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Hot IT Topics for 2008
October 09, 2007, 8:00 AM
2008 budgeting is either in full-swing at many IT shops, or very soon to begin. What are some of the hot topics buzzing around these budget meetings, and what are other IT shops planning for the coming year? Among the topics that I have heard more than once are virtualization, unification, de-duplication, and encryption.

Tech Security Breaches Are Worsening, Industry Group Survey Says
September 18, 2007, 8:10 AM
The Computing Technology Industry Association claims the severity level of information security breaches experienced by organizations has show a marked increase over the past year ...

USB Flash Drives Seen As Causing Havoc for IT
September 18, 2007, 1:00 AM
USB Flash Drives are the consumer technology that causes the most havoc for IT departments.

HP's New Print Strategy Offers New Devices, Procedures, Features
August 29, 2007, 10:40 PM
The first HP device to leverage this new technology will be the HP Scitex XL2200 Industrial Wide-Format Printer.

HP's new Print 2.0 Strategy Includes Several Innovative Devices, Technologies
August 29, 2007, 10:15 PM
The first HP device to leverage this new technology will be the HP Scitex XL2200 Industrial Wide-Format Printer ...

Readers, Send Me Your "Using iPhone In Business" Stories
July 30, 2007, 3:00 PM
We saw, and are seeing, some discussion of iPhone as an enterprise-friendly device ...

Web-based Forms Creation Tool FormSpring Gets Significant Upgrade
July 30, 2007, 2:45 PM
I've just discovered FormSpring, an online Web application that allows small businesses to create, manage, and host online forms without having to know HTML or other code.

New Adobe Reader Offers "Send To FedEx Kinko's" Option
June 06, 2007, 5:00 PM
Starting today, the free Adobe Reader 8.1 (available for immediate download) features a "Send to FedEx Kinko's" option ...

New Hard Drive Sector Standard Will Improve Performance
May 12, 2007, 7:45 PM
LBD will replace the 30 year-old standard of 512 bytes per hard drive sector with one that allows 4,096 bytes per sector on hard drive surfaces.

Monitoring Software: Six Beyond Big Brother Uses
May 12, 2007, 7:25 PM
Not only privacy advocates, but plenty of IT admins view enterprise-based monitoring software's chief role as checking to see if employees are spending company time looking at Web sites ...