Communications
Case Study
How Omniactive Curbed Losses and Saved Costs Using a Mobile App
When inaccurate data began to eat at Omnikan’s profits—the marigold managed farming arm of Omniactive—the company turned to a mobile app and weeded out losses.
Flipkart Makes Intelligent Use of IT to Drive Innovation
By using a system that allows Flipkart’s engineers to launch multiple versions of its website in real time, IT drives a new level of innovation.
MLB.com Covers All Bases with Collaboration and Workflows
Producers at MLB.com suffered from email overload and needed to streamline their workflow and increase collaboration. Here's a look at how they greatly reduced email and simplified its publishing processes.
Feature
10 Tips for Mastering Microsoft Outlook 2013
Microsoft's mail and calendar software introduced new features that change the way you can zip through your inbox, calendars and contacts.
How Big Data Will Save Your Life
Even as patient information moves to electronic records, important data is often siloed.
The Internet of Things: Coming to a Network near You
How IT needs to get ready for the next wave of connected devices.
How-To
How to Recover From a Twitter Hack
No more excuses! Microsoft, Google, and Facebook make it easy to improve your account security with two-factor authentication. Here's how.
How to Clean up Your Business's Online Reputation
The health of your small business is only as good as the way people perceive it.
How to Use Facebook's Open Sourced Data Center Design to Cut Costs
When Facebook open sourced its data center and server specifications it paved the way for enterprises of all sizes to save money by following the social network's radical hardware designs. The Open Compute Project Foundation has formalized Facebook's designs into specs, which are freely available. Here are tips for implementing them.
Interview
Embracing Social Media
Shabbir Baliwala, solutions director for ASEAN, Compuware Asia, explains how organisations and retailers can cater to consumer needs through social media and make sense of big data.
BlackBerry CIO's Insights on Mobile Security, BYOD and the Modern CIO Role
Bienfait joined the BlackBerry team in December 2006 after serving as AT&T's SVP of Global Network Services and Chief Compliance Officer, where she was in charge of the company's business-continuity and disaster-recovery efforts.
Rajesh Varrier: 'Authentick' to Make Selling of Counterfeit Drugs 'More Difficult'
Rajesh Varrier, CEO ActiveCubes talks about how the company is helping in the fight against counterfeit drugs.
Video
BlackBerry Z10 Launches in the U.S.
BlackBerry began its efforts to regain share and opened up a battle with Microsoft for third place in the large U.S. market with the debut of the first phone running its BlackBerry 10 operating system.
Smartphone Apps for International Travel
Downloading a few apps before you take your smartphone abroad could save you a lot of headache and money.
IDG World Tech Update
In this week's tech update President Barack Obama signs cyber threat executive order, BlackBerry readies a special edition Z10, a Fujitsu project serves smartphone ads from TV commercials and more.
News
If You Can't Find a Seat at Starbucks, Blame IT
Unless you're a Yahoo employee, there's a very good chance you are working from home or at a coffee shop at least part of the week, according to Forrester Research.
Jive Software Adds Integration Tool for its Enterprise Social Platform
Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive's suite with third-party systems.
5 New Gmail Tips for Power Users
Here's a look at five of Gmail's newest features, including quickly adding appointments to your calendar, customizing your background image and using advanced search to find the email you're looking for.
Opinion
In the Year of the Cloud
Over the past few years, cloud computing has matured from being an ‘emerging’ trend to a necessary technology. Be it increasing efficiency or saving costs or improving productivity, the cloud can help different organizations in different ways. Here are some best practices organizations need to follow in order to get the best out of the technology.
5 Lessons for IT from the Boston Marathon Bombings
The CIO of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center learned a few things last week
Gauging BYOD Acceptance
The bulk of the shops (two-thirds) that allow BYOD let employees bring in and use what they want, while roughly one-fifth say they give employees an allowance to buy the tools they like.
Slide-Show
Facebook Home Alternatives: 12 Innovative Android Launchers
Don't live your life in Facebook? Try one of these exceptional Android launchers to spice up your home screen and make your device do more.
7 Mobile Apps That Jump-start Team Collaboration
From conducting video meetings to coordinating to-do lists, these collaboration apps for iOS, Android and more will have your far-flung team working in sync in no time.
Facebook Home: Making Phones More Social
Facebook today debuted Facebook Home, a new app launcher for Android phones.
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