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  • Is remote working sustainable? Plus the problems of virtualisation Feb 09, 2010
  • Two years on, how have two remote workers coped without the office? Plus, what happens when virtualisation goes wrong?
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  • Virtualisation today Feb 02, 2010
  • Peter Whitehead, editor of Digital Business, speaks to Bob Meyer, Hewlett-Packard’s worldwide lead on virtualisation solutions
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  • Critical systems Jan 26, 2010
  • Would better technology have stopped the Detroit bomber? Peter Whitehead looks at the problems of data overload and risk.
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  • Data demand Jan 19, 2010
  • Where are new datacentres being built? In city centres, the suburbs, or where renewable energy is plentiful? The answers may surprise you.
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  • Capturing the mood Jan 12, 2010
  • How can businesses break into social networks without interrupting the conversation? And how can machines understand the sentiment of all that data?
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  • Tracing food scares Dec 15, 2009 - 9:00 am
  • When dangerous food gets into the supply chain, it can take 50 days to trace the source. Surely technology can change that?
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  • Making mobile phones greener Dec 09, 2009
  • The good news – Mobile phones are getting greener. The bad news – there are far more of them, which means their environmental damage is increasing. What can we do?
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  • Getting to grips with the cloud Dec 01, 2009 - 11:00 am
  • The cloud is a much-hyped and talked-about IT phenomenon. But what is it? And should businesses be switching their IT to it?
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  • How can IT help companies to measure the unmeasurable? Nov 24, 2009
  • Will new technology from talent development specialists SumTotal enable companies to measure their employees'productivity and calculate performance-related pay?
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  • Are mainframes dead? And how should companies use social media? Nov 17, 2009
  • Who says the mainframe is dead? Plus - social networks are affecting businesses, so how should they engage customers?
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  • Public sector, clouds and avatars Nov 10, 2009
  • Mike Laphen, chief executive of CSC talks to Peter Whitehead about the public sector, cloud computing and virtual worlds; plus Toby Redshaw of Aviva on business process management
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  • Digital Olympics Nov 03, 2009
  • With just under 1,000 days to the London games, it isn't just the facilities that need to be finished - there is a whole IT project as well. Peter Whitehead finds out.
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  • How to save energy in the IT industry Oct 27, 2009
  • Power management in IT - Stephen Pritchard speaks to Sumir Karayi, the chief executive of 1E; plus: John Swainson, chief executive of CA, on software innovation
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  • IBM's private social network; plus connecting bobbies on the beat Oct 20, 2009
  • Why IBM created its own social network, and how it's being used; Moore's law and enterprise IT; and how the police are connecting officers on the street
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  • Are businesses ready for an upturn in the economy? Oct 13, 2009
  • Are businesses ready for an upturn in the economy? Plus "stream computing", IBM's new way of analysing data
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  • Should a CIO manage IT? Oct 06, 2009
  • What is a CIO supposed to do - manage IT, or something different? Ade McCormack shares his views. Plus Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of open source mobile cloud synchronisation provider Funambol, on whether smartphones are driving ordinary mobile phones out of the market
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  • Surviving without the web Sep 29, 2009
  • What lessons did our volunteer learn from living without the web for a week? Plus - green IT. Do we understand the impact of our IT activities?
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  • Can a business have too much IT? Sep 22, 2009
  • Can businesses have too much IT? David Elton of PA thinks it can. Plus Nathan Marke of 2e2 on how businesses should use Web 2.0 tools.
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  • Could you live without the internet? Sep 16, 2009
  • Could you live without using the internet for a week? Nigel Hawthorn of Blue Coat Systems is going to try. Plus - Richard Holway gives his view of the IT sector.
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  • Getting value from your IT investments. Plus, Paul Otellini of Intel Sep 08, 2009 - 11:00 am
  • Companies spend a fortune on new technology that the workforce don't use - so how do you get value from your IT investments? Plus, Paul Otellini of Intel talks to the FT about new technologies and anti-trust.
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