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• IT Jobs Expected to Dip in 2009 CIOs plan sharp reductions in contract staff, professional services, and hardware -- and almost no investment in cloud computing.
• SAP User Group Launches Database to Help Companies An interview with Steve Strout, the CEO of the American SAP Users' Group.
• Some IT Jobs May Be Recession-Proof Not all IT jobs are being offshored and outsourced. Some positions in IT are among the most recession-proof jobs across all fields.
• Microsoft Adds Workflow to Cloud-Based SOA Platform BizTalk Services project still is in development as the R12 Community Technology Preview is unveiled.
• MS Sets VM Tool Pricing, Ship Date Virtual Machine Manager will be broken out of System Center bundle, sold separately.
• South Korea's New High Tech Product: Cloned Dogs Two South Korean labs are offering pet owners the chance to clone dogs, but for those looking to bring back a beloved beagle, be ready to wait in line and have plenty of cash on hand.
• Microsoft's "Katmai" Is Filled to the Brim SQL Server 2008 release candidate sports improvements across the board, but the head turners -- and disappointments -- will mostly impact large shops.
• Linux Not The Savior For Our Economy There's always a group who are so overly passionate about their favorite hammer that everything else looks like a nail.
• IT Outsourcing Challenges and Solutions Effectively perform an IT application outsourcing without getting trapped into standard headcount replacement from a cheap labor pool.
• Everyone Works at Home at Chorus, Part Two In this story, the second of three parts, a small software company establishes work-at-home policies and figures out how to provide remote tech support. Part one focused on the IT infrastructure needed to support telecommuters.
• Ancient Mars Had Lakes, Rivers and Possibly Life Scientists pinpoint areas that future expeditions can search for signs of past life.
• E-mail Search Court Case Is Dismissed But the underlying issue of Fourth Amendment protections was not addressed.
• Quark Acquires XML Authoring Company Quark on Thursday announced that it has acquired In.vision Research, makers of Xpress Author for Microsoft Word. Details of...
• Yahoo Letter to Shareholders Slams Microsoft, Icahn Yahoo executives sent a letter to shareholders slamming Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn on Thursday.
• Airlines Get Ready to Test Fledging Wi-Fi in Flight E-mail, IM, Web browsing to be offered, but no voice for now.
• Microsoft Embracing On-Demand Software Model Microsoft has begun offering SaaS versions of its products. That's good news for CIOs who want predictable costs for maintenance and support, a Gartner analyst says.
• Everyone Works at Home at Chorus, Part One How a small software company is saving money, reducing employee stress and improving productivity and customer satisfaction by closing its offices and going virtual. The first of three parts.
• Apple Sues Psystar for Copyright Infringement Apple on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Psystar, claiming the Florida-based company violated its copyright.
• Adobe Readies 'Gumbo' Upgrade to Flex Company cites SDK component and skinning architecture as highlights of the next version of the Flex platform.
• New Eclipse Member Looks to Rival Visual Studio Russian company also added to the fold at open-source tools organization.
• Looking for IT Work in All the Right Places Searching for an IT job requires candidates get into social networking sites, interactive career tools and targeted online communities.
• Outsourcing, Layoffs Lead to End of Tax Breaks at Nielsen IT offshoring deal leads to layoffs at ratings giant's global technology center.
• E-Medical Records: What Seems to be the Problem? There are lots of challenges, but financial disincentives may be the biggest.
• Enterprises Become Social Networking Battleground Who will dominate social networking: Major software vendors or sites like Facebook?
• Dialing Down Software Support Enterprise software maintenance and support costs are rising even as budgets tighten. Can you cut back safely?