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Five outside-the-box ways to cut IT costs

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San Francisco - Every time the economy turns downward, IT shops take a hit.

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    San Francisco - It's the new reality of IT: working as part of a global team, with coworker and outsourcers all over the world, coordinated by a project manager at headquarters.

  • Mozilla Labs pursues Web dev tools Mon Oct 13, 8:00 PM ET

    San Francisco - Dissatisfied with the Web development tools already available, researchers at the newly formed Developer Tools Lab at Mozilla Labs intend to find better options.

  • Microsoft set to release Silverlight 2 Mon Oct 13, 4:52 PM ET

    San Francisco - Microsoft's Silverlight 2 browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications will be generally available on Tuesday along with supportive development tools, the company said during a teleconference on Monday morning.

  • You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz Mon Oct 13, 9:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - The world's financial markets may be collapsing, but technology lives on -- for the moment, anyway.

  • Solaris exec touts Unix platform's strengths Mon Oct 13, 8:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - Solaris has been Sun Microsystems's bread-and-butter Unix system since 1992.

  • Dynamic programming futures Mon Oct 13, 6:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - What will the world of dynamic programming languages and Web applications look like in five years? This is one of those highly personal and deeply philosophical questions best saved for after dessert is served, the drinks are poured, and the sidearms are safely locked away.

  • Get ready for next-gen mobile Mon Oct 13, 6:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - Apple iPhone, move over. At least, that's the hope of Google and Research in Motion as they ready the first serious competitors to the iPhone, in the "mobile 2.0" market that Apple invented.

  • Microsoft elaborates on Oslo Fri Oct 10, 9:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering code names and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.

  • Test Center review: Open source Drupal turns pro Thu Oct 9, 6:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - As we've seen time and again, in an increasing number of enterprise software categories, open source has become a promising alternative to commercial software. But there's no free ride.

  • Red Hat boosts open source SOA Wed Oct 8, 8:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - Red Hat is expanding its open-source JBoss SOA platform with the unveiling Wednesday of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1.

  • For a promising IT career, go east, young techie Wed Oct 8, 6:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - As IT job opportunities in the United States and Europe start to contract -- a trend that predates the current financial meltdown but may accelerate because of it -- perhaps it's time to look abroad, where there may, in fact, be more growth and better opportunities to advance your career.

  • Microsoft touts Touchless SDK Tue Oct 7, 7:29 PM ET

    San Francisco - Microsoft Office Labs released Tuesday its Touchless SDK for developers to experiment with multi-touch technology.

  • The perfect laptop, take two Tue Oct 7, 6:00 AM ET

    San Francisco - A number of readers responded to our call to describe their perfect notebook. We were pleased to discover they generally agreed with major elements of our WorldBook design, especially the integrated smartphone and the embedded solar panel. We also learned that features we excluded for being too expensive or impractical might have enough market appeal to justify another crack at doing them affordably.