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Obama backs U.S. return to math, science, tech

President Barack Obama said today that more has to be done to encourage students to take up in math, science and technology disciplines, while indirectly warning of the global competition for highly skilled jobs.

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Is federal stimulus money being used for IT hardware, not hiring?

Congress allocated $787 billion earlier this year in a stimulus package President Obama signed in an effort to jump-start the economy. So where are the IT jobs?

| News | Business | Career | Government | IT management/strategy | 11/23/09 at 7:10 pm


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Mobile groups protest proposed net neutrality rules

A month ago, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission began a proceeding to create formal net neutrality rules for broadband providers, and the proposals have generated serious debate in the telecom community.

| Analysis | Government | Internet | Mobile & wireless | Networking | 11/23/09 at 4:10 pm


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Broadband stimulus grants delayed

The two government agencies in charge of doling out broadband stimulus cash have pushed back the dates for when they'll start handing out grants.

| News | Business | Government | Networking | 11/20/09 at 8:10 pm


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Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline

Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.



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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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