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March 16, 2010

Are Your Systems Running an Employee's Side Business?

There’s a lot of talk about the importance of innovation and creativity here at the Midmarket CIO Forum in Orlando, and it begs a question that’s not being asked frequently enough: How do you make su... More >

March 15, 2010

Linux Lunatics Are Annoying, But So is Misinformation About Linux

I have no patience for zealots of any kind, but over the years I’ve found Linux zealots to be especially annoying. They just get way too emotional over the Linux vs. Windows battle, occasionally appr... More >

March 11, 2010

Survey Suggests Value of IT Certifications is Growing

Dice Learning has released a list of the top 10 technology certifications it says help IT workers command higher salaries. A survey of 17,000 technology professionals conducted in January yielded t... More >

Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability

This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.

Three Things You May Not Know about HP SiteScope

Access this webinar to learn three interesting ways to use HP SiteScope that can lower your IT cost for managing IT environments and is flexible to meet the needs of your changing IT environment.

March 9, 2010

National ID Cards: Pointless Privacy Argument Is Getting Old

Here we go again. Every few years the idea of mandating a national ID card with embedded biometric information comes to the front burner of the legislative stove, the privacy whiners have a fit, and ... More >

Why Google Should Stop Scouring the Private E-Mails of Gmail Users

Any delusions of grandeur I have aren’t nearly grand or delusional enough to make me think that anyone at Google cares about the content of the e-mails I send through my Gmail account. I have absolut... More >

March 4, 2010

How to Gain Influence: Make Money with Grease, Gravity and Dirt

If there’s one arrow in your professional quiver whose value can’t be overstated, it’s influence. Influence buys you a voice at the corporate table, the capacity to empower the people who work for yo... More >

March 3, 2010

Rural Outsourcing CEOs Drive Business with Global Vision

I’ve been impressed with what I’ve heard in the past week from the CEOs of two onshore outsourcing companies that are promoting outsourcing to rural areas in the U.S. as an alternative to offshoring.... More >

Really, Microsoft? A Tax to Fight the Vulnerable Software Epidemic?

That’s it. Microsoft’s “Trustworthy Computing” shtick has gone so far over the oxymoronic top that it’s just no longer possible to give the company the benefit of the doubt.   If Microsoft Corpo... More >

February 25, 2010

Online Services’ Senseless Secrecy Draws Senseless ‘Spy’ Label

The issue of online service providers’ law enforcement compliance guidelines made the headlines again this week when Cyrptome.org published a leaked copy of the granddaddy of them all, the U.S. dom... More >

February 24, 2010

Every Victory Counts in H-1B Fraud Battle

When you’re an unemployed IT worker whose job prospects have been hampered by everything from hiring freezes to age discrimination to H-1B visa abuse, it’s a good day whenever you can find at least o... More >

February 22, 2010

Devil Mountain Software Hoax: No Apology, No Forgiveness

ZDNet was miffed. It was gearing up to break a story on Monday morning that it knew would embarrass rival publisher IDG, and it had to run a half-baked story on Sunday morning instead, after IDG st... More >

February 19, 2010

Full Disclosure: Regrets Or Not, I’m Still Using My iPhone

My previous post, "Why I Regret Buying an iPhone," in which I wrote about the ramifications of Apple’s almost psychotic obsession with secrecy, begs an uncomfortable question. Have I stopped using m... More >

February 18, 2010

Why I Regret Buying an iPhone

I have an iPhone, but if I had it to do over again, I would never have bought one.   It works just fine; I haven’t experienced the problems with AT&T that a lot of iPhone owners complain abo... More >

February 17, 2010

Economic Upheaval Changes Meaning of 'Diversity'

Discussions of diversity in the workplace tend to fall into two buckets. They’re either robotic proceedings in which requisite, if fleeting, attention is paid to providing an inclusive environment fo... More >

February 15, 2010

Rural Sourcing: Why ‘IT Inbreeding’ Is Unhealthy

In my post, “Domestic Sourcing: Overcoming the 'India of the United States' Stigma” last week, I mentioned that the agenda of this week’s 2010 Outsourcing World Summit in Orlando includes a present... More >