Tuesday, May 22, 2012

IT News Head Lines (TechWeb) 22/05/2012





CIA's View Of Mobile, Internet Use: By The Numbers
Here's what the CIA sees as the use of mobile phones completely outpaces use of the Internet..

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Cloud's Tough Enemy: Chargeback Pushback
Chargeback has always been hard for IT, but cloud computing forces the issue. At the same time, pushback from business users continues..

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9 Lessons From Utah Data Breach
Breach of unencrypted data affected 28% of the state's residents; one in 10 had Social Security numbers stolen. How can you avoid such an epic fail?.

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Yahoo Divests Half Its Alibaba Stake For $7.1 Billion
Deal gives Yahoo a cash injection while positioning Chinese Internet company for possible IPO..

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Yahoo ResuMess: The Trouble With Entitlement Culture
The resume drama for Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson had a quiet player: a corporate culture that seeks fairness but produces employees who feel entitled. Here's what his successor, and all managers, must know about that problem..

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Cable Giants Open 50,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots
Five cable companies, including Comcast and Time Warner, have agreed to let subscribers roam freely on Wi-Fi networks operated by one another..

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Yammer, Chatter, Tibbr Ranked Top Social Activity Streams
Forrester Research ranks the leaders in a market segment
that excludes social intranet portal players like Jive Software..

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SAP Swallows Sybase, CEO John Chen's Role Uncertain
Sybase will be an SAP brand, not a separate subsidiary, in an integration that eliminates the longtime Sybase CEO's current role..

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4 Ways Facebook Can Woo SMBs
Facebook's ad revenue depends largely on the combined pool of smaller advertisers. Here's what the company can do to better serve SMBs..

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EMC's Gelsinger Talks Cloud Storage, Pricing Pressure
Before kicking off this week's EMC World conference, EMC president and chief operating officer Pat Gelsinger spoke with InformationWeek on automation, the roles EMC will and won't play in cloud storage, and more..

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5 IT Budget Presentation Do's And Don'ts
Strong presentation skills can be an important advantage when negotiating projects with your company's senior execs. But leave the Mr. Cool act at home..

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Open Source: Why Are You Still Waiting?
Open source technology has pervaded government IT. The private sector must follow, because of cloud, agility, mobility, and the wild card: teenagers.
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Next Valley View: Cloud, Baseball IT, And More
Tune in May 23 for the next episode of our live Web TV series, including chats with execs from Framehawk and Cloudability, plus Bill Schlough, CIO of the 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants..

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Social Collaboration: A Work In Progress
Improving collaboration continues to top executive priority lists, so let's revisit whether they're "teasing out" the right tools and techniques..

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Machines Make Cell Phone Calls To Each Other!
The world is secretly full of embedded cellular applications. It's called M2M for mobile-to-mobile, and it leads to new efficiencies for everything from the office coffee machine to the burglar alarm..

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Jumping Into Tibbr Social Collaboration With Both Feet
IT services firm CGI skipped the pilot project and launched Tibco's Tibbr to 31,000 users at once..

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