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Friday, July 31, 2009 Posted by: Brian Pereira Comments (0)

They are prudent and frugal when it comes to IT investment, yet they dare to innovate or implement new solutions

I would like to begin by raising a toast to the 10 Indian CIOs who made it to InformationWeek’s Global CIO 50 list. What makes this occasion special is the fact that India’s IT leaders were evaluated alongside CIOs and senior IT managers (861 in total) from around the world. In fact, our editorial team nominated 50 CIOs from India. This kind of recognition, at a global level, speaks volumes for the achievements of Indian CIOs and the IT infrastructure ...

Friday, July 24, 2009 Posted by: Brian Pereira Comments (0)

In this age where teams or workgroups are dispersed in different countries and continents, it makes perfect sense to use social media to collaborate and share ideas

 

Many of us have accounts with Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, Orkut, Youtube, Flickr, Picasa, Blogger, Yahoo Groups, Windows Live Spaces or some other social media service. Recall your pleasant experiences with these services and the hours you spend online exchanging news photos, contacts, information and more—with relatives, friends and business peers. Don’t you see a clear benefit? Now imagine what can be achieved if the same was applied within your organization. I cite ...

Friday, July 17, 2009 Posted by: Brian Pereira Comments (0)

Hackers are playing the emotional and social card to trap users

 Traffic jams and flight delays are inevitable during the monsoon season. These days one spends much time in buses, trains, and planes. To spend time on these seemingly infinite trips I read a novel, a magazine, or a research document. The other day I was reading a threat report from a security solutions company. The facts and figures cited in that report are impossible to believe. After reading the report I feel defeated and vulnerable—a sitting duck for any hacker.

 

I am referring to the Trend Micro 2008 ...

Friday, July 10, 2009 Posted by: Brian Pereira Comments (0) Want proof of that? Take a look at what’s happening at trendsetter Google. Beginning with search and e-mail, and then with office automation applications (Google Docs) Google has quietly been moving applications out of the desktop and into the cloud

 

Around the year 1995, John Cage, the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems first uttered the phrase ‘The Network is the Computer’. This soon became the tag line for Sun. Cage was suggesting that you don’t need a computer with a beefy processor and lots of memory on the desktop to get work done. And you don’t need to have ...
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