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Today's IT is all about enabling customer experiences
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were two basic models for selling IT: Equipment vendors sold hardware or software. Services vendors sold maintenance contracts, professional services or connectivity. And IT practitioners didn't sell at all -- they delivered infrastructure, applications and support that their organizations (hopefully) found useful.

Why WiMax should be on the CIO's radar
Despite the billions of dollars required to roll out a brand-new wireless network, the slowdown in the economy, and the reduced share price, the president of Clearwire, Barry West, is optimistic about the future role of WiMax in business. And he says tech managers should put WiMax planning on their agendas now.

The three cornered Symantec yellow blanket
For some reason, Symantec's corporate yellow color always reminds me of a blanket. But unlike some companies that seem to plot global domination at every turn, Symantec seems happy with its three cornered blanket. Executives expect to do more in the areas of security, backup, and storage management rather than take on new markets. Growth by improving on its strengths, rather than by chasing new markets.

Wiki: Silly name, useful technology
First appearing in 1995, the "wiki" approach to creating interactive and collaborative Web pages quickly became the star format for social networks, but too often business also-rans. Part of the problem comes from top-down managers uncomfortable with underlings making changes without authorization, and from stories of update wars on the most famous wiki, Wikipedia, the encyclopedia written by users. But successful corporate wikis abound, including SamePage from eTouch Systems.

How is your company handling system availability?
Every year, I hear dozens of horror stories from customers about server and network outages and the resulting loss of data and productivity. For a brief moment, some network users may find an outage a bit charming, as older colleagues lean back and reflect, "This is the way it was back in the '70s -- no Internet, no e-mail, not even a fax machine. Just typewriters, phones, and Uncle Sam's mail."

Getting network baselining right
While simple in concept, network baselining is often misunderstood.

The browser blockers: Is browser sniffing outdated?
It's easy to set your browser to pretend to be the 'approved' browser, in which case the Web site will let you in and, more often than not, everything works fine.

Web standards on the edge
Browser bugs and ambiguities in the standards are major reasons why Web pages fail to render properly.

When good browsers go bad -- and they all do
There's plenty of blame to go around. Some Web sites haven't been updated, and many developers still don't design their pages to modern standards and best practices. Browser vendors still interpret some standards differently and don't fully implement all of the features in others. The list goes on.

IT's glass – full, empty or too big?
In times of economic chaos and budget cuts you need to check your perspective. You know the old saw: A pessimist sees the glass as half empty; the optimist sees it as half full. These are both wrong ways of looking at the problem. The realist's perspective, the right way, recognizes that when there's space above the contents the glass is simply too big.

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Apple's all-in-one iMac hits the sweet spot of style and performance -- and the stunning 24-in. model starts at $300 less than before. Think of a souped-up smartphone with innovative interfaces, from which you can access everything from anywhere (see MIT Media Lab video). Microsoft's IE8 browser offers cool features, better security, and improved performance. But is that enough to win users back from Firefox? Apple rumor predicts netbook. Lenovo 'leaks' old prototype. Coincidence?

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