Women in technology: A call to action   29 Jan 2007 11:03 GMT
A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology.
Source: InfoWorld

Back to school: Getting girls into IT   29 Jan 2007 11:02 GMT
Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age.
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Gender crisis in IT   29 Jan 2007 11:00 GMT
You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look.
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Tech firms swarm on end point protection problem   29 Jan 2007 11:00 GMT
Enterprise IT administrators didn’t need the recent stories about large-scale data breaches at TJX (network compromise exposing credit data of hundreds of thousands of consumers) or Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (lost hard drive with personal financial information on 470,000 mutual fund customers) to convince them that data leaks were an urgent problem in need of attention. Frankly, corporate boards of directors and auditors have been screaming in their ear about it for a while now.
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No rescue in sight for BenQ Mobile (InfoWorld)   26 Jan 2007 21:53 GMT
InfoWorld - The clock is ticking at bankrupt German mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile.
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No rescue in sight for BenQ Mobile   26 Jan 2007 21:24 GMT
The clock is ticking at bankrupt German mobile phone maker BenQ Mobile.
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European Commission finances emergency mobile networks plan   26 Jan 2007 20:38 GMT
In 'Marius' project, helicopters are used to set up temporary SMS networks in the case of a crisis.
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Sales of mobile phones top one billion in 2006 (InfoWorld)   26 Jan 2007 16:11 GMT
InfoWorld - Blockbuster mobile phone sales during the holiday season last year propelled shipments to over one billion for all of 2006, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
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Sales of mobile phones top one billion in 2006   26 Jan 2007 16:03 GMT
Blockbuster mobile phone sales during the holiday season last year propelled shipments to over one billion for all of 2006, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
Source: InfoWorld

Cellphone Linux group launched (InfoWorld)   26 Jan 2007 13:22 GMT
InfoWorld - Six of the biggest names in cellular telephony have made good on a promise from last year and announced a new foundation to push Linux standardization and adoption on mobile phones.
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