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    Business knowledge, management skills and being able to communicate better with business managers are among the benefits of further study cited by certain IT professionals. However, not everyone believes going back to school is the answer.

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    More than 50 percent of IT managers surveyed in a recent poll were considering other vendors and options as a result of Microsoft's changes to its licensing model.

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    Users yelling and complaining about a tech problem is a bugbear for most IT professionals. But with internal customer service more important, how do staff really see the IT department?

  • Open source software: the way forward?

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    WhatsUp Gold v12 will satisfy existing and new users alike. And it's not just for large enterprises: small and medium-sized businesses can also monitor all their web servers, email servers, SQL servers, file servers and even critical desktops without breaking the bank.

  • Sydney man 'swaps' cash for Bill Gates

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    Vodafone's enhanced notebook PC Card delivers what the mobile telco calls 'business class 3G broadband' -- but until more of the 3G network is upgraded with HSDPA, most users will remain stuck in economy seats.

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