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Tips and techniques to help manage your most important asset -- your people -- and to help you learn how to get ahead on the IT career ladder

New Sony CEO: Hot gadgets aren't enough anymore

Sony's new CEO says the company needs to move on from its hardware roots.
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Growth in Indian IT services exports to slow down, says Nasscom

Growth in India's exports of IT services, business process outsourcing and related services is forecast to drop to 11 to 14 percent in the Indian fiscal year to March 31, 2013 from an estimated 16.3 percent in the current fiscal year, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) said.

Yahoo in another shakeup as chairman and directors depart

The shakeup at Yahoo continues as the company's chairman and three directors stepped down Tuesday. The new board could be gearing up to sell the Internet company, or the new CEO may be looking for a board that will support him.

Obama's H-1B answer in forum may haunt him

Until President Barack Obama responded to a question about H-1B visas during an online forum last week, the administration had said little about the controversial program.

Salesforce.com shakes up Standard support plan features

Salesforce.com has made a series of changes to its support services that include the removal of certain features from the Standard tier, but which the company says overall will provide a better experience for customers.

CSC reports $1.39B loss on revenue down 5.8 percent

Computer Sciences Corp. reported a US$1.39 billion loss for its third fiscal quarter, with revenue down 5.8 percent year on year. Performance was dragged down by a $1.49 billion charge related to the U.K. government's cancellation of a health IT contract, it said Wednesday.

The Best Microsoft Office Alternative You've Never Heard Of

Business still revolves around the Big Three software applications: word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. And Microsoft still charges an arm and a leg for Office licenses. What's a cash-strapped small shop to do?

Outsourcer Cognizant posts strong results despite flat demand

Cognizant Technology Solutions posted strong growth in revenue and profits in the fourth quarter of 2011, indicating that a few focused players continue to grow, even as demand for offshoring is flat because of uncertain economic conditions.

CSC names Mike Lawrie CEO, ending four-month search

CSC ended four months of speculation about the identity of its next CEO late Tuesday, announcing that Mike Lawrie, currently CEO of British IT service company Misys, will become CEO of CSC by the end of March. He has already taken a seat on CSC's board.

Nokia will lay off 4,000, move more manufacturing to Asia

Nokia has decided to move more of its manufacturing to Asia, and will lay off approximately 4,000 workers at three factories in Europe and Mexico by the end of the year, the company said on Wednesday.

Career advice: The value of certs

Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader Page Petry also has advice on winning a promotion and moving into the security field.

Google Leads Green IT Ranking

Google's motto of "Do No Evil" apparently extends to its environmental policies, as the company was recently ranked first on Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard for overall green practices. Google grabbed the top spot for the first time, ranking high due to recent disclosure of its own carbon footprint as well as its investment in utility projects such as a large-scale solar project taking place near Sacramento. Other reasons it made the top of the list? The RechargeIT.org project which was designed by Google to demonstrate the technology used in plug-in electric vehicles and to accelerate their adoption, as well as other actions such as increasing its renewable energy purchasing and creating a subsidiary called Google Engery.

Bart Perkins: An argument for keeping IT training budgets intact

Many of training's benefits are intangible and won't show up in an ROI analysis. Insider (registration required)

When ERP is botched, CFOs must act

While ERP projects go awry for many reasons, each incident reveals its own set of troublesome repercussions, financial and otherwise.

Measure the success of your IT-business partnerships

How CIOs are determining if new attempts to partner with the business are making a difference.

How IT helped shape UL's new business strategy

Underwriters Laboratories' CIO Christian Anschuetz discusses UL's recent transformation from a non-profit to a for-profit organization and how IT shaped and supported that change. He weighs in on the consumerization of IT, offers advice for CIOs, explains why 'big data' without 'big discretion' will lead to 'big failure,' and more.

No more historic SLA reports: Get it (and fix it) in real time

Businesses of almost all types are increasingly dependent on service providers for network connectivity that consistently delivers certain performance characteristics. In addition to basic service availability, these characteristics increasingly include peak, average and minimum bandwidth utilization, latency (delay) and latency variation (jitter), and packet loss -- all of which can affect operational efficiency and end user satisfaction. This is especially the case with Ethernet-based service offerings employing packet transport to deliver E-LINE services operating at speeds up to tens of gigabits per second.

Building Your Cloud? Remember Your Workers

My post last week discussed the importance of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. CFOs and their IT directors must understand the importance of hard costs, but they should not forget their employees who will ultimately be impacted by these changes.

Stupid user tricks 6: IT idiocy loves company

IT fight club, dirty dev data, meatball sandwiches -- nine more tales of brain fail beyond belief

Hire a vet? IT Says Yes

Microsoft, Siemens and AT&T are just a few of the corporations discovering the value of veterans' tech training, global perspective and surprising arsenal of soft skills.