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    Microsoft turns 35: Best, worst, most notable moments 25 March, 2010 11:15:00

    The year is 1975. Gerald Ford is in the White House, South Vietnam falls, Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila" world championship boxing match, the late-night comedy show NBC's Saturday Night (later called Saturday Night Live) debuts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sweeps the Oscars, and Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" and Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" top the music charts.
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    Unisys service uses the cloud to manage mobile devices 01 October, 2009 10:21:00

    Unisys is introducing a new service on Wednesday that will allow its customers to better manage, secure and support mobile devices carried around by employees, company executives said on Tuesday.
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    Getting Your Vendors to Flock Together 04 February, 2008 12:53:09

    Keeping track of bids, vendor performance, previous contract terms, alternative providers and technology differences was taking too much time for Bernard "Bud" Mathaisel as he settled in as CIO of electronics manufacturer Solectron in 1999
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    Caveat Emptor 2.0 10 December, 2007 13:08:40

    It all plays out with monotonous regularity: a new product, medium, business model or industry emerges and the clanking sound you hear is that of thousands of feet jumping one after another onto the same bandwagon
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    Web 2.0 Users Open a Box of Security Risks 28 March, 2007 13:58:27

    Google Apps, ThinkFree Office and other hosted Microsoft Office alternatives are gaining in popularity as ad hoc collaboration tools. But such software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings have few, if any, service-level or security guarantees and can leave a trail of potentially sensitive data on publicly accessible servers on the Web.
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    Knowledge Management 2.0 07 February, 2007 13:18:35

    Business runs, by default, on e-mail. It's always there, and it just works, so we end up using it for everything - as a telephone, as a filing cabinet and as a conference room. But the trouble with e-mail is that it happily gobbles up our ideas, crucial documents and business acumen and doesn't give them back.
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    Remote Control 09 October, 2006 12:05:21

    Google should shoulder some responsibility for remote access to corporate information systems. Its Internet engines suggest it is possible to access anything anywhere anytime. If Google can do it, executives argue, why not rip down the walls on corporate information systems and let employees access them anytime anywhere too?
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    Power Up 11 October, 2005 09:36:20

    Hurricane Katrina proves why it most definitely pays to have a disaster recovery plan in place
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    A New Way to Manage Vendors 05 April, 2005 09:11:38

    Are you looking at increasingly complicated negotiations with a growing stable of vendors? Bring on the horse whisperer: the vendor management office
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    How to Put Your Customers to Work 08 June, 2004 10:37:38

    It's getting harder for companies to sustain growth and create value on their own. It's time to loop customers into the act.
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    At Risk Offshore 07 April, 2004 14:15:36

    Companies outsourcing their software development offshore can get stung by industrial espionage and poor intellectual property safequards.
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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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