Shane Schick

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Articles by Shane Schick

10 changes Steve Ballmer should make at Microsoft

When I appeared on CBC Newsworld last week to talk about Bill Gates’ departure from Microsoft, they asked me whether I thought the company...

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Big Blue is using watercooling technology to run a server at room temperature, while Ribbit has entered a deal with Salesforce.com to give users voice-to-text feeding. Get the lowdown on AMD

YouTube Fridays: Bill Gates’ last day (revisited)

This clip was widely shown earlier this year at Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' speech at the Consumer Electronics Showcase in Las Vegas, but I...

LinkedIn guilt: The new social networking disease

“LinkedIn,” the CIO said. “That thing drives me nuts.”I was in a meeting today with one of our editorial advisory boards when the above...

Mississauga moves off PeopleSoft to SAP in HR switch

A blueprint to streamline and consolidate its entire portfolio of applications will see the City of Mississauga move its entire suite of Oracle/PeopleSoft software to competitor SAP's line by the end of this year.

Google shouldn’t corner the market as an agent of organization

We all know what Google does. So why don’t more users understand what IT departments are supposed to do?If nothing else, the search engine...

Licence renewal: How to be a better, bolder IT manager

For me to preach the concept of social skills to an IT manager is absurd, because I can barely muster them in my personal...

When an after-hours BlackBerry leads to overtime demands

If IT managers could get paid overtime whenever they’d had to check their BlackBerry outside of office hours, a lot of them would be...

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