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Tuesday | 2 December, 2008
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    Former ICI IT Boss on Effects of Cloud Computing 28 April, 2008 13:39:44

    A local power failure has left Dr Richard Sykes temporarily without electricity at his home in Islington, London. He is also being photographed to illustrate this article but the double delay in being able to talk to him affords a little time for admiring his collection of modern art and perusing his bookshelves, groaning under the weight of volumes that testify to the interests that have underpinned his career.
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    Scent of a Merger 07 May, 2007 15:04:48

    On December 14 and 15, 2005, Coty, one of the world's largest cosmetic and fragrance makers, held an all-hands-on-deck executive meeting at the company's headquarters in New York City. Five months earlier, Coty had acquired Unilever Cosmetics International (UCI), a subsidiary of the eponymous conglomerate, and Coty's IT team was just finishing moving UCI employees off Unilever's infrastructure and onto Coty's
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    The Subsidiary Sandwich 03 April, 2007 13:57:53

    For most CIOs the buck stops with them when it comes to delivering appropriate, robust information services for the business. But for the CIOs of subsidiaries of multinationals, many IT decisions and deals are nutted out overseas by global CIOs. Subsidiary CIOs are left to execute and operate
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    Capturing the Elements of Innovation 27 February, 2007 10:53:39

    Procter & Gamble is famous for being innovative, but the hard truth is that it had better be. The company spends 3.4 percent of its revenue on R&D, more than twice the average of 1.6 percent in the consumer packaged goods industry. But big spending on R&D does not guarantee success: A study by consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton found no correlation between dollars spent on R&D and profitability. What matters is the productivity of that spend - the "hit rate" of ideas that lead to products.
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    Strangers in a Strange Land 11 December, 2006 13:40:29

    James Brown sang it so long ago: It's a man's, man's, man's world! Can it still be so? In IT, absolutely
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    Resilience Through Redundancy 03 May, 2006 12:30:41

    What happens to a company when the unimaginable occurs? When an earthquake hits its primary contract manufacturer? When labour strikes shut down an entire port? When terrorists cripple a transportation system?
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    Tag ,You're Late 20 December, 2004 11:30:04

    Why Wal-Mart's suppliers won't make the January 1 deadline for RFID tagging.
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    Tag ,You're Late 20 December, 2004 09:58:25

    Why Wal-Mart's suppliers won't make the January 1 deadline for RFID tagging.
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    Host with the Most 07 December, 2004 14:14:59

    Letting someone else run your applications can pay dividends - but only under the right conditions.
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    Sun Above, Death Below 11 August, 2000 14:00:08

    The blue skies promised by the dotcom companies were irresistible to many financial analysts and investors. However, like Icarus flying too close to the sun, many investors came unstuck when the NASDAQ went into meltdown earlier this year. Now the Icarus investors are back, only this time with a parachute. Beverley Head reports on how common sense returned to the marketplace
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    Kalido Scope 28 January, 2000 13:19:43

    Finding consistent business measures was literally a "shell game" until Shell Oil Products developed a made-to-order data warehouse and analytical engine
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    CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00

    For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders.
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    CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25

    For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders.
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    CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00

    Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00

    Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05

    Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    CBS website bitten by iFrame hack 02 December, 2008 07:30:00

    Russian malware distributors have launched another iFrame attack on a sub-domain of the cbs.com site.
    TV network CBS has become the latest big name to have it website used to host malware, a security company has reported.
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    Excerpt: Counterterrorism Strategies for Corporations 27 November, 2008 12:36:00

    Mike Ackerman calls terrorism "the skunk at the globalization lawn party." His new book lays out 10 principles for how businesses can prepare and respond.
    Mike Ackerman calls terrorism "the skunk at the globalization lawn party." His new book lays out 10 principles for how businesses can prepare and respond.
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    The 10 Ackerman Principles of Counterterrorism 27 November, 2008 12:43:00

    Consultant and author Mike Ackerman's 10 counterterrorism principles for business.
    Consultant and author Mike Ackerman's 10 counterterrorism principles for business.
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    Survey: Despite Risks, Employees Still Holiday Shop at Work 27 November, 2008 10:02:00

    As Cyber Monday approaches, research suggests a majority of workers will use their work computer to shop this holiday season. But despite the continued growth in online shopping, employees and business still don't understand the risk
    As Cyber Monday approaches, research suggests a majority of workers will use their work computer to shop this holiday season. But despite the continued growth in online shopping, employees and business still don't understand the risk.
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    Why Cybercrime is Thriving 27 November, 2008 11:52:00

    A new Symantec report reveals just how large and sophisticated the online underground economy has grown
    A new Symantec report reveals just how large and sophisticated the online underground economy has grown.
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