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<title><![CDATA[Ouais, c'est vraiment la fin du HD-DVD]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Blu-ray Coming to Xbox 360? Microsoft previously denied that it would consider creating a Blu-ray a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;" class="Apple-style-span"><b>Blu-ray Coming to Xbox 360?</b> Microsoft previously denied that it would consider creating a Blu-ray add-on drive for the Xbox 360, citing the low sell-through rate of the HD-DVD add-on drive. But this week, "The Financial Times" is reporting that Sony is in talks with Microsoft to sell an upcoming version of the Xbox 360 that would substitute the current DVD internal drive for a Blu-ray unit. Such a model would make the Xbox 360 more competitive with Sony's PlayStation 3 line, which utilizes a Blu-ray drive. So why would Sony do such a thing? Apparently, the company feels that pushing Blu-ray is even more important than propping up the PlayStation 3, from a revenue perspective. I think this is a fine idea but only if Microsoft can also ship a version of the Xbox 360 that is nearly silent: Today's models are far too loud to be considered home theater equipment. </span>Dire qu'il y a des caves qui se sont fait prendre à acheter un lecteur bilingue.... case in point... soupir.... </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Français: Québec dissimule des statistiques]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Le jeudi 24 janv 2008
 
Français: Québec dissimule des statistiques
Denis Lessard
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<p class="date" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:65%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:5px;">Le jeudi 24 janv 2008</p>
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<p class="titre" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#333333;font-size:110%;margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0;font-weight:bold;">Français: Québec dissimule des statistiques</p>
<p class="auteur" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;font-weight:bold;"><a href="mailto:dlessard@lapresse.ca">Denis Lessard</a></p>
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<p class="amorce" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:80%;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:15px;font-weight:bold;"><b>Depuis près de deux ans, le gouvernement Charest retient une étude dévastatrice qui constatait, avant que ne l’annonce Statistique Canada en décembre dernier, que les citoyens de langue maternelle française sont devenus minoritaires dans l’île de Montréal.</b></p>
<p class="texte" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:100%;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">L’anglicisation chez les allophones a fait des progrès inattendus depuis 10 ans, et la toute récente décision d’augmenter à 55 000 par année le nombre des nouveaux arrivants ne fera qu’accélérer le processus, dit cette étude.Son auteur, le démographe Marc Termote, en a ras le bol et dit observer « une paranoïa évidente » au gouvernement et à l’Office de la langue devant ses conclusions touchant les perspectives à long terme du français au Québec. Des constats qui, politiquement, sont délicats à expliquer.Sur la base de la langue d’usage à la maison, le spécialiste observe « qu’il y a une baisse du français ». « Tous les facteurs démographiques jouent contre le français » résume-t-il, soulignant qu’il avait, un an avant Statistique Canada, observé que les francophones étaient devenus minoritaires dans l’île de Montréal.Longtemps associé à l’INRS, puis plus récemment à l’Université de Montréal, au département de démographie, le chercheur d’origine belge a remis en août 2006 à l’Office de la langue française la dernière mise à jour que Québec lui avait demandée d’une étude sur l’évolution démolinguistique du Québec.Parmi les causes du déclin du français, « la sous-fécondité des francophones ». «À Montréal, les francophones ont une fécondité inférieure aux allophones, inférieure même aux anglophones », observe-t-il. Certains spécialistes, en décembre dernier, avaient atténué la gravité du constat de Statistique Canada en expliquant que les francophones avaient migré de l’île vers la couronne. « Mais même en dehors de l’île, le pourcentage de francophones baisse aussi. C’est aussi le cas dans l’ensemble du Québec », explique M. Termote.Il avoue avoir été surpris par la baisse rapide du pourcentage de gens qui utilisent le français à la maison dans les régions hors de Montréal. En outre, « le pourcentage de l’utilisation de l’anglais à la maison a augmenté dans l’île et en dehors de l’île. On a sous-estimé la force de l’attraction de l’anglais », soutient M. Termote. À titre d’illustration, il relève le reportage de La Presse publié hier, montrant qu’après 30 ans d’application de la loi 101, il y avait toujours davantage d’allophones qui, en 2006, optaient pour le cégep anglophone plutôt que francophone.Un autre facteur contribue à réduire le poids démographique des francophones : l’immigration. Depuis des années, Québec fait entrer 45 000 immigrants par année, un quota qui sera porté à 55 000 avec l’annonce faite l’automne dernier par la ministre Yolande James. « Or, plus vous faites entrer d’immigrants, plus vous faites fléchir le pourcentage des francophones, il faut être réaliste ».Le gouvernement peut toujours choisir plus d’immigrants qui connaissent le français, ils restent majoritairement des non-francophones. « Cela ne rend pas le français plus attractif. Cela ne dit rien de la capacité des francophones à intégrer ces groupes », constate le démographe. « Avec 55 000 immigrants, le pourcentage de francophones descend beaucoup plus vite, et on atteint plus vite la minorisation sur l’île en ce qui touche la langue d’usage ».Actuellement, le français est la langue d’usage de 52,6 % des habitants de l’île de Montréal, selon le recensement de 2006. « L’important, selon M. Termote, n’est pas de savoir si on sera minoritaires en 2021, en 2018 ou en 2025. La date exacte est secondaire. Pour moi, l’important est la tendance ; on est certains qu’on va être minorisés. On ne peut pas en sortir tant qu’il y a sous-fécondité, qu’il y a une immigration internationale aussi forte et qu’il y a étalement urbain. On ne peut pas en sortir, il n’y a rien à faire, on peut discutailler tant qu’on veut », laisse-t-il tomber. <b>Le couvercle sur la boîte</b>Avec la résurgence récente du débat linguistique, le gouvernement Charest a voulu mettre le couvercle sur cette boîte de Pandore et renoncé à une publication prévue pour vendredi dernier.« J’ai rencontré la ministre (Christine) St-Pierre il y a deux semaines, mais mon rapport final a été remis en août 2006 à l’Office de la langue. Ils ont attendu que les ministres qui se sont succédé comme responsables de la langue donnent l’accord pour la publication et ce n’est jamais venu », dénonce le démographe.Quand il pressait les fonctionnaires de publier son étude, « je me faisais dire : nous, on veut bien mais c’est le ministre qui bloque », a-t-il soutenu hier dans un long entretien à La Presse.À l’époque, Line Beauchamp était responsable du dossier. Christine St-Pierre a pris le relais en avril 2007, « et il y a deux semaines, Mme St-Pierre avait décidé rapidement qu’on publiait vendredi dernier. Une séance d’information était même prévue à l’Institut d’hôtellerie, qui a été annulée à la dernière minute », a confié M. Termote.Pour lui, Mme St-Pierre, « comme ex-journaliste », était manifestement « de bonne foi », favorable à ce que ce document puisse être rapidement accessible. « On sentait que, pour elle, cacher un document, ce n’était pas bon ». On en aura décidé autrement « en haut », présume-t-il. Car la présidente de l’Office de la langue, France Boucher (une ancienne employée politique libérale sous le gouvernement Bourassa) a passé un coup de fil à M. Termote pour lui annoncer que la conférence de presse de vendredi dernier était annulée. Cette étude serait tombée la même semaine que l’enquête du Journal de Montréal sur l’embauche d’une unilingue anglophone à Montréal et en même temps que la controverse autour du sondage mené en 2006 par l’Office de la langue sur les services en français dans 2500 commerces du centre-ville de Montréal. Selon M. Termote, « l’accumulation de signaux pareils a rendu les gens du gouvernement nerveux et ils ont décidé d’arrêter les frais ! ».Une demande d’entrevue de La Presse à Mme St-Pierre est restée lettre morte hier.La semaine dernière, La Presse avait eu vent de l’imminence de la publication d’une étude « délicate » pour le gouvernement Charest. Gérald Paquette, porte-parole de l’Office de la langue, avait éludé les questions à ce sujet, en soutenant qu’on confondait avec le « bilan » quinquennal de la situation linguistique que l’Office doit publier avant la fin de mars prochain.L’étude de M. Termote, avec d’autres, sera publiée au même moment. « C’est la première fois que cela se passe comme ça », dit le démographe, y voyant une volonté évidente de balayer sous le tapis des conclusions embarrassantes politiquement. « Ils vont noyer le poisson en la rendant publique avec 46 autres affaires », prédit-il.