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Chief Of The Year: Vivek Kundra

The federal CIO is driving change within the government’s lumbering IT operations. A lengthy to-do list will test his ideas and power of persuasion. By J. Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek, December 19, 2009 (From the December 21, 2009 issue) On the wall of Vivek Kundra’s Washington, D.C., office hangs a poster-sized IT diagram with such fine-grained […]

How the Creative Class is Affecting the Way Businesses Think

If you haven’t read Richard Florida on the creative class, consider watching this video of him http://tinyurl.com/yamtj4t “Now more than ever, companies need unconventional thinking to work within the new rules set by the economic recession. Richard Florida has persuasively demonstrated how artists, scientists, engineers, writers, musicians and more can revitalize an entire city from […]

IDC: Cloud, Mobile To Drive IT Growth In 2010

An analyst firm believes consumers and businesses will spend 3.2% more on telecom, hardware, software and services than in 2009. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek December 4, 2009 Mobile devices supplanting the PC as the primary client for accessing the Internet and the emergence of “enterprise-grade” cloud services are among the transformative technologies expected to rock […]

AT&T Cloud Adds Compute As a Service

AT&T continues to build out its suite of cloud computing services to offer features similar to Amazon Web Services.

Why Email No Longer Rules…And what that means for the way we communicate

Services like Twitter, Facebook and Google Wave create a constant stream of interaction among users—for better or worse.

Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.