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Until the iPad came along, the office workers and the plant workers at Industrial Mold & Machine had little means of communicating effectively, resulting in a culture gap at the Twinsburg, Ohio Read more...

IT executives from several large enterprises, including Lowe's and McGraw-Hill, have developed a "code of conduct for IT maintenance" to demand better quality and service from the software industry, Read more...

We don't want to give all vendors a bad name, but these days it's important to watch out for the slight of hand tricks that some may try to use to sell their wares. An article from InfoWorld.com Read more...

A provocative column recently posted on CIOZone.com raises an interesting issue, which every company faces: The cost of training employees to use new software. Such training is often expensive. In Read more...

It's well known that ordinary personal and business computer systems are vulnerable to hacking, but computers used to managing industrial machinery could also be at risk. Software was published just Read more...

The U.S. unemployment rate reached 6.1 percent last month, a five-year high as companies slashed 84,000 jobs. The Labor Department reported on a number of hard-hit sectors, including housing, the Read more...

Government agencies in the United States are scrambling to plug a glaring security hole in the form of sensitive information stored on laptops and portable media such as thumb drives. Over

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When economic times were good and IT departments found themselves short on storage capacity, the solution was simple--throw more money and capacity at the problem. Today there is an expensive storage Read more...

Businesses are bucking any and every trend to move to Microsoft Vista. Almost a year after its release, sales are still sluggish. And analysts say that won't change anytime soon. "From what we've Read more...

Google seems to be everywhere these days, but as the search giant moves into the enterprise, they're facing much of the same security scrutiny as those who have gone before them. Researchers at Read more...