Ron McLaren has long-term practical IT industry experience, having worked extensively with the development, introduction and marketing of new technologies, products and techniques since 1966. This has involved the management of technical people in customer-facing, product development and service delivery environments. Latterly he has concentrated on the management of the IT capability of individuals...

Register TODAY to attend the next complimentary ACM Webcast, "Engineering Software as a Service," presented on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at 2 PM ET (1 pm CT/12 noon MT/11 AM PT/6 PM GMT). Join David Patterson, Director of the Parallel Computing Lab (ParLab) at UC-Berkeley (and a former ACM president) in a special virtual event moderated by his ParLab colleague Armando Fox. The talk will be...

The 2nd Developer Movement challenge is here! Registered members, publish as many qualifying Windows Phone apps as you can from January 25 th until February 28th. The more apps you publish, the more draw entries you automatically get, and the more chances you have to win a Nokia Lumia 920. Good luck! Please read through the official Rules and Regulations for full contest details. https://www.developermovement...

Nominations close tomorrow, March 1, and take under a minute to complete! Nominate yourself or your hard working colleagues for the global IT industry’s highest honour, the Awards for Professionalism. The award partners are amongst the largest organizations in the industry: Microsoft--top ranking technology company Pearson Publishing (Cisco Press)—world’s largest publisher Windows IT Pro (Penton Media...

Speaker, author, jazz musician, software development manager http://www.linkedin.com/in/2xbass Adrian Cho is well-qualified to draw parallels between the worlds of business and the arts. His diverse career in business includes extended stints in consulting, research and development, finance, and intellectual property. At IBM Adrian is currently leading a strategic initiative across IBM software group...

There's never been a better time to build for Windows. Attend the Virtual Summit and listen to Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Microsoft Developer Platform & Evangelism, talk about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips, partner development frameworks, and even reviews from iOS and Android developers.

Paul Orlando [ about.me/porlando ] runs a lean startup bootcamp called Startups Unplugged [ startupsunplugged.com/bootcamp ] and is also co-founder of AcceleratorHK [ acceleratorhk.com ], a mobile startup accelerator. Previously, he co-founded a startup in New York and worked in telecom in China. He focuses on early-stage startups (pre product-market fit). Paul has a BA from Cornell and an MBA from...

Earlier this year, Christian Beauclair , John Bristowe , and I hosted in-person development manager-focused discussions where we talked about how you, as a development manager, can minimize time, cost, and risk in your development projects. In a business world of increasing focus on compliance and control, Development and QA Managers must balance the need for agility against the reality of quality...

Joanne is the global practice lead for Continuous Delivery at ThoughtWorks, a company that is devoted to the art and science of delivering custom software. Joanne's professional passion is for finding practical ways to implement processes in IT that provide enough control to give visibility and transparency into what is happening without bogging teams down in unnecessary activities that waste resources...

Murray Goldberg was a tenured faculty member in the department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, when he left to become the president and founder of WebCT, a company which grew to be the world's leading learning management system (LMS), serving 14 million students in 80 countries at 4,000 universities and colleges. Later, in 2002, Murray co-founded Silicon Chalk, a company...

Get the resources, hands-on experience and knowledge you and your team need to take advantage of what Microsoft Virtualization and the Microsoft Private Cloud have to offer. You’ll be able to spend less time on day-to-day maintenance and more time on your strategic objectives, helping you add value to your business and further your career. Plus with two all-new TechNet evaluations, you...

Office 365 Home Premium went on sale worldwide a couple of weeks ago and here are great videos to get you going. Go to each product and choose the Getting Started Videos: Get started with the new Office (Videos)

On April 9 th & 10 th , Unity and Microsoft will be hosting a Building Windows Games with Unity event . This event is a free, two-day training being held in Mountain View, California in the United States but will also be live streamed online on Channel 9 . The event is intended to help game builders and designers to port their Unity games to be published into the Windows Store and Windows Phone...

Frans van der Reep (1954, LinkedIn, http://twitter.com/fvdr ) is a thought-leader renowned worldwide for his accurate and early forecasts of business and technological trends, valued highly for his ability to unveil hidden assumptions and relate directly to genuine underlying issues. Having witnessed many passing fashions in business advice, Frans is well-known for his ability to recognize meaningless...

Not only do we have a great way to help you turn your WordPress Blog into a Windows 8 app, if you hurry you could do it with very little development and recoup your Windows Store Developer Account costs. Here's how it works: IdeaNotion, is offering 200 Canadians a $50 Visa Gift Card as reimbursement for your Windows Store Developer Account cost. To get your gift card, all you need to do is publish...

We often work with Anthony, Pierre and Mitch, the evangelists from the IT Pro team at Microsoft Canada. They asked us to share this important message with you. The team at Microsoft Canada is focused on ensuring that they help set you up for success by providing the information and tools you need in order to be get the most out of Microsoft based solutions, at home and at work. Twice a year, Microsoft...

I just received this report from Dave O’Leary on his experiences with the Microsoft Surface Pro: “My early experience with my Microsoft Surface “Laplet” has been positive. I now have to pack only one tool when traveling and that tool takes up much less space than my old laptop and tablet combination. For many of us, travel and working away from our office is a fact of life. The new Surface is designed...

The Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit will be streamed live from Paris on April 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT (1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. GMT) . This free online event offers highlights from the Machine Learning Summit, providing keynotes from machine learning experts and enlightening discussions with leading scientific and academic researchers about approaches to challenges that are raised...

Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in in 90% of schools: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott, executive producers Hadi and Ali Partovi. http://www.Code.org

The Shanghai Jiao Tong Rankings of the world’s top universities is recognized and influential. You can get rankings of the World’s Top 500 Universities; Top 200 in domains such as science, engineering, medicine; Top 200 is specialities such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science and economics. Of particular interest would be the rankings in computer science with the University of Toronto...

Enterprise Information Management (EIM): Bringing Together SSIS, DQS, and MDS On May 31st, 2013, Microsoft Canada will host Enterprise Information Management (EIM): Bringing Together SSIS, DQS, and MDS. This half day event that will feature Matt Mason, Senior Program Manager from the SQL Server Integration...

Did you like to take things apart as a kid to see how they work? Do you still do it today? Do you like to get under the hood from time to time and get your hands dirty? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then the new Office Garage Series show is for you! Tune in to the new Office Garage Series show - www.microsoft.com/garage ! The show presents what’s new, different and better...

Robert Deutsche Principal Architect/Systems Engineer — Enterprise Cloud Solutions, SOA, IT Transformation & Data Center Consolidation Bob Deutsche provides business and technical advisory services as well as thought leadership to mid-level and senior-level executives in the Global 50 and public sector. With 30 years of experience in industry, Bob has held senior level positions with...

I got back from board and related meetings in San Francisco and earlier in the year Paris where I spoke at the UNESCO WSIS+10 Review . Next week I leave for Geneva where I am speaking at the ITU/UN WSIS Forum . The week after I leave for Astana in Europe/Asia for the Astana Economic Forum ASTEX 2013 where I am speaking. Then off to New York again for board and related meetings. Look to see new interviews...

The International Telecommunication Union is proud to present its Young Innovators Competition 2013 edition , offering young and talented social technopreneurs the opportunity to present their ideas to industry leaders on a global stage at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, from 19 -22 November. Young Innovators Competition aims to attract dynamic, engaged young people and identify projects...