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The national jobless rate grew from 7.6 percent in January to 8.1 percent in February, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s up 3.3 percent from the year before and the high... More >
Companies that offer their own on-demand software are often particularly open to widespread use of online beta software among their employees, as long as it supports their job functions -- as opposed... More >
Stephen Hultquist used the beta of an application called SugarSync that was supposed to synchronize all his project-management data on Curio on his Mac. The app corrupted the data he had ... More >
One of the great dramas in the rollout of convergence of voice, video and data services is which of the two major telecommunications networks – cable or telephone – will dominate. The p... More >
Barbara Sprenger, CEO of Satellite Telework Centers , wasn’t thinking much about obtaining financing while putting together the business plan for her startup, which is building and renting of... More >
The Software Freedom Law Center and other free and open source software proponents say that software shouldn't be subject to patent law at all. After all, it does nothing more than "execute mathemati... More >
In some ways, machine to machine (M2M) communications is the dark matter of the telecommunications universe. Like the mysterious stuff that represents most of the matter in space -- but that n... More >
As a CIO, you likely understand the value of making your IT processes more consistent and repeatable, a primary objective of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework. But will you be abl... More >
All eyes may be on virtualization and the cloud these days, but another major technology shift is about to get under way in the data center, one that could produce equally impressive improveme... More >
Succession planning, as I wrote in an earlier story, is a strategic task that nearly everyone agrees is important to a company’s success. Yet few companies manage to devote enough time and effort t... More >
As recently as last week, Yale University behavioral economics professor Robert Shiller told reporters the current mess in the financial markets results in part from a failure to manage risk. ... More >
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