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Virtual World Technology May Drive Next Wave of Collaboration

Everybody likes to talk about the emergence of communities in virtual worlds populated by people that share common interests an passions, but what may ultimately be more profound is how we apply this technology more...

Taking another Stab at Managing Better Using Information Technology

A couple of times a year most business executives gather their teams together to lay out their strategic objectives for the next few months and after a few days of wrangling come up with the outline of a plan more...

The Limitations of Doing Business across Virtual Worlds

There’s a lot of excitement these days about the business potential of virtual worlds. After all, in the entertainment field virtual worlds are being created almost every other day. Some of them, such as more...

Are Data Centers the Next Endangered Species?

People have been talking about cloud computing for the better part of a couple of years now. But prior to that a lot of the conversation about the future of IT seemed to be focus more around an emerging utility more...

Blended Computing in the Here and Now

If you want to see the future of application software today go visit Zoho.com. Yes, everybody thinks that the future of software is a battle that will be fought between Microsoft and Google, but if you want to more...

Still Time to Avert the Coming Networks Versus Storage War

There’s a battle brewing in the land of IT that is likely to be fought out on the floor of data centers everywhere. The cause of this pending war between different camps within the IT community is more...

Taking a Giant Step towards a Free Search Market

If you’re a publisher of any type of content on the Web one of the things that galls you most is that you absorb all the costs for creating the content that Google profits by. Without the content, there more...

Break Down the Garden Walls

No matter how pretty, nobody really wants to live in a walled garden. And yet, on the Web that’s what we all do when we visit sites like Yahoo, Facebook, AOL and all the rest. What people are yearning for more...

Something Different This Way Comes for CIOs

In the immortal classic science fiction novel Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, people attending a carnival are invited to live out their secret fantasies only to discover that once the accept more...