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  What's wrong with agile development: Culture, people top the list

  Agile development projects are succeeding, but when they fail, it's often due to staffing and teamwork issues

  By Paul Krill | 26 February, 2013 13:11

  Tags: application development, agile development, Technology Business, it strategy, software, IT management, Information Technology Careers

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  Google agrees to not abuse mobile patents, search ads, or search results

  To close a federal investigation into possibly anticompetitive business practices, Google agrees to a slew of changes

  By InfoWorld staff | 03 January, 2013 19:03

  Tags: Motorola, applications, Technology Business, internet, Apple, Federal Trade Commission, mobile technology, htc, Google, Microsoft, intellectual property, legal, Motorola Mobility, The Industry Standard, software, search engines

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  After drama, HP to keep its PC business after all

  Hewlett-Packard isn't going out of the PC business after all. Today, CEO Meg Whitman announced the company would continue to make and sell PCs, reversing a decision made by her predecessor Léo Apotheker in August -- a decision that riled investors and employees and led to his ouster in late September. Since the August announcement, HP's future has been repeatedly questioned, as has the competence of its senior management. The appointment of board member Whitman as CEO added to the criticisms.

  By Galen Gruman | 28 October, 2011 07:51

  Tags: computer hardware, Technology Business, hardware systems, desktop pcs, The Industry Standard, Desktop computers, laptops, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Hewlett-Packard

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  SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key

  Since April, Nils Brauckmann has had the future of enterprise Linux in his hands. That's when the Attachmate Group completed its acquisition of Novell and split the company into two operating units: Novell and SUSE. As president and GM of SUSE, long-time Attachmate executive Brauckmann is responsible for bringing Suse Linux Enterprise Server and other open source products to market. In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Brauckmann shared with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant his views on the future of open source, his strategy for competing against Red Hat, and SUSE's plans for helping customers build private and hybrid clouds. He also outlined his philosophy for working successfully with the open source community, talked about the role desktop Linux will and won't play in the enterprise, and explained where SUSE's partnership will Microsoft is headed.

  By John Gallant | 14 October, 2011 01:37

  Tags: novell, Linux, Microsoft, Technology Business, software, non-Windows, Red Hat, operating systems

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  Steve Jobs' fierce life and legacy

  was a polarising force that reshaped the tech industry several times

  By Galen Gruman | 06 October, 2011 11:31

  Tags: business issues, steve jobs, Technology Business, iPhone, Mac OS X, The Industry Standard, operating systems, iPad, Apple, personnel, mobile technology

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  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died

  Apple co-founder, former CEO, and chairman Steve Jobs died today, Apple's board of directors has confirmed. He had been battling an illness widely believed to be pancreatic or liver cancer, and had stepped down as Apple CEO in late August saying he was no longer able to do the job. He had remained as Apple's chairman after promoting then-CFO Tim Cook to CEO.

  By Galen Gruman | 06 October, 2011 11:19

  Tags: business issues, Apple, personnel, steve jobs, Technology Business, The Industry Standard

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  Java founder Gosling leaves Google for startup

  After only a few months at Google, Java founder James Gosling has left the search engine giant to go to a small startup company specializing in ocean-based robotics.

  By Paul Krill | 31 August, 2011 05:20

  Tags: application development, Java Programming, Google, Technology Business, software, The Industry Standard, Oracle

• Steve Jobs' fierce life and legacy

  Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, has resigned as CEO from Apple today, after a remarkable career. (He will continue with Apple as chairman of the board.) Jobs is that rare person who truly has transformed an industry -- several times, in fact -- and in many ways changed the daily activities of people throughout the world. He is also a controversial man, reviled by many, loved by many, admired by many, and criticized by many.

  By Galen Gruman | 25 August, 2011 09:14

  Tags: business issues, steve jobs, Technology Business, iPhone, Mac OS X, The Industry Standard, operating systems, iPad, Apple, personnel, mobile technology

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  A consultant responds to '7 dirty consultant tricks'

  With more than 30 years in technology consulting, I feel I can safely make a few observations about the field. The first is, alas, I'm growing old with the industry. The second is that I've had quite a lot of experience with customer/consulting relationships over the years, both good and bad, from my early days in statistical consulting to my current position in professional services management at OpenBI.

  By Steve Miller | 04 May, 2011 00:05

  Tags: Technology Consulting, applications, Technology Business, The Industry Standard, IT jobs, software, IT management, Information Technology Careers, business intelligence

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  HP's Leo Apotheker: We're heading to the cloud

  A day after Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker outlined his strategic vision for HP -- a plan chock-full of new cloud offerings -- he sat down with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant and InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr to share his thoughts on a wide variety of issues in this latest installment of the IDGE CEO Interview Series. In this conversation, Apotheker, who's been with HP just over four months, talked about why HP is better positioned than IBM to help customers deliver on the promise of cloud and how he plans to rapidly eclipse the likes of IBM, Oracle, and others in the analytics market. (Short answer: Apotheker will leave old-school BI to the other players. HP's focus will be on analytics and Big Data.)

  By John Gallant and Eric Knorr | 17 March, 2011 01:16

  Tags: paas, applications, IBM, Networking, Technology Business, hardware systems, iaas, big data, data explosion, private cloud, Data Center, cloud computing, internet, Oracle, business intelligence, software, Hewlett-Packard (HP)