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From fighting patent trolls to establishing a coder's rights policy to protecting online civil liberties, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an organization dedicated to helping to define the gray area between the law, the rights of individuals and technology practices. This nonprofit has gained admiration across the board, from workaday admins and tech-savvy executives to rank-and-file geeks, for its 18-year-long crusade to protect individual rights to privacy and free speech on the Internet. What these supporters might not be aware of is that the EFF has its own business interests in mind, as well.
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Marriott turns IT into a strategic advantage.
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It can be very risky to break down the mainframe application that does your core business processing without evaluating all the facts.
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Baseline talks to the experts on which Web 2.0, social networking applications and customer-focused community capabilities they think have the most potential for growth and influence in the Enterprise. These Web applications in areas like microblogging, product comparison and collaborative work spaces are considered up and coming players in an already-crowded, competitive Web 2.0 market.
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Baseline columnist Bruce F. Webster argues why it is paramount that you tackle hard problems in IT projects like application development and systems integration from the outset and not procrastinate the looming trouble and complexity that lies ahead.
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Google sees Android as an open-source platform for designing mobile devices, saying it will encourage innovation by allowing outside software developers to tinker with the system and create better mobile programs and services. Industry insiders who have worked on Google's Android mobile operating system say it will struggle in the near term and will take time to match the consumer enthusiasm generated by Apple when its iPhone redefined the touch-screen phone market and greatly improved mobile Web surfing.
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You would think, given the dollar amounts at stake in information technology projects that every effort would be made to ensure that the quality of the software was handled by best practices in quality assurance (QA). You would be wrong.
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Today’s IT security strategies should be as flexible as the business needs, while still maintaining the proper measure
of security protection and control. Security policy needs to reflect who will see and use the use the data. Filters can help manage data taxonomy while access control will allow new technologies to be added in to your environment for collaboration, while remaining secure. Change control and configuration management can also help.
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Forbes Media uses SaaS for managing its IT project portfolio to better predict and monitor a projects' success and track ROI. Using project software, collaboration tools and effective project management principles, Forbes Media was able to realize the benefits of implementing business software as a service. Implementing tracking software and planning software can be a huge undertaking, but Forbes Media discovered a SaaS service they were able to get up and running quickly.
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Behind the excitement and glamour of the football season is some key information technology including: GPS, ecommerce, wired and wireless networking, voice over IP, systems integration, data security, storage and project management-- that support and enhance America’s favorite sport. Companies such as Cisco, Insight, Ignify, Microsoft and KORE Telematics are helping NFL teams get serious about managing information technology in logistics, customer relationship management and securely storing team and media-related data.
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A given piece of software application can range from being an unmodified, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software package to being a completely custom, written-from-scratch program. Between those two extremes you can find customized and/or configured COTS software, custom software built using commercial software frameworks and libraries, and complex application systems comprising all of the above. The question: which solution is best?
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Microsoft's Silverlight technology and rival Adobe's Flash format are currently locked in a race over who delivers the world's online video, but the ultimate prize may be who powers the next generation of Web software. Using Silverlight, the NBC site for the Olympics offered a glimpse of what is possible with future Web applications because viewers are able to watch up to four videos at once or follow the action with an online commentary that runs alongside the video.
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In the mobile software arena, major players--Apple with its iPhone, Google with its Android platform, RIM, Palm and others-- are duking it out for control of an emerging market where start-up applications on open platforms are winning consumers and business users alike. Will features that emphasize efficiency win, or will the gold medal go to apps that promise better integration with enterprise systems?
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Baseline columnist Bruce F. Webster analyzes some of the key barriers for project consultants in getting problematic IT systems and IT management on the right track. Included in this perspective is a breakdown of fear, pride, internal politics, and budgets.
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The 2008 Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas was chock full of security research and vulnerability information provided by the brightest minds in the security community. Here is a recap of the highlights from this year's Black Hat security sessions.
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