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Training the Next Generation of IT Professionals

Its a Tuesday afternoon, and a group of 14 students have gathered in the back room of a computer lab at Columbia University in...

Cyber-criminals Use P2P Tools for Identity Theft, Security Analyst Warns

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif.—Cyber-criminals are multiplying quickly and becoming more sophisticated in the ways in which they take advantage of unwitting Internet individual users...

Expert Voices: Prudentials CIO on the Benefits of IT Mentors

For Barbara Koster, IT isnt only about alignment and meeting business goals. The global CIO of Prudential Financial, a $37 billion financial services firm, feels...

Net Disaster Could Paralyze Economy, Study Warns

Americas Internet and cyber infrastructure have become such a critical backbone for the exchange of information, that any major disruption could have significant economic...

Twilight of Obliterati Part II: Sunrise for Good Developers

In my last column, I talked about how the inevitable end of the globalization fad would lead to a lot of confusion and failure...

Text Messaging Used as Malware Lure

Botnet herders have found a crafty new way to lure computer users to maliciously rigged Web sites—via text messaging on cell phones. The latest social...

Could Google Get Digg-y Wit’ It?

Digg, the Web community that lets users vote on news items, today unveiled a site-wide redesign and expanded its coverage area beyond technology. The...

IBMs Stallings: Mainframes Opening New Markets

/zimages/4/139114.jpgWith the release in April of the z9 Business Class mainframe, IBM announced that it saw not only the midrange as a key market...

Linux Engine Drives Pixars Cars

Ever wonder how Lightning McQueen and friends looked so good in the movie Cars? A lot of that spit and polish came from Pixar...

Guess CIO Buries Weak Search Engine

Even CIOs at billion-dollar retailers have to put their jeans on one upgrade at a time. But Guess CIO Michael Relich found himself in...