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SEPTEMBER 02, 2010 | Issue 915
 


Be open to conversations that you are unprepared for. Focus on the interests of the other person rather than your own. And look for opportunities to ask non-threatening questions.

John Agno, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based executive coach and career counselor.
 
 
 
 
Four tips for improving people skills
While hard skills are important, soft skills -- interpersonal or people skills -- tend to make people successful managers. Here are four tips to improve yours.
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Surprising adoption trends highlight latest TheInfoPro storage survey
TheInfoPro, an independent IT research and advisory company, has released its' latest storage study, which it believes yields some encouraging news for the industry
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Only one company in 7 has virtualized mission-critical apps
Despite the growth of virtualization, which has seen the number of virtualized machines in use pass the number on conventional machines, a new survey indicates that the large majority of companies have yet to move Tier 1, mission-critical applications to virtual environments.
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Good news and bad for Web conferencing providers
The good news is increased market penetration of web-conferencing solutions, like GoToMeeting, LiveMeeting and WebEx, according to a new study. The bad news is that free web-conferencing offers from cloud-based applications are also likely to grow.
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Windows 7 jumps ahead of Vista globally for first time
The rapid adoption of Windows 7, which has greatly exceeded initial forecasts, is widely known, but now, for the first time, more PCS are running it than are running Vista (although not in North America).
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