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<item><title>How to Use Twitter and Social Networks in Your Business</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:31:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Ziff Davis Enterprise v.p. Eric Lundquist interviews IBM's Sandy Carter at this year's (http://www.marketingprofs.com/events/7/conference/?adref=sbz524) Marketing Profs business to business conference in Boston. Sandy Carter is Vice President, SOA   WebSphere Marketing, Strategy and Channels for IBM Corporation and author of the SOA technology book:  The New Language of Business: SOA   Web 2.0.  In the interview, she explains that by bringing business discipline to the new era of social networks including Twitter and FaceBook, business marketers can develop new customer channels that can lead to increased sales and customer satisfaction.<br/>   -   Video Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>Apple CEO Jobs Returns to Work, Reports Say</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:25:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Apple CEO Steve Jobs has returned to work, a company spokesperson says, after a six-month medical leave that involved a liver transplant. In his absence, Apple launched its iPhone 3G S smartphone, which sold 1 million units in its first three days of release, suggesting that the company could operate successfully even without its iconic leader at the helm.<br/>   -  Apple CEO Steve Jobs is
back at work after a six-month medical leave that included a liver transplant,
according to the company. 
 quot;Steve is back to work, quot; an Apple spokesperson told Reuters on
June 29.  quot;He's currently at Apple a few days a week, and working from home
the remainin...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Recession-Proof Your IT Department</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:34:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[In the face of turbulent economic times and calls for belt tightening, IT departments need to take steps to reduce costs, while ensuring that their network meets business needs. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Charles Thompson outlines some immediate and long-term steps IT departments can take to better their network efficiency and reduce IT costs.<br/>   -  During
the current recession, IT departments need to take steps to reduce
costs and improve their network's efficiency. There are nine specific
steps that IT departments can take to accomplish this, including
understanding network demand and application behavior, eliminating
unauthorized applic...]]></description>
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<item><title>Apple CEO Jobs' Surgery Continues to Raise Questions</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:51:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Apple CEO Steve Jobs should be returning to his full-time position in coming weeks after recently undergoing a liver transplant. However, controversy remains over how desktop, notebook, iPod and iPhone maker Apple handled his illness and whether it will lead to additional investigations from the FTC and other bodies.<br/>   -  Apple
CEO Steve Jobs may have saved his life with
a liver transplant, but questions about his medical leave could continue to dog
his company, even after a highly successful June that saw the rollout of the
iPhone 3G S. 
As first reported in The Wall Street Journal on June 20, Jobs underwent th...]]></description>
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<item><title>Internet Advocates Rip Comcast's Broadband TV Everywhere</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:39:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Comcast and Time Warner are hailing their new arrangement to offer Time Warner content online exclusively to Comcast subscribers. Others, however, call the test trial anti-competitive, anti-consumer and a threat to the open Internet.<br/>   -  Comcast and Time Warner's plan to make Time Warner's content available for free over the Internet exclusively to Comcast cable subscribers was attacked by consumer groups June 24 as anti-competitive, anti-consumer and a threat to the open Internet. The trial service known as TV Everywhere is an atte...]]></description>
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<item><title>New Directions in Technology Development</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:55:44 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Interviewed by Eric Lundquist at the recent Massachusetts Network Communications Council Innovators Summit, Yankee Group Emily Green discusses how the addition of digital smarter technology to everyday products will revolutionize the world we live in. She predicts that innovation will blossom following the current period of economic uncertainty in many technology areas including green technology, mobile technology and economic development at the intersection of business and tech.<br/>   -   Video Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>How Users Can Avoid Creating Excessive Help Desk Tickets</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:53:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IT has become an integral part of every business today. Unfortunately, many IT departments are facing flat or declining budgets in 2009, along with tremendous pressure to continue to deliver great service and support to their users. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Michele McFadden offers users tips to help solve some of their own IT issues before contacting the help desk. This will allow the IT department to stay focused on improving services and heading off critical problems before they negatively impact business.<br/>   -  As
more IT incident volumes continue to rise in part because technology
continues to become more complex additional money is not being
allocated to meet the increased demand for technical support
operations. IT spends so much time on avoidable issues such as
resetting passwords, retrieving lost...]]></description>
