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How Text Messaging and Facebook Can Get You in Legal Trouble

It's hard to stop employees from using text messaging, Facebook and other online tools to talk about their work. But you can prepare to handle the consequences.

29 Oct 2008 14 mins
Collaboration Software IT Leadership Small and Medium Business
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New LinkedIn Apps: All Work, No Play

Though LinkedIn launched its application platform this week, the social network for professionals will carefully vet what technologies get added to the site, ensuring they honor users' privacy while bolstering their productivity.nn

29 Oct 2008 3 mins
Collaboration Software Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business
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myBoxTone Expert for BlackBerry: The On-Device IT Help Desk (CIO.com Exclusive)

The myBoxTone Expert BlackBerry application provides enterprise smartphone users with a variety of intuitive, on-device troubleshooting tools to address performance issues without a trip to the help desk, potentially saving time, boosting productivit

29 Oct 2008 8 mins
Computers and Peripherals Enterprise Applications Small and Medium Business
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How I Saved My Intranet: One Wiki At a Time

E-commerce company Bill Me Later was tired of messy reply-all emails and ugly shared drives where employees found documents on a wing and a prayer. Using a wiki based on open-source technology from MindTouch, they've reaped better collaboration

28 Oct 2008 4 mins
Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Social Networking Apps
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Details on Windows 7, Azure, Server 2008 Emerge from PDC

After setting Windows Azure off into the sky on day one, Microsoft used day two of its Professional Developers Conference to reveal demos of Windows 7 pre-beta, new nuggets about Office, and a pre-beta developer release of Windows Server 2008 R2.

28 Oct 2008 3 mins
Small and Medium Business Windows
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Look Who’s Stumping Now: Carly Fiorina and Tom Peters Back Presidential Rivals

Can Carly Fiorina help John McCain get elected? She sure thinks so. But management guru Tom Peters, who admires Fiorina's leadership record, thinks she's got this one dead wrong. He's stumping for Barack Obama.

28 Oct 2008 7 mins
Government
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Windows Laptop Price Drops: Economy More The Cause Than Apple

Apple's hold steady approach to pricing for its new MacBooks is an opportunity for Windows OEMs to lower prices. And they are doing just that, particularly with netbooks, but economic factors are more the driving force than Apple.

24 Oct 2008 4 mins
Small and Medium Business Windows
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Five Reasons Why Skipping Windows Vista Could Backfire

Though it's tempting, skipping a Microsoft Vista migration and jumping right to Windows 7 could be disastrous for your enterprise, Gartner advises. Here's five points to consider before writing off Vista for its successor.

22 Oct 2008 4 mins
Small and Medium Business Windows
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Why Corporate Fraud Freaks You Out, Limits to In-Flight Wi-Fi, R&D Tax Credit Extended and More

This issue of Trendlines from the 11/1/08 Issue of CIO Magazine covers Corporate Frauds, In-Flight Wi-Fi, R&D Tax Credit, Social Software and more.

22 Oct 2008 11 mins
Mergers and Acquisitions
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RIM CTO: 10 Tips for Creating Great BlackBerry Applications

Building quality BlackBerry applications that take full advantage of the robust feature-set available within the BlackBerry platform is no small task. These 10 tips from Research In Motion's CTO David Yach should help even the most seasoned Blac

21 Oct 2008 6 mins
Developer Enterprise Applications Small and Medium Business