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Smartphones are taking over business computing.

This article in eWEEK muses that smartphones are giving tablets and notebooks a run for their money. They site the nine business drivers that will push corporate IT departments toward adopting mobile computing-focused strategies. Cool to read. Reason 7 "Reduced IT Workload" really, are smartphones easier to manage than notebooks? Reason 9 "The Lugging Factor" Here at Rove we're all too familiar with this one - we get sick of lugging when we can have it all in the palm of our hand.

Great slideshow eWEEK. See the whole thing here.

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Windows IT Pro Magazine — the leader in the Windows technology publication industry — completed their review of Rove Mobile Admin and...PROS: Easy to set up; makes remote administration a breeze; supports the software you’d expect it to, plus tons more. CONS: None.

Rove Mobile Admin was commended for its clean interface and its ease of use.

If you feel the same way, be sure to add a comment to the Review.

Summertime brings about a hiatus in TV. Seems like the tech publishing houses are doing a few re-runs of their own as well. This eWEEK slideshow summarizes the findings in Susan Cramm's book "8 Things We Hate About IT."

For example, "IT leaders hate when the business treats IT professionals like untrustworthy servant-genies." Really? Quite interesting. You be the judge.

See the eWEEK slideshow.

This article summarizes a survey conducted with almost 500 IT budgeters in midrange and large organizations.

Large and midrange organizations tended to differ dramatically in their 2009 IT investment experiences. In larger enterprises, application and Web platforms got more dollars than the companies had originally planned to spend, as did corporate applications such as ERP, business process management, and collaboration that helped boost productivity and resource utilization.

Read the full article in CIO insight.

What a fantastic evening yesterday. I had the pleasure of participating in the Ottawa IT community awards night. This event was hosted by three groups:

OttawaSQL.net -Professional Association for SQL Server (http://ottawa.sqlpass.org/)
Ottawa .NET Community (http://www.ottawacommunity.net/)
Ottawa Windows Server User Group (http://owsug.ca)

And it was sponsored by Like10inc (www.like10inc.ca), Dream digital (www.dreamdigital.com) and Cistel (www.cistel.com).

It's always great to network with the local IT community and catching up with Microsoft IT Pro Advisors Rick Claus (@rickster_cdn), Christian Beauclair (@cbeauclair) and Pierre Roman. Microsoft MVPs Bradley Bird (@bbird1974) and Colin Melia (@colinizer) were also out in full force.

The event was enjoyed by a full-to-capacity crowd.

Well done Ottawa IT!