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<item><title>App Helps Combat Childhood Obesity and Heart Disease</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:15:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Using a trendy technology to communicate vital health information.   -  
What better way is there to engage and teach children and
their parents about staying healthy and fit than with an iPad? Mid Valley
Family Practice, in Basalt, Colo., is doing just that in an effort to reduce
child obesity and cardiovascular risks.
When children arrive at Dr. Glenn Kotzs exami...]]></description>
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<item><title>Context Awareness Gets Real</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:04:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Devices that know where you are improve a variety of services. Now comes the next step.   -  Over the last few years, location-based services mostly available through smartphones have led to new and more powerful capabilities in areas as diverse as weather forecasting and product marketing. The technology is rapidly changing the way businesses and consumers view and access data as well as h...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Tech Resolutions for 2012</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:38:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The best thing about the end of the year for technologys biggest (and even smallest) companies is that they can look to next year to fix their mistakes, improve upon their successes and deliver better products to enterprise users and consumers. The new year means a new beginning for companies around the globe. For some firms, such as Research In Motion and Hewlett-Packard, thats undoubtedly a good thing. This year has been tough on those companies, and its clear that if they dont try something major in 2012, they could be in deep trouble a year from now. On the other hand, companies such as Apple and Google seem poised to continue their success. And perhaps their 2012 strategies should center on maintaining status quo. But lets not get ahead of ourselves. Here, eWEEK takes at look at some of the resolutions technology companies should make this year. Theres no telling if these companies will follow the upcoming advice, of course, but if they want to be successful in 2012, they should.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Top Business Apps for Tablets</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:36:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As tablet computers grow more common in the office, applications available for them are evolving from simple personal productivity software and games like Angry Birds to sophisticated enterprise tools. See also Best Business Apps of 2011 “Major software vendors are taking the tablet seriously and embracing the market, following where users want to take the platform,” said Gartner analyst and vice president David Willis. Applications that tie in with enterprise systems like ERP, CRM and others are launching, yet vendors can't just throw them together, says Willis. “Success lies in how the vendor re-factors the apps in a meaningful way, rather than just duplicating the traditional desktop or browser experience.&quot; IT needs to be careful in choosing which apps they give users, and make sure they're secure. This list includes Gartner's top 10 applications in terms of usefulness to businesses.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>How Companies Really Use Their Intranets</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:03:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The promise of social media helped make “collaboration” a buzzword. Books have been written, processes have been preached, and the term took hold, trumpeting the value of working together in an automated fashion. See also Social Media Inside the Firewall. Whats not to love? Well, there must be something. Because while many companies offer collaboration tools on their intranets, not that many information workers are actually taking advantage of them. Forrester Research asked 2,869 U.S. information workers who are using a company portal what types of information they most commonly access through it; the findings, released this fall in a report titled “State of the Workforce Technology Adoption: U.S. Benchmark,” are what you would expect if it were still 2002. High on the chart were basic HR and training info, while more advanced or modern tools for collaboration and knowledge fell far behind. This slideshow highlights the ways that both enterprises (1,000 employees or more) and SMBs (100-999 employees) actually utilize their intranets. Give the lack of mission-critical uses, well quote Forresters report: “Start with those functions that choose not to adopt the services you provide and ask, ‘Why not?”   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>A Quick Guide to Social Media Within the Enterprise</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:56:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fortune 1000 companies are finding social media technologies to be increasingly valuable inside their organizations. External usage, for the purposes of marketing, communications and business intelligence, has grown along with major consumer services like Facebook and Twitter. But inside the firewall, enterprises also employ with growing sophistication tools such as blogs, wikis, discussion boards, microblogging and interlinked geolocation services. These tools are the sum of more than two decades of development, and capabilities have changed radically over the last few years. Today, thanks to Web 2.0 and mobility, social networking is allowing employees to link and share data, information and knowledge in ways that werent imaginable only a few years ago. Most importantly, its ratcheting up collaboration and unleashing the potential of the digital age.   -   ...]]></description>
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<item><title>10 Steps to Moving to the Cloud </title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:10:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Virtualization and cloud computing increase efficiency and flexibility in providing data and applications to users, yet managing performance of applications and transactions in the cloud is neither simple nor easy. When you add another layer, particularly one that is highly dynamic in nature, assuring a high quality user experience gets trickier when applications misbehave. Its harder to determine where an application or transaction was working when the failure or slowdown occurred, since virtual machines are provisioned and decommissioned continually according to business priority and demand. You can no longer monitor an application in the context of its server. This slideshow, written by Zohar Gilad, Executive VP of Precise, provides an overview of top issues to consider before, during and after migration.   -  ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Managed IT Services Deliver Savings </title>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:38:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cost-cutting remains a major focus of IT strategy. One successful approach involves managed IT services, which can yield meaningful savings “even when implemented on small scale,” says Carolyn April, director of the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). The not-for-profit group recently surveyed 400 IT and business professionals, as well as 364 IT channel firms. One key finding: companies using managed IT services arent cutting jobs. Quite the contrary, they view managed services as a way to free up IT staff to work on other projects that will more directly contribute to revenue-generating activities. So, at least at first glance, managed IT services seem to benefit just about everyone.   -   ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Social Media For Public Safety</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:44:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Government increasingly relies on social media tools to manage disasters.   -  See also How to Use Social Media in a Disaster, Companies Go Social Amid Threats. 

