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What Is an Entrepreneur in Residence and Why You Need One

Entrepreneurs in Residence were once found mostly at venture capital firms, but the role has expanded and you can now find them at a variety of companies -- including tech companies. But what exactly does one do?

Oct 9, 2013 8 mins

CIO IT Strategy Venture Capital

Picking a Fight Over NSA Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era

Privacy and Internet freedom will take center stage when Congress debates NSA Surveillance Reform. Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden is ready to lead the charge for stricter oversight of the NSA's far-ranging intelligence-gathering activities.

Oct 9, 2013 4 mins

Cloud Security Government Regulation

Zombies Are Scary for Halloween, Scarier for Mobile IT

If you're talking about movies or Halloween costumes, zombies are scary fun. However, when the term for the undead refers to company-owned or BYOD mobile phones, CIOs are looking at the potential for frightening amounts of buried expenses.

Oct 8, 2013 1 min

Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Fade to Black(Berry): 8 Years Covering the Rise and Fall of RIM

CIO.com's longtime BlackBerry beat reporter Al Sacco says goodbye to the company he intimately covered for more than eight years.

Oct 8, 2013 14 mins

Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Solving Healthcare’s Big Data Analytics Security Conundrum

HIPAA understandably makes it hard for organizations to obtain personal health information and even harder to use that information for the purpose of data analysis. Empowering patients to own and share their own data -- and then assuring them that it

Oct 7, 2013 5 mins

HIPAA Healthcare Industry Regulation

CIOs in the Public Sector Face Roadblocks to Data Center Consolidation

Amid a White House directive to scale back underused data centers, an effort that will take years to complete, federal CIOs begin to tackle the challenges involved. Among those challenges are incomplete inventories and cost concerns.

Oct 3, 2013 4 mins

Government Government IT IT Strategy

NSA Leaker Snowden May Have Had Help

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers is skeptical that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden could have known to look for all the documents he leaked and been able to circumvent security checks on his own.

Oct 3, 2013 5 mins

Cybercrime Data Breach Government

Will Government Shutdown Boost Private IT Hiring?

With the government closed for business, private-sector firms should consider poaching public-sector IT talent to fill open tech positions.

Oct 3, 2013 3 mins

Government Government IT IT Jobs

Verizon Recreates the Public Cloud for the Enterprise IT

For the past two years, Verizon has been quietly re-architecting its public cloud from the ground up to build a new enterprise-focused offering that allows organizations to dial in precisely the level of compute, network and storage they need for ind

Oct 3, 2013 6 mins

Carriers Cloud Computing Cloud Management

How to Get Free Wireless Data, Text and Voice with FreedomPop

Buy a $100 HTC Android phone from FreedomPop, get free wireless data, text and voice. Data speeds over Sprint's network aren't exactly blazing, according to CIO.com blogger Bill Snyder, but the price sure is right.

Oct 2, 2013 3 mins

Android Small and Medium Business Smartphones

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