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Don Tennant
Blaring the Horn
We need to lighten up and be more tolerant of each other so that we can focus our attention on addressing the serious matters that confront us.
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Mike Elgan
Elgan: Four things you need to know about Apple
Here are four things that Apple believes that explain the unexplainable.
Jay Cline
Opinion: Will the smart grid protect consumer privacy?
The nation's electrical power grid is going to start collecting a multitude of data on utility customers before long. What's the potential for abuse?
Paul Glen
What Endures
Mitch Betts
Book Review: Four Steps to Becoming a Top-Tier CIO
The authors of The Real Business of IT show how CIOs can demonstrate and communicate the value of IT in terms the CEO will understand.
Mike Elgan
Elgan: Can gadgets be too small, cheap and feature rich?
Is it possible for gadgets to get so small or so cheap that they are unusable? Yes, indeed, writes columnist Mike Elgan.
Michael Gartenberg
Opinion: Beware Droids in the enterprise
Android 2.0 and the first device to use the mobile operating system, Droid, have a certain coolness factor, but that's not what corporate IT is looking for.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Torments of the Internet damned
We like to talk about how much easier or cheaper it is to run applications off the cloud or use software as a service, and it is -- when our Internet connection is working. When we have network problems, though, it's another story entirely.
Preston Gralla
Opinion: SharePoint: Is Microsoft's biggest recent success at risk?
Yes, the user base of the collaboration tool is growing, but it might be shelfware whose hold on the enterprise could be threatened by easier-to-use offerings.
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