Microsoft is pushing its weight around in 2010 by offering numerous tools that used to be provided only by third-party vendors, and embracing the virtualization and software-as-a-service delivery models.
Read more..As CIOs strive to evolve IT from a Solid Utility or Trusted Supplier to a fully integrated business partner, they need the ability to describe IT functions in business terms.
The media response to the iPad has been largely negative so far, which is slightly surprising given that the tablet was more or less on par with what the rumors specified. While much of the criticism seems valid, the Apple iPad is also the most promising tablet of 2010, and in the hands of the right user, a respectable business machine.
Read more..Indian politicians have discovered that announcing technological "breakthroughs" that leverage Indian engineering prowess to deliver computers to everybody helps get press and win votes. It's a cheap gimmick that works because of the gullibility of the media.
Read more..For a viable archiving strategy, you need to know the regulation landscape -- and the key technologies that will help you comply
Read more..Competitive pressure is expected to come from media tablets like Apple's iPad but Ma said heavy demand for notebooks would still be a key driver in the upcoming years.
Read more..Even if your business does not plan to deploy Linux as a desktop or server operating system, there are still good reasons to have a live Linux CD or two on hand.
Read more..But just because people can say goodbye to the mouse doesn't mean they will. Here are four reasons not to count out the PC mouse just yet.
Consumers have very little patience for online stores, e-banks and travel sites that slow down, act erratically or crash during busy transaction seasons, according to a new study from Gomez, a provider of Web performance optimization tools and services.
Read more..Security consulting firm Seismic claims popular routers are vulnerable to hack.
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"Hearsay is one of the symptoms of the IT-business separation. You need to eliminate it."
Read more..RIM has improved the camera experience. Rather than navigate through menus for options, users will be able to access and review pictures, set options and choose from a variety of scene modes directly from the camera screen.
Read more..Public relations experts give Apple a thumbs up when it comes to how it handled 'antennagate'.
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If there's one skill that usually gets short shrift in giving up-and-coming leaders valuable on-the job-experience, it's negotiating contracts with external partners. Providing this career-enhancing opportunity--without taking unnecessary risk--takes some care both on the part of the CIO providing it and the IT manager taking advantage of it
Security execs tend to live in a world apart from the hacking community, which means missed chances to accomplish big things.
Read more..Today employees are bringing their social network tools to work, their own smartphones, their own computers, and now, with the advent of Google Voice (in the US), their own phone number and voice mail.
Twitter. By offering a completely customized stream of information in a context that users want, Twitter has managed to grow faster than any other communication medium, ever.
Read more..The ultimate goal, these CIOs say, is to improve services, reduce costs and increase consistency of business processes and IT systems. "The appetite for restructuring is obviously high," writes Forrester principal analyst Marc Cecere. The area with greatest priority: the applications organization.
IT outsourcing activity for the first half of 2010 is up 5 percent over the first half of 2009, but that's only because of all the restructuring and renegotiating that occurred in the first three months of the year.
Read more..Both wireless technologies are intended to offer ubiquitous broadband at multiple megabits per second. Mobile WiMAX is an IEEE specification also known as 802.16e and designed to support as high as 12Mbps.
Read more..After a year of deep recession affecting IT budgets, businesses are finally returning to a growth agenda.
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Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".
