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Opinion: Winning the battle against rogue suppliers
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Chrome shines, Gore opines, staffs decline
Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.

Cost-Saving Secrets of the Outsourcing Insiders
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Netbooks in the enterprise: Get ready
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Knowledge Worker 2.0: The skills you need to adapt
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