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<item><title>Former NH Governor Craig Benson Champions Innovation</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:59:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Will President Obama's financial stimulus package spur innovation? Maybe, but the government has to make sure financial stimulus does not lead to more bureaucracy that can stifle technology and business innovation.<br/>   -   Video Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>Cut Costs, Simplify Operations with SaaS</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:57:49 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[In-house software installations are hard to deploy and even harder to manage. Software as a service, or SaaS, takes the burden off your IT department and enables your company to leverage the expertise of dedicated service providers whenever utility applications are needed. Hosted Microsoft Exchange from Intermedia, for example, lets you save money on server hardware and licenses, eliminate tedious backup and updating chores, and take full advantage of Exchanges advanced features. SaaS lets you take a capital expense and move it to the operations column. It also brings peace of mind, because your critical data is stored securely in a fully redundant and world-class data center. Watch this video to learn more about Intermedias hosted Exchange and full Business Productivity Suite of office tools.<br/>   -   Video Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>eWEEK's Products to Watch June 2009</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:53:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Each month, eWEEK editors name new or newly updated enterprise-class products that we think should be on IT professionals' radars products and services that promise to create efficiencies as well as competitive advantage. Here are the products we're watching this month.
By Debra Donston<br/>   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>IT Staff Increasingly Spying on Colleagues, Report Says</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:32:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[More than one-third of information technology professionals abuse administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.<br/>   -  HELSINKI (Reuters) - More than one-third of information technology
professionals abuse administrative passwords to access confidential
data such as colleagues' salary details or board-meeting minutes,
according to a survey.
Data security company Cyber-Ark surveyed more than 400 senior IT
profes...]]></description>
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<item><title>How to Sustain and Strengthen Your Innovation Cycle During the Recession</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:52:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IT companies have long been known for having unique company cultures and being leaders in workplace innovation. But the recession is undoubtedly having some effect on company culture as companies rein in perks to help the bottom line. During this time, it is up to managers to sustain company culture in order to retain the best and brightest talent. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Adam Hyder offers tips on how IT managers can build and sustain an innovative company culture throughout the recession.<br/>   -  Right now technology companies are facing the challenge of maintaining a culture of innovation while combating the negative effects of bad economic news, staff cuts and reduced perks. Through the recession, we need to not only retain our best and brightest talent, but also feed a culture of continuo...]]></description>
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<item><title>Rethinking the Cost of IT</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:10:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[In this eWEEK podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the associate vice president for industry at Patni Computer Systems, Raj Badarinath, says the time has come for IT organizations to fundamentally reassess the cost of providing enterprise-class IT services.<br/>   -  Audio Podcast Content....]]></description>
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<item><title>Girls Still Not Choosing Computer Science as a Career, Study Says</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:57:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[A degree or career in computer science remains a less than compelling choice for college-bound girls. Asked in a recent survey of what comes to mind when seeing or hearing the word  computing,  boys said  design,   games  and  video  while girls responded with  boring,   hard  and  nerd.  Only 10 percent of the girls surveyed rated computing as a very good choice for study.<br/>   -  A
significant gender gap still exists among college-bound students in their
opinions of computing as a possible college major or career, according to new
research from the Association for Computing Machinery
and the WGBH Educational Foundation.
The
research, funded by the National Science Foun...]]></description>
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<item><title>Smarter Technology Community</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:02:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Welcome to Smarter Technology, the online community dedicated to improving IT's role in the world, from business to government and beyond. Smarter Technology is designed to help grow the efficiency of technology while re-thinking the ways IT interacts with key fundamental processes in the profit and non-profit spheres. Smarter Technology addresses these leading issues, anchoring the discussion through three key themes: Technology for Change, Smarter Strategies and Global Challenges. Learn about this new online destination and all it has to offer, including the Smarter Technology Blog, Forums, the Smarter Technology Email Newsletter, eVideos, eSeminars and other features.<br/>   -   Video Content....]]></description>
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