Project Management

European countries and Singapore are leveraging IT better than the U.S., according to a study issued Wednesday by the World Economic Forum.

Worldwide stock markets recently took a dive, some losing as much as 8 percent of their value overnight. Experts mostly blame the drop on loss of investor confidence rather than any underlying long-term problem. Confidence plays such a huge role in business and, indeed, in the whole global economy.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday named David Yen, who currently heads the company's storage division, to run a newly created business to develop microelectronics to sell globallY

IT spending is expected to rise 4 percent to 6 percent in 2007, down from 8 percent last year, as companies seek to rein in the expense of running their computer systems, according to a consensus of industry forecasts.

Software requirements documentation was supposed to itemize everything that the application required. But the project was late, the users were unhappy, and the budget spun out of control. Why? Just ask the developers

Gartner Inc. is recommending that businesses complete planning by the second quarter of this year for an influenza pandemic and in particular stock up on supplies that would be needed by data centre workers.

It may be the Windows world

Wilkes University announced Wednesday that it has pulled the plug on PCs in favor of Macs.