Stories by: Julia King

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    The grill: Frank Wander 19/07/2011 04:33:00

    "In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy."
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    Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream 23/02/2010 08:56:00

    Customer relationship management applications are still the largest segment of the ballooning software-as-a-service market.
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    Gotcha! Pursuing software pirates 15/09/2009 08:06:00

    You might not realize it, but two out of every 10 of your co-workers might be using pirated software, according to industry statistics. You might be, too, for that matter, particularly if you work in manufacturing or at a small or midsize company with 100 to 500 PCs. You just might not know it.
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    Open source, Web 2.0 gain appeal as IT budgets shrink 23/06/2009 08:25:00

    CPS Energy, the largest municipality-owned gas and electric company in America, needed to get a better grip on its budget and its budgeting process. Since CPS Energy was an enterprise SAP user, more SAP AG software was the obvious and lowest-risk way for CIO Christopher Barron to go.
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    Girl power! US summer camp grooms tomorrow's techies 29/07/2008 10:30:00

    It's 10 o'clock on a sunny April morning in Balboa Park. In a spacious Girl Scout cabin tucked away amid lush green palm trees, 20 girls ranging in age from 11 to 14, most wearing jeans and pigtails, are gearing up for today's camp activities. But there are no sit-upons or s'mores, potholders or paper crafts -- just 21 laptops, two color printers, 10 digital cameras, two scanners and a palpable abundance of preadolescent energy and creative enthusiasm.
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    Vint Cerf on the Internet, mobility and happiness 01/08/2007 16:25:16

    Vint Cerf is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of the TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the Internet. In 2005, he and Kahn received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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    Preventing P-to-P abuse 10/12/2003 16:10:27

    Tim O'Rourke, vice president for computer and information services at Temple University, makes it a point to ask students in the classes he teaches whether they swap peer-to-peer (P-to-P) music and video files. He has yet to get no for an answer. With 33,000 network users, 5,000 of whom live on the Philadelphia campus, P-to-P file swapping has brought the university's network to its knees more than once, he says.
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    IT pros finding new careers as dot-com CEOs 23/05/2000 16:22:12

    An increasing number of CIOs, information technology directors and software development professionals are launching second careers in the executive suite as CEOs of their companies' dot-com spin-offs or at new internet marketplaces.
 
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