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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
Open source stands up for its rights
Insight commentary Open source developers need to guard their intellectual property rights if they want to compete with the big boys, says consultant.
Tags: Open source, Copyright, Creative Commons, Open-source Developer, Intellectual Property Right, intellectual property, software, financial, software-as-a-service, U.S.
YouTube may add to Google's copyright worries
News Popular video-sharing site already faces legal heat. Will its acquisition make Google a high-profile lawsuit target?
Tags: Web sites, Video, Legal, Copyright, Acquisitions
Is your project MAD?
Techguide Forget deliverable-inspired tasks that produce little useful output. If you want your project management discipline to really shine, apply them to true business objectives.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Project, project manager, Fortune 500, financial benefit, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, CIO, financial
EMC wins NetApp in Data Domain bidding war
News NetApp's proposed merger agreement with Data Domain was terminated after the former declined to raise its bid. EMC will now have the rights to acquire in US$2.1 billion deal.
Tags: Storage, Acquisitions, Domain, EMC Corp., financial benefit, CEO, analyst, merger, board of directors, Benefit
PwC: Firms see mixed results in outsourcing
News Survey of U.S. and European companies finds that less than half consider outsourcing financial functions to be cost effective.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing
Should healthcare IT be 'low-profit'?
Blogs In my blog post last week, I discussed how tough it can be sometimes to meld capitalism and charity, primarily because b...
Building a better business case
Techguide A business case presents the cost and benefits of a proposed project, and is used as a tool to "sell" the project to the organization.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, CFO, Project, CRM, Tool, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, CIO, vision
Techs: You WILL take vacation
News Employees at several major US tech companies will celebrate Independence Day with a mandatory vacation week.
Five ways to get money for your IT project
Insight Getting funding for new technology initiatives is not difficult. Really. It's just a matter of pressing the right buttons. Here are five.
Strategies to bring in the right hires
Insight Avalos was looking to fill a couple of DBA positions with experienced Oracle specialists at his former employer. Instead, HR staff sent him cooks who had recently completed a night class on databases.
YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law
News The high-profile DMCA, written long before the Web video revolution, could determine whether the Google property disappears or not.
Tags: Video, Copyright, Lawsuits
Nasdaq Japan ready to shake up nation's stock markets
News Nasdaq Japan Planning Co said it's ready to take on the dominant Tokyo Stock Exchange, gearing up to grab as much as half the city's trades and to attract half of a swelling number of initial public offerings.
10 ways to begin a data warehouse project
Techguide Jeff Relkin examines key aspects of the process, including determining data access controls, deciding on an implementation approach, and building a metadata repository.
Copyright watchers not quite Facebook-worthy
Blogs Hmmm, I wonder if Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is an active member o...
