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Microsoft resorts to big, bad, Bing bribes!

The following arrived at my office today. I must say it’s a first.Google hasn’t sent me anything, not even a bunch of chocolates —...

Social media lessons from the Obama campaign you can

RahafHarfoush didn’t show a single photograph of Barack Obama until the veryend of her presentation on social media and the U.S. presidentialcampaign, and it’s...

YouTube Fridays: Inside the data center powering Wolfram Alpha

I haven’t spent much time yet checking out Wolfram Alpha, the so-called “answer engine” that specializes in mathematical-related questions, but I think...

How blogs can be a Twitter self-evaluation tool

I guess it started with Bill Seaver, who suggested that Twitter is leading to a decline in well-thought ideas in blogs. Seaver’s post was...

Introducing Lac Carling

Next week we’ll be hosting one of the most important events in our calendar: the 13th annual Lac Carling Congress, which takes place...

How many Grade 9 kids want to be an IT manager?

I actually knew what I hoped to do with my life when I was in gradenine, but I’m not sure I would have used...

The dirty secret about real-time visibility in IT

It might seem too early to be talking about “strategies for recovering your IT budget,”given that many firms are only just beginning to feel...

YouTube Fridays: TechieWiki.ca reaches out to the jobless

Are there really a lot of out-of-work IT managers buying a newspaper and turning to the classified section to look for jobs? Hard...

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