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    Blog: IT's Not Supposed to be a Dirty Job 11 July, 2008 15:30:56

    IT World has put out a list of the "seven dirtiest jobs in IT": it's dated in March, but just surfaced this week on my Google News radar. The good news, they hasten to say, is that mastering the associated skill sets for any of these tasks will pretty much assure you of employment; the bad news is that you can't expect to enjoy it.
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    Blog: Second Acts: Why CEOs Get Them And CIOs Don't 18 January, 2008 12:36:09

    Last week's news about Howard Schultz's return to the helm of Starbucks as CEO got me thinking about second acts. They're fairly common for CEOs. A year ago, Michael Dell was called back to the executive suite to revitalize the computer maker's growth. And Charles Schwab was reinstalled as CEO in July 2004, after having stepped down from that same role just 14 months earlier, in May 2003.
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    Dirty Data No More: Five Tips for Data Governance 15 January, 2008 12:22:19

    Making sure your data gets and stays clean requires the right approach to data governance.
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    Blog: What Would You Do to Save Your Job? 11 January, 2008 11:14:19

    CEOs at the helm of financial services companies reeling from subprime mortgage losses are giving up their multimillion dollar bonuses to save their jobs. John Mack, the CEO of Morgan Stanley, announced during his company's fourth quarter 2007 earnings conference call on December 19 that he would give up his bonus. Unfortunately, the strategy doesn't always work.
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    Information Overload Is Killing You and Your Productivity 11 January, 2008 11:00:06

    IT leaders living in the "Too Much Information" Age need to take control of their work lives. A Burton Group report explains how to do just that.
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    How to Be a Supremely Productive Person: A Chat With John Halamka 11 January, 2008 10:59:10

    John Halamka has two CIO titles, a family, passionate rock-climbing and wine-making interests and a major-league blog habit. We discuss his celebrity turn in a BlackBerry ad, his tips for e-mail triage, how he sleeps three hours a night and why he now understands Britney Spears.
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    Blog: Maintenance - Letting Go Of The M-Word 09 January, 2008 12:58:42

    We've probably all seen the IT iceberg, the one with new projects rising majestically above the water line - and application maintenance submerged in the murky depths below. Well, since global warming is busy melting the icebergs up north, I hope it will soon come along and melt this particular one too.
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    Q&A: Gates' role as innovator, deal-maker, philanthropist 08 January, 2008 12:17:29

    Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates has been giving keynote speeches at Las Vegas conventions, including the Consumer Electronics Show and the now-defunct Comdex, for decades. Before his last CES keynote speech as a full-time company employee, he talked with the IDG News Service about his legacy as an innovator, the background behind some of the deals announced at CES this week and directions for Microsoft.
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    Coping with Project Backlog 07 January, 2008 12:32:24

    Demand for new applications is pushing IT departments to their limits. Here's why the workload has exploded and — more important — how to handle it.
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    Toxic Mix or Bit of a Mixed Blessing? 31 December, 2007 10:36:30

    "Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog . . . " The inter-generational office brew of Boomer, Gen X and Gen Y may not be quite as odious as that of the three witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth, but even so it makes "for a charm of powerful trouble"
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    IBM CIO adjusts to his 'first pure-technology job' 21 December, 2007 10:02:34

    IBM CIO Mark Hennessy took on his current role in July, after 25 years of holding sales, marketing, and general management positions at Big Blue. In his "first pure-technology job," Hennessy is responsible for the technology needs of 372,000 employees worldwide, along with eight million square feet of data centers and thousands of servers and applications.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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