With more than 400 million users around the world, Skype is set to make their grand entrance onto the smartphone scene and bump that 9-figure subscriber number just a little bit more.
Brad Stone of New York Times reports in his March 29 blog post that this Tuesday the world will welcome Skype for the iPhone.
This is a long anticipated launch that stands to shake up cellular carriers’ monopolies on the smartphone market. Or will it?
It is always a shame when IT projects fail because of a lack of the ‘7 P‘s.’
Positive Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance are words to live by. You can use them in just about every aspect of your life, but we’ll focus here on how they apply to IT projects.
‘Things’ naturally just feed off each other. Butterflies and hurricanes, housing markets and recession, US economy and the world economy. There are no two systems on our globe that maintain complete independence of each other.
Whether they work together smoothly or grind gears is worthy of debate.
It’s a butterfly effect and it applies to businesses and their systems as well as it does to butterflies and hurricanes. No two business towers operate without affecting the other — finance and marketing — manufacturing and advertising — all are intertwined at some [if not many] x-y point in a process. In reality, business is chaos.
Taking into account the substantial improvements made in technology through to this 21st century, we can easily say the US Government is long overdue in bringing its people a transparent look into civil service dealings.
President Barack Obama appears set to reverse the tide of secrecy and ambiguity in how the US has does business — starting with — Recovery.gov.
Obama had this to say:
We’ll launch an unprecedented effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov.
Whether you run your own home network or are part of the IT shop administering the corporate network, there are some basic information security protocols which should always be followed. These tips are designed to help you, the administrator, adequately protect the network from the myriad of attacks available today. Ensuring your network is free of compromise is vitally important for all network users because it allows for the continued, uninterrupted operation of the very network they rely upon to perform their job.
This list is, by no means, designed to be all-inclusive. It is merely a small subset of tips which should help set most people in the right direction. These tips are generally married with more complex solutions, producing a far more comprehensive effort than the mere implementation of these basics.
It is hard to believe what IT engineers expect in the way of compensation nowadays — especially those in civil service. I would moreover expect a sense of urgency and introspect from anyone pulling down a decent salary [especially from the United States Government]. However, the complacency madness marches on.
With the U.S. economy crumbling and jobs evaporating, it is time to listen to the alarms and rise to the occasion. What makes you worth your weight in pay? Let’s take a look at just a few points-
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