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Beware hidden costs in your IT organization
News In current economic climate, IT heads may do well to monitor often overlooked costs such as maintenance contracts, training and certification.
Tags: IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Training, Storage, Procurement, Hardware, software
When IT and healthcare come together
Insight CIO 1-1 SingHealth's Dr. Low Cheng Ooi shares his views on how IT and healthcare are colliding to bring forth the future of medicine for patients and practitioners.
Tags: IT project management, Data Management, Leadership, Technology, EMR, Clinician, globalization, analytics, information technology company, chairman
IT to the rescue
Insight International SOS' CTO Todd Schofield shares how real-time information access has helped the organization provide better medical assistance, even in the most remote locations.
Tags: IT Management
Code concepts: Visual Studio's T4 templates
Techguide The T4 templating system is used to programmatically generate artifacts. Here's an overview about why the templates are useful and how to work with them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Business applications, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, T4, Directives, Levit & James Inc., File, Business applications, Directive, Tool
Europe getting 'Internet freedom' law
News Major overhaul of telecommunications regulations tackles issues ranging from data-breach notification to faster number porting to Internet access.
Tags: Regulations, Web sites, Piracy, negotiator, Telecoms Reform Package, European Commission, European Parliament, Web sites, Telecommunications, European Union
Once chopped up, CICT is whole again
Blogs It was late Friday afternoon when the press statement from the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (...
Do more with Apache
Techguide The apachectl command allows you a great deal of control over Apache processes, and can be used to debug or test configurations.
Tags: Open source, Web servers, Apache Software Foundation, Directive, Mandriva, Vincent Danen, Apache Web server, Server, server software, Canada
Data leaks: Europe readies new rules
News The European Commission (EC) is considering tightening some regulations around when companies have to reveal security leaks--but rules will only cover a small number of companies and won't come into force for years.
Tags: IT Governance, Regulations
EU directive could change iPhone battery design
News European regulators are considering a directive that would force cell phone makers to offer batteries that are "readily replaceable", which is not the case with Apple's iPhone.
Tags: Components, Smart phones, Mac OS, Battery, Cell Phone, Directive, Europe, Apple iPod, chemicals, circuit board
Stoking the coals of Innovation
Blogs Recently I have been very negative about the Open Source Community in China and the half hearted efforts by foreign comm...
Keeping CA's engine running
Insight Back in his comfort zone of running the IT functions of a business, CA CIO Dave Hansen shares his priorities for 2007 and explains why CIOs are moving up the value chain.
Tags: IT Management, Recruiting, Executive recruiting, Matrix management, Professional Development
Banking on the IT-sales connection
Insight Shee Tse Koon, Standard Chartered Bank's CIO for Singapore, shares the bank's inner workings of the close relationship between sales, technology and operations.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, Banking, IT Management, IT budgeting
Moving to the forefront of IT
Insight Technology is the bloodline of Hong Kong's immigration department, helping the government manage the information of 6.9 million people more efficiently.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance
A touch of healthcare and technology
Insight Dr. Colin Quek, CIO of Raffles Medical Group, discusses why the social component of healthcare can make IT spending more complex in this industry.
Tags: IT budgeting, Project management, IT budgeting, Project management
The Sun that shines under IT
Insight Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall counts down to the first phase of its new ERP project and shares what he believes the IT organization of the future will look like.
Tags: IT Management, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
