...states based on sales with 44.5 percent of the market in first quarter of 2008 followed by apple 19.2 percent and struggling handset maker palm 13.4 according to research firm idc a sister company to cio.coms publisher. its worth noting however that those numbers can be deceptive as rim offers a much larger lineup of devices than apple and the iphone 3g had not been released when idc collected its nu...
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tired of dealing with it staffers who wont speak to you and whose locations are always dubious at best ie can never find them when you need them well with cloud computing you can now hand off all of your it needs to the cloudwhich also wont talk to you and will be just as difficult to locate as your it staffers. so what is cloud computing definitions vary depending on who you ask bob buderi foun...
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ive mentioned the way different generations use computers before. tom hill pointed me to this article on the militarys recognition of the situation. there is a great deal of useful information for corporations in this article. since the topic seems to be showing up at more conferences its definitely being recognized that it is not something that we can assume will just be addressed automatically. ...
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its surreal to read analysts with their paralysis over windows and macintosh enterprise desktop deployment. neither microsoft or apple are creating enterprise visions for the desktop. its an epic dilemma on a scale with odysseus sailing between scylla and charybdis. microsofts problems with vistas performance are not likely to be resolved with windows 7 without a kernel revision. did everyone forg...
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the european commission amended its antitrust charges against intel that were filed a year ago to include three new claims. while that news was expected word that hector ruiz has been replaced as head of intel rival amd was not. that news broke on thursday which was a hoppingbusy day for it headlines including the arraignment of a san francisco it administrator who authorities say is holding the c...
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meredith levinson writes in cio magazine about a company that closed their offices and now everyone will work at home to save money and spare employees the hassle and rising cost of commuting and can continue to serve customers while simultaneously saving 400000 a year simply by closing its 15000 square feet of office space. the company chorus provides clinical practice management and financial...
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meredith levinson writes in cio magazine about a company that closed their doors and now everyone will work at home. the company decided to close its offices to save money and spare employees the hassle and rising cost of commuting and can continue to serve customers while simultaneously saving 400000 a year simply by closing its 15000 square feet of office space. the company chorus provides cl...
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heres the latest installation of virtualization short takes my occasionallyweekly view on various virtualization news reviews and other happenings. hopefully i can share something interesting with you via vmblog.com i saw that transitive corporation is supporting the use of quicktransit within hyperv virtual machines. this is interesting because it extends the ability of hyperv to help customers ...
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see that guy on the right of these letters that is my brotherinlaw my wifes sisters husband aj schreiber. he is the ceo of a company named chorus they provide clinical practice management and financial software for health care providers. his company was written up in cio magazine yesterday. the article is named everyone works at home at chorus part one. how a small software company is saving...
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cio.com interviewed att spokesperson mark siegel who confirmed that fridays activation server outage was due to massive worldwide demand. the itunes software appeared to have been so overwhelmed by demand friday that customers were not able to go through that final stage and sync their iphones siegel said. via tuaw......
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apple stole the it news show yet again this week with the friday launch of the iphone 3g in 22 countries. but there was other news as well including warnings that a dns vulnerability really is serious and the ouster by vmwares board of cofounder and ceo diane greene.1. iphone 3g the arrival day faq iphone activation woes hit early buyers and first impressions iphone 3g with cheers in japan and som...
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apple stole the it news show yet again this week with the friday launch of the iphone 3g in 22 countries. but there was other news as well including warnings that a dns vulnerability really is serious and the ouster by vmwares board of cofounder and ceo diane greene. 1. apples worldwide iphone 3g rollout is under way software problems mar uk iphone 3g launch and continuing coverage apple launches ...
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abbas haider ali has recently joined the managed objects team as their new vp of product strategy. weve been communicating over the past few months and while he doesnt bring direct bsm experience his vision for shaping and guiding managed objects is likely to bring a fresh perspective to a well established company and to the overall bsm marketplace. ive been after some technical practitioners at...
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my first day at the mit cisr sloan school of management summer conference concluded with a presentation by june drewry the former cio of chubb and son which manages the chubb group of insurance companies. she presented on her experiences leading the it governance journey at chubb. i was delighted to see the word journey. i often describe the it governance effort as a journey in hopes of convin...
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cloud computing designed as a shared pool outside the enterprise has gained momentum recently as a way to reduce costs and improve it flexibility. but cloud computing carries with it security risks including perils related to compliance availability and data integrity that many companies havent fully considered.read permalink new learn notes and domino 8 at your place and pacetry a free course a...
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...ver if a strategy is set and followed and there is a budget cutback during this time the cio will know where to trim instead of evenly shaving off a little money dedicated to each project. read on at cio.com.......
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cloud computing designed as a shared pool outside the enterprise has gained momentum recently as a way to reduce costs and improve it flexibility. but cloud computing carries with it security risks including perils related to compliance availability and data integrity that many companies havent fully considered.read permalink......
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continuing to clear my backlog of bookmarks this time focusing on personal psychology and productivity. aaa christine rosen at the new atlantis the myth of multitasking regular readers will know that im a foe of multitasking. rosens exposition of the phenomenon and its pitfalls is excellent. heres a quote from one of the scientists she interviews we have to be aware that there is a cost to the way...
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...never any question about who will make the final decision. and if you never watched star trek then you shouldnt even be a cio. source 9 reasons why application developers think their cio is clueless cio.com business technology leadership i think to really lead geeks well you need to have watched the shows we watched read the books and comics we read movies we watched you have to know where were c...
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using offtheshelf intelbased hardware and solaris 10 sun microsystems tuesday said it broke the millionmessagespersecond barrier for the thomson reuters market data system a platform widely used by wall street financial houses to aggregate data and complete trades.read permalink......
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using offtheshelf intelbased hardware and solaris 10 sun microsystems tuesday said it broke the millionmessagespersecond barrier for the thomson reuters market data system a platform widely used by wall street financial houses to aggregate data and complete trades.read permalink......
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bill synder of cio magazine had an article he recently wrote on open source crm published today. in it he highlights a point that my colleague spoke about yesterday the lingering resistance that many clevel executives have towards allowing open source into the enterprise at the application level. theres still plenty of cios unsure of the licensing publication and ownership rights surrounding the o...
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cio.com has posted a great opinion article by mike gualtieri offering nine ways to make sure youre not labeled as a clueless cio. i must say the list is excellent and one that should be taken to heart by executive managers in general and informationtechnical execs in particular. among his observations of a good cio he gets opinions from his experts but there is never any question about who...
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windows xp may be off the streets but shes still in our hearts. shes certainly still on my desktop. in honor of the best version of windows yet check out this gallery of wallpapers featuring windows xps anime girl fan mascot xptan. celebrate her last day at microsoft by laying her on your desktop tonight. ballmer can keep his damaged goods. im staying true to my woman. tags microsoft os ostan wi...
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