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CIOs should take a few punches amid the downturn to save IT

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...

Tags: CIO, Financial, Information Technology, Financial Crisis, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-18

IT as whiners: The great debate

Over at TechRepublic, Patrick Gray has managed to rouse a hornet's nest of IT managers. What did Mr. Gray say wrong? He called IT folks a bunch of whiners. In his first post, Gray told folks to stop whining and noted that technology types have an image...

Tags: Certification, Information Technology, Patrick Gray, Business Alignment, Strategy, Quality, Management, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Additional Resources

New Apple ads target Windows viruses and headaches

Who caresIts just advertising. Its no better or worse than a laundry detergent add telling me that their soap will get my clothes cleaner than their competitor. Apple has its ax to grind just as Microsoft does and buying based on either one of their adds is pure...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Sure Windows, Apple Inc., virus, advertisement, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

The CIO is dead (long live the CIO)

TechRepublic's Patrick Gray takes on the changing role of the CIO, writing that a C-level position for IT will no longer be warranted unless it evolves beyond the operational, shared-service mentality. You can find more posts like this on TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. With the...

Tags: CIO, Role, Information Technology, Technology, Service, C-level, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-03

News to know: Pwn2Own; Windows advice; Palm; JavaFX

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 Ed Burnette: Java gets a mobile makeover with JavaFX Mobile Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own hacker contest targets browsers, smart...

Tags: JavaFX, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Taxes, Microsoft Windows, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operating Systems, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Wikipedia used to spread malicious code

Wikipedia used to spread malicious codeLovely. Time to stop using it...or wikipedia doing more on their part to prevent opportunities like this in the future.Thats the problem with communityOpen source information only works as well as the least common denominator. There will always be someone looking to take advantage...

Tags: Wiki, Viruses and worms, Wikipedia, malicious code

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Blocking blogsites

At Assorted Stuff, Tim Stahmer chimes in on the growing movement of schools blocking blogsites like blogspot.com. Banning a “long list” of blogging sites is the typical scattershot approach taken by many schools when dealing with any technology educators don’t understand. In the process, we also...

Tags: student speech

Blog posts 2006-03-07