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Eric Zeman
Mobile Round-Up: iPhone On Verizon Edition
Here's a smattering of Verizon Wireless stories that turned up Friday. Chief among them is the possibility that Verizon Wireless plans to offer the iPhone...at least in theory. Other Verizon stories include an intriguing Google goosing, and an official Verizon response to the FCC.
Serdar Yegulalp
Hail And Farewell, Part One
The only constant thing is change, and change has come my way. As of the end of 2009, I'll be leaving InformationWeek -- so over the next couple of days I thought I'd sum up a few points gleaned during my time here.
George Crump
Beware Of Cloud Transfer Costs
When data center managers are looking at cloud storage solutions the primary focus is on the monthly cloud storage capacity cost. One of the hidden charges is the transfer or bandwidth costs. This is the cost essentially for the amount of data you access over the cloud. We have seen cases where this cost can be as much or more than the cost of the capacity!
Bob Evans
Oracle Says Market's Recovering But SAP's Unraveling
Oracle's conference call Thursday with financial analysts offered great insights on how its top three executives view their business and the overall IT market, their customers' spending habits, Oracle's products, and its competitors (see second half of headline). Here are 10 such comments you won't want to miss.
Dave Methvin
Microsoft Copy-Wrong Yet Again
It was just last month when Microsoft got into an embarrassing incident with a utility they offered in their store site -- it was filched from open-source code. This month we find that the design and code for the MSN Juku service offered in China was mostly copied from a small startup named Plurk.
Nicole Ferraro
IE Goes Caroling With 'Deck the Web'
That's right: We've gone all Glee for the holidays
Tracey Hughes
Hurry Quick! There is Pandemonium on the Blackboard!
Things do get a bit dicey when one is in uncharted waters and decisions have to be made. This parallelism, multicore, and many core stuff has lots of different entry and exit points. We can have parallelism and concurrency at the hardware layers, operating system layers, network layers, database layers, application layers, design layers, and requirement layers.
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Taser Builds Cisco-Based Data Warehouse
Built on Cisco's Unified Computing System, the cloud-based virtual data warehouse stores police videos for evidence.
Top 10 Smartphone Advances Of 2009
As smartphones further cemented their place in the enterprise, Apple, Motorola, Google Android, and RIM Blackberry vied for the spotlight.
Chief Of The Year: Vivek Kundra
The federal CIO is driving change within the government's lumbering IT operations. A lengthy to-do list will test his ideas and power of persuasion.
Federal CIO Kundra Talks IT Strategy
Nine months into the job, Vivek Kundra discusses IT initiatives, the path ahead, and challenges in driving the Obama Administration's 'open government' agenda.
Government Technologist: Holding The Fed CIO's Feet To The Fire
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra needs to rein in the government's ever-growing IT operations. He could learn a few things about cost management from private sector CIOs.
Practical Analysis: Enterprise IT Meets Survivor Syndrome
We can't co back to the staffing levels we knew, but how will your organization adjust as the economy slowly rights itself?
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- Full Nelson: Many Eyes, Dancing Data
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- Biden Kicks Off Broadband Stimulus
- MySQL Campaign Heats Up
- H1N1 Hotline Spreads Flu Info
- Oracle's Earnings Up 15% In 2Q
- Rackspace Offers FathomDB As Service
- Intel Unveils 32-NM Chips
- Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison On The Future Of IT
- Global Semiconductor Revenue Falls In 2009
- Twitter Downed By 'Iranian' Hackers
- FCC Preparing Broadband Plan
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Bob Evans
Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison On The Future Of IT
Ellison speaks out on Oracle's new Sun-enabled strategy and how that points to where the entire IT industry is headed.
Howard Anderson
Global CIO: The CIO's Christmas
A holiday poem, with apologies to Dr. Seuss.
Rob Preston
Down To Business: The 'Jobs Summit' And The Role Of Government
Policy makers don't 'create' IT and other jobs without introducing a ton of waste. They do best when they grease the skids of output and trade.
Art Wittmann
Practical Analysis: Enterprise IT Meets Survivor Syndrome
We can't co back to the staffing levels we knew, but how will your organization adjust as the economy slowly rights itself?
John Foley
Government Technologist: Holding The Fed CIO's Feet To The Fire
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra needs to rein in the government's ever-growing IT operations. He could learn a few things about cost management from private sector CIOs.
Alexander Wolfe
Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip giant, talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking.
Fritz Nelson
Full Nelson: Many Eyes, Dancing Data
With data taking center stage in every organization, the ability to make sense and take action on that data is vital. Technology like Many Eyes will make that process more inviting.
Chris Murphy
Global CIO: General Motors CIO On 4 Essential IT Skills
He'd like to hire people with all 4 into the new GM. But how can IT pros get this broad experience?
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- SAP Enters Strategic Relationship With Valero Energy Corporation
- Friends Play Top Role in Video Gamers' Purchase Decisions
- Zscaler Protects Against Adobe Acrobat Reader Zero-Day Exploits
- It Takes 'Just two Eyes' to Bring Missing Children Home for the Holidays
- Rick Blair Named CEO of Clarity Digital Group and Examiner.com
- Vertafore Releases Consumer Rate Quotes for Comparative Rating
- European Cultural Channel ARTE Selects ViewCast(R) Media Server to Manage Growing Media Assets
- print24 Expands Its Global Presence to North America
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