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HP's Lane: Our Messaging Stinks | 5 Lessons From IT First Movers

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  Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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Between The Lines ColumnistIW500: Ray Lane Says HP Strategy Sound, Messaging Stinks
By Art Wittmann
HP chairman says company will spin off its PC business, build a services business based on cloud models, and will stay away from low-margin businesses, while still promoting the webOS mobile operating system.

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IW500: 5 Lessons From IT First Movers
What can you learn from CIOs who reaped rewards by taking early risks on virtualization and consumerization of IT? Consider these lessons shared at the InformationWeek 500 conference.

IW500: 6 Lessons Learned From FedEx's Private Cloud
CIO Rob Carter describes how FedEx plunged ahead on its journey to private cloud computing, relying on observations from partners and industry leaders.

IW500: Ken Robinson Lays Out 3 Misconceptions About Creativity
Leaders who buy into these have a ready-made excuse for not honing employees' creative capabilities.

TechCrunch Disrupt: Startup Battlefield
Several startups pitched their plans to revolutionize aspects of the music, grocery, contracting, currency, and health businesses. Some might even succeed.

HTC: iPhone Not 'Cool' Anymore
The acting president of HTC America said during a recent interview that Apple's iPhone is "a little less cool" than it used to be. HTC also had some comments about Windows Phone 7 Mango.

Data Security Not High On Hospitals' Priority List
Fewer than half of large facilities conduct annual risk assessments, but that might have to change, according to CSC consultant.

Hotmail Crash Blamed On System Update Error
Microsoft explains why its email service disappeared from the Internet's Domain Name System.

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Windows 8 Could Make Or Break Microsoft
BUILD conference will give developers their first in-depth look at what may be Redmond's last chance to play in the tablet market.

7 Hottest Features In Windows Phone 7 Mango
Microsoft this week shipped its Windows Phone "Mango" update to phone makers--adding key features to the smartphone OS that Microsoft is pitting against Apple iPhone and Google Android. Check out this visual tour of seven significant new functions.

AT&T Reveals Windows Phone Mango Smartphones
HTC and Samsung handsets feature built-in 4G support and front- and rear-facing cameras.

100 Years Of IBM: 25 Historic Milestones
IBM this week celebrates 100 years of innovation and business optimization. From punch cards to the S/360, from tabulators to teraflops, from CEO Watson to supercomputer Watson, IBM has a unique history. Take a visual tour back through the decades.

10 Massive Security Breaches
They make the news on a regular basis: incidents in which a company or government agency's security is breached, leading to a loss of information, personal records, or other data. There are many ways to measure the size or cost of a security breach. Some result in the loss of millions of data records, some affect millions of people, and some wind up costing the affected businesses a lot of money. Not to mention, the questions of you calculate the value of personal medical information vs. credit card numbers. Here are ten security breaches of epic scale, plus one "bonus" incident that ranks among the boneheaded moves of all time.

 

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HP's New Strategy: Exclusive User Research When InformationWeek asked IT pros about HP's recent change in course, they spoke clearly--that HP's future direction looks anything but clear. Check out the full survey results.   View Now

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WhisperCore Mitigates Risks Of Android In Businesses
TechWebTV catches up with Whisper Systems' CTO and co-founder Moxie Marllinspike to discuss and demo WhisperCore -- a mobile security solution that brings BlackBerry-like centralized enterprise-grade security to Android devices.   Watch

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