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Readers Respond: Get Your Hands off That Process

The management of IT departments can be technical, and the issues that Peter Coffee cited in his Jan. 9 column are technology ones (Epicenters,...

Dog Food Doctrine Deserves Debate

Like many others whod long awaited Microsofts Visual Studio 2005, I felt more than a little let down when that development suite shipped without...

Adobe Springs New Acrobat in 3-D

Adobe Systems introduced a new software package on Jan. 23 aimed at helping manufacturers create and share documents in the name of accelerating the...

Mactel Inspires Other Strange Bedfellows

Now that Apple has started using Intel chips, will Dell start using AMD chips? While at first the two events may not seem connected,...

Paul Allen Launches Retro Programming Site

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and computer history buff, wants to give the IT folks of today a taste of what programming was like in...

The Patent Reform Movement

Woo hoo! Patent reform is finally here! With the help of companies such as IBM, Novell and Red Hat, the U.S. Patent and Trademark...

Is IT Outsourcing Stagnant?

While there is much talk about outsourcing and services being the future of IT—and IT becoming, in effect, a service—it seems that IT outsourcing...

Iron Mountain DataDefense Protects Lost Laptops

Iron Mountain on Monday announced its new DataDefense service, which enables customers to control data elimination or lock down all files on stolen PCs...

Tax Woes Threaten TIAA-CREF Customers

With tax season gearing up to full throttle, TIAA-CREF customers straddling the 2005 to 2006 tax seasons are facing some potentially costly consequences due...

Finding Ways Around RFIDs Errors

For all its powerful potential, retail IT users know all too well the error problems with RFID, especially when the more powerful UHF chips...