more. It could be time to explore new options.

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Alexander Wolfe

Server Den: IBM Reloads Enterprise Branding
IBM will adopt "Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet" as its data center marketing moniker, putting distance between today's "dynamic infrastructure" and the me-too catch phrases used by competitors.

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Fritz Nelson

Adobe, Microsoft Spar Over Flash, Silverlight, HTML5
Adobe and Microsoft execs debate the merits of Flash and Silverlight, the looming threat of HTML5, and the battle for mobile dominance in our weekly Fritz & David Show Podcast.

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Chris Murphy

Global CIO: BMC CEO On Rogue Clouds, Oracle
CEO Bob Beauchamp talks trends in data centers and IT management.

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