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CIO News Watch

July 25, 2008

Welcome to CIO News Watch, where CIO.com Online Writer Al Sacco keeps
you up to date with the headlines technology executives can't afford
to miss.


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This section of the CIO News Watch is sponsored by Epicor

Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain

The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity
to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing
concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper describes lean manufacturing
and how it can be applied to supply chain management.

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1. Fugitive Spam King Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide

That would be SAP, the German software giant that is as unexciting as it gets.
Here's why people don't care, and also why they should.
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25477/0/

2. San Francisco's Mayor Gets Back Keys to the Network

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs
Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's
multimillion dollar wide area network.
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25478/0/

3. Google Knol: Like Wikipedia but for Cash

Knol - short for 'a unit of knowledge' - is similar to Wikipedia in that anyone
can write an article on (almost) anything, but Wikipedia is a collective endeavor
where anyone can both write and edit pieces and Knol focuses on preserving
ownership of articles.
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25479/0/

4. BlackBerry Media Sync Brings iTunes Music to RIM Smartphones

BlackBerry users can now easily sync music from iTunes libraries with their
smartphones' media players thanks to a new, free piece of software from
Research In Motion (RIM), aptly named BlackBerry Media Sync.
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25480/0/

5. Umpire Desktop: MLB Turns to IBM for Web 2.0 Technology

Using IBM's Websphere Portal, MLB umpires can now get information on weather,
player statistics and history to help them prepare for games.
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This section of the CIO News Watch is sponsored by InQuira

Implementing Knowledge Management: Practitioners Share Best Practices

A knowledge management (KM) implementation can boost support efficiency and customer
satisfaction. Or it can be a colossal expense that yields little return. What makes the difference?
Find out from organizations that have undertaken a successful KM initiative. Get ten best practices
that have been proven to help ensure a winning implementation.

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6. Microsoft CEO Ballmer Seeks to Justify Online Services Push

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sought to justify to financial analysts the
losses from the company's online services group and to defend plans for
increasing investment in the group.
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7. Open-Network Chief Sees Verizon Following His Lead

The head of the new open-network initiative at Verizon Wireless sees
the idea of allowing any device or application on the network as an
unstoppable force.
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25484/0/

8. US Man Sentenced to Four Years for Piracy, ID Theft

An Oregon man has been sentenced to four years in prison for selling
counterfeit software on eBay, aggravated identity theft and mail fraud,
the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25485/0/

9. China Tops 250 Million Internet Users

China reasserted itself as the world's largest Internet market with 253
million total users by the end of June, the China Internet Network
Information Centre (CNNIC) said Wednesday in its semiannual report (Chinese).
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25486/0/

10. US Poised for Broadband Explosion, Says Gartner

The U.S. has fallen behind on broadband penetration, but that will change
in the next four years, according to a report from Gartner.
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25487/0/


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This section of the CIO News Watch is sponsored by Logicalis

Logicalis' Making IT Matter Feature Story - Unified Communications: "More Than Just Talk"

The promise of Unified Communications is more than just the combination of data, voice and
video sent over a single Internet Protocol (IP) based network. Unified Communications provides
a true integrated communications network where: complexity is removed, access is no longer
limited, productivity is increased and business processes are streamlined. When it comes to
Unified Communications, there is no substitute for experience.

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CIO.com Hot Picks for the Week

1. Five Ways to Put Your Value in the Spotlight
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2. Everyone Works at Home at Chorus
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3. Meet the Millionaire CIOs
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4. How Did Apple's Supply Chain Fare During the iPhone 3G Rollout?
http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/2261485/25994832/25492/0/

5. Five Things Kevin Mitnick Has Learned About Computer Security
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We hope you've found CIO News Watch to be informative
and an enjoyable read. Please let us know what you think
by dropping an e-mail with your feedback. Until next time ...

Al Sacco
CIO News Watch Editor
CXO Media
asacco@cxo.com

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