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Tech Sanity Check: BlackBerry Storm has the stuff to leapfrog the iPhone in the enterprise

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:01:17 GMT

The first touch screen BlackBerry has finally arrived and the iPhone is clearly in its crosshairs. Learn the pros and cons of the new BlackBerry Storm and see how well it stacks up against the iPhone as a business device.

Tech Sanity Check: Poll: Would you choose the iPhone or the Storm as your primary smartphone?

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:02:15 GMT

Apple is trying to bring the iPhone to the enterprise, while RIM is trying to produce an iPhone-like device to run on its enterprise-ready smartphone platform. If you had the choice between these two touchscreen devices, which would you pick? Take our poll.

Tech Sanity Check: Video: See why Verizon’s new BlackBerry is stirring up a Storm

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:01:53 GMT

The BlackBerry Storm has been one of the most widely anticipated IT products of 2008. In this special episode of Sanity Savers for IT Executives, get a look at the hits and misses of the Storm and see how well it stacks up against the iPhone as a business device.

Tech Sanity Check: HP launches multi-touch laptop for the masses

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:21:43 GMT

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday launched its first multi-touch notebook for consumers. The TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC was modeled after HP's desktop PC of the same name. The move ups the ante in the notebook race, assuming you think multi-touch is important.

Tech Sanity Check: Sanity check: The IT labor shortage is real and offshoring is overblown

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:39:01 GMT

IT departments are planning to increase offshore outsourcing in 2009, after two years of declines. Nevertheless, a new survey shows offshoring remains a very small portion of IT budgets and U.S. IT leaders say they're still grappling with an IT labor shortage.

Tech Sanity Check: Podcast: CompTIA survey shows telecommuting can reduce costs, improve employee health

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:00:59 GMT

Listen to CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux explain how his company's recent survey on telecommuting has revealed the benefits that both companies and employees are getting out of telecommuting.

Tech Sanity Check: SIM survey: State of the CIO 2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:16:45 GMT

Because SIM's annual IT Trends Survey polls many of the world's leading IT executives, it is an excellent indicator of the current state of the CIO role throughout the planet. See six charts that paint of picture of the CIO in 2008.

Tech Sanity Check: SIM survey: Top 10 IT management concerns of 2008

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:49:46 GMT

As a regular feature of the Society of Information Management's annual IT Trends Survey, the organization asks its IT leaders to identify their most pressing concerns. At its annual SIMposium conference this week in Orlando, SIM published the results of the 2008 survey, including the top concerns of IT leaders for 2008.

Tech Sanity Check: Video: What role does IT play in privacy protection?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:54:10 GMT

One of the side effects of the information age is that personal privacy has become a major concern for average citizens. And IT often bears much of the responsibility for safeguarding privacy.This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives discusses how privacy concerns are influencing the standard operating procedures of IT.

Tech Sanity Check: SIM’s 2008 IT Trends Survey shows businesses are turning to IT for help rather than cuts

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:54:25 GMT

On Monday, the Society for Information Management (SIM) released the results of its 2008 IT Trends Survey and it contained a generally upbeat forecast for IT in 2009, although the survey was conducted before the global economic meltdown in September.

Tech Sanity Check: Sanity check: 10 tech leaders who could become Obama’s CTO

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:08:25 GMT

As a presidential candidate, part of Barack Obama's technology policy platform included hiring the U.S. government's first chief technology officer (CTO). If Obama follows through on this, who is likely to get the job? Here are 10 top candidates.

Tech Sanity Check: See how Google built a system to identify copyrighted material on YouTube

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:32:02 GMT

If Google had not bought YouTube, it might have been sued out of existence. Learn about the technologies Google put in place to handle copyright filtering on YouTube and how often it really works in this new report from ZDNet Undercover.

Tech Sanity Check: Podcast: Cisco has new plans to bring enterprise tech to small businesses

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:52:47 GMT

Small businesses are big drivers of the world economy, but in IT they occasionally lag behind enterprises in deploying innovative new solutions that can transform the business. Cisco has launched a series of new initiatives to assist small business IT, as Cisco's Ian Pennell explains in this interview.

Tech Sanity Check: Video: What IT leaders need to know about virtualization

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:05:30 GMT

Virtualization is having a major impact on IT infrastructure, and its influence will likely grow in the next 5-10 years. Thus, there are some basic principles about virtualization that all IT leaders should understand, as this episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives explains.

Tech Sanity Check: Survey: CIOs turn negative, 40 percent are planning budget cuts

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:33:55 GMT

In October, CIO Magazine surveyed its small but exclusive group of IT executives for the third time in 2008 and discovered that the outlook of these tech leaders has taken a sharp dive, with 40% now expecting to cut their budgets.