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IT Blogwatch: While you were out: Thanksgiving blogwatch roundup
Welcome back, your humble blogwatcher missed you. To bring you up to date, here’s a quick pick of stories you may have missed. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers offer around the turkey sandwiches, eschewing bogus talk of Cyber Monday. Not to mention Bill Gates taking a support call…
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IT Service Management: Quick Insights
It’s a given: Mid-tier enterprises face the challenge of providing mission-critical services with slashed budgets, limited resources, and complex technologies. However, business requirements and service-level expectations can be met by aligning resources, leveraging the right technologies, and employing best practices. AccelOps offers a quick guide and insights to meeting these challenges through consolidation, virtualization, business service management, cloud computing and much more.
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What Should I Do With Windows.old
L. Stewart Peirce has upgraded to Windows 7. Can he safely move Windows.old to another drive?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Making wise Black Friday PC buys
Want to get a new computer cheap during Black Friday? Here are some hints to getting the best deals
Microsoft delays open-sourcing of Windows 7 tool
Microsoft has delayed re-releasing a Windows 7 installation tool that it has admitted included open-source code, saying that it’s still testing the revamped utility.
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From Chaos to OrderWinning the Information Management Game
This paper explores how businesses can capitalize on a free, easy-to-use, rapid web application tool for the Oracle Database that will help consolidate personal databases, spreadsheets, and other data to create a single point of truth for everyone in the company. Learn how Oracle Application Express delivers an easy, fast, and free way to manage your business information.
Troubleshoot Windows Remotely Over the Net
Whether you’re an IT pro or the go-to geek in your social circle, often the biggest hassle in fixing a computer problem is simply getting to the PC that needs help. Fortunately, Microsoft offers a few good Internet-based options that simplify the task of connecting to a troubled system.
Preston Gralla: Early Chrome OS release: Bad design gone wild
I just had a chance to put the early release of the Chrome OS through its paces, and found a stunningly confused design. It’s a good thing that Google has a year to go before its release, because at the moment, its design is so poor that very few people would use it.
Race on between hackers, Microsoft over IE zero-day
Hackers are racing to build reliable exploits to use against a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, putting pressure on Microsoft to push out a patch before attacks go public, researchers said today.
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Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis
Cloud-based email is often cheaper than on-premise email especially when you consider the fully loaded costs of maintenance, high-availability, disaster recovery, email filtering and archive. This Forrester report will help you evaluate the full cost of your email environment and it will explore the benefits of cloud-based technologies that reach further than just your bottom line.
Windows 7 passes Mac OS X in market share race
Windows 7 passed the 5% market share milestone last weekend, which put it, if only temporarily, above the total market share of all versions of Apple’s Mac OS X, Net Applications said today.
Microsoft debuts ’streaming’ Office 2010 beta
Microsoft has launched the beta of Office Home and Business 2010 and is delivering the preview using its new “streaming” download technology.
Nominate your world-class company
Is your IT department great place to work? Our 17th annual “Best Places to Work in IT” special report and listing will honor 100 organizations that offer great benefits, salaries and opportunities for training and advancement, as well as provide interesting projects and a flexible and diverse work environment.
Computerworld’s Salary Survey: What’s your earning power?
How does your salary compare with your peers? Computerworld’s 24th Annual Salary Survey will feature the latest IT salary trends and advice on where to find the best-paying jobs. This year’s survey participants can enter a drawing to win one of 10 new 8GB Apple iPod Nanos. The drawing is open to legal U.S. residents, age 18 or older. Take our annual Salary Survey today!
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Twitter’s dirty laundry
Despite often being a waste of time, Twitter does has value, such as providing Iranians with an outlet during this past summer’s elections. Turns out Twitter can be used to keep you apprised of more domestic developments as well …
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