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• Gen Y vs. Gen X: Who causes more IT headaches?

  You've heard the Gen Y stereotypes before: They're lazy workers, exude entitlement and have been reared on social technologies that they bring into the workplace, whether IT departments like it or not.

• Forrester: SOA is alive and well

  It's been a little hard of late to find references to SOA (service-oriented architecture), the buzz-phrase that once saturated the IT industry but in recent years has succumbed to "cloud computing." But SOA remains alive and relevant, according to a new Forrester Research report.

• How to transform the business using mobile UC

  The appeal of unified communications (UC) has been the convergence of all business communication applications across the range of enterprise interfaces, including the PC, telephone, Web, and mobile. However, a recent Forrester survey revealed that whilst European and North American enterprise telecom and technology decision-makers are interested in deploying business telephone features on employees' mobile devices -— with more than half (52 per cent) of decision-makers rating this as an important or very important capability, mobile UC adoption remains embryonic.

• Wall Street Beat: Tablets, big data shape IT economics

  News from Apple and Teradata along with various economic forecasts this week show that at seemingly opposite ends of the technology-product spectrum, non-PC mobile devices and IT capable of handling extremely high volumes of data are major forces shaping the economics of the computer industry.

• Forrester bullish on US e-commerce market

  Online retail sales in the U.S. will grow solidly in coming years, helped in part by consumers' broad Internet connectivity options and their increased familiarity and satisfaction with e-shopping, according to Forrester Research.

• Enterprise mobility: Keeping apps and phones under control

  The term "mobile workforce" has been around for years, but in 2011, mobility will become even more of a priority for enterprises and vendors, according to a new report from research firm Forrester.

• Apple rejects Sony e-reader app; Is Kindle next?

  Apple's decision to reject Sony's e-reader application today sparked speculation that Apple would soon yank Amazon's popular Kindle software from the App Store.

• Linux skills are hot on improving IT hiring front

  IT professionals enjoyed a dramatically improved hiring landscape in 2010, marked in particular by the fewest job cuts in a year since 2000.

• Wall Street Beat: Software to drive IT growth

  Intel and SAP results and various forecasts issued this week suggest that while 2010 was a recovery year for just about all sectors of IT, enterprise software and accompanying services will be the main drivers for technology revenue growth over the next few years.

• ERP investments to slow in 2011

  The number of companies planning to invest in their ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems will drop slightly this year, according to a Forrester Research report,

• Wall Street Beat: IT spending forecast to rise in 2011

  Despite ongoing worries about the strength of the U.S. recovery, sovereign debt in Europe and inflation in various parts of the world, global IT spending is due to increase this year, according to Forrester Research and Gartner.

• Hot e-reader sales will continue into 2011, Gartner says

  Global sales of e-readers like Amazon.com's Kindle will reach 6.6 million devices by the end of 2010, and then jump 68 per cent to 11 million devices in 2011 as it battles popular media tablets such as Apple's iPad, Gartner said Wednesday.

• Employees armed with Facebook, smartphones among biggest company boosters

  Employees are more likely to advocate for their companies if they're optimistic about technology, though IT pros themselves aren't especially big corporate boosters according to a new Forrester Research study.

• Microsoft, Adobe proclaim their love for HTML5

  Representatives of Microsoft and Adobe on Tuesday both espoused their companies' love for HTML5 technology at the HTML5 Live conference held within a few blocks of New York's Times Square, even though the vendors offer technologies perceived as HTML5 competitors.

• Apple's mobile developer momentum open to challenge

  While Apple has major momentum in the mobile application developer space, there is room for other companies to steal Apple's thunder, according to an analyst report released earlier this month.