Gartner adjusts 2009 IT spend downward again
Resarch firm Gartner released updated worldwide IT spending numbers that show the economic recession and declining revenues across all major segments of IT drove forecasts down 6% in 2009 to a total of $3.2 trillion. Read more...

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Cisco Systems won't try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to those companies and provide its own software as a service.

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Same mobile router, different approaches
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Eyes on Iran, lines for iPhone, jury award
The re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over challenger Mir Hussein Moussavi sparked demonstrations, and coverage of the protests led to the ouster of Western journalists. Twitter users stepped into the information gap, providing real-time updates. But the popular microblogging site also became a vehicle for protesters to launch denial-of-service attacks. While the conflict in Iran and the role of technology in keeping the world informed about it is our top story, for a whole lot of people the focus of the week was on -- what else? -- Apple's new iPhone 3G S, which went on sale Friday. We confess to momentary early morning confusion about the line on Boston's Boylston Street until we realized it was outside of an AT&T store. D'oh.

10 Ways to Do More with Less in the Recession
As the economic crisis continues, technology leaders are faced with the challenge of considering how best to trim the fat out of their budgets. While some steps are obvious and necessary, others can be like a diet you've been cheating on, which you know what you should be doing, but you don't always follow through. Here are 10 ways CIOs are doing more with less in tough economic times:

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Leadership Lessons from ... Eleanor Roosevelt
Years before she helped Franklin D. Roosevelt win four presidential campaigns and became "reluctant First Lady" in the 1930s and 1940s, Eleanor Roosevelt was an outspoken social reformer. Her legacy includes fighting for women's, civil and human rights in the U.S. and, via the fledgling United Nations, the world. J. Edgar Hoover considered her dangerous; the FBI file on Roosevelt is one of its thickest.

AT&T income down but mobile business healthy
AT&T's first quarter income was down 9% on flat revenue but its mobile business -- buoyed by its exclusive iPhone partnership with Apple -- continued to see healthy growth.

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