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How to Design a Successful RACI Project Plan
Having managed and rescued dozens of projects, and helped others do so, I've noted that there is always one critical success factor (CSF) that...
Google becomes hardware company with $12.5B Motorola buy
Google said Tuesday morning that it has closed the deal to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
Microsoft-backed groups praise EU's antitrust ultimatum to Google
A pair of Microsoft-backed industry groups applauded the ultimatum European Union antitrust regulators issued to rival Google over alleged...
Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors
Need outside help for your next IT project? It's easy to hire tech freelancers online, but how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Here are...
Upcoming Salesforce.com release adds real-time chat capabilities
Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat...
Samsung Squashes Hack of Voice Assistant App
Samsung is blocking a hack of its S Voice digital assistant software that allowed any Android phone running Ice Cream Sandwich to use the app.
Cross-browser worm spreads via Facebook, security experts warn
Malware writers have used Crossrider, a cross-browser extension development framework, to build a click-fraud worm that spreads on Facebook, security...
EU offers Google a chance to avoid fines over four antitrust concerns
Google has "a matter of weeks" to address four antitrust issues identified by European Union antitrust regulators. If Google addresses...
EU: Programming Languages Can't Be Copyrighted
Europe's top court has ruled that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by...
The Grill: TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow
CIO Barbie Bigelow led the effort to build an IT organization and infrastructure from scratch when the TASC systems engineering operation was spun...
Funds Pour Into Big-Data Vendors
Investors have taken note of the surge in enterprise demand for tools that can manipulate and analyze massive volumes of structured and unstructured...
Yahoo's Genome highlights hosted big data analytics trend
Yahoo joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week.
Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users
So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users...
Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users
So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users...
Pakistan's block on Twitter over blasphemous content reversed
Pakistan late Sunday reversed a block on Twitter in the country over material it considered anti-Islam, the country's interior minister said.
IT Should Forget Development, Focus on Requirements and Release Management
Despite all the changes to application lifecycle management (ALM), IT organizations are doing just fine when it comes to core development processes....
For Univ. of Kentucky, SAP's HANA is 'disruptive'
The University of Kentucky says it has reshaped its business intelligence capability by adopting SAP's in-memory system, HANA.
Google Knowledge Graph: The Birth of a Siri Rival?
On the surface, Google's Knowledge Graph seems like just another search feature, but connect the dots and it could become the brains behind a...
Mozilla product director says Firefox on Windows RT 'probably not worth it'
Unless Microsoft allows other browser makers to call important APIs in Windows RT, it's "probably not worth it to even bother" building a version of...
NetSuite 'glad to help rival SAP with their ERP'
Zach Nelson, chief executive at NetSuite, has publicly thanked rival SAP for renewing a cloud computing license with his company, instead of using...
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