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5 open source project management apps to watch

Five open source project management tools to help CIOs and IT project managers keep their projects on-track and on-schedule -- without blowing the budget!

By Rodney Gedda | 14 September, 2010 13:40

Tags: open source, project management

Economic crisis means hard times, hard decisions for IT

As the economic news continues to get bleaker, double-digit budget cuts are becoming a fact of life in many IT departments - resulting in postponed purchases, delayed projects, hiring freezes and layoffs.

By Craig Stedman | 10 March, 2009 10:45

Tags: global recession

Recession clouds hopes for cash-hungry startups

The semi-annual DEMO conference is all about finding the next big thing, a company that can wow the technology world while raking in boatloads of cash.

By Jon Brodkin | 05 March, 2009 08:12

Tags: demo 09, global recession, startups

Five Recession Survival Skills

It's a scary new world, but IT leaders who adjust can still deliver prosperous projects.

By Mary K. Pratt | 03 March, 2009 09:28

Tags: global recession

Crisis for tech workers: Life after layoffs?

Signs everywhere point to the plight of the laid-off tech worker. Tech consultancy BearingPoint files for bankruptcy. Hewlett-Packard's profits plummet. Silicon Valley employment falls for the first time in several years. With daily layoffs and few new jobs available, techies have seen their careers careening off track -- and now they need to reinvent themselves or get off the tech train altogether.

By Tom Kaneshige | 26 February, 2009 09:29

Tags: global recession, it careers, layoffs

Grand Rounds on a Grand Scale

Doctors have long had a tradition of holding "grand rounds" to discuss patient cases and educate aspiring physicians.

By Mary K. Pratt | 17 February, 2009 09:04

Tags: medicine

Economy Gives IT a Sword for Slashing Software Costs

Tech budgets aren't immune to the economic downturn. Market research firm IDC expects IT spending to grow just 2.6 percent worldwide and less than 1 percent in the US next year. Gartner is even more pessimistic: Its latest forecast calls for 2.3 percent growth globally in 2009.

Computing for Good: Web technology to solve human problems

It wasn't your typical computer science problem that caught the attention of two PhD candidates at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. It was more of a life-or-death problem: monitoring the safety of blood supplies in African nations ravaged by HIV and AIDS.

By John Cox | 12 December, 2008 11:55

Tags: computing for good

10 Microsoft research projects

Innovation is not just about cool new products. In technology, the best ideas require a) really smart people and b) lots of funding. For the past 33 years, Microsoft has had both in spades.

By John Brandon | 02 December, 2008 10:09

Tags: microsoft research

Five top spending priorities for hard times

No company is immune from the economy's ebb and flow. So it's no surprise that, in the face of a fearsome downturn, IT shops are scrambling to figure out where they should cut.

By Tom Sullivan | 20 November, 2008 08:20

Tags: financial crisis, global recession, IT spending

US Officials: Early voting could improve e-voting

In what may be a low-tech answer to a high-tech issue, US election officials say early voting across the nation may have led to fewer Election Day e-voting problems in many states this year.

By Todd R. Weiss | 07 November, 2008 09:33

Tags: e-voting

E-voting '08: Problems, yes, but it could have been worse

Despite reports all day long about an assortment of e-voting machine problems in several US states, no massive systemic meltdown occurred.

By Todd R. Weiss | 06 November, 2008 08:04

Tags: Barack Obama, e-voting, US election

E-voting groups are watching a handful of US states

Pamela Smith, a longtime critic of electronic voting machines, is worried more about long lines on Tuesday, election day in the US.

By Grant Gross | 04 November, 2008 08:14

Tags: e-voting

Managing in mixed environments

A look at some of the tools that can help you manage mixed Linux/Windows environments

By John Fontana | 28 October, 2008 10:34

Tags: Linux, Windows Vista

What tech-industry CEOs are saying about the economy

Until September, the US tech industry appeared insulated from the year-long economic slowdown. Most of the 20 largest US tech firms reported solid second-quarter earnings in July and August, and they were projecting continued growth in sales through the year-end. Then Wall Street crashed. Here's the latest word from tech executives about current market conditions and the outlook for the rest of this year.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 28 October, 2008 09:16

Tags: global recession

The challenge of managing mixed virtualized Linux, Windows networks

The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments.

By John Fontana | 28 October, 2008 08:14

Tags: Linux, novell, Red Hat, virtualisation, Windows Vista

Economic downturn creates rough ride for IT on spending

With the economy struggling and financial markets in a state of chaos, this is becoming a hard time to be an IT manager.

By Patrick Thibodeau | 23 October, 2008 09:39

Tags: corporate issues, it management

Stupid QA tricks: Colossal testing oversights

What do you get when you add the human propensity to screw stuff up to the building of large-scale IT systems? What the military calls the force-multiplier effect -- and the need for a cadre of top-notch QA engineers.

By Andrew Brandt | 21 October, 2008 10:59

Tags: corporate issues, it management

The trouble with telecommuting

Telecommuting is back on workers' radars in a big way these days, thanks to gas prices that were a whopping 30 percent higher this summer than last.

By Tam Harbert | 14 October, 2008 09:54

Tags: it management, staff management

US readies e-voting systems as election approaches

With about four weeks to go before the US presidential election, states across the US are preparing for heavy voter turnout that could cause problems for local elections officials and electronic voting systems.

By Todd R. Weiss | 03 October, 2008 08:10

Tags: e-voting