"We've used our expertise to create a high-quality e-book with today's on-the-go consumer in mind, " said Young Bae, director of display marketing, Samsung Information Technology Division.

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Proffitt's centralizes real estate, financial operations and information technology, but each division maintains its own buying office.

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Madelyn Blair, author of Riding the Current: Dealing with the Daily Deluge of Data, shared a case study from her work at the World Bank where she was a Division Chief in the Information Technology department for ten years.

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China surpassed the United States as the top producer of scientific publications about information technology in 2008, and the difference widened in 2009, according to an analysis conducted by SciVal Analytics, a division of Elsevier, for Forbes.

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