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      <title>The 2010 IT Salary Guide</title>
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      <description>The 2010 IT Salary Guide lists salaries for many tech professionals, and also details IT salary levels for various U.S. regions. Plus: salary incentives for specialty IT skill sets.</description>
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      <title>Why Your Vendor Doesn't Care About You</title>
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      <description>It is our extreme focus on getting the lowest price rather than the best experience that has resulted in the bad customer experiences we often get.</description>
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      <title>Are You a Blue Collar or White Collar Developer?</title>
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      <description>Among software developers these differences aren&amp;#146;t always discussed, yet the differences are real &amp;#150; or are they?</description>
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      <title>Who Killed Black Friday?</title>
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      <description>Sure, Black Friday is still a great day for deal, but the Internet has done away with the traditional &amp;#147;one day only&amp;#148; Black Friday concept.</description>
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      <title>IT Management: It's Organic, Not Digital</title>
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      <description>Effective tech management isn&amp;#146;t about machines, it&amp;#146;s about changing stupid processes and 
deranged corporate cultures. 
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      <title>Top 200 Tech Blogs: The Datamation 2009 List</title>
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      <description>Tech blogs that are current and insightful, chosen from all the major categories of technology. 
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      <title>7 Reasons Why Microsoft Should Make PCs</title>
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      <description>The company already sells Microsoft-branded keyboards, webcams and game consoles. Moving into the PC hardware market would boost its prospects for continued dominance.</description>
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      <title>In Defense of Steve Ballmer</title>
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      <description>An industry observer rebuts a recent opinion piece in Newsweek calling Ballmer&amp;#146;s tenure a &amp;#147;lost decade&amp;#148; for Microsoft.</description>
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      <title>Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?</title>
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      <description>Looking back at the strange software developer he&amp;#146;s worked with, one veteran coder asks the obvious question.</description>
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      <title> Is Email Dying?</title>
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      <description>In the age of IM, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, podcasting, and webcasting, is email falling from favor? 
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      <title>Do You Have 'Offline Stress Disorder'?</title>
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      <description>Fueled by Facebook and the iPhone, Offline Stress Disorder is state of anxiety caused by knowledge that an Internet connection is not available.</description>
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      <title>Is Microsoft Already Failing with Windows 7?</title>
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      <description>There&amp;#146;s great reason for optimism about Windows 7, but a few missteps are beginning to prompt concern.</description>
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      <title>Video Conferencing: Why Isn't It More Successful?</title>
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      <description>For video conferencing to be successful it needs to embrace social networking and foster higher quality personal interaction.</description>
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      <title>The Future Has No Moving Parts (Or Hard Disks or Keyboards&amp;#133;)</title>
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      <description>All tech trend lines point to the total elimination of funky contraptions that use gears, wheels, spokes and other industrial-revolution technologies.</description>
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      <title>17 Notably Bad Products from Great Tech Companies</title>
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      <description>As these products demonstrate, even the best tech companies can lay an egg on occasion.</description>
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      <title>Why Microsoft's 'Courier' Tablet Will Never Exist</title>
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      <description>Despite the hype, there are at least six good reasons why the Microsoft tablet will exist only in the fevered imaginations of A-list bloggers.</description>
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      <title>Why Developers Get Fired</title>
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      <description>There are many reasons developers get fired. So take off the ear buds, close down your 20 Skype threads and take some time to think about what you can do to prevent this from happening to you.</description>
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      <title>HP, Intel, Greenpeace and Saving the Planet</title>
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      <description>The technology industry and environmentalists don&amp;#146;t always see eye to eye on all issues.</description>
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      <title>Gaming on the iPhone Stinks!</title>
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      <description>Sure, Apple claims otherwise, but the platform&amp;#146;s drawbacks are hard to paper over.</description>
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      <title>Should Employees Use Their Own PCs?</title>
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      <description>The trend toward employee ownership of PCs could provide benefits to both the employees and strapped IT organizations, if monitored properly.</description>
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