Gartner Acquires Burton Group

STAMFORD, Conn., January 5, 2010 —    Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), the leading provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry, today announced that, on December 30, 2009, it acquired Burton Group, Inc. for approximately $56 million in cash. -- Gartner press release at: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1272013

The World's Top Intranets Go Mobile and Social

"More and more corporate intranets are following the big trends on the open Web of offering special mobile features and making social networking a top priority, according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen whose user-experience research firm Nielsen Norman Group today announced the winners of its tenth annual intranet design contest." -- Business Wire (January 4, 2010): http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-Worlds-Top-Intranets-Go-bw-830935768.html?x=0&.v=1

Why your boss is incompetent

Mark Buchanan writes: "The 'Peter principle' undoubtedly appeals to the cynic in all of us. It is also quite possibly true, if subsequent academic studies are to be believed. The longer a person stays at a particular level in an organisation, the more most measures of their performance fall - including subjective evaluations and the frequency and size of pay rises and bonuses. It is a finding entirely consistent with the idea that people eventually become bogged down by their own incompetence." -- New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427392.600-why-your-boss-is-incompetent.html

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'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them

Scientists may not be able to tell a good book by its cover, but they now can tell the condition of an old book by its smell. In a report in ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe development of a new test that can measure the degradation of old books and precious historical documents based on their smell. -- EurekAlert!

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MITRE Appoints Joel Jacobs as Chief Information Officer

The MITRE Corporation's President and CEO, Alfred Grasso, has announced the appointment of Joel Jacobs to CIO and vice president. Jacobs will assume the role vacated by Robert Mikelskas, Ph.D., vice president and current CIO, who will retire in January 2010. Jacobs had been deputy CIO since 2003. -- http://www.mitre.org/news/releases/09/jacobs_12_01_2009.html

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