Thursday | 8 January, 2009

Stories by: Jake Widman

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    Boss by day, gamer by night: IT leaders' favorite games 06/01/2009 09:20:00

    Do video games stimulate the intellect? Are gamers more social and better equipped to make decisions than nongamers?
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    Extreme IT: Hurricanes, high winds and heavy seas 14/10/2008 07:18:00

    When Lance Gibson talks about a storm knocking out his systems, he doesn't mean the infamous worm. He might be referring to the latest hurricane to sweep through the Gulf of Mexico or to the lightning accompanying a vicious thunderstorm.
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    IT's biggest project failures & what they teach us 10/10/2008 10:03:00

    Every year, the Improbable Research organization hands out Ig Nobel prizes to research projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."
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    Extreme IT: Battling dust, heat and bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq 05/06/2008 09:06:28

    Lots of people like to describe their jobs as "being on the front lines," but there are IT professionals whose jobs really do put them on the front lines of a combat zone. You think your work life's stressful? Try getting a network restored after it's been brought down by a mortar attack - in 110-degree heat.
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    A new kind of Web - don't miss these 11 sites 10/04/2008 08:12:17

    Call them Web 2.0 sites or mashups - or come up with your own trendy term. Whatever you call them, there are sites popping up all over the Web that process information in new ways rather than just present it.
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    Review: Microsoft Office for Mac -- better than iWork? 18/01/2008 11:54:00

    It has been almost four years since the last revision of Microsoft Office for the Mac, and Macintosh users can be forgiven for getting a little impatient. We heard all the buzz about the radical interface makeover for Office 2007 for Windows, and we wondered what user-interface goodies might be waiting for us.
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