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Pam Baker
Pam Baker   11/4/2009   4 comments
For decades now, midmarket companies have been mired in a government contracting sinkhole. There are government programs and set-asides for small businesses. For large enterprises, there are sole source and other no-bid contracts plus the ever-popular bundled contracts.
Rob Salkowitz
Rob Salkowitz   11/4/2009   5 comments
The left-coast version of the Enterprise 2.0 conference kicked off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week. Even in the early going, a few key themes are starting to emerge that reflect the growing maturity of the field and the hard-learned lessons of practitioners:
David Vellante
David Vellante   11/3/2009   8 comments
Today (November 3, 2009), VMware, Cisco, and EMC announced an alliance called VCE. The coalition packages up infrastructure based primarily on VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) software (vSphere); Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) compute and network infrastructure (UCS and Nexus switches); and EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) storage.
Tom Stamulis
Tom Stamulis   11/2/2009   17 comments
Daylight savings, spring cleaning, getting your oil changed, and replacing smoke detector batteries -- all have something in common; they all are completed on a schedule. So it’s about time those of us brandishing iPhones, BlackBerrys, and other PDAs like they are body parts start to embrace some scheduling that can protect our identity and build a more secure Internet environment.
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Jason_13
Jason_13   10/12/2009   2 comments
Sometimes the poor reliance on technology creates problems such as this. Another area is the use of automated filtering to try to detect fraudulent use of credit/debit cards. I know that a filter was tripped recently when one of my cards...
Allen_Falcon
Allen_Falcon   10/11/2009   1 comment
    Over the weekend, out of the mainstream press cycle, Microsoft and T-Mobile acknowledged that the server in Microsoft's Danger group earlier in the week would like result in total data loss for users impacted by the failure. Some...
Lippencotte
Lippencotte   9/24/2009   2 comments
In reading some information I found on another net I read this article that basically says; can't tweet at work here is a solution to work around this so that you can prove how valuable the service is.  It is configured to look like an...
mte01
mte01   8/17/2009   2 comments
Hey Nicole,    I have some technical jokes (my own invention) that are related to the Information & Technology world in general; where is the best place to put them in IE?  
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