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• What end users want from IT departments

  If the question "What do you want from me?" screams in your head throughout the day, it might be time to re-assess the relationship you have with the rest of your organization."

• The Cost of Google Pulling Out of China

  If Google follows through on its threat to shut down operations in China in response to cyber attacks and spying efforts, it would be walking away from a fairly significant chunk of revenue. The resulting Internet advertising vacuum would lead to hundreds of millions of dollars flowing out of the United States and into Chinese coffers.

• IT spending downturn is over - Forrester

  Businesses and the public sector will begin to spend more money on technology this year, according to analyst house Forrester.

• Google's China problem unlikely to deter other technology companies

  Google Inc. is not poised to leave China because it's shocked over its cyber security problem. It's no more shocked than Captain Renault was to discover gambling at Rick's Caf? in the movie "Casablanca."

• Wipro brings cloud computing to retail industry

  Cloud computing is here to stay and Wipro is focused on tapping this lucrative industry. The company has announced the launch of two new solutions--digital customer experience platform and loss prevention platform--for the retail industry.

• CIOs want to assess their IT skills says BCS

  Many businesses want an exact map of their IT skills as they enter a potentially tough year, according to the findings of a large survey by the British Computer Society.

• Communicating IT value

  CIOs at Eaton, Bain and Thomson Reuters market IT value by emphasizing operations, teaming on strategy and getting staff comfortable with the business.

• New Facebook privacy choices help business users

  Facebook's new privacy controls make it easy for users to present different information to business contacts and personal friends, but only if the user is willing to accept the added complexity involved in doing so. It's not difficult, but requires time and thought.

• Cisco sees room to grow, despite enterprise dominance

  With dominance in enterprise networking, Cisco still believes there's room to grow through innovation.

• IBM's analytics center focuses on financial services

  IBM has opened a business analytics center in London to focus on services for the U.K.'s financial sector, which drives a major portion of the nation's economy.

• Forrester: IT must prove need for disaster recovery tools

  Even though more than a quarter of companies have faced a disaster over the past five years, according to Forrester Research, IT managers must still do a better job at convincing business leaders to invest in disaster recovery systems.