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Says It May Have To Borrow Funds For Yahoo Deal]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Says It May Have To Borrow Funds For Yahoo Deal By Reuters7:48 PM EST Mon. Feb. 04, 2008
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Microsoft Says It May Have To Borrow Funds For Yahoo Deal By Reuters<span class="articlepublishdate" style="position:relative;float:left;width:290px;height:auto;padding-left:5px;padding-top:1px;font-size:11px;">7:48 PM EST Mon. Feb. 04, 2008</span><span>
<div style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;text-align:left;position:relative;float:left;width:auto;height:auto;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px;padding-top:0;font-size:12px;">Microsoft (NSDQ:<a href="http://www.crn.com/tools/quotes/index.jhtml?Page=QUOTE&#38;Ticker=MSFT" class="stockLink" target="_blank">MSFT</a>) said Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo(NSDQ:<a href="http://www.crn.com/tools/quotes/index.jhtml?Page=QUOTE&#38;Ticker=YHOO" class="stockLink" target="_blank">YHOO</a>). Microsoft also said it expects Yahoo's board to agree to the deal quickly, but Yahoo said over the weekend that it expects to take "quite a <a href="http://www.crn.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=bit&#38;x=&#38;y=">bit</a> of time" to weigh all of its strategic options including remaining independent.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/"><img src="http://i.cmpnet.com/cmpnet/externalSyndication/reuters_logo.gif" align="left" border="0" style="width:auto;height:auto;font-size:12px;padding:5px;" /></a> A source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said it is considering a business alliance with Google to fend off Microsoft's offer.Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said the software company may issue some debt to finance the cash portion of its 50-50 stock and cash offer for Yahoo, instead of drawing down its entire $21 billion cash pile."It's likely we're actually going to borrow for the first time," said Liddell in an annual strategy meeting with analysts. "It's going to be a mixture of the cash we have on hand plus debt."Liddell declined to say whether Microsoft was already buying Yahoo stock on the open market. He also did not give any information on what form of debt Microsoft will seek in the capital markets.Microsoft made public Friday its offer to pay Yahoo shareholders either $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of Microsoft common stock. The deal aims to create a formidable number two to challenge Google dominance in Web search and digital advertising.Analysts applauded Microsoft's decision to take on debt."Microsoft can probably get a lower price of debt than equity," said Kim Caughey, senior analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group. "I've often wondered why Microsoft sits on the pile of cash. It doesn't make a lot of financial sense."Liddell, when asked why Microsoft chose to dilute its stock instead of making an all-cash offer, said analysts need to keep the offer in perspective with the $31 billion that Microsoft spent in share buybacks and dividends in fiscal 2007.Microsoft shares fell 26 cents to $30.19 in Nasdaq trading, while Yahoo shares rose 95 cents to $29.33.At the same meeting, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said the offer for Yahoo was generous and he expects Yahoo's board and shareholders to agree to the buyout quickly."We trust the Yahoo board and the Yahoo shareholders will join with us quickly in deciding to move down an integrated path," Ballmer said.According to a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy, the company is mulling a business alliance with Google Incto rebuff Microsoft's proposal. It has also received preliminary contacts from media, technology, telecommunications and financial companies, another source close to Yahoo said.Microsoft said combining with Yahoo would speed up the process of building a company capable of capturing 40 percent of the digital advertising market. Ballmer noted, however, that if the company was successful in its bid, it would continue to invest in building the business."We are on a path -- we were on a path and we will stay on that path regardless," said Ballmer.Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft emphasized that it expects to see strong growth from most of its business units. Liddell said he expects Microsoft's revenue to grow at a double-digit percentage in the coming fiscal year starting in July despite a potential U.S. economic slowdown.Analysts, on average, forecast Microsoft's revenue to grow 10 percent to $66.4 billion in fiscal 2009 from an estimated $60.2 billion in the current year, according to Reuters Estimates.Microsoft also said its first major update to Windows Vista was released to manufacturing. Usually, large organizations wait for the first major update before deploying a new operating system.The release, known as Service Pack 1 (SP1), will contain improvements in security, reliability and performance. SP1 will be available in mid-March through Windows update in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. (Additional reporting by Michele Gershberg in New York, Georgina Prodhan in Frankfurt, editing by Dave Zimmerman/Andre Grenon)</div>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo! ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo! by Paul Thurrott, thurrott@windowsitpro.comMicrosoft thi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;" class="Apple-style-span"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><span class="headlinenourl">Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo!</span></b></font> <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>by Paul Thurrott, <a href="mailto:thurrott@windowsitpro.com">thurrott@windowsitpro.com</a></span></font><span><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Microsoft this week made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to purchase ailing Internet services company Yahoo!, surprising investors and tech industry onlookers. But the bigger surprise was that Microsoft also confirmed long-standing rumors that it had been trying to strike a deal with Yahoo! for quite some time: In a letter to Yahoo!'s board of directors, which Microsoft opened to the public, CEO Steve Ballmer noted that his company had been courting a Yahoo! merger or acquisition since at least 2006. "We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers, and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market," Ballmer said. "We believe our combination will deliver superior value to our respective shareholders and better choice and innovation to our customers and industry partners." In his letter to Yahoo!, Ballmer spelled out the ways in which he felt the two company's Internet properties were compatible, noting that there were "significant benefits of scale" that would help the combined companies more effectively compete with market leader Google. (Interestingly, Ballmer never mentions Google by name in this letter.) Ballmer says that Microsoft would offer "significant retention