Shane Schick

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YouTube Fridays: IT manager by day, martial artist by night

I always thought that if you outsourced your IT, technology managers would spend more time focusing on strategy, but this consulting firm's commercial suggests...

The trouble with Canada’s move towards IT contract bundles

The accepted wisdom was that, as corporate enterprises suffered through more and more painful outsourcing relationships, the contracts would get shorter and the deals...

Ontario’s in-car cell phone ban vs. anytime, anywhere computing

Over breakfast this morning, my wife asked me if we were writing or publishing anything about the Ontario government’s plan to ban cell phone...

EMC expands from storage to config management

Hopkington, Mass.-based EMC releases Server Configuration Manager and Configuration Analytics Manager to tackle compliance and policy issues. An Enterprise Management Associates analyst likes what he sees

The most important voice commands for smart phone users

The other day I was trying to use a calling card and I needed to respond to a voice-activated prompt. Before I could get...

Microsoft Word at 25: What we’ve learned about applications

I learned to type on Corel WordPerfect. I suffered through years on my first job using Lotus WordPro. I even, for longer than I...

You want a knowledge-based economy? Look to the IT depts

LISBON – It was the year 2000, not long after the world woke up to realize a new millennium wasn’t going to cripple enterprise...

How IT departments ’employ for attitude’

LISBON – When you come all the way from Portugal from Canada, you assume (or at least I did) that technology professionals here might...

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