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 HP Goes All In With An IT TransformationHP CIO Randy Mott preaches a high-risk, capital-intensive approach to transforming IT operations. But will other CIOs follow his lead?Three Mistakes HP Made, And One It Didn'tService-Level Agreements Come Of AgeDown To Business: Google's Schmidt On An Economic SolutionStartup Of The Week: Convey Computer
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Chris Murphy
Can You Track The 'Revenue Of IT'?
Does your company capture the full value of what IT delivers, or are the conversations only about how much IT costs? (Which then usually comes down to "too much.")
Apple Unvarnished
Mitch Wagner
'The Simpsons' Takes On Apple
When I came in this morning, Twitter was buzzing over an Apple parody that ran on The Simpsons last night. Homer, Marge, and the kids visit the Mapple Store at the mall and admire the MyPods and MyPhones. The segment includes a parody-in-a-parody of the famous 1984 Apple "Big Brother" commercial, featuring Comic Book Guy instead of an athletic woman with Eurythmics hair. Watch the embedded video below, until YouTube takes it down.
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K.C. Jones
Obama's Innovation Panel Creates Opportunity, Pride For Tech Industry
President-elect Barack Obama has added an advisory group for technology and innovation to his transition team. The newly formed Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform Policy Working Group will draft an "innovation agenda."
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Serdar Yegulalp
Free-As-In-Beer Tools For Chrome And Firefox
"Free as in beer", meaning, of course, free to use, but not open source. In this case, it's a couple of tools which are handy as adjuncts to both Firefox and Chrome.
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Eric Zeman
Get Ready For Some Big News From Nokia
On Tuesday, Nokia kicks off its own Nokia World show in Barcelona, Spain. According to what I've been told by Nokia staffers, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be dropping a huge bomb during his keynote address. The device is so secret that most Nokia employees haven't seen it yet.
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He calls for bold government-supported R&D and infrastructure programs, starting with energy and extending to other tech sectors. But how far should the government reach -- and meddle?
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