packages" to all of Yahoo!'s engineers, key leaders, and other employees and would work with Yahoo! to best integrate the company's businesses. He also noted that Microsoft had spent considerable time and resources evaluating the transaction and is confident that it will pass regulatory muster. That said, Google's difficulties purchasing DoubleClick suggest otherwise, and it's clear that Microsoft's past antitrust problems will factor into any regulatory approval as well. The most astonishing thing about this offer, of course, is the sheer boldness of it, coming as it does after years of much smaller acquisitions. And Ballmer mentioned in his letter to Yahoo! that he would be releasing the letter's full contents to the public 24 hours after presenting it to the company, a move that effectively requires Yahoo! to act, one way or the other. His admission that Microsoft had been pursuing Yahoo! for at least two years is also interesting, as Microsoft had always previously refused to comment on rumors of a potential Microsoft/Yahoo! merger. Yahoo!, of course, has fallen on hard times. Its former CEO, Terry Semel, this week announced that he'd be stepping down as Yahoo!'s chairman, around the same time the company announced about 1000 layoffs. As part of the layoff announcement, Yahoo founder and CEO Jerry Yang warned of further financial "headwinds" this year, a roundabout admission that the company's turnaround plan wouldn't produce results any time soon. Yang replaced Semel as CEO last year but has done surprisingly little to shake up the company and get it back on track. His CES keynote earlier this month was notably long on promise but short on details. Microsoft has its own problems as well. Although the company last week announced surprisingly strong quarterly earnings, the one business unit that continued to drag down earnings is the one responsible for its own online services, which have continued to fail miserably at the hands of their chief competitor, Google. Assuming it's possible to effectively combine Yahoo!'s assets with Microsoft's online services, Microsoft would be in a much better position to take on Google than they'll ever be on their own. But that's a big maybe. It's unclear whether this combination will ever make sense, let alone bring the cost savings that Microsoft envisions. </font></span></span></p>
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<p>By Kevin McLaughlin, CMP Channel<br />
7:08 PM EST Fri. Jan. 18, 2008 The recently unveiled Macbook Air lacks durability and certain features that business users look for, but industry experts predict it'll sell like hotcakes within the market segment for which it appears to be intended.<br />
Simply put, the MacBook Air will attract a completely different type of customer than the typical business user, says George Swords, marketing manager at PowerMacPac, an Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) solution provider in Portland, Ore.</p>
<p>"The MacBook Air isn't meant to replace a full-featured Macbook Pro, and the first adopters will probably be people that already have a MacBook Pro or tower," said Swords. "It could also appeal to some business users as a device that's bigger than a PDA, but isn't a Tablet PC."</p>
<p>Michael Oh, CEO of Tech Superpowers, a Boston-based Apple specialist, says the lack of built-in Ethernet and Firewire ports shows that Apple isn't positioning it as a PC notebook killer. "For general business users, I don't see the Macbook Air taking off in huge quantities because of the limitations and sacrifices Apple has made," said Oh.</p>
<p>However, "we've seen tremendous interest in the Macbook Air from people who already have laptops and who are looking for a second laptop. It's similar to the way people think about a sports car they buy as second car," said Oh.</p>
<p>At least one of Apple's competitors in the notebook PC market doesn't expect the Macbook Air to make much of a dent in their share of the business traveler market.</p>
<p>While the Macbook Air appears to be a solid product, it's "somewhat surprising" that it doesn't come with integrated wide area wireless, says Kyp Walls, director of product management at Panasonic Computer Solutions Company, the Secaucus, N.J.-based unit that makes the Toughbook line.</p>
<p>"If Apple missed the mark with anything about the MacBook Air, it's that they didn't put a big emphasis on wide area wireless, or in building a machine that's going to hold up well being used outside the office for extended periods of time," said Walls.</p>
<p>The ability to swap a spent notebook battery for a new one during plane trips is "pretty critical," and the Macbook Air's non-removable battery could be off-putting to some business users, Walls said.</p>
<p>"It's a bit surprising to see that there are companies making notebooks with batteries that aren't easily removable, especially in a country the size of the U.S., where it's not unusual to find yourself on a 5 to 6 hour flight," said Walls.</p>
<p>But according to a Friday report by the enthusiast Website Apple Insider, changing the Macbook Air's battery is a trivial process that takes as little as 3 minutes and only requires a size-0 type philips screwdriver.</p>
<p>Despite the limitations imposed by its thin form factor, the Macbook Air does allow for the optical drive in another Mac, or even a PC, to function as its own optical drive, notes Swords.</p>
<p>This feature, called Remote Disk, could come in handy in a corporate environment by allowing administrators to create an image of an OS and broadcast it out to a group of MacBook Airs, according to Swords.</p>
<p>"The majority of people who will buy [the Macbook Air] already have a system. It may take a while for some people to realize it, but like all Apple products, there is some pretty revolutionary technology in here," said Swords.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Five skills that CIOs want]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<p></span><span class="gray10" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;color:#666666;font-size:10px;">By: </span><span class="darkgrayBold10" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;color:#333333;font-size:10px;font-weight:bold;">Katherine Spencer Lee, Robert Half Technology</span><span class="gray10" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;color:#666666;font-size:10px;"><i>(Jan 15, 2008 01:00:00) </i></span><br />
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<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">It's a good market out there for <a href="http://www.intergovworld.com/article/59e72c890a010408019ac93193ec5b9f/pg0.htm" target="_blank">IT job seekers</a>, but that doesn't mean your technical abilities will automatically land you a rewarding position. CIOs seek professionals who can contribute immediately to their companies' success. Faced with multiple candidates who are similarly qualified and technically proficient, how do they make tough hiring decisions?The choice often comes down to skills that are hard to quantify but essential to any successful <a href="http://www.intergovworld.com/article/1d4bf3660a01040801e2edad57230eb6/pg1.htm" target="_blank">IT career</a>. Here are five nontechnical abilities that will help separate you from the crowd.</p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b>1. Communication skills</b></p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b></b>Verbal and written <a href="http://www.intergovworld.com/article/88c573630a010408008c3b7603f3b87d/pg0.htm" target="_blank">communication abilities</a> continue to grow in importance as IT establishes itself at the forefront of business. Technology professionals must be able to interact not only with their immediate teammates, but also with colleagues throughout the company. The ability and willingness to explain a complex technology in terms the listener will understand - and care about - is as important as it is rare.One key is to always keep your audience in mind. Tailor your message to their needs and preferences. For example, if you are speaking to a team of senior managers with little time to spare, highlight only the most important aspects of your project and save the details for a different conversation. And don't forget to keep your written communication skills sharp too, especially given the prevalence of e-mail in the office. If you have a colleague or friend whose e-mails are always clear and concise, ask him for tips.