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IT professionals have historically monitored network traffic patterns to better understand network usage, to expose security events, and to generally promote overall network health. Traffic analysis can likewise be applied to the Web to understand a wide range of behavior patterns ranging from social media networks to suggestion systems in e-commerce to even the current hot topic: the presidential race.

At the start of each semester, Harvard Business School professor Rob Austin draws two circles on the blackboard. He labels one "business," and the other "IT." With his chalk, he directs his students' attention to the spot in the center where the two intersect. "If you can live in that space, you will have a job forever," says Austin.

Finnish IT-employees prefer interesting tasks above everything else when choosing their workplace, according to research from Gallup Observa.

The cost of complying with privacy legislation now pending in Congress could run well into the billions of dollars for companies doing business online, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT).

The cost of complying with privacy legislation now pending in Congress could run well into the billions of dollars for companies doing business online, according to a report released Tuesday by the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT).

Tales of dot-com wreckage are rife in Silicon Valley and Alley. But does America feel the pain? Apparently not. More than half of those questioned in a recent poll applaud the closure of Net companies as a good thing, saying that there are too many Web sites and that most of them are pretty lousy anyway.

One thing is certain about the workplace in the 21st century--it's not like your father's. Unemployment is the lowest in decades, and employees at all levels have options open to them that they never had before. Executives are confronted with the need to make business decisions in a time of change and uncertainty. Paramount among them is how to keep valued employees. Many CIOs may be surprised to learn that it isn't money or fringe benefits that keep those people loyal--it is people management.

Red Sheriff, currently providing its specialist range of internet reporting services in 10 countries, aims to expand its operations in Asia by opening new offices in Singapore and New Zealand.

It's not so hard to understand Microsoft's legal strategy. Microsoft Corp.'s lawyers insist they'll win big on appeal. But they're also in no hurry to get to the appeals court - they want six more months to explain why breaking up the company is a bad idea. But if they'll win on appeal anyway, why take all that time? Because you never know what might happen. An appeal is risky - you might lose. But in the meantime, a new president might tell the Justice Department to dump the case. The state attorneys general might go back to chasing Big Tobacco. A judge might drop dead. It might be an ugly victory - but a good lawyer would rather win ugly than lose pretty.

Last year, when Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan told the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee that "an impressive proliferation of new technologies is inducing major shifts in the underlying structure of the American economy," he had information technology in mind.