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Google Faces Injunction Over Image Search
A federal judge said Tuesday that an adult entertainment company is likely to prevail in at least one aspect of …News
Microsoft Hit With New Office Complaint
Some of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest rivals lodged a new complaint with the European Commission Wednesday over its Office applications suite …News
EU Services Vote Disappoints IT Industry
A vote in the European Parliament this week on liberalizing the European Union’s services market is "a missed opportunity" for …News
Dell Exceeds Revenue, Earnings Forecast
Dell Inc. exceeded revenue and earnings expectations in its fourth quarter, ended Feb. 3. 2006, helped by strong sales of …News
Week in Review: Microsoft, the FBI and Passwords
Compiled by China Martens — IDG News Service1. "Microsoft Responds To EC Complaints," InfoWorld, 2/15. Time’s …News
Offshoring: R&D Positions Begin Moving Overseas
Outsourcing generally begins at the bottom of an organization, with the simple assembly work shipped off first, followed by manufacturing …News
Oracle Buys Sleepycat
Oracle has acquired Sleepycat Software, an open-source database vendor, in an effort to bolster its presence in the embedded database …News
BlackBerry Customers Unfazed by Legal Troubles
The ongoing legal battle between Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry handheld, and NTP, a patent holding company …News
By the Numbers – IT Takes Expense Out of Procurement
Companies that use IT effectively for procuring goods and services can save big bucks, according to The Hackett Group. The …News
Book Review: A Methodology for Corporate Evolution Through Innovation
Consultant and author Geoffrey Moore has spent his career advising companies how to change and grow. His new book, Dealing …News
Per Processor Software Licensing Must Be Replaced–But With What?
Thought experiment time.Tomorrow morning an engineer at a small integrated circuit manufacturer will wake up with an epiphany–a design for …News
Microsoft HQ Gets $1B Facelift
On Thursday, computer giant Microsoft announced plans to sink $1 billion into renovations of its Redmond, Wash. headquarters over the …News
Microsoft Expands IP Lawsuit Protections
On Thursday, Microsoft announced it would increase the protections against intellectual property lawsuits currently offered to manufacturers that build devices …News
Gateway CEO Resigns
On Wednesday, Gateway’s chief executive resigned from his post to pursue other interests, according to the company’s February …News
RIM Unveils BlackBerry Backup Plan
On Thursday, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it had designed a workaround for its popular handheld as a …News
Microsoft: EU "Riding Roughshod" Over Its Defense
On Wednesday, Microsoft said the European Union is paying no attention to its rights of defense, but the European Commission …News
GM Chops Dividend, Crops Top Salaries
On Tuesday, General Motors (GM) said it had cut its dividend in half to an annual rate or $1 per …News
Microsoft to Offer Paid Security Service
How much is a worm-free, uninfected operating system (OS) worth to you? If it’s more than $50, and you use …News
Feb. 2006 — Top News Story of the Week: BlackBerry or GM?
By Constantine von HoffmanWhy is it that I am so fascinated by dead technologies? (Perhaps the same reason I root …News
Top 10 IT New Stories of the Week; GM and EDS, BlackBerry and NTP, SAP On-Demand CRM
1."Deal Keeps EDS As GM’s Top IT Services Provider," Computerworld, 2/2. In one of the most keenly anticipated …News
European IT Services Market Sees Further Consolidation
The European market for companies providing IT services to enterprises is ripe for consolidation, according to a senior executive at …News
GM Will Outsource $15B in IT Work
On Tuesday, General Motors released a list of IT suppliers who will provide it with systems integration services to the …Feature
Strategic Partnerships and the Mid-Market CIO
For mid-market CIOs, setting up and managing a strategic partnership has its own challenges.Feature
Outsourcing Can Mean Big Deals, Big Savings and Big Problems
Large-scale outsourcing deals promise big savings, but they fail half the time. Here’s how to make them work for you.News
From the Editor – Next Stop, New Delhi
Christmas came early to India this year.Just before the holiday, several big American companies were competing to see which one …Feature
Success and Failure in Outsourcing
How can clients and vendors settle into a "sweet spot" where their interests coincide?Feature
Outsourcing: Strategic Partnerships in the Mid-Market
For mid-market CIOs, setting up and managing a strategic partnership has its own challenges.News
Bank Call Center Jobs Moved to Texas, Costa Rica
Yesterday, Washington Mutual informed some 1,000 call center employees in Chatsworth, Calif. that their jobs were moving to Texas and …News
Report: Federal IT Outsourcing to Increase
The federal IT outsourcing market will increase by more than four billion dollars by fiscal year 2010, according to a …News
Do Your Vendors Really Deliver?