</p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b>2. Interpersonal skills</b></p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b></b>While technically impressive solutions are sometimes produced in isolation, the innovations that benefit a business the most are almost always the product of a joint effort, often involving people who don't share the same abilities or experience. Productive <a href="http://www.intergovworld.com/article/1587db6f0a01040801e2edadbe4a8c07/pg0.htm" target="_blank">collaboration</a>requires a willingness to see things from a different point of view.One way to build these skills is to begin cultivating your internal network. Reach out to others, both inside and outside your department, and talk to them about what they do and how you might be able to partner. Gradually, you'll build a network of people you can interact with and turn to for ideas, suggestions and questions.</p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b>3. Customer service mind-set</b></p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b></b>Those with a <a href="http://www.intergovworld.com/article/269a84c50a01040801c4b579a341ae62/pg0.htm" target="_blank">customer service</a> mind-set measure their work not by how much effort it took or how brilliantly it was executed but by how well the project served customers. Such an attitude puts you in sync with the company's overarching goals and steers you away from work that will have little business impact.Familiarizing yourself with the company's customers (be they internal or external) is a first step toward developing this kind of results-oriented disposition. Always have an idea of the person who will be using the product, program or service you are developing. If it is the sales team, for instance, consider meeting with the group and watching them interact with technology to determine whether the software you've designed has a user-friendly interface as well as the features they seek.</p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b>4. Ability to apply technical skills to business challenges</b></p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b></b>The most sought-after job candidates don't just know how the technology works - they also know how it will be used and by whom. IT professionals need to constantly learn new proficiencies to keep pace with industry advances, but today's hottest skills may not be the ones a particular company needs the most.For example, while a hot programming language might be interesting to you, a given project may call for a more routine solution. When you keep in mind the business reasons underlying an IT project, you're more likely to find the best solutions, rather than trying to force a favourite technology into a situation where it doesn't quite fit.</p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b>5. Initiative</b></p>
<p style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><b></b>CIOs want staff members who consider their job description a starting point, not a checklist. The best employees don't wait for others to come to them with assignments, and they're often the first to volunteer for difficult challenges. Initiative also applies to your own skills - have you demonstrated an ongoing commitment to training and education, especially in areas that may not be core strengths?Don't confuse initiative with a willingness to take on mountains of work. Taking initiative means you're sufficiently engaged with both your work and your company's business that you can identify new ways to solve problems. Ever wonder why interviewers sometimes ask for an example of how you've handled failure in the past? Initiative-takers also tend to take ownership of their mistakes, a key ability of future leaders.These five standout skills may not be easy to measure, but they're critical to the success of any IT professional. By approaching your career with a business-first, collaborative mind-set, you'll give yourself a better chance to be one of the people making tough hiring decisions down the road.<i>Katherine Spencer Lee is executive director of Robert Half Technology, a leading provider of IT professionals on a project and full-time basis. Robert Half Technology has more than 100 locations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia and offers online job search services at</i><a href="http://www.rht.com/">www.rht.com</a>.</p>
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<p>By Reuters<br />
8:17 AM EST Wed. Jan. 16, 2008<br />
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<p>BOSTON - Business software maker BEA Systems Inc has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp for $8.5 billion, a 14 percent premium to its first offer, the companies said Wednesday.</p>
<p>Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL) will pay $19.375 per share for BEA, higher than the $17 per share it offered in October but lower than the $21 per share BEA had previously demanded.</p>
<p>"It's a fair price. It's a good deal for Oracle. It's a good deal for BEA," said Trip Chowdhry, analyst at Global Equities Research.</p>
<p>BEA shares rose 19 percent to $18.50 in pre-market trading compared to the Tuesday close on Nasdaq of $15.58. Oracle shares ticked lower, to $21.01 in pre-market trading from their close of $21.31.</p>
<p>BEA makes so-called middleware, which helps business computer systems interact with each other.</p>
<p>Oracle said the deal, valued at $7.2 billion net of cash on hand of $1.3 billion, would increase its adjusted earnings per share by at least 1 cent to 2 cents in the first full year after closing. (Reporting by Jim Finkle and Tiffany Wu; editing by Mark Porter/John Wallace)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jouissif.... La concurrence.... ça fait mal....]]></title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Les épouvantailles de Bell Canada face à l'ouverture vers la concurrence: les tarifs vont grimper, la qualité des services va baisser.... ben oui un monopole avec un syndicat fort qui demandait n'importe quoi, des opérateurs à 50 000 par année y'en 10 ans, des réparateurs qui dormaient dans la camions etc..... ben voilà ce que ça donne.  On était bon quand on était tout seul!!!</p>
<p>BCE pourrait vendre Bell Mobilité</p>
<p>16 janvier 2008 - 06h34<br />
Bloomberg</p>
<p>Un réparateur de téléphone de BCE a brûlé un feu rouge en mai dernier au moment où les freins du camion de l'entreprise qu'il conduisait ont lâché. Il a réussi à arrêter le véhicule uniquement en rétrogradant les vitesses et utilisant le frein à main.</p>
<p>Au moment où un groupe d'investisseurs ayant à leur tête une caisse de retraite d'enseignants se prépare à faire l'acquisition de BCE (BCE) au prix de 52 milliards de dollars, les analystes soutiennent que le prix pour éviter de tels dangers pourrait être de vendre une partie ou la totalité de la division sans fil de l'entreprise, une affaire de 3,5 milliards par année.</p>
<p>C'est que la plus importante entreprise de téléphonie au Canada doit réparer un parc de camions qui prend de l'âge et ajouter un service de télévision tout en réglant une dette d'environ 34 milliards.</p>
<p>Le Régime de retraite des enseignants et enseignantes de l'Ontario (Teachers), qui est à la tête du groupe d'acheteurs, prévoit recueillir environ 40 milliards pour financer l'acquisition de BCE, selon des documents soumis aux autorités réglementaires.</p>
<p>En plus de ce montant, les dépenses d'immobilisation atteindront 3,4 milliards cette année, soutiennent des analystes.</p>
<p>«On se demande où ils prendront cet argent», observe Greg Eckel, gestionnaire de patrimoine de Morgan Meighen &#38; Associates, à Toronto.</p>
<p>Sa firme gère des actifs de 1,3 milliard et elle a vendu la plupart de ses 150 000 actions de BCE. «À un certain moment, ils devront se départir d'actifs», ajoute-t-il.</p>
