Victory! UN/ITU Internet power-grab thwarted at WCIT

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	Richi Jennings: Victory! UN/ITU Internet power-grab thwarted at WCIT The WCIT treaty has collapsed in in Dubai. The International Telecomms Union (ITU) failed to gain consensus for the controversial proposals, as many countries refused to sign it. The ITU is furiously backpedaling but is coming under increasingly heavy criticism. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers try to spell ' anachronistic.' Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Are you ready for cloud services? If you're thinking about cloud services for your organization, ask yourself this question: Are you ready? According to Forrester Research, Inc., that's the most important thing to consider before moving forward with your cloud initiatives. That's why we'd like to offer you a complimentary copy of the Forrester report: Assess Your Cloud Maturity. Get the report now to start planning your cloud services strategy. In this Issue Nicholas D. Evans: The importance of precise terminology for innovation JR Raphael: Top 3 Android phones on Verizon Wireless [December 2012] Patrick Thibodeau: Automation is making unions irrelevant Eric Berridge: Seize the customer 'moment' ... or lose the customer Preston Gralla: Google: Users don't care about Windows 8 or Windows Phone, so we won't release Gmail and other apps for them Shark Tank: Hey, they SAID the whole day was wasted, right? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial Nicholas D. Evans: The importance of precise terminology for innovation Innovation is one of those terms that means many things to many people. Depending upon whom you speak to, you'll get a number of equally valid definitions and perspectives. Perhaps the same can be said for topics such as consumerization of IT and even cloud computing, but that's perhaps a topic for another blog. Here we'll tackle why a taxonomy for innovation is important and some ways to get started. Read More JR Raphael: Top 3 Android phones on Verizon Wireless [December 2012] You may not be able to get Google's new Nexus 4 on Verizon this holiday season, but fear not: Big Red has plenty of hot phones just waiting to lure you in. Read More Patrick Thibodeau: Automation is making unions irrelevant The problem with unions is they can't protect jobs. They can't stop a company from moving jobs overseas, closing offices, and replacing workers with automation. I grew up in Connecticut, a heavily unionized state. In the post-war period, the state's industries made typewriters, appliances, bearings, locks, tools. None of them survived. Read More WEBCAST: Workday CIOs in the Cloud As cloud computing infiltrates the enterprise and transforms the business, the CIO's role is also experiencing a transformation. This webcast focuses on how cloud trends arechanging the CIO mindset and how cloud SaaS fosters a cost-effective, productive, and efficient enterprise. View Now Eric Berridge: Seize the customer 'moment' ... or lose the customer In a digital world, businesses can be created and destroyed in a day. To thrive, give your employees the ability to detect, analyze and shape customer sentiment in the moment. Read More Preston Gralla: Google: Users don't care about Windows 8 or Windows Phone, so we won't release Gmail and other apps for them If you believe Google, Windows 8 and Windows Phone are essential failures, so much so that the company won't bother to release popular apps like Gmail and Google Drive for them. So says Clay Bavor, product management director for Google Apps, according to the site V3. Read More Shark Tank: Hey, they SAID the whole day was wasted, right? A call comes into the help desk at 8 a.m.: Several users in one department can't log in to their PCs or use their VoIP phones, and they're pretty sure this is going to wipe out a whole day's work. Read More
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