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YouTube Fridays: A seranade for beta testers everywhere

So all I know is that a German company called Popula

Microsoft flack douses Ballmer

Well, that certainly didn’t take long. An update from our friends at IDG News Service:Comments by Steve Ballmer at a press conference in Europe...

Ballmer offers hope for a Windows XP reprieve

This just in from our counterparts at Computerworld U.S.:Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer said there is a chance the companycould reconsider its decision to begin...

Yahoo! A social networking strategy that makes sense

There’s a reason you don’t often see someone compile a top-10 list of the coolest Yahoo applications. Yahoo isn’t cool enough to attract cool...

Stock market startup Alpha seeks IT resiliency

A Canadian firm that hopes to take on the TSX later this year is creating a virtual network operations centre to better work with providers like Q9 networks. The CIO explains

Microsoft’s Live Mesh: The IT department implications

Even though it seems to signal a shift from its PC-centric corporate philosophy, I wouldn’t call Microsoft’s Live Mesh offering a disruptive technology. If...

Five ways of defining cloud computing

As with nearly every IT trend, including service-oriented architectures and Web services, just because we’re all talking about cloud computing doesn’t mean we’re talking...

The official ComputerWorld Canada Blogging Idol press release

We published this over Marketwire yesterday as part of the marketing campaign.Be a BLOG IDOL with Computerworld CanadaCanada's technology source looks for the next...

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