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• US innovation: On the skids

  It would be hard to exaggerate the angst that has gripped the US in recent months as the election nears, markets churn and assets melt. But the headlines that have made us dread picking up the newspaper mask a long-term problem that may shape the fut...

• Economic downturn creates rough ride for IT on spending

  With the economy struggling and financial markets in a state of chaos, this is becoming a hard time to be an IT manager.

• Stupid QA tricks: Colossal testing oversights

  What do you get when you add the human propensity to screw stuff up to the building of large-scale IT systems? What the military calls the force-multiplier effect -- and the need for a cadre of top-notch QA engineers.

• The trouble with telecommuting

  Telecommuting is back on workers' radars in a big way these days, thanks to gas prices that were a whopping 30 percent higher this summer than last.

• Wall Street's collapse may be computer science's gain

  The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and IT careers attractive to students who abandoned these fields in droves after the pop of the last big bubble, the dot-com bust of 2001.

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  Deploying the iPhone 3G for business, part 2

  In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the mechanisms available to IT staffers to activate, deploy and configure iPhones in business environments. But the biggest new business-oriented feature available on the iPhone, thanks to the iPhone 2.x firmware...