Brad Stone / Bits : BitTorrent Sacks Half Its Staff   —  As an open-source technology protocol, the file-sharing system BitTorrent is going strong, representing about half the world’s Internet traffic by some measures.  But the San Francisco company, BitTorrent, is showing signs of serious trouble while it tries to commercialize the technology.

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BitTorrent Sacks Half Its Staff (Brad Stone/Bits)

Tools like prediction markets and online voting can’t replace internal innovation processes. But they can open a new channel.

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How Companies Are Using IT To Spot Innovative Ideas

Salesforce will let customers build and run applications on its platform, customize their applications, and tap into other Web-based services.

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Salesforce Ascends Beyond SaaS Into Cloud Computing

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Diebold just can’t seem to keep its nose clean these days. The nation’s largest manufacturer of ATM machines admitted not too long ago what everybody already knew: that their e-voting machines were totally bunk .

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Diebold’s e-voting machines violate GPL, good taste

CIO Tim Stanley leads IT and an innovation team.

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Harrah’s Innovation Plan: More Pilots, Less PowerPoint

We save more and more stuff, drives get bigger and bigger, yet we must keep buying more disks to keep pace. Meanwhile, energy costs are through the roof. We can’t go on like this.

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Green IT Beyond Virtualization: Storage Matters

IT must align its program with business values in order to succeed.

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Vulnerability Management That Works

Follow these four principles: focus on output, align with business processes, integrate technologies, and leverage measurement.

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Keys To Success Of Vulnerability Management

Understand the business’ needs and “deliver what’s expected,” Kometer advises.

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CIO Values: Kevin Kometer, Managing Director And CIO, CME Group

LogLogic’s LX2010 appliance aces a variety of tasks; LogRhythm has the edge in compliance features.

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2 Log Managers Show State Of The Art