<p>La division sans fil de BCE est peut-être le seul élément de l'entreprise susceptible d'attirer des investisseurs, estime Lawrence Surtees, analyste d'IDC Canada, de Toronto, qui a écrit un ouvrage sur BCE.</p>
<p>«Tout le reste est soit stagnant soit en déclin», ajoute-t-il. M. Surtees n'a pas fourni d'estimation quant à ce que pourrait rapporter la vente de la division sans fil de BCE.</p>
<p>La caisse des enseignants ontariens, qui gère des actifs de 106 milliards pour 271 000 professeurs et qui détient déjà 6,3% de BCE, a refusé de faire des commentaires, selon sa porte-parole, Deborah Allan.</p>
<p>Espoir</p>
<p>L'histoire de BCE remonte à 1880 tandis que l'entreprise nouvellement créée Bell Telephone cherchait à promouvoir l'invention de Graham Bell.</p>
<p>L'entreprise fut un monopole jusque dans les années 90, alors que le Canada a commencé à déréglementer l'industrie des télécommunications.</p>
<p>Le régime de retraite des enseignants ontariens, de même que les investisseurs Providence Equity Partners et Madison Dearborn Partners, ont fait une offre pour BCE dans l'espoir de requinquer le titre de l'entreprise.</p>
<p>Ces investisseurs seront peut-être en mesure d'améliorer la performance de BCE en réduisant les coûts d'exploitation et en apportant des améliorations à son réseau, estime Jim Hall, un gestionnaire de patrimoine de Mawer Investment Management, de Calgary, qui gère des actifs de 5 milliards, y compris 900 000 actions de BCE.</p>
<p>«Si elle ne refait pas sa base d'actifs, l'entreprise n'aura pas d'autre choix que de mourir», avance pour sa part Neeraj Monga, analyste de Veritas Investment Research, de Toronto.</p>
<p>Mardi, à Toronto, l'action de BCE a terminé à 38,05$, en baisse de 48 cents ou 1,25%.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun to acquire MySQL for $1 billion]]></title>
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<p class="byline">By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service, 01/16/08</p>
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<p class="first"><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/sun.html">Sun</a> will pay $1 billion for Swedish software company MySQL, whose open-source database is used for some of the most widely visited                         Web sites in the world.</p>
<p>Sun said the deal will augment its position in the enterprise IT market, including the $15 billion database market.</p>
<p><!--#include virtual="/includes/ads-ata.html"-->Sun said MySQL's product line will help it give further support to the open-source Web application platform known as LAMP,                         the acronym for the Linux OS, Apache Web server, MySQL database and the PHP/Perl programming languages.</p>
<p>MySQL's strength in software-as-a-service offerings -- where applications are delivered over the Internet through a Web browser                         -- are also a plus, Sun said.</p>
<p>Databases are crucial for Internet-based applications in sites offering a range of services, from e-commerce to social networking.</p>
<p>Sun will pay $800 million in cash and $200 million in options, and the deal is expected to close by the end of Sun's 2008                         fiscal year, which will end June 30.</p>
<p>Sun's acquisition ends speculation that MySQL might become a public company.</p>
<p>MySQL has become a formidable competitor to other relational database management systems from companies such as Oracle and IBM. The database itself is free for people to download, and MySQL makes money by offering subscription support packages.</p>
<p>MySQL CEO Marten Mickos -- whose business cards list him as "Open Sourcerer"-- will join Sun's executive team. MySQL will                         be folded into Sun's Software, Sales and Service organizations.</p>
<p>Sun said it plans to create a joint team to integrate MySQL, which has 400 employees in 25 countries, into its operations.</p>
<p>Sun said MySQL will gain new distribution through companies such as Intel, IBM and Dell via existing relationships Sun has                         with those vendors.</p>
<p>Sun also said it will also work on optimizing the LAMP stack to run on GNU/Linux, Microsoft's Windows OS and its OpenSolaris                         OS.</p>
<p>Sun is in need of a database management system, one analyst said. It's choice of MySQL "makes sense with Sun's open-source                         orientation," said James Kobielus, senior analyst with Forrester Research.</p>
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<p>Dix gadgets qui font saliver en 2008<br />
Alain McKenna<br />
La Presse<br />
Collaboration spéciale<br />
S'il ne ressort pas de grande innovation remarquable du Consumer Electronic Show, à Las Vegas, la diversité des nouveautés annoncées pour 2008 est tout de même impressionnante. Voici les 10 gadgets qui marqueront vraisemblablement l'année.</p>
<p>1. La table de salon intelligente</p>
<p>Microsoft a eu droit à beaucoup de place au CES. En plus d'être le plus grand exposant en superficie, le grand patron du géant de Redmond, Bill Gates, a encore eu droit à l'allocution d'ouverture. Allocution au demeurant décevante.</p>
<p>Microsoft a néanmoins fait un bon coup en réintroduisant sa technologie Surface, sous la forme d'une table de salon sur laquelle on a installé un écran tactile fonctionnant drôlement comme l'iPhone, d'Apple.</p>
<p>Autrement dit, on déplace les éléments en glissant les doigts sur sa surface, on agrandit des portions de l'image en éloignant deux doigts, ainsi de suite. Microsoft ajoute un système de reconnaissance des objets reposant sur la table, comme une bouteille de vin ou un baladeur. Apparaissent alors diverses options, comme le téléchargement de musique ou la provenance du cépage.</p>
<p>Déjà, une chaîne hôtelière a confirmé qu'elle installerait des tables Surface dans ses restaurants au printemps.</p>
<p>Sortie prévue: au printemps.</p>
<p>2. Un téléviseur de 3,3 mètres de largeur</p>
<p>Panasonic a présenté un téléviseur de 3,3 mètres de largeur et une diagonale de 150 pouces.<br />
Photo AFP</p>
<p>L'an dernier, Sharp a dévoilé en grande pompe un téléviseur à affichage à cristaux liquides (ACL) de 108 pouces. Son message: le règne du plasma tire à sa fin dans le marché des écrans plats pour la maison. Or, la direction de Panasonic n'est pas d'accord et a décidé d'en faire la preuve en présentant un téléviseur de 3,3 mètres de largeur et une diagonale de 150 pouces. Forte des ventes de son écran géant précédent, un 104 pouces vendu 70 000$ pièce, Panasonic entend mettre en vente ce nouveau mastodonte - le plus grand écran plat au monde, selon la multinationale - à un prix supérieur à 100 000$. Pour ceux qui ont déjà tout...</p>
<p>Sortie: à l'été.</p>
<p>3. Le téléviseur à DEL ultramince</p>
<p>La gamme de téléviseurs au plasma Kuro, de Pioneer, s'est vu décerner de nombreux honneurs, au fil des derniers mois. Comme pour se féliciter, ses ingénieurs ont dévoilé un moniteur à écran plat de 50 pouces, dont la particularité est de ne pas faire plus de neuf millimètres d'épaisseur et d'afficher un rapport de contraste pratiquement infini.</p>
<p>Dans une chambre noire, le «Projet Kuro», comme cet appareil est surnommé, ne peut être distingué, même si son écran est allumé. C'est dire comment les tons de noir sont, effectivement, très sombres. Selon Pioneer, environ 1: 100 0000.</p>
<p>Sa date de sortie n'a pas été annoncée.</p>
<p>4. Moniteur OLED de 11 pouces de Sony</p>
<p>En plus de l'ACL et du plasma, les écrans plats vont pouvoir profiter d'une nouvelle technologie, appelée OLED, que l'Office québécois de la langue française traduit par «écran organique à diodes électroluminescentes».</p>
<p>Sony et Samsung y travaillent d'arrache-pied, mais seule la marque Sony vend de ces appareils. Au CES, le fabricant japonais présentait le moniteur XEL-1, un écran de 11 pouces ne faisant pas plus de trois millimètres d'épaisseur.</p>
<p>Son image est aussi épatante que son format. Mais il faut admettre que son prix de détail, à 2500$, en fait de loin la plus coûteuse des technologies d'écran plat sur le marché! C'est aussi la moins durable. Ça n'empêche pas Sony de mettre en vente le XEL-1 en ce moment même aux États-Unis.</p>
<p>5. La télé HD sans fil pour la maison</p>
