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Can Your Organization Use an Outsourcing Strategy that Works?Nothing strikes fear in the heart of IT folks like the word “outsourcing," and now it appears that a company has created robots that can handle simple business and IT functions. Joe Townsend explores whether or not an outsourcing strategy can work with your organization. | 
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Mobile Health Survey Confirms mHealth Is GrowingThe results of the 2nd Annual HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey were announced at the December 2012 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC. The conclusions are hardly surprising, but they do offer further confirmation of of the growing adoption of mobile health technology. | 
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Reduce Your Attack Surface to Reduce Security ThreatsThe unfortunate truth is that the find-and-patch approach to security is inherently problematic—the attacker is always one step ahead. Reducing your attack surface is a strategy that will help you minimize the number of security threats you are exposed to, whether they are promptly fixed or not. | 
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The Importance of Holistic Design for Successful ProductsMukesh Chaudhary explores why users seem to believe that Google Search and iPhones are more useful than other similar products. It can be concluded that the overall user experience plays a big role in the success of a product as well as a well-thought-out holistic design. | 
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Is Cyber Monday Turning into a Software Release for Testers?With every passing year, Cyber Monday continues to grow in prominence as one of the busiest online shopping days. With critical tests needed in functionality, performance, security, content, integration, and accessibility, Cyber Monday seems to be turning into a release of its own for testers. | 
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How to Respond to Rude People It’s bad enough contending with rudeness outside of work. But when you have to deal with it at work—whether from customers, managers, coworkers, or anyone else—it’s especially annoying. Naomi Karten offers some helpful tips to respond to rude people. |
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Call of Duty: Are You Game Enough to Test?There are people who play video games for many hours a week. Yet some people move into software testing based on their ability to play games rather than because of their capability to test games. The challenges faced in games development are huge. Have you got what it takes to be a games tester? | 
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How to Help Project Stakeholders Avoid the AspirinWhen we first speak to project stakeholders, they talk about all of the problematic symptoms—as this is the day-to-day pain that they feel. Developing requirements and solutions around these symptoms might be the equivalent of taking aspirin because the root cause will still be there. | 
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