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Digital Business is offering IT experts the chance to air their views about a range of topics, with contributors’ features appearing on Mondays and Thursdays. Our first subject is utility computing.

If you have strong views on the subject, write to us at digitalbusiness@ft.com. The best correspondence will be published.

In the first piece in this series, Alastair McAulay of PA Consulting Group writes about: The second time round: will utility computing live up to its latest billing

Is there money where your mouse is?

Alan Cane looks at pay for computer professionals and asks why a survey found 87% of them are looking for another job or monitoring the market

Working in IT: The tournament approach to finding talent

Topcoder breaks its tasks into components and then persuades programmers to compete to write them, says Alan Cane

Storage: Policies matter more than the IT

Companies must decide what needs to be kept, writes Stephen Pritchard

Security: Simple rules that make social networking safer

Ken Munro outlines some important precautions that everyone should take

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David Wortley considers the increasing role that virtual reality is playing online

Did IT work?: Wireless gamble at Las Vegas airport

McCarran International Airport, pressed for space, used technology to expand, reports Stephen Pritchard

Mobility diary: Handsets seek an extra boost indoors

Gaps in coverage inside buildings are being addressed by picocells and femtocells, writes Ingrid Lunden

What’s new: Virtual desktops take off

IT giants are jumping the gun on virtual desktops, making significant advances and innovations on the internet-based service, writes Geoff Nairn

DIGITAL BUSINESS COLUMNISTS

Valley view: Navigation devices seek the right route

Chris Nuttall

Chris Nuttall talks about advances in personal navigation devices that have turned them into smarter gadgets that do more than just give directions

Boardroom debate: Be smart and join the conversation

Ade McCormack

Ade McCormack writes about how organisations can benefit from social networking sites in the time of the Generation Y employee

Perspectives: XG’s low-energy mobiles threaten high disruption

Alan Cane

Company will try to change the face of the mobile phone industry by letting the genie of low cost mobile VOIP out of the bottle, writes Alan Cane

PEOPLE IN IT

What IT means to me: Software will bring about the end of hierarchy

Alan Cane talks to ‘Hub’ Vandervoort, an evangelist for service-oriented architecture software

IT CHAMPIONS

IT champions: Big game hunter finds new quarry

Jessica Twentyman continues our series on IT role models with a profile of Gerhard Eschelbeck, an expert on security

TECHNOPHILE

Technophile: ‘I don’t like short-termism’

Hank Nothhaft, chief executive of Danger, which has just been sold to Microsoft for a reported $500m, talks about his likes and dislikes