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2008 … Not a Year to Write Home About, Except for Just One Momentous Moment

Windows 7 and Office 14 Would Look Good on Each Other

Prediction Software: The New Science Behind the Art of Making Hit Movies

RIM: BlackBerry “Atomic” Trackball Rumors Untrue

Social Networking Vendor Pays It Forward to Unemployed Techies

Socialtext is offering its social networking tools free to laid-off workers who want to form alumni networks and share job leads. Former Yahoo, Divx and PeopleSoft employees have already tapped into the deal.

Can Mozilla Support Claims of Firefox Being the Most Secure Web Browser? (Part 2)

Is Firefox really the most secure Web browser on the planet? Microsoft's Jeff Jones compares its vulnerabilities to those of Internet Explorer.

How to Make Offshore Outsourcing Deals Withstand Crisis Situations

The Satyam fiasco. Economic recession and budget cuts. These 5 tips will help IT departments create effective contingency plans to transfer services back in house or to another service provider when the unexpected happens.

ERP Backlash Coming Soon to a Company Near You

IT Professionals’ Confidence in the Economy, Jobs Plummets in Fourth Quarter of 2008

Palm Pre Touchstone Wireless Charger: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know

CIO Compensation: How Much Is Too Much in a Recession?

Windows 7 on Netbooks: Does Linux Stand a Chance?

Linux had the early lead but doesn't have the marketing might to threaten Microsoft on netbooks, analysts say. Problem is, until Windows 7 arrives, Microsoft's stuck pitching old XP to this new market.

Cloud Computing: What Clayton Christensen Can Teach Us

Is cloud computing a sustaining or disruptive innovation? Both. But it's utltimately likely to be disruptive, despite the efforts of many IT organizations to corral it as a sustaining innovation. If that's you, your job's in peril.

How to Improve Your Facebook Profile: Play it Smart With Friends and Potential Employers

nThink LinkedIn is the only social network that potential employers use to find and judge you? Wrong. Here's how to improve your Facebook profile to be more considerate to your friends, plus play it safe and smart with present and future work co

Can Mozilla Support Claims of Firefox Being the Most Secure Web Browser?

Mozilla bills Firefox as the most secure Web browser on the planet, but is it really? Follow along with this series and see if the claims hold up to close scrutiny.

Five Tips to Create a Recession-Proof ERP Vendor Strategy

Forrester Research offers five timely pieces of advice on recession-time software vendor management, including: how to negotiate contracts, avoid lock-in, tap into best of breed apps and reduce ERP maintenance costs.

Collaborating Beyond the Firewall

Web 2.0 tools can help IT leaders reach beyond their corporate firewalls for cost-free advice and best practices from external sources. Here's what you need to know.

What the Airlines Can Teach You About IT and Business Strategy

The airlines are deploying more flexible IT to support new customer-focused business strategies and to manage risk in a volatile economy.n

How to Instill Agile Development Practices Among Your IT Team

The CIO at transportation company Con-way took her development team on a nine-month ride to implementing Agileu2014a journey that required well-honed change leadership skills

Book Excerpt: The Adventures of an IT Leader, Part 2

A new CIO grapples with how to sell the value of IT investments and confronts a past failure. Read the second installment of our exclusive series.

Lean And IT’s Transformation To BT

How Much Twitter is Too Much?

Salesforce.com Nailed for Downtime: But Your In-House CRM and ERP Record May Be Worse

Windows 7 Beta Download: No One Said It Would Be Easy

Making Sense of Offshore Outsourcing 2.0

As outsourcing continues to evolve, new yardsticks are needed to assess successful engagements and measure ROI. These tips will help you capitalize on the benefits offered by offshore, nearshore and onshore outsourcing.

Why Your Company Could be Next to Melt Down: Visibility

What happened to the auto and banking industries may happen to service industries next. Without visibility to crucial data, CEOs of the world's largest companies run houses of cards, built on risk, says Lombardi Software President Phil Gilbert.

BlackBerry Premium Multimedia Headset Review: RIM’s Best Headphones Yet

RIM's new Premium Multimedia Headset, boasting in-ear, noise-blocking gels, intuitive multimedia and volume controls and impressive audio quality, will please BlackBerry purists in need of hybrid headphones. However, its steep price tag and lack

Starbucks’ CIO Stephen Gillett Seeks “Pillars of Strength” During Economic Storm

Starbucks is in the middle of a high-stakes turnaround, and it's young new CIO is in charge of recruiting the IT leaders who will help the coffee company regain its steam. In this latest Hiring Manager Interview, Gillett discusses his recruiting

To Hell with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut

Tough Times Yield New Role: Private Equity Partner

Three CIOs who made the switch explain how to leverage your skills to become a private equity partner

How a Job Search Led Jason Alba to Start JibberJobber

Jason Alba, a laid off general manager from a software company, was looking for a new job when he stumbled upon the idea for JibberJobber, a Web-based career management tool for job seekers that he launched in May 2006. This is his story.

The Big Windows 7 Problem: XP Holdouts

With the just-released Windows 7 beta, Microsoft is touting the OS's ease of use and ability to run on all types of computers. But it's an open question whether Microsoft can convince its most skeptical critics: Windows XP holdouts.

BlackBerry at CES: Bye-Bye Keys! Unlock Doors Remotely via BlackBerry with Schlage LiNK

Palm Pre Smartphone at CES: Hands-On First Impressions, Images

The Two Websites Every Job Seeker Needs to Join

BlueAnt Q1 Bluetooth Headset at CES: Details and Images

Borders’ Revamped E-Commerce Strategy Falls Flat During Holiday Season

The 2008 shopping season was not jolly for Borders, which had been counting on its fledgling e-commerce operations to pay off at holiday time. Instead, the retailer got a big lump of coal, followed by an executive shakeup and questions about how it w

Mobile Evolution Opens Doors to New Definition of “Workplace”

Work is becoming less defined as a geographic destination and more about what you DO. Advances in mobile-accessible technology, from smartphones to business intelligence software, may enable a more productive workforce by pushing the boundaries of wh

Five (More) Favorite Gmail Add-Ons

Did you take our recent advice about the free add-ons from Gmail Labs that turn Google's Web-based e-mail service from good to great? Here's five more free add-ons that will improve your productivity with Gmail.n

Ice Storms: Five Lessons for IT and Telecommuters

When a winter storm coated trees and power lines in New England last month, it knocked out power for 1.25 million people for anywhere from 24 hours to more than a week. Here's what businesses and telecommuters learned while fending for themselve

Steve Jobs: Five Highlights and Lowlights That Have Kept the Apple CEO In the Limelight

Known for being both creative and temperamental, Apple's Steve Jobs has also made headlines for his relationship with Microsoft's Bill Gates, his Macworld keynotes and rumors circulating about his ailing health.

RIM BlackBerry Bluetooth Vehicle Visor Mount: First Look

Palm WebOS, Pre Unveiling: Images from CES 2009

Microsoft Should Stoke Momentum and Ship Windows 7 in ’09

ERP Implementation Success: Odds Are Stacked Against You

Cool Ways to Save Money in the Data Center – CRACs and Ultrasonic Humidification

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900 (T-Mobile): How to Know if the New Curve is for You

Enterprise Architecture: What Do You Think It Is?

Your Genome is Just a Click Away

Personal genomics has hit the mainstream, but what will it mean for society?

Measuring Corporate Contributions to an Open Source Project

Open source is looking more attractive to software development managers who need to make their budgets stretch farther, as the enterprise can benefit from FOSS community's contributions. Here's how to participate in open-source projects and