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Relieving overloaded email systems
Sharing large documents, media files or data files is critical in the workplace and many CIOs rely on email systems because they are easy to use and familiar to most people. But as many IT executives Read more...
Microsoft may up the ante for Yahoo
Efforts by Microsoft and Yahoo to negotiate a merger agreement have stalled, with the two companies not even talking. But Microsoft this week could raise its bid by as much as $2 to $33 a share to Read more...
Text messaging not just for the young
For most CIOs, IT managers and long time computer specialists, text messaging may seem to be part of the hard-to-fathom under-30 culture and little more than a method of trivial cell-to-cell Read more...
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> Salaries are up, down, well, which is it? Read more...
Cloud computing is here to stay
You may shrug off cloud computing as the latest fad and nothing more. But you better listen up because it is here to stay. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and a few other big vendors are investing $5 Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Using Google Apps for networking
Is it possible to wean oneself off of Outlook and move to an entirely web-based productivity solution, like that provided by Google Apps? ZDnet's Rik Fairlie decided to find out and his tale Read more...
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> Gartner: Why Google doesn't get it. Article> Tips for Blackberry "Black Belts'. Read more...
Google CIO heads out the door
Another day, another CIO heading out the door. This time it's a big loss for Google, whose CIO is leaving. Douglas Merrill, the now former Google CIO, is becoming the president of EMI's digital unit, Read more...