Over the past few years it’s become obvious that IT organizations want to partner with fewer vendors while reaping greater …News
Outsourcing and the Philippines
The skills set of the Philippines’ IT workforce is beginning to move up the value chain as global demand for …News
IT Outsourcing Revenues Decline
Sourcing advisory firm TPI cited a record number of global outsourcing contracts in 2005, according to its quarterly …News
Oracle to Boost India SMB Operations
Oracle’s vice presdient for Asia Pacific Derek Williams revealed the software vendor’s plans to to hire 1,400 employees for its …News
Home Depot to Outsource 500 More Jobs
Home Depot will outsource another 500 transactional and call center jobs over the next several months, according to a report …News
India's Billion Dollar Gold Rush
Speaking in New Delhi yesterday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that the Redmond software giant plans to invest $1.7 billion …News
CIO Magazine Tech Poll: Budget Forecasts for 2006
IT budget growth estimates for the coming 12 months perked up slightly in the CIO Magazine Tech this month. After …News
Architectural Flexibility and Activity-Based Costing
Reader Q&A Q: If CIOs are to improve architectural flexibility, isn’t it really business executives rather than the IT group …News
How to Do More With the IT You’ve Got
It’s futile for CIOs to try to explain why IT projects cost so much and take so long.News
Tax Break for R&D Gains Traction
According to the Wall Street Journal, high-tech companies, manufacturers and pharmaceutical houses are making headway in their long-running …News
Union Puts Exported Jobs List Online
A labor union offshoot group is bringing hard-to-find government data to the Internet to highlight companies that are exporting American …Feature
Quick Hits, Big Returns from Contract Labor Vigilance
Executives and project managers constantly battle to reduce costs and improve cash flow in the short term. Some are getting there through a new approach to contract labor.News
Reader Feedback: Backsourcing and Outsourcing Contracts
Put an Exit Strategy in the Contract The best practices mentioned in “Backsourcing Pain” [Sept. 1] may help minimize the …News
Working with Offshore Partners Requires CIO Oversight
Co-sourcing, which draws on both the vendor’s specialized technical knowledge and the client’s deep business knowledge, succeeds only when both parties have strong capabilities and the relationship is set up so that those capabilities can mesh for the greater good.News
Book Review: A Source for Sourcing
A guide to success, whether you outsource a little, a lot or not at all.nNews
Create the Right Environment to Foster Innovation
At the CIO 100 Conference in August, a panel on innovation produced some provocative glimpses into how a few of …News
How Vendor and Client Can Both Benefit in an Outsourcing Deal
IT executives entering into IT and business-process outsourcing arrangements seek a variety of benefits, including cost reductions, variable capacity and …News
Paul Saffo: Comments from CIO's The Year Ahead Conference
In his opening remarks, moderator Paul Saffo talked about trying to do your own forecasting. The first step: Think wild. …News
The Bottom Line Is the Bottom Line
Whether a specific company focuses on profits,sales, customer satisfaction or any other measurement, everyone inevery organization faces some bottom-line …News
Martin Wolf's Talk: The World is Asian
The chief economic commentator for the Financial Times opened the CIO/06 conference in Phoenix today with a disturbing assessment of …-
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