Outsourcing
Gartner, 11/18/02: Outsourcing Providing Growth Amidst the Gloom
Outsourcing service providers need to look beyond short-term cost pressure and define their long-term strategy with regard to marketing, selling, contracting and delivering outsourcing.
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IT Management
Giga, 11/19/02: Enabling Business Value Via IT — Integrating Strategic Planning and IT Value Management
Marc Cecere and Dan Merriman
In their drive to increase the business value of IT, CIOs are faced with the challenge of improving the capability of their organizations in three key interdependent areas: developing strategic plans, delivering quantifiable value through major technology investments and implementing the processes needed to link planning with delivery. Given the relatively immature state of these capabilities, addressing each alone is a significant challenge. Addressing all three simultaneously will be a key test for the CIO. Those IT organizations that effectively handle this challenge will be the leaders in providing business value in the next two years.
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 11/22/02: Microsoft: Windows XP a money-saver
By Peter Judge
Windows XP, which is replacing Windows 98 and putting the Microsoft desktop on a single code-base, "will save the industry a huge amount of money," said Brian Valentine, senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows division, at the IT Forum in Copenhagen.
"With Windows 98 and Windows 2000, equipment makers need to make two sets of device drivers and application vendors had to create two versions of their applications," says Valentine.
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Mobile
Computerworld, 11/21/02: T-Mobile installs GPRS network firewall
By BOB BREWIN
T-Mobile USA Inc. said it has fixed problems that allowed hackers to probe a limited number of customers connected to its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network, according to company spokeswoman Kim Thompson.
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Information Week, 11/21/02: Linksys Rolls Out High-Speed 802.11g Wireless Line Nov. 21, 2002
Vendor prepares blitz for homes and smaller businesses.
By Greg Keizer, TechWeb News
Even though the new high-speed wireless networking 802.11g standard isn't yet set in stone, Linksys Group Inc. will begin to blitz the home and small- and midsize business markets with the first 802.11g gear early next month.
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Digital Frontiers
The Times of India: Microsoft plans 'back-up' brains for humans
RASHMEE Z AHMED
LONDON: 'Back-up brains' on digital file and computer-generated beings called 'avataars' were revealed on Thursday as the brave new frontier of software technology, as Britain's leading science magazine catalogued Microsoft corporation's plans to literally put our lives on disk.
According to the latest issue of the New Scientist magazine engineers are working on software to load every photo you take, every letter you write, in fact your every memory and experience - into a surrogate brain that never forgets anything".
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