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Article | 13/10/2010 RFID could ease hunt for lost IT gear

If concerns about cost and security can be overcome, RFID technology could help solve a growing problem in large <a href="http://www.computerworld.com...

Article | 6/10/2010 Finding lost IT with RFID

LAS VEGAS -- Vendors are increasingly trying to sell users on the idea that they need to stick RFID tags on IT equipment to keep track of it. Users ar...

Article | 1/10/2010 With Apotheker at helm, HP signals new direction

The initial reactions to Hewlett-Packard's appointment of Leo Apotheker as its new CEO has been double-takes.

Article | 1/10/2010 Five reasons why legislation to limit outsourcing fails

Congress headed home this week to focus on mid-term election campaigns, and offshore outsourcing is certain to be a topic of interest to many voters.

Article | 27/09/2010 CIOs say they're hiring again

The technology employment outlook is slowly starting to improve, but the uptick in hiring has been modest and hasn't come close to making up for the I...

Article | 24/09/2010 Cloud vendors seek better online data protections

Executives from top cloud vendors Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com and Rackspace Thursday urged a congressional committee to support thei...

Article | 21/09/2010 Microsoft new HPC Server adds SETI-like capabilities

Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as ...

Article | 15/09/2010 IT slowly hiring back after layoffs

WASHINGTON -- The IT industry shed employees last year at a much faster pace than they are now hiring them, but at least the industry is hiring.

Article | 15/09/2010 JPMorgan Chase's online banking site crashes

JPMorgan Chase is blaming "technical issues" for an outage to its online banking site that may well be one of the longest outages by a major provider ...

Article | 14/09/2010 IT staffing firms lose H-1B lawsuit

WASHINGTON - IT staffing firms that hire H-1B workers and make them available to customers are located in office parks and buildings around the U.S. B...

Article | 3/09/2010 As IBM cuts jobs in Vermont, others hire

IBM's shrinking U.S. workforce is particularly worrisome in Burlington Vt., which has long counted on the company to provide many good jobs for area r...

Article | 12/08/2010 The short list for HP's next CEO could be long

Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it's worth n...

Article | 4/08/2010 The lions of IT, the mainframe pros, learn new post-recession approaches

BOSTON - Gray-haired system administrators dominate the hallways and meeting rooms at the IBM Share conference, and not always by choice. Businesses h...

Article | 5/08/2010 A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career

Kristine Harper and her father, Tom, both work on mainframe computers. BOSTON - Kristine Harper was about 12-years-old when her father took her to hi...

Article | 27/07/2010 Next step for Wikileaks: Crowdsourcing classified data

WASHINGTON - The release on Sunday by Wikileaks of more than 90,000 documents about military operations in Afghanistan may just be the start of proble...