Mary Brandel

Those in search of eternal life need look no further than the computer industry. In fact, the harder you try to declare a technology dead, it seems, the more you turn up evidence of its continuing existence. Nevertheless, after speaking with several industry stalwarts, we've compiled a list of skills and technologies that, while not dead, can perhaps be said to be in the process of dying.

If someone searches for you on the Web and comes up empty-handed, do you exist? Here are five tips to make yourself more findable on the Web

At a time when many companies are optimistic about the economy, even those with the sunniest outlook have adopted a conservative approach to technology spending, says a Forrester Research analyst.

Employees are becoming more mobile, thanks to some great technology, but itinerant workforces are creating new challenges for IT managers.

Compared to hot areas like security or wireless, data backup and restore may have seemed like IT's forgotten child - until now. A perfect storm of disappearing back-up windows (thanks to enormous data growth and nonstop business operations), large-scale catastrophes, increased litigation requiring electronic data discovery and federal regulations governing data retention, has catapulted backup and recovery to IT's head table.

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CIOs have always played a role in educating nontechnical managers. But today, with tighter budgets, tougher questions, a demand for guaranteed return on investment and CXOs who know enough about technology to be dangerous, smart CIOs are turning the tables by creating stronger, more knowledgeable advocates out of potentially distrustful adversaries.

Get ready to drool. If you worked at General Mills Inc. in Minneapolis, right now you'd be enjoying the many amenities of the company's newly built three-story employee services building, dubbed the Champions Center.