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Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?

Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?HealthcareBut, be careful about not acquiring excessive debt while getting the education. The more I think I about it, as long as there's money, accountancy.So, competitive advantage, driven by innovation and not price or service or proximity, has never been more...

Tags: Strategy, Benefits, Personal finance, BLS, information technology, smart major, IS COMPUTER, IT Staff, recession, IT People, offshoring

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Cloud computing: A new era of IT opportunity and challenges

Cloud computing: A new era of IT opportunity and challengesDefining Cloud Computing and Vendor SelectionHinchcliffe makes some great points in this article and two really stood out to me. The first being - what is cloud computing and what offerings fit within the cloud. This appears to be...

Tags: Hinchcliffe, cloud computing, IT opportunity, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

Are IT workers sabotaging the office to get ahead?

Are IT workers sabotaging the office to get ahead?I know most people ..... consider IT workers as a bunch of incompetent people. But they forget the shear amount of work stress they have to put up on a daily basis.IT is the never ending job where no matter how...

Tags: information technology, IT People

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

Evolution, risks, controls, and strategies

Evolution, risks, controls, and strategiesOh no, not more IT people who think they know about accountancy"A big part of the problem here arises because accounting ideas are extremely stable over time while IT ideas are not. Thus our idea of a system wide control is fifty or more years ahead...

Tags: Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, strategy, information technology, thin client, IT idea, IT People

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

How to host a power lunch...really

How to host a power lunch...reallyVery important, beleive it or notMaybe I'm in a humorless mood this morning, but having watched that video, I thought to myself, "maybe if my managers learned to wine & dine, our budgets wouldn't get cut." This kind of thing is important for IT people....

Tags: Strategy, IT People, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-04-19

Gates courts CEO crowd

Gates courts CEO crowdgates not that stupideven he knows to target the non-techy clueless business decision maker. should he & monkey boy target the cio or any other technical mgr, they would be escorted out of the building by securityGates courting CEOsThe reason Gates courts CEOs and not IT people...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT People

Discussion threads 2004-05-20

Symantec slams the door on LiveUpdate flaw

Symantec slams the door on LiveUpdate flawglad i changedto a competing vendor!be nice to have themlet you download the updates vs that junk autoupdate, everytime i rebuilt my pc was a few reboots just to get the thing up to date, i switched to pf2 and never looked backSymantecPeter Norton...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, SECURITY, IT People, Symantec Corp., software, product catalog, Norton Co.

Discussion threads 2004-01-13

Additional Resources

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

Falling behind in science? No kidding!

Our school district is providing H1N1 shots to any students whose parents request it. It's an easy way to build some so-called "herd immunity" in the age group most vulnerable to this particular flu strain. In fact, my 7-year old was the very first in the district to...

Tags: Vaccine, Flu, H1N1 Flu, Science Education, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-23

People Pages for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

People Pages for iPhone is the little notebook for everyone who can not remember a birthday or favorite book for a friend or relative. Wish you could remember all the details of your spouse, friends, girlfriends, and boyfriend. it features visual list of contacts and their details, import photos from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Photograph, Kavapoint, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-23

A Microsoft and News Corp. search pact? It adds up

Goodbye RupertI am not going to use Bing.Google will find stuff I am interested in.Too lazy to use Bing.Bing is dead.Something will dethrone Google, but it ain't Bing.Goodbye Google...You can't earn money without paying for content made byothers...Google has milked the industry for years without giving anything back...There's no such...

Tags: SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, News Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

More people, more pollution, right?

Population ControlWhat is it now, the big 'O' is going to sterilize the peasants so they don't reproduce? If you want to get the low IQ, better to castrate Windows admins.NT.*yawn**yawn* - yeah, okay, heard all that before. If you want to propose a solution (other than resorting to communism...

Tags: GFC, pollution, famine

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Educating IT decision makers

Here's the difference:-It's education if you truly let people make their own decisions and support the decisions they make, even if it's your personal opinion the decisions are wrong.-It's advocacy if you do not support the decisions they make when it's your personal opinion the decisions are wrong.So, decidable only...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Teaching, education, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-21

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

iPhone - is it a good tool for traveling business people?

yes- hmmmm....You're right Dan. Droid? Then you can have google navigation and we'll be able to find a better restaurant in NYC than the worlds busiest Korean :p Maybe those nice people @ 451 will buy you one ;)Thanks for the thoughtOne issue with the current Android V2 phones is...

Tags: Smart phones, calendar issue, tool, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Oh boy... this should be a fun Talkback... ntntyeap...for sure we'll be hearing what everyone has already said "ad nauseum".BallSack is a MoronPlain and Simple.I'm sure Win7 sales are decent. After all, it's hard to get an OS-less computer.....It is easy enough to get linuxpre-installed.Or buy a MacHowever,...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Mac sale, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, sales, Steve Ballmer, Windows 7 sale, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years

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...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

iPhone - is it a good tool for traveling business people?

Is the iPhone a good tool for traveling business people? by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Apple iPhone, Tool, Productivity, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-11-20