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The Growing Sophistication of Smartphone App Development
Smartphones are more powerful, networks are faster and people are more willing to perform complex and sensitive tasks from the road. An important link in the chain of increased mobile productivity that doesn’t get too much attention, however, is the way in which the applications used by these... More >
Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification
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The IBM Rational Jazz Strategy for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management
This white paper discusses the Jazz project, a set of integrated tools and processes that help people working on distributed teams become more effective in producing software solutions.
Microsoft Releases Surface SDK
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Google Unveils Early Version of Chrome OS
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Microsoft Offers Public Beta of Office 2010
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Budget & Finance Toolkit for IT - 2010 Edition
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Define the rules at your company for the proper use of social media platforms such as Blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. Ensure your users are spending their time productively and company resources are being used for the business.