<p>Hitachi et Samsung ont présenté au CES des prototypes de ce que pourrait être la télévision haute définition sans fil.</p>
<p>Des deux, c'est le système Hitachi qui était sans doute le mieux ficelé (le président de Samsung a complètement raté sa démonstration sur scène, au grand amusement des spectateurs). Grâce à un émetteur utilisant le protocole WiFi 802.11n, le plus rapide actuellement sur le marché, ce système est en mesure de transmettre sans fil le signal HD à plusieurs téléviseurs placés un peu partout dans la maison.</p>
<p>La provenance du signal peut varier: PC, internet, câble ou satellite. Grâce à un protocole sans fil dont la fréquence peut varier jusqu'à 16 fois par seconde, Hitachi assure que rien, ni même un four micro-ondes, ne viendra interrompre la connexion avec les téléviseurs.</p>
<p>La mise en marché de ce système est incertaine, mais pourrait avoir lieu cette année.</p>
<p>6. L'écran tactile, roi du sans-fil</p>
<p>Si quelqu'un doute encore de l'impact de l'iPhone sur le marché du sans-fil, la nouveauté de LG finira de le convaincre. Le Voyager est un téléphone à écran tactile dont l'interface est composée d'une quinzaine d'icônes, à la manière de son homologue d'Apple. Différence notoire, par contre: son format un peu plus imposant permet de dissimuler un clavier à glissière qui se cache derrière l'écran. Mêlant médias numériques et téléphonie, le Voyager devrait être lancé au Canada d'ici la fin de l'année, mais l'identité de l'opérateur qui l'offrira est encore inconnue.</p>
<p>7. Un sans-fil au clavier inédit</p>
<p>Motorola a présenté le sans-fil le Rokr E8, dont le clavier numérique est une surface plane sous laquelle s'illuminent les chiffres et les touches de composition.<br />
Photo AFP</p>
<p>Motorola a présenté quelques nouveautés au CES, mais la plus épatante est sans contredit le Rokr E8, ne serait-ce que parce que son interface est totalement inédite.</p>
<p>Le clavier numérique de ce combiné est une surface plane sous laquelle s'illuminent les chiffres et les touches de composition. Passer au mode baladeur et de nouveaux icônes s'illuminent pour contrôler la lecture musicale. Même chose pour surfer sur le web. Un contrôleur central permet de passer d'une application à une autre.</p>
<p>Motorola devrait le mettre en vente en Amérique du Nord au cours de l'automne prochain.</p>
<p>8. Un projecteur de la taille d'un stylo</p>
<p>3M propose un projecteur assez petit pour être incorporé à un appareil photo numérique, un ordinateur de poche ou même un téléphone sans fil.<br />
Photo AFP</p>
<p>La nouvelle trouvaille de 3 M? Un projecteur assez petit pour être incorporé à un appareil photo numérique, un ordinateur de poche ou même un téléphone sans fil.</p>
<p>Ce projecteur affiche une résolution VGA, soit l'équivalent de l'image d'un téléviseur, et est suffisamment lumineux pour projeter, dans les meilleures conditions, une image ayant une diagonale de 40 pouces.</p>
<p>Déjà, 3 M assure avoir des ententes avec d'autres fabricants qui veulent utiliser cette technologie dans leurs produits.</p>
<p>Un porte-parole a indiqué qu'on pourrait en voir une première application dès le printemps.</p>
<p>9. Un PC canadien à 250$</p>
<p>Visionquest, dont le siège social est à Mississauga, en Ontario, a levé le voile sur un produit qui en étonnera plus d'un: un ordinateur ultramobile avec clavier complet, écran de sept pouces, wi-fi et Windows CE, qui devrait se vendre 250$, environ.</p>
<p>Très compact et léger, il s'inscrit dans la tendance naissante des PC ultracompacts lancée par le EEE PC, d'Asus.</p>
<p>Sa mise en marché devrait se faire au cours de l'été.</p>
<p>10. Les tablettes internet sur une lancée</p>
<p>Intel a déjà tout dit sur son Mobile internet Device (ou MID, pour les intimes), mais les nouveautés présentées au CES indiquent que c'est plus qu'une mode passagère.</p>
<p>De Samsung à HTC, en passant par Fujitsu, plusieurs fabricants ont démontré le potentiel de cette technologie, qui devrait se traduire par une flopée d'ordinateurs ultramobiles, ou UMPC, sur le marché au fil de l'année. Pas très puissants, mais aussi compacts qu'un sandwich, ces appareils ont comme principale fonction d'être de parfaites tablettes internet et multimédias. Reste à voir si le rapport performance-prix convaincra les acheteurs.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[CES 2008 Kicks Off with Final Gates Keynote by Paul ThurrottJanuary 7-2008    
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<p style="font-size:12px;color:#000000;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">With all due respect to the world's richest man, he's clearly worn out his welcome. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivered his first Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote address in 1994 when, in his words, "Windows 95 was just coming together (and) the Internet was just getting started." Since then, he's honed his consumer-oriented keynote into the entertainment equivalent of a golf game: slow moving with respectful chuckles and applause at all the right moments. His final CES appearance last night followed exactly the same path. Unfortunately, what CES really needs is leadership. And as I scanned eagerly through all the Microsoft and other corporate announcements made during Sunday night's pre-show jitters, I can see I've clearly made the right choice by not attending this too-large show for the second year in a row. Despite its size and the attendance of virtually every important consumer electronics company on Earth, CES has become something of a non-event. And it has only itself to blame. Part of the problem is that, next week, Apple will unleash the 2008 rendition of its own tradeshow, Macworld. Despite a much smaller size than CES, Macworld is far more influential and important because it features the most powerful consumer electronics company in the world, Apple, and its mesmerizing if mercurial CEO, Steve Jobs. If CES is serious about mattering again, it should already be in talks with Apple to get Jobs to keynote next year. My guess is that will never happen. But the biggest problem for CES isn't the competition; it's internal. And you need only look as far as Microsoft to see what's wrong. Despite headlining the event, Microsoft didn't make a single major announcement last night, let alone acknowledge that some of its biggest announcements from last year--Windows Vista, new Media Center Extenders, and an IPTV-based Xbox 360--have yet to materialize or have any real positive impact on the market. Let's take a look at what Microsoft did announce last night, skipping neatly over the vague promises of a utopian future. <b>Windows Vista</b> Microsoft announced that it has sold 100 million Windows Vista licenses since the product first became available in November 2006. This is about 100 million fewer licenses that I would have expected in this span of time, given that PC makers sold more than 250 million machines in 2007. <b>Windows Live</b> Microsoft highlighted such online services as Windows Live Calendar (currently in beta), Windows Live Events, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Spaces, and Windows Live Mobile. The company also mentioned that its Windows Live properties provide a single sign-on across all services. <b>Microsoft Surface</b> The company announced its table PC platform last year and promised to ship it by the end of 2007. That never happened, but this year Surface was back with more prototypes. "We see Surface showing up in many, many different situations, maybe even here in Las Vegas as a new flexible interface," Gates said. <b>2008 Olympics</b>Microsoft announced that NBC will (sort of) utilize Microsoft's Silverlight Web technologies for its 2008 Olympics. What's really happening is that MSN will be broadcasting video highlights from the Olympics, and because MSN is owned by Microsoft, they'll use Silverlight to make it happen. <b>Xbox 360</b> The year 2007 was the "biggest year ever in videogame history in the United States," according to Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division. He wasn't referring to Microsoft's record $1.1 billion warranty hit to the Xbox 360, which was caused by massive and