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Baseline sifts through calendars, task management utilities, project management programs and freeware for the best in functionality to keep your days organized and productive.
The world belongs to agile, flexible companies that dare to innovate and displace outmoded business models. Baseline checks out the most disruptive companies.
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Managing IT professionals is a lot easier task when the technology team is made up of talented individuals. Unfortunately, many IT managers fail to cultivate their skills around recruiting because they do it so infrequently compared to their other day-to-day management tasks.
In this last installment of Getting the Best out of Geeks slideshow, we spoke with Dan Martineau. A 25-year veteran in IT headhunting, Martineau is principal of Martineau Recruiting Technology. He offers 10 tips on improving IT recruiting practices.
Here is a list of the most effective free storage and backup utilities, which are designed more to help you recover data that's important to
you in your everyday duties, after you find out the hard way why hard drives and spilled coffee don't mix.
Check out these more critically functional enhancements to Mozilla's Firefox.
3D technology isn't just for scientific modeling and attempts at cinematic
nostalgia anymore; Many companies are using the tech for everything from
R&D to education. Here's just a sampling of a few of the projects in the
enterprise arena.
In this installment of Getting the Best Out of Geeks, we spoke with project management guru Dr. Steve Flannes to get the scoop on the ten biggest people-related mistakes that IT project managers can make. As the principal of the consultancy Flannes & Associates, he specializes in managing people through projects and is the author of Essential People Skills for Project Managers.
An upcoming survey from Symantec and Applied Research-West confirms many suspicions about the generation gap in the workplace, namely that younger workers will use your corporate network to run most any device, technology or social networking software they can get their hands on. Should you be concerned? Oh, yes.
The CDC Influenza Pandemic Plan outlines the agency’s IT plans and systems to support a nationwide response to a potential outbreak of a non-seasonal flu pandemic through real-time data exchange and information management.
Baseline’s second installment of a four-part series on how to get the most from your IT role players.
Baseline’s first installment of a four-part series on how to get the most from your IT role players.
Fixware, freeware and almost-legalware to keep you up to date with your IT department.
If you're the type of maverick who's ever gone to a formal event in a tuxedo t-shirt or a gown and Chuck Taylors, then you'll probably benefit from this list. It could potentially make a difference in your future earning potential. Seriously.
Baseline explains the latest set of rules for the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) data security standards and how the changes will affect merchants who want to stay compliant.
As users' security perceptions toward the Internet are improving around the world, security experts say that the volume and severity of security threats is increasing. Cisco Systems set out to see how remote workers in various countries perceive and treat Internet security.
SOURCE: Cisco Systems' Year Two: Security Perceptions & Online Behavior of Remote Workers survey
Read the related Baseline article: Users Believe Internet Is “Safer”
In addition to introducing a lot of operational and security improvements, virtualization can also act as a great cost-cutting measure. And what says cost-cutting better than free? Check out our list of 10 free virtualization tools and utilities that you haven’t heard much about.
Baseline takes a quick and dirty tour of Apple's latest laptop, the MacBook Air. Is this gorgeously designed device ready for seasoned business users and road warriors?
While the unwashed masses can only dream of turning digital dreams into bona fide businesses, the famous use their clout to jump in with both well-shod feet. Here’s a list of celebrities taking a flyer on technology-based businesses.
IT virtualization provides unprecedented gains in efficiency and flexibility. But as these virtualized environments grow increasingly prevalent in the enterprise, admins must now consider the technology’s unique security risks. Noted security expert Pete Lindstrom, senior analyst at the Burton Group, has compiled the five immutable laws IT professionals must understand to keep their virtualized systems safe.
While a little far-fetched, "Untraceable" is not an unusual portrayal of hacking and computer security through the movie-makers lens. In this limelight, Baseline recounts 20 famous hacker movies.
We’ve waded through the growing list of Vista 'gadgets' (widgets) to find the real gems that will help you best balance work, family and personal time on your desktop. All are available for free download at the Windows Live Gallery. Football has come a long way from leather helmets and frozen tundra. The NFL is now among the biggest spectator sports in the world, thanks in part to technologies that have made the game safer for players and more enjoyable for fans everywhere. As the playoffs heat up, here’s a few of the high-tech wonders that keep us glued to the game and the tailgate on any given Sunday.
Already forgotten Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report? Here’s another kind of "cheaters" list that you will want to avoid. Here are 12 companies who have been fined by the Business Software Alliance for not playing by the rules of asset ma
Every successful executive knows that the key to a satisfying career is maintaining that precious work-life balance. Nobody can work straight through a 10-hour day without a little amusement, after all. The following are some great games to relieve a litt
It has been a little over a year now since Microsoft first launched Windows Vista to the enterprise market. Baseline takes a look at the kind of traction the new operating system has gained over 2007, and what analysts expect in 2008.
Want to help your company’s bottom line and get in good with your staff? Here are 10 excellent security tools that your technology team needs to know about. Feel free to show them to your CIO too, since they’re free and all.
The presidential election may be a year away, but Americans are already voting with their wallets. As the candidates collect campaign contributions for their trek toward the White House, Baseline took a look at who is get
Who Wins the War of
Value to Customers?
Based on responses of companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue.
Based on responses of companies with under $500 million in annual revenue
Small Enterprise Ratings
Based on responses of companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue
Which vendor wins in overall customer satisfaction?
The Uptime Institute ( www.uptimeinstitute.org) recently published definitions for quantitative metrics that can measure a data center’s green quotient. The following are five top metrics that execut These companies lead their respective verticals in leveraging IT to maximize profits and productivity.
The retail industry will spend nearly $40 billion by 2011 to upgrade systems to improve customer experience.
The Web portal is struggling to maintain relevance in the increasingly competitive online advertising, social networking and multimedia world. It must overcome a handful of steep challenges if it hopes to succeed.
By David F. Carr
Business intelligence is on top of most enterprises’ buying agenda: according to Forrester, 41% expect to make a purchase or upgrade related to BI in 2007.
Still, there are plenty of obstacles that hinder—or even sabotage—a company’s abili
The portal's struggle is thrown into sharp relief by the success if its chief rival, Google.
A Case Dissection in Miniature
Reporter: Mel Duvall
Designer: Steve Anderson
Producer: Robert Hertzberg
How one of Wal-Mart's suppliers uses the technology.
Reporter: Mel Duvall
Graphics: Funnelinc.com
Designed by: Brian Moore
Producer: Robert Hertzberg
IT asset disposal vendors remove your outdated equipment and determine the best--and proper--way to get rid of it and the data on it.
By David Carr
Of the 46 highest-paid chief information officers on our list, 21 of them had pay packages worth more than $1 million.
A digital surveillance and detection system takes many of the best forensics tools and applies them before the fact, not after. Here’s an example of how a detection platform works behind the scenes, using a “captain” module at company headquarters and “cr
Baseline ranked the fastest-growing software companies based on year-to-year revenue growth from 2004 to 2005, or the closest 12-month periods within a quarter.
A look at the 25 publicly-traded companies that have managed information best over the last three years.
The Top 100 most influential people in IT—numbers 75-51.
The Top 100 most influential people in IT—numbers 50-26.
Topics cover everything from career development, to project management, to programming practices.
Top 100 most influential people in IT—numbers 25-1.
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