Project Management

Hoping to accelerate the adoption of Vista for businesses, Microsoft Corp. Tuesday unveiled tools to help companies deploy the new Windows client OS, including software that allows older versions of Windows to run virtually alongside Vista.

Qualcomm Inc. is offering mobile phone makers a choice of technologies to tune into mobile TV services.

SafeNet's SoftRemote Mobile application lets mobile users forge an encrypted tunnel to the enterprise over any network.

Industry leaders say IT outsourcing professionals need skills in technology, finance, law, negotiation and project, change and performance management.Knowledge of Hindi or Chinese is a plus.

The new business-focused IT structure requires skills in multiple disciplines. "We are becoming versatilists rather than technologists," says an IT governance expert. Today IT workers need to be adept at understanding business issues and applying their technical experience to develop solutions.

With its latest Airport Extreme base station, Apple has done more than revamp the look of its popular wireless router. It has adopted 802.11n

It's name is a forbidding but it promises a lot. It's creators call CrashPlan the most reliable and smartest backup on earth. What's the reality?

Businesses with fewer than 500 employees are more suspicious of voice-over-IP security than they are of the traditional phone network and even more suspicious than they are of Wi-Fi, according to an IDC study sponsored by the Computing Technology Industry Association.