widespread hardware failures of the device, and not on sales (Microsoft has sold 17.7 million Xbox 360 consoles since November 2005 and 4.3 million since September). Instead, this claim is based on revenues: "In the United States, through November, we did $3.5 billion of business," Bach said. "That's $1 billion more than Nintendo did on the Wii, and it's $2 billion more than Sony did on the PlayStation 3." Bach also highlighted Xbox Live but failed to mention that the service was offline for much of the week following Christmas, angering customers and leading to a free game giveaway. There are now more than 10 million consumers signed up for Xbox Live, although Microsoft failed to mention that most of them aren't paying for Xbox Live Gold but are rather using the free version of the service. <b>TV Shows and Movies on Xbox Live</b>The company announced that ABC and Disney (which are the same company) will be bringing their TV shows to Xbox Live this month. Likewise, MGM is bringing its movie collection to Xbox Live. <b>Media Center Extenders</b> Microsoft announced Windows Vista-based Media Center Extenders at last year's show, and they never materialized in time for the 2007 holiday selling season. This year, the company announced that Samsung and HP will build the technology into new set-top boxes and TVs this year. Really. <b>Mediaroom</b> Last year, Microsoft showed off an IPTV-based Xbox 360 console that never materialized. This year, the company announced that Mediaroom--an IPTV-based service for "HD television, DVR, and interactivity"--will ship through top service providers such as British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, AT&#38;T, and 17 others around the world. Microsoft is adding a technology called DVR Anywhere to the mix: This technology lets you record Mediaroom content at home and distribute it to other TVs in the home that are connected via a home network. British Telecom will offer a Mediaroom-based Xbox 360 console that works as an IPTV-based set-top box. <b>Zune</b> Microsoft didn't release sales figures for the second-generation Zune but revealed that it's "doing very, very well." No new features or improvements were discussed, but Microsoft said it would sell the Zune outside the United States and Canada "this spring." <b>Zune Social</b> Microsoft's beta Web service for the Zune, which essentially copies the Xbox 360 Gamertag system, was demonstrated. I believe it's still in beta. <b>Microsoft Sync</b> In 2007, Microsoft introduced its Sync automobile platform, a voice controller for music players, cell phones, and other devices. The software is currently used in Europe by Fiat and in the United States by Ford. "Ford expects to ship nearly a million Sync-enabled cars next year," Bach noted. The company announced an upgrade to Sync called 911 Assist. <b>Windows Mobile</b> No new announcements here, but Bach did claim that "Windows Mobile today outsells BlackBerry and iPhone. We're on pace this fiscal year to sell 20 million phones, which is almost double what we sold last year, with Windows Mobile software on it." Scanning through this list, you might discover, as I did, that there are lots of topics discussed, but no major blockbusters. It will be interesting to compare and contrast this with Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote address next week. But surely there were other interesting news items out of CES Sunday night. Here's what's happened so far. <b>Warner Bros. Drops HD DVD, Adopts Blu-ray Exclusively</b> Late last week, Warner Bros. (and its New Line subsidiary) announced that it would drop support for HD DVD to focus on Blu-ray exclusively. This announcement had a number of immediate ramifications: The HD DVD camp cancelled its CES press conference, HD DVD backer Toshiba slashed prices on its HD DVD notebook computers, and Microsoft scuttled plans for an HD DVD-based Xbox 360 console. Folks, the format war is over: Blu-ray has won. <b>Napster Will Adopt DRM-Free MP3</b> Online music seller Napster announced that it will sell music in DRM-free MP3 format. "There's now enough top-tier content out there," Napster CEO Chris Gorog said, as if this were the plan all along. However, Napster still plans to focus on its subscription music business, which will continue to use Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format and digital rights management (DRM) technologies. Napster is also raising the price of its basic subscription plan from $9.95 to $12.95 per month, beginning at the end of January. The company has 750,000 paid subscribers. And that's about it. I'm sure we'll see more throughout the week. In the meantime, call me jaded if you must, but CES has lost something. My advice to the industry is simple: Move the show closer to the holidays and ensure that anything you're showing off will actually ship that year. Focus more on products and less on the nebulous vision stuff. And for crying out loud, start talking to Steve Jobs. It's a crime that the most influential consumer electronics company in the world isn't at CES. </font></span></span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Reports of IT department&#8217;s death exaggerated, industry pros say
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">IT gadfly Nicholas Carr's new book generates lively debate about utility computing</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 01/09/08</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">IT professionals are mad as hell about Nicholas Carr's new book, which predicts the demise of the corporate IT department and its replacement by utility computing.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Network World's Web site has been flooded with comments from IT professionals since Monday, when it published a review of Carr's latest book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"This article proves that Nicholas Carr can still get a book published regardless…of his extreme lack of knowledge of logic, business, economics and information technology," says one anonymous writer, who calls Carr "a talentless hack with an English Lit degree.''</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Another anonymous commenter says Carr is "an author screaming for attention and not someone versed and experienced in IT. He's just a small child crying out for someone to look at him. It's OK, we'll entertain you by at least reacting to your latest ponderings."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">The comments -- more than 50 in all -- are not your typical Internet rants and raves. Instead, they are mostly detailed, well-articulated arguments about why companies will continue to need their own corporate IT departments to secure customer data, provide end-user support, upgrade network infrastructure and deploy custom business applications.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">The controversy surrounding Carr's new book is likely to continue, as Network World hosts an online chat with the author on Thursday, Jan. 10 from 2 to 3 p.m. EST. The transcript of that chat will be available by Friday, Jan. 11.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">The reader-submitted comments are running 8 to 1 against Carr's premise that IT departments will have little work left to do once business computing moves out of corporate-run data centers into utility computing facilities.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"I don't believe you're going to see this large transformation as Carr predicts," says one anonymous commenter. "Companies have invested hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, into infrastructure for their business. They are going to just throw it all away? I highly doubt that…Many companies, like my own, will absolutely never trust their data to a 'utility computing solution' aka, Google….Downsizing, yes, IT department's dying off, no I don't really think so."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"I've worked for a number of organizations who thought outsourcing IT was the key to success, and they universally failed," says a reader who identifies himself as Andrew van der Stock. "Our devices and styles of computing will change (see Salesforce.com, etc.), but the need to centrally manage a number of devices that the company owns will not go away."