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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Now Is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT

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Flickr photo: pasukaru76 "Now is the Time for IT Leaders to Re-imagine IT" That was the subject line of an email I received from Gartner recently. Your job was to make sure everyone else could do their jobs, by making sure they had computers that work, access to email, and of course, the ability to print mailing labels. (Un?)Fortunately,

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Crystal Ball: Cloud Computing and SaaS

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Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Enter Gartner. Gartner also says that SaaS is a kind of Cloud computing, but it has its own definition: SaaS is an application owned, delivered and managed remotely.

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IT Budget Cuts: How to Do it Right

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Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler I know that -- if you haven't had to already -- many of you are right in the middle of figuring out how to cut your IT budget for the next fiscal year. That was the theme of a webinar I attended with the folks from Gartner called "Emergency IT Cost Cutting." " True that, Jason!

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

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Gartner just came out with a pretty set of interesting predictions on the hardware market through 2017. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Social Media.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

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What may be just one fun photo of a staff member can destroy the professionalism of your office. Information such as who is working late alone, where to find employees in their personal time, and when large checks are in the office often shows up on social network sites. And it can be, but too often, we fail to see the other side.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

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Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. So if you're actually making better decisions, you should save a heck of a lot of time over the long haul by not implementing things that just don't work. Definitions.