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IBM Ruins Lives, Impoverishes America, Says eWeek
Mar 17, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
eWeek's hallucination appears to go like this: IBM has become "a model company for killing good U.S. jobs," it has "ruined" an untold number of lives, and it has made "the United States a poorer part of the planet." My oh my--and just what terrible acts did mean old IBM perpetrate to deserve such condemnation from eWeek?

Data Center In Bomb Shelter Will Heat Helsinki Homes
Mar 15, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
Even as data centers are placed in increasingly exotic locations and tied to peripheral issues ranging from tourist attractions to economic-growth strategies, this one's a real doozy: a new Helsinki data center built in a former bomb shelter under a historic cathedral will heat several hundred Helsinki homes while being cooled by frigid Baltic seawater.

Gates, Ellison Top Billionaires From Tech Industry
Mar 12, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
Seventeen tech-industry executives made the new Forbes list of billionaires, led by Bill Gates in the #2 spot and Larry Ellison in the #6 spot. Can it be true that Facebook parvenu Mark Zuckerberg outranks Apple icon Steve Jobs? Here's a list of those 17 along with their ranks and estimated net worths.

5 Reasons To Raise CIO's Pay
Mar 10, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
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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