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		<title><![CDATA[HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:42:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues.  We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:12:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's.  Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what?  Arbitrage.  Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:40:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=71463&messageID=1378486&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:57:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using Only COCOMO Seriously FlawedIt assumes that every component would be developed from scratch for every project instead of being commercially licensed or re-used from another in-house project.A MySQL license purchased from Sun is much less expensive than recreating MySQL.Wow that's such total crap I'd be amazed if anyone believed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:09:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dell finalizes $3.9 billion offer for Perot]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The takeover of Perot has created a new business arm called Dell Services, which will provide IT services to customers, and extend Dell's reach into technology hosting, consulting, and application outsourcing, among other segments.  Dell announced on Tuesday that it has completed its $3.9bn  offer to buy technology...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:40:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to put the 'lean' in Lean IT]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vista was lean!All developers - no testers ;-)The worst I've seenWere a couple projects that had someone called a Configuration Control Manager.  What a useless twit she was.  Someone in charge of settings.  Probably no surprise it was some friend of the senior manager who followed him...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:47:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4782]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the "spooky" cybercrime trends taking place on a monthly basis, such as the death of CAPTCHA, the suspicious idleness of the Conficker botnet, the clear presence of government-tolerated and upcoming government-sponsored botnets, the inevitable migration from using malicious infrastructure to entirely relying on legitimate one, followed by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:47:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Print Management Matters]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1173485]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Print Management provides a breakthrough answer to today's top business challenge: reducing overhead without harming productivity. Jim Salzer of DocuAudit Intl. shows how Print Management allows you to control documentation expenses by outsourcing the management of your current print environment. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Outsourcing the data centre to a carrier neutral data centre operator in Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171765]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Should you outsource your data centre? You should if your organization has mission critical IT services, latency dependent Web services, business critical applications, or Internet centric services that need to be constantly available. Hear industry experts as they take a look at how some of today's most successful organizations are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO.  And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:23:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The cloud: no place for amateurs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting but...Phil... it may be a contentious argument but neither of these two examples (IBM/Air New Zealand and Sidekick/Danger) are really cloud computing.My definition of cloud computing is in keeping with the utility model. Using the analogy of electricity supply, one power station going down does not greatly affect my...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:40:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Canada scandal illustrates perils of health IT stimulus]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love it... you do a story that involves tech, and nobody says anythingPeople just like to complain. If this was a Health Reform article, you would have people screaming and crying all over TalkBackFUDDisappointing Dana, I would have thought you were above this type of FUD.RE: Canada scandal illustrates...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:38:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are todayâ€™s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNETâ€™s around-the-Web tech coverage.    Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak    Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-17928-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=69994&messageID=1340525&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:29:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=25445]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.    Sam Diaz:  FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies    	Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:00:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/sommer/?p=646]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch this space for future problems!    Thereâ€™s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like:    - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell    - ACS getting bought by Xerox      Add to these deals,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:35:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Assessing the maturity of cloud computing services]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-17930-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=69912&messageID=1338653&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Clouds today, bet on SunActually the better comment from Larry Ellison is his comparison of Cloud Computing to fashion.  Seriously, even the contention that the author makes that cloud is "new" because of multi-tenancy is not completely correct.  Applications from ERP down to MS Word have been able...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:52:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[News to know: Microsoft, ICANN, Best Buy, RIM, mobile apps, Zimbra]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=25241]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.    Richard Koman: Judge overturns $388m patent verdict against Microsoft    	CNET: Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement rulin    Sam...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:00:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HRMall Automates Customer HR Functions, Makes HR Processing Up to 80% Faster]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1171395]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[HRMall Inc., established in 2006 by Philippines-based Ayala Corporation, is a Business Process Outsourcing BPO organization which offers integrated Human Resources HR and payroll support services to companies in the Ayala group. The company created HRMall after recognizing the need to streamline HR functions across the group. Many of its...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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