Government agencies are turning to social media technology to manage disasters and improve public safety. 
A growing number of agencies are tapping into Facebook and Twitter to monitor events and provide near real...]]></description>
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<item><title>Clouds Help Companies Grow</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:17:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Top-line growth is an under-appreciated benefit for users of cloud computing.   -  If an IT leader works for a company that isnt named Amazon, Google or Facebook, chances are that company hasnt gotten a big revenue boost from the cloud. Its much more likely that it has used the cloud to cut costs, replace a standalone software application or back up older documents.

Research by...]]></description>
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<item><title>Software as Service: The Next Generation</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:57:13 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When it comes to making the move to SaaS, the question for most organizations isnt so much “if,” as it is “when” and “to what extent.”   -  Sometime last year, it became clear that ClearChoice had a problem. The companys chain of dental-implant centers was at 29 and counting, testing the elasticity of its disparate IT systems. Each location had its own database fed by site-specific instances of applications most notably Great Plains ERP...]]></description>
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<item><title>App Development Strategy Cuts Costs, Ensures Compliance</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:32:12 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Standardizing its software processes has improved Western &amp; Southerns efficiency, compliance, and security.   -  Western  amp; Southern Financial Groups software development and implementation processes were inefficient, costly and less secure than they could be. To address these concerns, the Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 financial services corporation embarked on an aggressive program to revamp these critical...]]></description>
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<item><title>Don`t Lose Control in the Cloud</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:26:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Before entering into a cloud computing transaction, evaluate the service providers obligations to ensure  availability and utility,  and determine its incentives to meet those obligations.   -  Cloud computing involves giving up direct oversight of technology assets, but it shouldnt mean losing control.

The customer must rely on the service provider to restore operations when a cloud computing service malfunctions. Before entering into a cloud transaction, a prospective customer should ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Five Technologies That Will Remake Your Workplace</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:22:23 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The year 2020 is not that far away, but the average workplace may look decidedly different by then. Some changes will have to happen. The Collaboration 2020 research project conducted by Johnson Controls Global WorkPlace Solutions (GWS) reveals a gap between the volume of teamwork todays workplace can support and the amount office workers anticipate doing in 2020. Office workers also expect to spend more time working in spaces that incorporate collaborative technologies. This shift to virtual teams using a range of technologies will be coupled with a decrease in the amount of time that office workers expect to spend at their desks, on the phone, or in traditional meeting rooms. Many of you are already experiencing this, as you work at home or some other place thats not a traditional office, and use technologies that make that distance insignificant. What follows is a look what a happier life through technology might entail as well as certain technologies on the downslope of their expected usage.   -   ...]]></description>
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<item><title>FDA Approves Social Media</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:53:25 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A big federal agency finds value in the internal use of social networking.   -  The buzz over social media has reached deafening proportions. But behind the glitzy façade of Facebook and Twitter and a near obsession over consumer facing strategies theres a growing realization that social networking can pay enormous dividends within an organization. Not only can it help employee...]]></description>
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