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Article | 16/12/2010 Facebook's Zuckerberg is Time's Person of the Year
The man behind the world's largest social network has been named Time's Person of the Year.
Article | 11/12/2010 Facebook rejected Microsoft's $15B offer
At a tech conference in Paris on Friday, a Microsoft executive confirmed that the company made a failed bid to buy Facebook three years ago.
Article | 4/12/2010 The CIO you don't want to be
Sometimes you meet a person who strikes you as an inspiring role model. Other times, you get a role model of a different sort, an example of how not t...
Article | 3/12/2010 HP moves to improve, protect its support business
Hewlett-Packard announced Thursday that it will roll out an improved services support program as well as a policy change that could impede the growth ...
Article | 25/11/2010 Netflix turns from Oracle, IBM to Amazon to save cash
Netflix moved some of its most crucial IT operations over to Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud in order to save money and gain flexibility co...
Article | 17/11/2010 Intel invests $32M in Israeli SSD startup
Intel's investment division Tuesday announced it has invested $32 million in Israeli start-up Anobit Technologies, whose MLC-flash based solid state d...
Article | 10/11/2010 Oregon SAP project wracked by leadership woes
An SAP implementation conducted by the city government of Portland, Oregon, went badly awry due to planning and project leadership problems, resulting...
Article | 9/11/2010 The scary side of virtualization
At the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders conference in March, one CIO stood up to express his unease about the security of a virtual infrastructure...
Article | 8/11/2010 Meet the CIO who bought 4,500 iPads
Medtronic Inc., which makes medical devices, may be one of the earliest and biggest corporate buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet. CIO Michael Hedges h...
Article | 5/11/2010 Oracle user group warns of support deadline
The Oracle Applications Users Group is urging members running an older version of E-Business Suite to ensure they have all the necessary patches neede...
Article | 27/10/2010 5 comments from Google's CEO on privacy
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of attention lately, not so much for the company's ubiquitous search engine or any of the company's other pro...
Article | 27/10/2010 Are Smart Grids the Top Priority for WE Utilities' CIOs?
If we start with an oversimplified idea that "Smart Grids = Grids + ICT," then it is obvious that utilities IT budgets have a direct effect on our fut...
Article | 26/10/2010 Spending Review: Business CIOs are optimistic for the future
Private sector CIOs appear to be optimistic that the UK government's comprehensive spending review will not have a knock-on effect in their own patch.
Article | 21/10/2010 Red Hat CEO: Software vendor model is broken
The current model of selling commercial enterprise software is broken, charged the CEO for Red Hat. It is too expensive, doesn't address user needs an...
Article | 19/10/2010 Gartner warns of emerging 'super vendors'
ORLANDO - Gartner Inc. analysts Monday warned that the tech industry is caught in a "vortex of insatiable mergers and acquisitions" that is creating a...