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July 28, 2008

Think your security staffers are trustworthy? Competent? Knowledgeable? Ask a security professional for horror stories and you might think twice. Here are some suggestions on coping with the painfully underqualified or essentially overwhelmed.

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These budding techies could be your future IT work force.

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Extreme heat, dangerous server layout, nonexistent service and other major problems were ultimately resolved by these three ITers focused on change.

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If you want to expand the visual capabilities of your laptop, you can add two monitors without spending a lot of time or money.

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July 21, 2008

Whether you bought a brand new iPhone 3G or updated the first-generation model you've had for a year, you're going to want to try out some of these must-have applications.

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We're not yet at the point where applications can move freely between the wired and wireless domains. But there is significant progress to report in moving toward this goal, Craig Mathias says.

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Web-based productivity suites, once almost a contradiction in terms, have become real challengers to desktop applications. Our reviewer names the contenders in different realms of the office.

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In one test, the virtual machine was able to saturate the hardware enough to achieve 97% of the storage performance of a physical server.

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Which is really the best ultrathin notebook? We put the three best-known models through rigorous usability testing to find out.

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July 14, 2008

Even though most people in a new Computerworld survey said they will adopt the new server OS, migration will be gradual.

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Its motto is "Don't do evil" -- but it looks like anything and everything else imaginable is pretty much fair game -- not to mention some wildly rumored projects that we asked the company to confirm or deny.

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Does your laptop have enough RAM? Does a hard disk or flash drive provide more bang for the buck? These questions are expensive imponderables for most laptop buyers, but our tests reveal the optimal configuration for your laptop.

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Make your own "declaration of independence," says columnist Mike Elgan, and set yourself up with the right phone, data plan, laptop and other devices so you're ready at any time to do whatever you want do to, and go wherever you want to go.

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Think you've seen all there is to see of Firefox 3's new features? Wait, there's more -- check out these cool and useful hacks.

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