IT Management/Strategy

Career advice for IT managers, including job search tips, interview techniques, project management, IT-business alignment, outsourcing, and vendor management.

Apple's iPad 3 could face customs ban in China

Posted February 14, 2012 - 11:42 pm

Apple's much speculated iPad 3 has emerged as the latest target in an ongoing trademark dispute in China, after a little-known Chinese firm said on Wednesday it has filed for a customs ban with local authorities to stop the import and export of the tablet.
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NewNet vows to drive forward with onetime Motorola WiMax business

Posted February 14, 2012 - 7:05 pm

Motorola's former WiMax business unit set up shop under new owner NewNet Communications Technologies on Tuesday, diving into the next chapter of a technology that has been largely crowded out by LTE.
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What would you give up to telecommute? A raise? Vacation time? Spouse?

Posted February 14, 2012 - 3:45 pm

To some U.S. workers, telecommuting ranks higher than many of life's perks, including raises, vacation time, social media, chocolate, shopping and even soul mates.
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The Ghostery in the machine: Tracking the trackers

Posted February 14, 2012 - 2:24 pm

Ghostery says it's better to know who's tracking you across the Web than to simply block all of them. What do you think?
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Apple audits: 'Big deal' or 'fig leaf'?

Posted February 14, 2012 - 2:10 pm

As a corporate executive trying to sort out the importance of Apple beginning to open itself to outside audits of the heavily criticized working conditions at its Chinese and other overseas plants, you'll find Tuesday's coverage by The Wall Street Journal and New York Times offering two very different perspectives.
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Four keys to successful BYOD

Posted February 14, 2012 - 12:25 pm

The bring your own device (BYOD) movement formally advocates use of personal equipment for work and obligates IT to ensure jobs can be performed with an acceptable level of security, but how can risks be addressed given the range of devices used and the fact that you lack control of the end point?
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Can scientists get elected today?

Posted February 14, 2012 - 11:36 am

In Singapore, the new president with a Ph.D. In applied mathematics joined the Prime Minister who also has a mathematics degree. Could that happen here?
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FSF asks web devs to ID JavaScript code

Posted February 14, 2012 - 10:28 am

The Free Software Foundation wants web developers to insert license info within sites to avoid what Richard M. Stallman calls "the JavaScript trap."
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Chief Mobile Officer: A job title now timely?

Posted February 14, 2012 - 9:47 am

The idea of a Chief Mobile Officer inside corporations isn't a new one. But as companies scramble to establish corporate mobile strategies, having a CMO could be a key to success, according to Forrester Research.
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Business Value of Blade

Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.
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Accelerate time to application value

Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.
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Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

Posted February 14, 2012 - 8:30 am

As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.
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China may widen investigation of Apple iPad trademark dispute

Posted February 14, 2012 - 12:47 am

More than 30 offices across China of a commerce regulatory body are investigating Apple's sales of the iPad in the country, according to the lawyer for the little-known Chinese company that has accused Apple of trademark infringement.
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Throttled iPhones help AT&T show how hard it is to drive smartphone customers away

Posted February 13, 2012 - 8:38 pm

Customers weren't thrilled when unlimited iPhone data plans ended, but none complained too much. Verizon got more expensive, but transparently. AT&T went with manipulation and cloaked accusations of data hoggery to push customers to tiered plans, or toward Verizon.
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US cites United Nations treaty in seeking extradition of Megaupload founder

Posted February 13, 2012 - 7:52 pm

The United States government will be relying on a United Nations treaty aimed at combating international organised crime as the legal basis of its extradition to the US of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and other co-accused.
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DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:24 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, following the European Commission's approval earlier in the day.
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Linux: Where the jobs (and bigger salaries) are

Posted February 13, 2012 - 5:13 pm

Numerous studies have emerged over the past few years indicating that Linux skills are a hot item in the IT hiring market, but on Tuesday the Linux Foundation will publish a brand-new report suggesting that the search for such talent is taking on a new level of urgency.
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HP NonStop SQL Fundamentals whitepaper

Posted February 13, 2012 - 4:50 pm

This whitepaper offers a detailed look into the fundamentals of HP NonStop SQL solutions. See how this system delivers unprecedented levels of application availability with fail-safe data integrity and meets the needs of enterprises with large-scale business critical applications.
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Is your definition of security holding you back?

Posted February 13, 2012 - 3:00 pm

Without a clear definition of security that is consistent through out your team, how can you expect people in your organization to comply?
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10 questions for Emergn CFO Evan Cassidy

Posted February 13, 2012 - 2:37 pm

Name: Evan Cassidy
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Career Watch: The most in-demand skills of 2012

Posted February 13, 2012 - 2:12 pm

Java/J2EE developers top the Dice.com list.
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EU approves Google-Motorola deal

Posted February 13, 2012 - 1:46 pm

European regulators have given Google the green light to take over Motorola, but concerns linger over how neutral Google will be in licensing its newly acquired patents.
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6 key skills new IT grads are lacking

Posted February 13, 2012 - 1:02 pm

IT managers are looking for some specific business and technical skills. Here are the six key skills they wish their newest hires had picked up in college.
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Anonymous took down CIA.gov Friday, then didn't, then did, then did it again today

Posted February 13, 2012 - 12:47 pm

Anonymous first took credit for the DDOS attack that downed CIA.gov Friday, then said it was just reporting the outage, before discovering it had, actually, been behind the attack. CIA.gov is down again today, though it would be wise to wait to give credit this time.
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IT pay: Premiums for IT skills drop as IT departments reorganize

Posted February 13, 2012 - 12:39 pm

The premiums companies pay to IT professionals on top of their annual salaries or contract rates to acquire a specific, desired skill have been declining for a year, according to research into IT pay premiums conducted by Foote Partners. The research firm expects this downward trend to continue through 2012 before reversing in 2013.
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Business Value of Blade

The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.

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Accelerate time to application value

For your IT organization to keep pace with the business, you need a new, faster approach to infrastructure deployment-an approach that increases agility and accelerates time to application value. That's HP Converged Systems. Built on Converged Infrastructure, these systems deliver the industry's first portfolio of pre-integrated, tested, and optimized infrastructure solutions for applications running in virtual, cloud, dedicated, or hybrid environments.

White Paper

Converged Infrastructure for Dummies

As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.

White Paper

HP NonStop SQL Fundamentals whitepaper

This whitepaper offers a detailed look into the fundamentals of HP NonStop SQL solutions. See how this system delivers unprecedented levels of application availability with fail-safe data integrity and meets the needs of enterprises with large-scale business critical applications.

White Paper