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By Eric Geier Don’t throw away your old 802.11g routers just yet. The new slick-looking 802.11n routers may provide higher speeds and performance, but there are still many ways your old gear can help out, including extending your wireless coverage, improving a new network, assisting in offering public Wi-Fi, providing network authentication, or enabling secure

By Erik Eckel Takeaway: The certification landscape changes as swiftly as the technologies you support. Erik Eckel looks at the certs that are currently relevant and valuable to IT pros. When it comes to IT skills and expertise, there are all kinds of “best certification” lists. Pundits are quick to add the safe bets: Cisco’s

    Takeaway: The iPad has its limits, but it’s really good at a few basic functions. Here are 20 useful apps that play to the iPad’s strengths. I previously said that the Apple iPad is only good for two things (I later added a third), but it’s really good at those things. With that in

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: Gartner analyst Ken McGee has a radical assessment of IT and what CIOs need to do about. Read his principles of the “new CIO manifesto.”  The traditional IT department has entered a period of massive transformation and CIOs are having to completely rethink the way they lead, strategize, and manage their

By:  Chee Sing Chan Polish-born and Australia-bred, Cathay Pacific‘s CIO Tomasz Smaczny has a clear sense of where IT is heading –having written papers on IT’s changing relationship with the business plus over 25 years of experience in retail and finance. He talks to Computerworld Hong Kong on the CIO’s path to transformation and possibly

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: At its annual Symposium, Gartner unveiled its list of the 10 most strategic tech trends of 2012, including a controversial demotion of the cloud. Gartner analyst David Cearly peppered his audience of change-weary IT leaders with a new list of the tech trends that are going to rock their world next

By Toni Bowers Nearly 29 percent of the 353 IT executives who were polled in Computerworld’s annual Forecast survey said they plan to increase IT staffing through next summer. (That’s up from 23% in the 2010 survey and 20% in the 2009 survey.) Here are the skills that the IT executives say they will be

By Justin James Takeaway: Your projects will go more smoothly if you get along with your vendors — and part of the responsibility for a healthy vendor relationship lies with you. There is a lot of advice out there for IT vendors regarding what they need to do to ensure happy customers. At the same

By Rick Vanover Source Takeaway: DNS is one of the most sensitive areas of IT and is where many configuration issues originate. IT pro Rick Vanover shares a few more tips to prevent issues with DNS for Windows systems. I love DNS, but hate it when things go wrong. So, I’ve taken a few steps