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  • The year the landscape for enterprise software changed forever

    It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project failures to creaky legacy systems that will take years and great expense to replace with the latest-and-greatest.

  • 2011 will be the year of Android gaming

    Mark our words: 2011 is the year for Android gaming.

  • Smartphones in the enterprise: A changing landscape

    As recently as a year ago, many enterprises couldn't have imagined that the iPhone would now be second place in terms of security features that enterprises require, behind only the BlackBerry and ahead of Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.

  • Virtualised software: Confusion over licences

    When Dataprise, an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualisation project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualisation's dirty little secret: No one - including vendors - seems to know how to licence the software.

  • Ten signs you are a social media addict

    Answer these questions carefully (since denial is the first sign): Do you find yourself dreaming about status updates and friend requests? Does your TwitPic account chronicle your trips to the grocery store and cleaners?

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    As software becomes more complex, and demands the scalability of the cloud, IT's auto mechanic of today, the sysadmin, will disappear. Tomorrow's sysadmin will be more like a physician, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

  • Venezuelan president Chavez condemns capitalist West, Playstation

    Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez won't spare a kind word for video games, calling them 'poison' and accusing them of being proxies for capitalist warmongering. According to AFP, the outspoken critic who once notoriously referred to George W. Bush as "the devil", used his weekly radio-TV show 'Alo Presidente' to put a match to Sony's PlayStation games brand.

  • Twitter's Biz Stone speaks out about crippling DDoS attack

    Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that the denial-of-service attack that knocked the micro-blogging site offline last week convinced him that the company has to quickly muscle up to deal with its phenomenal popularity and the problems it brings.

  • Transforming WANs into LANs

    Silver Peak's founder and CTO tells how their idea of a WAN appliance came about.

  • It's not easy being green

    Q: Can you elaborate more on these "green IT" issues that keep coming up lately? Is this the tail wagging the dog, or is there something real going on here? -- P.B., Emoryville, Calif.





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