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Ann Bednarz
Member since: April 2011
Bio: Ann Bednarz writes about enterprise IT trends, including tech careers, browsers, telework and executive compensation, for Network World. Follow her on Twitter @annbednarz.
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Nick Carr rocked the tech world with his controversial essay in the May 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, titled "IT Doesn't Matter." On the 10-year anniversary of the article's publication, Carr talks about what he got right, what he got wrong, and how the piece remains relevant today.
6 days 20 hours ago
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To ban or not to ban? The question comes up every year as March Madness approaches and companies fret about the potential for sluggish networks and lost productivity if employees tune in to games played during work hours.
9 weeks 3 days ago
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Concerns about the economy and budget battles on Capitol Hill have put a damper on the IT job scene, but not enough to thwart expansion.
10 weeks 18 hours ago
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First Yahoo, now Best Buy. In the midst of a corporate restructuring, the electronics retailer has canceled its flexible work program and expects corporate employees to put in traditional 40-hour work weeks at its headquarters in Richfield, Minn.
10 weeks 6 days ago
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Employee morale will plummet, key people will quit, and efforts to enhance collaboration will backfire, critics said of CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting at Yahoo. But not all data comes to the same conclusions.
11 weeks 4 days ago
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Handmade marketplace Etsy has grown to 800,000 sellers and 40+ million monthly visitors. All that activity generates enormous quantities of data, which Etsy uses to drive site improvements.
12 weeks 1 day ago
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Looking for a new IT job? Or a change of scenery? Here are the 11 U.S. cities where IT hiring is hottest.
16 weeks 5 days ago
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Average salaries for tech pros climbed 5.3% to $85,619 last year, up from $81,327 in 2011. It's the largest salary jump in more than a decade, according to career site Dice.
16 weeks 6 days ago
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Google kicked its inventors into high gear in 2012, earning 1,151 U.S. patents and more than doubling its 2011 patent count.
18 weeks 4 days ago
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IBM earned 6,478 utility patents last year, topping the list of patent winners for the 20th year in a row, according to data from IFI CLAIMS Patent Services. With its record haul, Big Blue bested its 2011 patent tally by 5%.
18 weeks 4 days ago
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The economic recovery is moving at an unsteady pace, but the emphasis on cost-cutting that dominated IT agendas in recent years is sharing the spotlight with a more interesting imperative: innovation.
19 weeks 6 days ago
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Nearly twice as many CIOs are planning to expand their IT departments in the coming quarter than were three months ago, according to Robert Half Technology.
22 weeks 3 days ago
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IT departments excel at boosting efficiency but fall short of driving business growth, according to a new study.
23 weeks 13 hours ago
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Choosing a CIO is an important and potentially divisive decision. Many companies prefer to promote an internal IT candidate, but it's not always possible.
24 weeks 1 day ago
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Earning an MBA can help tech pros bridge the gap between business and IT, but it's no guarantee of career success, nor does it automatically translate into a bigger salary.
24 weeks 1 day ago
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The most significant IT trends of 2013 are familiar -- mobility, cloud computing, social technologies and big data -- but the new year will bring a new urgency as enterprises look for vendors to move past exploratory roadmap stages and deliver genui
24 weeks 3 days ago
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24 weeks 4 days ago
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The holiday buzz is building, and with it comes the annual question about whether employees should be able to shop online during work hours. This year, far more companies are being tolerant, CIOs say.
26 weeks 5 days ago
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Certain IT titles will be getting sizable salary hikes, according to data from recruiting and staffing specialist Robert Half Technology.
27 weeks 5 days ago
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The IT sector is back in growth mode, adding 12,500 jobs in October, according to U.S. employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
28 weeks 21 hours ago
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Three of the four high-tech job sectors analyzed by TechAmerica Foundation saw positive job growth in the first half of 2012, amounting to nearly 100,000 new jobs for the tech industry.
29 weeks 4 days ago
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For IT leaders and their tech teams, it's business as usual.
29 weeks 5 days ago
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IT pros are accustomed to handling unexpected crises, such as when hardware fails or a cloud service has an outage. But it seems many IT leaders haven't considered what will happen if they're suddenly unable to work.
31 weeks 6 days ago
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A reputation for reliability and professionalism is tipping the job scales in favor of mature workers.
31 weeks 6 days ago
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Last week's jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed better-than-expected results, including a sizable drop in the national unemployment rate to 7.8% from 8.1%. But for the IT industry, September was a big disappointment.
32 weeks 20 hours ago
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