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Chasing Away Urban Congestion

Last April, in an Earth Day speech at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a sweeping plan to clean up the city and

8 Ways To Save Your Next Project

Technology projects bare a striking similarity to home renovations. Both are surrounded by wildly high hopes at the start and often end up causing financial and emotional heartache. There are

Cover Story: Wal-Mart’s Faltering RFID Initiative

Despite some big strategic changes, the retail giant insists it’s not retreating on its investment. Story Guide: Falling Short of Expectations The RFID Promise Making its Case Sales-Floor ROI Where

SOA’s Next Phase

There is no doubt about it: service-oriented architecture, or SOA, has gained acceptance as a way to exchange data previously trapped in legacy systems and isolated databases. The I.T. architecture

Virtualization: PG&E’s Power Play

While oil prices have retreated significantly from last year’s high, no one expects a return to the cheap energy that companies enjoyed just a few years ago. In fact, most

Inside MySpace: The Story

Booming traffic demands put a constant stress on the social network’s computing infrastructure. Yet, MySpace developers have repeatedly redesigned the Web site software, database and storage systems in an attempt

Vista: CIOs’ First Impressions

The enterprise version of Windows Vista is now available, but many companies will not immediately discard XP and upgrade to Microsoft’s latest operating system. That’s the consensus of chief information

E-Voting, As it Advances, Faces Big Risks

On the eve of Tuesday’s midterm elections, computer experts are sounding an alarm about possible problems with the electronic systems that two in every five voters will be using. They

SOA: TD Banknorth Is Banking on It

A number of technologies have promised to reshape and revolutionize the financial services industry over the last five years. But John Petrey, chief information officer of TD Banknorth, a Portland,

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