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  • Report: Facebook bolsters efforts to build smartphone

    Facebook is revitalizing its effort to create a smartphone, recruiting engineers who have experience with mobile devices, according to a story in the New York Times Sunday.

    Written by Marc Ferranti • 27 May 12 23:13

  • Wall Street Beat: After Facebook fiasco, don't write off tech IPOs

    The Facebook IPO may have been a fiasco, but don't put the nail in the coffin just yet for other tech offerings this year.

    Written by Marc Ferranti • 25 May 12 22:22

  • Sony brings streaming music service to the iPhone

    Sony on Friday released an iPhone app to access its streaming Music Unlimited service, part of its efforts to expand its online platforms to devices from rival manufacturers.

    Written by Jay Alabaster • 25 May 12 07:37

  • Facebook beefs up mobile photo sharing with Camera

    Facebook introduced its own mobile photo app, Camera, on Thursday, bringing richer photo-sharing features to the platform even before the company closes its deal to acquire the popular photo-sharing app Instagram.

    Written by Cameron Scott • 24 May 12 18:56

  • Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

    During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 24 May 12 16:49

  • Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches

    More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher.

    Written by Loek Essers • 24 May 12 16:37

  • Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

    IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

    Written by Michael Cooney • 24 May 12 13:33

  • Sony pulls out of LCD JV with Sharp, gets US$126 million investment back

    Sony said Thursday it will pull out of its over three-year LCD TV panel joint venture with Sharp, part of Sony's ongoing attempts to reform its foundering TV business.

    Written by Jay Alabaster • 24 May 12 10:15

  • Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties

    Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Written by Fred O'Connor • 23 May 12 21:35

  • UPDATED: HP slashes 27,000 jobs as part of restructuring program

    It's official. Hewlett-Packard will cut 27,000 employees as part of its long-term restructuring plan, the company said when it announced quarterly financial results.

    Written by Agam Shah • 23 May 12 20:52

  • Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project

    An Ohio startup company has raised US$200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday.

    Written by Grant Gross • 23 May 12 15:48

  • CIOs mull how to innovate and tighten belts simultaneously

    CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 23 May 12 05:29

  • Tech guns for hire: 5 places to find skilled IT contractors

    Even for organizations with a stellar full-time IT staff, situations often arise where temporary outside help is needed. A big Web project might demand a few extra programmers to meet a tough deadline, for example, or a rollout of tools to support a sales force bent on capturing a broader market may require expertise not available in-house.

    Written by Logan Kugler • 22 May 12 20:08

  • Apple's Cook 'top-paid US CEO in 2011'

    Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $US300 million ($A305.95 million) above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey shows.

    Written by AAP • 22 May 12 09:18
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    Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

    David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which dates back to Cobol's early days in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.

    Written by Robert L. Mitchell • 22 May 12 00:55

  • Edgy Communication

    We techies need to take the edge off once in a while.

    Written by Paul Glen • 22 May 12 00:37

  • IBM Retirement Plan Promises Jobs Through '13

    IBM is offering employees who are nearing retirement, and who might be worried about layoffs, a one-time opportunity to participate in a program that would guarantee their employment through Dec. 31, 2013.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 21 May 12 23:47

  • Top 7 dilemmas facing today's developers

    Your boss wants it yesterday, but it better be good when judged by the standards of tomorrow. Your customers want every feature they can imagine, but don't you dare confuse them by giving them all the buttons they want. Your fellow programmers want your code documented, but they just respond "tl;dr" to anything you write.

    Written by Peter Wayner • 21 May 12 23:05

  • The Grill: TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow

    After spinning off from Northrop Grumman in 2009, TASC had one year to establish itself as an independent company. That meant the 6,000-employee systems engineering operation needed to deploy a new IT infrastructure. In overseeing that effort, TASC CIO Barbie Bigelow built an IT organization and infrastructure from scratch. Her team spent about eight months working with 64 vendors and partners to design and build an operation that included a new ERP system, more than 4,000 computers, 800 mobile devices, 400 network devices and 134 data circuits across 60 facilities -- and they did it in six weeks. Here, Bigelow discusses the failures and successes that the team experienced as they pursued the aggressive schedule, and she reflects on how TASC's IT unit has evolved.

    Written by Robert L. Mitchell • 21 May 12 20:11

  • Lack of awareness about IT careers is main deterrence for women: Go Girl

    The Victorian ICT for Women network is holding a bi-annual two-day IT careers expo — Go Girl, Go for IT — in June this year which is designed to help entice more female students in Years 8-11 to pursue a career in IT by exposing them to diverse roles in the industry.

    Written by Diana Nguyen • 21 May 12 16:46
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