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In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods says that "the world of technology is replete with stories of technology created for one purpose that ends up being useful for another."

Woods uses the example of the Condor Project, which "can be used not only for its intended purpose of distributing work over thousands of computers, but also for power management." More »

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The mission of CITO Research is to serve the needs of CIOs and CTOs who are seeking to make technology work for business. Information technology is the term that is used for the application of technology to business, and it is sometimes referred to as “information and communications technology.” The goal is always the same: Find a way to help a business perform better using technology. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods talks about a phenomenon that may be familiar to people who frequent social networking platforms: social media sock puppetry.

According to Woods, sock puppetry is when someone poses as someone other than themselves to give favorable ratings to an individual or company in order to increase the chances of those parties becoming successful with an endeavor or new product. More »

Nenshad Bardoliwalla, co-author of Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution will be delivering the keynote address at TDWI's Chapter Seminar in New York City on March 10, 2010.

Bardoliwalla's address will be on “The Top 10 Emerging Trends in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management," which is the topic of the March 10 seminar, and his co-speaker will be Howard Brathwaite from MTV Networks. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods starts off by saying that much of the analysis about SAP lately "has focused on the need for the software giant to regain a sense of excitement for its customers."

Woods says that it appears analysts are saying SAP should become the "New, New Thing," but he thinks SAP should stick to its guns, but also do these key things:

Reconfigure the customer experience; More »

This week's JargonSpy column mentions about a newish programming language that Dan Woods recently learned about at a New York CTO club meeting: Groovy, a "a Java-friendly language with many of the properties of Ruby and Python." More »

In his January 26 JargonSpy column, Dan Woods shows how much he has come to rely on using Google Apps to run his company, Evolved Media. More »

Dan Woods's January 19 JargonSpy column exposes a scary truth about the mainframes that are still used today to store vast pools of data and run electricity and telecommunications grids: they are not as secure as they should be.

Woods says that IT managers tend to think of mainframes as basically safe from intrusion, so they don't focus their resources on protecting them from security breaches. More »