Are Mac Lovers Better Than Everyone Else?
Owning a Mac indicates more than a love for eye-candy tech and
simple user interfaces. Mac owners are more likely than others to be
individualistic and competitive, a new survey says.
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5 Steps Every CIO Should Follow to Increase Operational Maturity through IT Automation
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Google Finds Evil All Over the Web
The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research
published recently by Google. The search giant trained its Web
crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year
and found that about one in 1,000 Web pages are malicious.
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BlackBerry-Maker RIM, Motorola Exchange Patent Lawsuits
Research In Motion, maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless handheld,
and struggling cell phone producer Motorola have filed patent
infringement lawsuits against each other over technologies used
within their wireless devices.
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Secrets to PMO Success: Maximize Value for Your Business
In this webcast, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Lewis Cardin will discuss the CIOs role in ensuring PMO effectiveness and highlight ten secrets to PMO success. Lori Ellsworth from Compuware Corporation will then highlight ways automation helps IT organizations achieve their goals to maximize business value.
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Yahoo Protects Employees in Case of Microsoft Takeover
Yahoo has introduced two new severance plans that will protect its
employees if Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid is successful,
it said in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Demand for Executives Is Slowing
Executive-level job-seekers beware: Companies are putting the
recruiters' confidence in the market for executive employment
is waning, according to recent research.
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Mobile Broadband Heads Upstream
The first generation of High Speed Packet Access mobile services
increased download speeds to mobile phones. Now carriers are also
launching HSPA services, also known as Turbo-3G, with faster
upload speeds, making the mobile office even more of a reality.
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Mozilla Opens E-Mail Subsidiary
The Mozilla Foundation this week opened Mozilla Messaging,
a new subsidiary focused on developing its free,
open-source Thunderbird e-mail software.
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Microsoft Scrambles to Quash 'Friendly' Worm Story
Microsoft is moving to counter some scathing comments regarding a security
paper authored by researchers at its Cambridge, England, facility. The
paper explores how a more efficient method could, for example, be used
for distributing patches or other software.
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Survey: IT Spending Set for Slowdown in Q2
Twenty-three percent of respondents to a ChangeWave Research study
said their companies will reduce or halt IT spending in the second
quarter of this year, results that underscore recent concerns
about a U.S. recession.
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SAP and EMC Jump Into the Cloud Together
Speculation of a burgeoning partnership between SAP and storage provider EMC
to offer a suite of hosted business applications and storage services kicked
off last week. In a recent interview, the company's president of SAP Labs NA,
hinted at a partnership between the German software giant and the storage giant.
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Al Sacco
CIO News Watch Editor
CXO Media
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