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">This isn't the first time Carr has provoked the wrath of IT professionals. In 2003, Carr published a provocative essay in the Harvard Business Review entitled "Does IT Matter?" In that article, Carr asserted that IT investments failed to provide companies with a strategic advantage because as soon as one company adopted a new technology, its competitors did the same.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Carr is stirring up the pot again with his new book, which argues that utility computing will replace corporate IT departments much as electric utilities replaced company-run power plants in the early 1900s. Carr says it is more efficient for companies to buy utility computing services via the Internet than it is for them to operate their own data centers and network infrastructures.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"Interesting idea to be sure, but I'll believe it when I see it," says a writer identified as Jon Allred. "The fact is that a business's IT needs are far more complex than an electricity generator. So much so that the whole idea seems more like a pro-outsourcing political polemic than an honest look at the state of corporate IT infrastructure."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">IT professionals say Carr has underestimated the role that data centers of customer information will play in retaining corporate IT departments.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"We are seeing a more commodity approach to hardware and services, which can be compared to electrical companies, but as for the security of the firm's lifeblood, data, I believe that companies will want to maintain a firm grasp on that, no matter all the hype otherwise," writes Barry W.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"The single greatest measure of security for data is the physical kind: e.g. not hooking the information up to a network of nodes, any one of which represents a transfer point and an opportunity for a thief," says an anonymous commenter. He adds that Carr "is living in a dream world of unpatented, unprotected information."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Several IT professionals point out that corporate IT departments are already running more efficient and less costly data centers thanks to a shift towards virtualization of servers.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"There is an opportunity over time for corporations to decrease IT staff. But this has more to do with VMware than Google," one anonymous commenter says. "Why did Carr not focus on virtual technology…He missed a big opportunity to get the detail right." (Compare storage virtualization products.)</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">IT professionals also argue that utility computing providers will not be flexible or responsive enough to corporate needs, and so companies will retain their own IT departments.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"Businesses will perceive utility IT solutions as brittle, inflexible and unresponsive," says Milton Smith, who nonetheless admits he finds the utility computing concept "interesting."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"The outsourcing model is what's being practiced right now with large corporations, but very soon they will realize that a poor investment has been made," argues an anonymous writer. The writer describes "[Service-level agreements] not being met, poor customer service and lack of resources for specialized technology."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Carr also predicts the end of the IT profession as a lucrative career path, except for those who want to work for service providers. Carr says IT professionals are indistinguishable from one company to the next, and that they mostly do maintenance chores rather than application development.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">IT professionals find this accusation absurd.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"I completely disagree with the idiotic assessment that IT is dead," says one writer. "In fact, it will evolve into a much bigger part of the future business world. Yes, utility computing will displace many of the current end user devices, PCs, etc., but it has nothing to do with the data and services offered that business and industry uses."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Carr also says companies will no longer require legions of technical staff, and he envisions a future in which only one person is required to run an entire corporate computing operation.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">IT professionals commenting on Carr's book don't seem too worried about their jobs.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"The desire for secret sauce, and the brain trust it takes to conceptualize and build it, will always be in demand -- no outsourcing there," says an anonymous writer. "And besides, that stuff is way more fun to do." (See our slideshow on secret sauce and other tech metaphors.)</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"I.T. matters," argues Tom M. "It is what allows your iPhones and BlackBerries to be able to receive those nightly reports. We are not the day laborers used to make your clothes. We create your electronic world that envelopes you, and we will be around for a long time to come, adding that new gotta-have-feature to your precious new toy."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">A handful of Network World readers agree with Carr's rosy predictions for utility computing.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"The author points to a number of factors that will help move computing into the cloud and lessen the relevance of IT," says a reader identified as Tom Clement. "I would add that the emergence of standards based Web services and orchestration engines (e.g. BPEL) makes it more and more possible for non-IT employees to assemble applications that serve their own needs without having to involve IT."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">An anonymous reader adds: "When you converge better and more reliable networking, distributed computing, faster and multi-core CPUs and smarter self-maintaining software and hardware, it means fewer people will be needed. Even if it doesn't come together quite like how [Carr] thinks it will, there will still be a reduction in the IT force needed."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Still another reader identified as tuomoks argues: "Only the maintenance is done by corporates and even that is now often contracted out and the business goes on …. IT itself is partly in fault. Many IT departments (still?) don't understand that they are part of business and a utility function for corporate business except, of course, if they sell their services to the outside, which is what is predicted here."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">Other readers said the shift to utility computing was more than 20 years away and wouldn't replace internal IT departments altogether.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"As distributed computing and remote applications become more reliable, computing may very well become more of a utility service," says a reader identified as Adam J. "Mind you, this is a long way down the road."</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">It's unclear whether the controversy will drive sales of Carr's book among IT professionals. Several Network World readers who commented on the book review said they wouldn't read "The Big Switch" because they didn't want Carr to earn any money from his controversial predictions.</p>
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<p style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica;margin:0;">"This guy is just trying to get negative attention, and I would not take his book for free little less buy it," said one anonymous commenter. </p>
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