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If you fail to keep your team members at the top of your resource list, in five years you might find that's your biggest regret, says Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

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I'm no Preston Gralla, but consider myself a reasonably adept Windows power user. Yet after decades on Microsoft operating systems, I'm about to get a MacBook at work and make the switch to Leopard. I'll be blogging about how it goes.

The Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Class of 2009 provides us with an invaluable reminder: Commoditization is for technology, not people, emphasizes Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- My trusty old Dell served me well on extended adventures, from the jungles of Guatemala to the islands of the Mediterranean.

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Microsoft hire a top-level Yahoo! search exec. Not to mention truth in advertising...

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- My old-and-busted notebook has now been officially retired (relegated to the mundane task of powering my home security web cams). And now I'm embarking on an epic journey to find, and buy, the ultimate digital nomad notebook. And I need your help.

In today's podcast: Adobe to cut 600 jobs in face of economic downturn; AMD says Intel aims to delay EU antitrust case; and RIM's quarterly results fall short of forecasts.

Openness and honesty enabled CA to banish the ghosts of its past. That lesson is one that our society as a whole would do well to ponder, cogitates Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

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Konnichiha! It's Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Nokia pull out of the Japanese cell phone market. Not to mention the vegetable of mass destruction...

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India; and gives thanks that he's not there...

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers dissect HP's recent surprising performance numbers, offering praise and criticism of Mark Hurd's performance. Not to mention the $6 million "home theater"...

Welcome to a special IT Blogwatch EXTRA: as Richi Jennings watches the "final" judgment in the SCO vs. Novell saga. Not to mention how Firefox reacts to pop-ups...

Ariel Meadow Stallings, the cute-as-a-button alterna-chick and Redmond employee who writes the Microspotting blog, gave away "I am the empire" t-shirts this summer to Microsoft employee bloggers.

In requiem for once-mighty PC Magazine's decision to stop printing and go Web-only, the Technologizer blog's Harry McCracken writes elegantly today about his 12 favorite departed computer magazines. I've got my own checkered history.

In today's podcast: Jerry Yang to step aside at Yahoo; John Thompson to retire from Symantec; China Mobile plans its own apps store; and pizza from your TV with TiVo.