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Google releases Chrome 6 on second anniversary of browser
Google (NADSAQ: GOOG) released version 6 of its popular Chrome web browser on Tuesday--even though Chrome was released just two years ago. At that time, few probably would have expected that Chrome... Read more...
Surprising lessons from a Florida college's iPad deployment
At Florida State College at Jacksonville, the CEO, CFO, campus presidents, administrators, IT staff, and some faculty and students have been given iPads. The college, which has plans to roll out 1000... Read more...
Tips for healthy relationships with vendors
As more IT functions are provided by outside sources, suppliers take on a growing role in the enterprise. However, the relationships between vendors and customers still come with frustrations, and... Read more...
Where Hurricane Earl may hit IT
Hurricane Earl may present a blustery challenge for some IT systems, but the most likely casualties will be teleworkers, not data centers, analysts predict. Backup facilities and generators tend to... Read more...
VMware outlines strategy for displacing traditional OS
VMware wants to displace Windows by developing a subscription-based, hosted service that makes it possible for cloud-based applications to be delivered to any user device, reports Jon Brodkin at IDG... Read more...
Complaints persist about the Navy's costly NMCI network
If you work for the U.S. Navy, your email inbox may have 150 times less capacity than a Gmail account, and your local network may be out of business for days when the latest productivity suite is... Read more...
Experiment triggers bug, crashing one percent of the Internet
Duke University and a European group conducted an experiment late last week that inadvertently uncovered a flaw in Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) IOS XR operating system. Despite being designed for Cisco's... Read more...
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> Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) boosts multicore programming with Parallel Studio 2011. Article
> Badly configured networks believed to be the main cause of network breaches. Article
> Ruby on Rails 3.0 now available. Article
> Windows 7 Family Pack deal making a comeback. Article
> iPad gets AutoCAD along with Mac. Article
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Most senior IT executives are finding that employees who are blocked from visiting certain websites at the workplace don't complain about it much, according to a survey of 1400 CIOs by Robert Half Technology. This is rather run-of-the-mill news, it seems to me, but what is intriguing is how it has been publicized.
One of the seismic shifts underway in enterprise technology involves a growing number of business units taking on IT-related tasks independent of the IT team. Increasingly, software tools are being designed for non-IT professionals to gather their own insights from data and serve their own customers. 