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I picked up an interesting article on the Executive Business Lifestyle website. (You have no idea the lengths that The Hot Aisle goes to in order to deliver interesting content!)
Scouring through rubbish tips for reusable items and materials is nothing new. We see the practice on TV regularly, usually accompanied by a serious commentary on [...]

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Chicago Business News reports that Microsoft plans to open another massive data center, in Northlake near Chicago in 2009 that will be central to the software giant’s war with Google Inc. for Internet supremacy.
The Data Center, large enough to hold eight football fields, is mooted to cost more than $500 million to build, sources familiar with [...]

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I met up with Andy Monshaw, General Manager of IBM’s Storage Division last week for an exclusive Hot Aisle interview and found him in ebullient mood. Andy has been running Storage for IBM since January 2005 and is an industry veteran. Andy had prepared a huge list of new products and initiatives he wanted to share with [...]

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Google are about to launch Chrome, a new browser that they claim is designed to address the new Internet. An Internet used to run applications rather than display smart HTML.
Is this Googles response to the new Apple Webkit that run’s smart Internet applications and the beginning of he end for Windows? Here’s what is being said on the Google [...]

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Some of you may know that I work in the banking sector, here is some of the cool stuff we have been doing at First Data.
After Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought First Data for $26 billion last year in one of the largest LBOs ever, the firm approached Michael Capellas about taking the helm. At first, [...]

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The latest IT Job Board’s skills in demand survey figures show that regardless of the credit crunch, jobs in the IT sector have remained static since the beginning of the year with a slight increase in a few positions.  Key findings are as follows:

Demand for testing roles increased by 8.3 percent between Q1 to Q2
IT support, [...]

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My little brother is in the news again with an article in The Times.
It seemed the most unlikely of joint-billings - the Star Warsdirector George Lucas and a modest Scots initiative to improve e-communication within schools.
In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an education system, the film maker announced [...]

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We publish a newsletter which is issued most days — it picks up what we’ve published here on The Hot Aisle and sends it straight to your email inbox.
Subscription is free, you can unsubscribe at any time — and I promise that we won’t use your details for anything other than delivering you the newsletter, [...]

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a protocol and method for delivering frequently changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs (such as The Hot Aisle) and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to subscribers.
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows them to stay informed by retrieving the latest content from [...]

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Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than Google they claim.
Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results [...]

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When I saw the most inspirational leader of modern times on the cover page of Time Magazine (July 2008) sharing his Secrets of Leadership, even though Nelson Mandela is 90 years old and retired last century in 1999, I had to pick it up and spend the €4.20.
I bought Time, not because I expected a great insight [...]

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