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  • News: IT Consultant Resume Makeover: How to Land IT Management Jobs

    There comes a time in many IT consultants' careers when they decide to exchange the trappings of their jet-set professional lives for a corporate IT job with more stability. For Sevin Straus, an IT consultant based in Chicago, that moment came at the height of the financial crisis in 2009.

  • News: U.S. CIO: Changing the Culture of Federal IT

    U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel hopes cloud computing, Web services and a new IT culture of sharing can reap huge savings and prop up Uncle Sam.

  • News: Mac Mini Vault offers colocation for your mini server

    Colocation service Mac Mini Vault is offering server solutions created specifically for and with the quad-core i7 Mac mini server model.

  • News: SAP updates Business One application for small companies

    SAP on Thursday announced a version of Business One, its ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite for small companies, as it revs up the marketing strategy behind its Business ByDesign on-demand suite.

  • News: Facebook will cool its first European data center for free in Sweden

    Facebook has begun building a data center in Lulea, Sweden, where it will benefit from cheap electricity and year-round free air cooling, the company announced Thursday.

  • News: Dropbox adds new file-sharing service for work groups

    Dropbox for Teams starts at $795 annually for five users and offers 1TB of storage. It also comes with phone customer support and gives IT shops control to add or remove users.

  • News: Video: Steve Jobs one-on-one, the '95 interview

    In 1995, Steve Jobs was on the cusp of middle age -- 40 years old -- when he sat down for an interview by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation as part of an oral history project. The Foundation also produced the Computerworld Honors Program, whose executive director, Daniel Morrow, conducted this interview.

  • News: Safaricom launches Africa's largest native cloud

    Safaricom has launched a range of cloud services which will include data centre services including hosting, storage and backup services. The launch was done at a Wednesday evening function at Nairobi's Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) and attended by more than 600 guests. Safaricom Cloud is a partnership that rings together Safaricom, Seven Seas Technologies, EMC and Cisco, each bringing their expertise in different sectors into the partnership. Notably in attendance was Kenya's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, Dr Bitange Ndemo.

  • News: OpenLogic's PaaS to support many languages

    OpenLogic is launching a platform-as-a-service offering that aims to give users the flexibility that many developers like about infrastructure-as-a-service without the work.

  • News: Facebook will cool its first European data center for free in Sweden

    Facebook has begun building a data center in Lulea, Sweden, where it will benefit from cheap electricity and year-round free air cooling, the company announced Thursday.

  • News: Computer programmer who inspired Bill Gates wins top award

    Professor Donald Knuth, author of industry bible ‘The Art of Computer Programming’, has been awarded the Faraday Medal by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for his contribution to computer science.

  • News: UBS trading system woes worsen with £7.5m fine

    UBS has agreed to pay $12 million (£7.5 million) to US regulator the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), to settle serious accusations that its securities information systems were significantly flawed.

  • News: RIM faces possible class action suit over BlackBerry outages

    Research In Motion faces a possible class action lawsuit over recent outages in its BlackBerry services earlier this month, and a trademark infringement complaint for its use of the BBX name for its upcoming platform for its tablets and smartphones.

  • News: Duqu, Stuxnet link unclear

    A report by Dell SecureWorks debunks the idea that the newly discovered Duqu Trojan is related to last year's Stuxnet worm or was created by the same authors.

  • Opinion: IBM Simulates 4.5% of the Human Brain; Skynet Is Next

    It's pretty well known at this point that computers are quickly catching up with humanity as far as brain power is concerned. Storage-wise, we've been long surpassed by machines, and powerfully fast computers can run circles around the human brain in solving complex equations. On the other hand, humanity wins in the brain's sheer computational power and energy efficiency.

  • News: Solve Mail search problems

    Even when you know the basics of searching in Lion's Mail, sometimes an email message you clearly remember stubbornly stays lost. If a Mail search doesn't display messages that you know it should--and you've ruled out user error such as selecting the wrong mailbox, or choosing a header instead of message contents--there are several possible causes. Which solution to use depends on whether errors occur searching message contents (the body of your message) or headers (the contents of the To, CC, BCC, From, and Subject fields).

  • News: Apple rolling out in-store pickup option for online purchases

    Say goodbye to obsessively refreshing FedEx's tracking information: The next time you order a new iMac from Apple's online store, you may be able to walk down to your local Apple Store and have your computer ready and waiting.

  • News: Black Duck refines code search

    Black Duck Software has revamped its software code engine so that it indexes more quickly and filters the results, the company announced Wednesday.

  • News: New bill would target websites enabling copyright infringement

    A new bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would allow law enforcement officials to shut down websites that enable or facilitate copyright infringement, leading some digital rights groups to suggest that YouTube, Twitter and online news sites could be targeted.

  • News: Why give up IBM's top job at 60?

    The traditional retirement age for CEOs at IBM has been 60, or close to it.