Tuesday, September 2, 2003|
Survey: CIOs plan to boost spending 6.4% in next 12 months [Computerworld News] 2:59:22 PM  comment
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Brief: Telecom sector posts most job cuts in August. But employers announced 6% fewer job cuts than they posted in July, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas [Computerworld News] 2:58:52 PM comment
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IT budgets to inch up in 2004?. A new report says information technology budgets should grow 2 percent in 2004, driven by a replacement of older systems as IT managers anticipate an improved economy. [CNET News.com] 2:58:11 PM comment
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Worldwide cell phone sales climb. A new study shows that if the current pace of mobile phone sales continues through the second half of the year, the market could achieve double-digit growth for 2003. [CNET News.com] 2:57:21 PM comment
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The amount of information available to managers and the amount of work required to sort the important from the less important is increasing dramatically. 1:58:49 PM comment
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Most CEOs would cringe at the idea that IT architecture -- the way technology resources are organized -- determines the agility with which companies can carry out good strategy. Yet the difficulty and cost of modifying today's rigid IT architectures, dominated by big enterprise applications such as ERP, can be so high that some companies would rather abandon new strategic initiatives than make a single change to the applications they already have in place. Good news is on the horizon in the form of service-oriented architectures, which promise to reduce if not remove the current obstacles.
The take-away
This article takes a close look at flexible service-oriented architectures, comparing and contrasting them to the more rigid IT architectures that preceded them. The authors make the case that information technology, far from lacking strategic worth, determines strategic value. |
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Wal-Mart changed the game when it demanded that top suppliers ship products with Auto-ID tags. The result: A new crop of retail winners and losers. Here's how you can be a winner. 1:23:49 PM comment
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Going Gold? Maybe, if Enough Cellphones Ring. The music industry may be having trouble persuading people to buy its songs online. But the cellphone market is another matter. By Alec Foege. [New York Times: Technology] 1:02:42 PM comment
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Hitachi develops RFID chip for bank notes, documents. Hitachi Ltd. has developed an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip that requires no external antenna and makes possible the embedding of tracking and identification chips in bank notes, tickets and other paper products. [InfoWorld: Top News] 1:02:29 PM comment
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France Télécom Is Acquiring Orange. France Telecom will issue stock to raise fresh capital that it will use to acquire the 13.7 percent stake of the cellphone provider Orange. By John Tagliabue. [New York Times: Business] 1:02:11 PM comment
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Code reading and literary criticism. Brian Marick has posted a wonderful essay on the subject of commenting code. "I do believe that code with comments should often be written to be more self-explanatory," he says. "But code can only ever be self-explanatory with respect to an expected reader." To illustrate, he shows an algorithm in C, then translates to the kind of Lisp a C programmer would write, then retranslates to the kind of Lisp a Lisp programmer would write. Then he walks through the Lisp code line by line, exploring how the code itself sets up and then satisfies expectations in the mind of a reader who is presumed Lisp-proficient. ... [Jon's Radio] 1:01:55 PM comment
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The Future of the Web [Scientific American] 1:01:34 PM comment
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The Science of War: Nuclear History [Scientific American] 1:01:16 PM comment
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Tackling Major Killers: Heart Disease [Scientific American] 1:00:39 PM comment
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CDs and DVDs are 'doomed'. Download this [The Register] 12:59:56 PM comment
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WIRED: MIT Everyware. The academic world was shocked by MIT's audacity - and skeptical of the experiment. At a time when most enterprises were racing to profit from the Internet and universities were peddling every conceivable variant of distance learning, here was the pinnacle of technology and science education ready to give it away. [Tomalak's Realm] 12:59:32 PM comment
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Mobile handset sales jump in Q2 [IDG InfoWorld] 12:59:16 PM comment
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Notebooks continue shipment gains. Hewlett-Packard stayed on top of the notebook market during the second quarter, as laptop PCs continued to win over consumers, according to a report from researcher IDC. [CNET News.com] 12:25:39 PM comment
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As with the applications themselves, verticalization has become the latest thing in integration technology, says Steve Bonadio, senior program director in Meta Group's enterprise application strategies group. 11:33:47 AM comment
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Here's a twist: the chief economist at Deloitte Consulting says the increased shift of IT jobs India, China, and other low-cost nations will actually help improve U.S. economic growth. According to Carl Steidtmann, union leaders and politicians trying to stop the flow of IT jobs overseas are "the last surviving members of the flat earth society." In the controversial new report from Deloitte, Steidtmann compares the IT situation to the United States' past as an agrarian economy and notes how much more favorable things are now. The theory goes that U.S. companies engaged IT outsourcing will become more competitive, experience faster growth, and invest more money in research and development, resulting in more high-paying jobs for U.S. workers down the road.
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