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Green is a bottomline business

These days, green is the new black, so to speak.

User Experience: Scott Franks

rnrnrn? EXPERIENCE First Nations SchoolNet: Breaking Barriers videoconferencing system rnrnThernFirst Nations SchoolNet project provides IT infrastructure andrneducation and resources to...

Dissecting the ‘IT talent crunch’

Each time we report on the so-called "IT skills crunch" we're flooded with a volley of letters from readers - many of whom have strong views on the topic. This article brings together a very wide assortment of our readers letters on what's is undoubtedly one of the most controversial issues in the industry.

Tumultuous times for troubled Vonage

The New Jersey-based firm announced on April 12 that its CEO, Michael F. Snyder, had resigned, to be replaced by the company

Shark Tank

Pilot fish just finished a month doing tech support when the number of users complaining about spam suddenly starts to rise.

Caught in a loop of endless coding

I was deeply relieved when a prominent developer whisked me away to her company. My new outfit used versioning software and ran an up-to-date version of my programming language. I was bedazzled! The first six months were wonderful. Then, one day in February the owners sent out for pizza, called the developers together, and announced that it was now our duty to produce a new product destined to take over a missing piece of the market pie by Christmas.

Using MySpace in criminal investigations

rnIt was late August, and depending on whom you asked, MySpace was either a Web 2.0 prophet or the devil gone digital. While the business world was reading about the social networking...

Your first 90 days on the job

The first days at a new job are nerve-wracking for anyone. But for the high-expectation position of CIO, the first days and weeks are often seen as a litmus test, a chance to make or break your reputation as a leader of business, technology and people. The idea of compiling a set of best practices to orient CIOs through their first 90 days germinated with a small group of Canadian CIO Executive Council members. The larger Council membership embraced the idea and nearly 70 CIOs from around the world contributed to the Council report A Running Start: Success in your First 90 Days on the Job.

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