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Survey: Corporate iPad adoption jumps -- driven by businesses themselves
25 January 2011, 11:00 pm

If you wanted proof that the iPad is not merely a consumer device but a hot business tool, Good Technology revealed today that 28 percent of the new device activations by its mobile management customers -- mainly North American large businesses, with thousands of devices managed -- were for iPads in December 2010. The rest were of iPhones and Android devices, at 46 percent and 36 percent, respectively.

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Galaxy Tab: A great tablet for the 'can't do Apple' crowd
26 January 2011, 5:00 am

I'm not anti-Apple -- but I'm not drinking the new Apple-flavored Kool-Aid either. Maybe the commercials picking on Microsoft put me off. The first ones were funny, but then they became mean, like Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes. As much as I see the value and use of an iPad, I'm stuck in the "can't do Apple" crowd for now, though there are no viable Windows tablets today, just laptops in a tablet design.

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InfoWorld review: Fabulous PHP frameworks
26 January 2011, 5:00 am

The website development world is not ruled exclusively by PHP, but PHP's extensive use as a Web development language is undeniable. Although good statistics are difficult to come by, the trends.builtwith.com site places PHP's Web-wide use at approximately 35 percent -- first among Web development languages and platforms.

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Management is not a popularity contest
26 January 2011, 5:00 am

Dear Bob ...

I've just started as a manager in a new company. I have a team of eight reporting to me, and I have a distinct sense of being the outsider -- which, of course, I am, but this feels different. No matter what the topic, I see people exchanging meaningful glances, nudging each other, and otherwise acting as though they're party to an inside joke.

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We're paying the contractor for what?
26 January 2011, 5:00 am

I work as a system engineer in the travel industry. To save costs, the Suits on the business side are constantly engaging external contracting firms to develop applications and complete smaller projects. The owner of one firm, "Tom," had impressed them enough to be brought on to deliver and maintain a sales application.

My role was to provide two systems and turn them over to Tom's firm to complete the work. I completed my part, then handed the systems over to the contractors. Soon, the trouble started.

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Will Apple make David Rice disappear?
26 January 2011, 6:34 am

Security expert David Rice will reportedly be joining the most secretive organization in America. No, not the National Security Agency -- he's already worked at that runner-up. No, Rice will reportedly be joining Apple.

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Fabulous PHP frameworks: Zend Framework
26 January 2011, 5:00 am

The Zend Framework, sponsored by Zend Technologies, is a comprehensive framework loaded with features. Currently at Version 1.11.2, it requires PHP 5.2.4 or later and makes full use of PHP 5's object-oriented features.

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Microsoft offers developers access to Technical Computing projects
26 January 2011, 3:25 pm

Expanding on its Technical Computing initiative, Microsoft is launching on Wednesday TC Labs, a resource for developers to access early releases of Technical Computing software.

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Facebook rolls out always-on encryption in wake of CEO's fan page being hacked
26 January 2011, 5:50 pm

 Just one day after Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook fan page was hacked, his company has announced a new security measure to make its site safer for him, as well as for

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HTML: The standard that failed?
27 January 2011, 5:00 am

HTML is a standard dictated by browser vendors -- not an independent body.

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Former OpenOffice.org developers offer their first stable OpenOffice competitor
27 January 2011, 5:00 am

When Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, it acquired a heaping helping of technologies, among them OpenOffice.org, an open source productivity suite that was positioned as a free alternative to Microsoft Office.

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Beware the fool's gold in the heated mobile and cloud predictions
27 January 2011, 5:00 am

The two pillars of the so-called post-PC revolution -- cloud computing and mobile apps -- are at first blush an odd pair: one dull, one cool; one focused on the enterprise, another on the consumer. But according to recent reports by the market research mavens at Gartner, both are red hot.

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Why the hybrid cloud model is the best approach
27 January 2011, 5:00 am

When the industry first began discussing the hybrid cloud computing model back in 2008, cloud computing purists pushed back hard. After all, they already thought private clouds were silly and a new, wannabe-hip name for the data center. To them, the idea of hybrid clouds that used private clouds or traditional computing platforms was just as ridiculous.

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How RIM could make Android apps run on the PlayBook
27 January 2011, 5:15 am

Decisions, decisions -- should you plan to buy a BlackBerry PlayBook or one of the new Android-based tablets unveiled at CES?

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NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing
27 January 2011, 1:35 pm

Citing low usage trends and a priority on Java, builders of the NetBeans IDE have killed off Ruby on Rails support in a planned upgrade, the NetBeans community announced on Thursday.

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