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The maestro and the IT manager

It doesn’t matter how old you are: boring classes are always a little better when you get to watch a video.A few years ago...

YouTube Fridays: Surface computing with AT-T

I hadn't fully gotten my head around Microsoft's proposed surface computing concept until I watched this demo. Although the camera work is a little...

IT analysts don

IT analysts don’t hold much hope for XP reprieveGregg Keizer of Computerworld U.S. offers a bleak report: Microsoft Corp. may be set to extend...

Risk management framework to complement COBIT

The IT Governance Institute sets up a committee that will deliver a set of guidelines to identify, assess and mitigate danger in the enterprise. Learn about the

iPhone lessons from the BlackBerry Pearl

I don’t think Apple ever officially called the iPhone a BlackBerry killer, but even Steve Jobs probably didn’t see its device as a BlackBerry...

MIDs, UMPCs and what mobile users really want

I guess calling them MIDs is better than calling them unlaptops, or smart nonphones, but not by much. Intel today showed four prototypes of...

Microsoft Office Open XML gets ISO go-ahead

Canada officially disapproved of the software giant

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