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		<title><![CDATA[Saving Money in Your Security Spending During a Financial Crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1178145]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Belts are getting tighter around all budgets and IT budgets are no exception. Now is the time for administrators and executives to look at ways of getting the most out of their IT budget. But how can one do it? How can one optimize spending while the numbers of threats...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CIOs should take a few punches amid the downturn to save IT]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17988]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Guest post: TechRepublic's Patrick Gray believes that IT leaders still looking to find a seat at the C-level table might gain that influential position by taking a share of the responsibility for the failures that led to financial crisis. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 02:10:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Happy Clown Screensaver-special offer in financial crisis (Mobile)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1002959]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[April Fools&apos;&apos; Day is just upcoming, and in this special phase, we provide you the happy clow to inspire you keeping the optimistic attitude.A product of MMMOOO Premium Service: 1. Premium class in quality & designing 2. Customized service with product: You can order the same product with your name...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Happy Clown Screensaver-special offer in financial crisis 2.0 (Mobile)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1002975]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[April Fools&apos;&apos; Day is just upcoming, and in this special phase, we provide you the happy clow to inspire you keeping the optimistic attitude.A product of MMMOOO Premium Service: 1. Premium class in quality & designing 2. Customized service with product: You can order the same product with your name...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Feedback on federal contracting]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4450]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Readers respond. Reforming IT acquisition and purchasing will be hugely difficult. by Richard Koman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:07:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unpacking the Financial Crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1152731]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With regard to intervention in the current crisis, and prevention of future crises, establishing an integrated loan performance monitoring and early warning system is the key. To that end, CCAF affords regulators with the information and necessary tools to enforce such a system and ensure lending safety and soundness. All...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BPO Is an Effective Answer to the Financial Crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=954495]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing global financial crisis is a concern for everyone in almost all industries - fear of job loss, foreclosed homes and bankrupt businesses. About 20% to 40% of the revenues of offshore outsourcing companies are tied to the financial services industry. With its collapse, companies have been forced to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Asian IT to emerge from financial crisis stronger]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-9595-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=55559&messageID=1049688&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Asian IT to emerge from financial crisis strongerRub It In Our Faces, Why Dont You?If they recover better and first its because They Have Our Jobs!!!!!!!When you give away your jobs to other nations (Asia, India, Vietnam, etc) then you dont have the worker to pull your nation out of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Committed to the Climate Change Debate?: In the Turmoil of a Global Financial Crisis, Does Society Still Have the Will - And Does It Still Make Sense - To Keep Steering Towards a Low-Carbon Future?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1127177]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to improve service delivery to constituents most e-government initiatives & the 1990s focused on making services accessible online. But online access only addresses the front end of service delivery. The backend requires the simplification. integration, streamlining and automation of complex information workflows - where the heavy lifting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We might not yet have seen the worst of the financial crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11474-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=55238&messageID=1044892&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[We might not yet have seen the worst of the financial crisisI think you're rightThe ups and downs in the financial markets are more indicative of chaos than anything else, which can't possibly be good news.RE: We might not yet have seen the worst of the financial crisisThe doom mongers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:40:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We might not yet have seen the worst of the financial crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=337]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Has the bottom been reached for this financial crisis? The stock market sometimes behaves as if it has but maybe it hasn't. That's the opinion of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former "quant" on Wall Street. Mr Taleb's recent book "The Black Swan" warned of unquantified risks and the dangers of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:11:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=319]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley.     There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:21:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10536-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52991&messageID=1000169&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work aheadMay as well part nationalise some big IT playersFinanciers have proven that their own short term self interested greed can screw finance.It would be a good idea to have nationalised IT development sectors too, to stop the "jobs for the boys"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:18:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-17926-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52634&messageID=991936&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grindJob SecurityWhile some of those points are quite good, I have to question " Skilled workers might not be spared".  When was the last time skilled workers *were* spared? In the IT field, our jobs have been hanging on a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ballmer says MSFT not immune to financial crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11474-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=52562&messageID=990531&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ballmer says MSFT not immune to financial crisisGlad to see you use Yahoo Finance to show the chartAfter all the criticism that Yahoo has received for not being with it, they are still the site that most people turn to for many services.  Finance is one of the best.As...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:19:00 -0700</pubDate>
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