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The Web’s 10 most shady neighborhoods

These 10 top-level domains are the Web's shadiest neighborhoods, the ones most associated with suspicious websites.

TrackR bravo locator helps find your lost wallet, keys

The upgraded TrackR bravo tag now has a wider Bluetooth signal range and slightly louder audio. It's a functional and affordable tracker, but Tile and the upcoming Lapa 2 are also worthy alternatives.

SAP unveils SaaS analytics platform

SAP Cloud for Analytics aims to redefine analytics by combining business intelligence, planning and predictive analytics into a SaaS offering built on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

What’s the CIO’s next logical transformation?

In todayu2019s digital business, the CIO role enjoys the broadest and deepest impact in its history. Still, the question remains: 'What can successful CIOs step up to?' In the debut of his 'Transformation Nation' column, Richard P

How the CIOs of 4 Fortune 500 companies got their jobs

CIOs of Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T and United Technologies share how they reached the CIO office. Your mission: Study their experience and learn how to follow in their footsteps.

5 practical project management certifications

As in most fields, pursuing a project management certification can be as murky as a bowl of alphabet soup. Hereu2019s how to determine which PM certification offers you the knowledge needed for real-world application and promising job prospects.

The 5 critical pillars of innovation management capability

CMOs need IT pros to tame big data

As marketing technology continues to evolve, CMOs will need to focus more on data driven software and hardware. It also means they'll need to look at hiring people who can help leverage these systems effectively.

How to leverage the cloud to beat the IT skills gap

Businesses struggling with a shortage of tech talent are turning to cloud tools to support IT workloads and augment departments that are already stretched too thin.

10 tips for running a profitable subscription-based business

Experts in customer acquisition and retention and ecommerce share advice on how to create and sustain a successful recurring-revenue business.

Skating to the puck: Medtech in transition

At Advamed2015, the Medtech industry seemed to be looking to go beyond selling 'widgets' in a fee-for-service world, and become more of solution providers, while embracing the growing consumerism sweeping across healthcare. However, there a

CIO returns to her financial roots, as CFO

Alliant Insurance Services CIO Ilene Anders, who was promoted to CFO last week, discusses how she used IT to transform the insurance brokerageu2019s business.

iOS 9: How to adjust 3D Touch sensitivity

Change how hard you need to press to activate 3D Touch in iOS 9

Why Verizon’s ‘zombie cookies’ are scarier than ever

The Verizon and AOL merger means 'zombie cookies' will be used to track consumers on even more websites.

A ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ could mean new security mandates

Lawmaker warns that lack of cybersecurity standards in government and private sector is u2018of great concern.u2019 New regulations could rankle the tech industry.

Dancing on the grave of Flash

u2018Do you hear the people sing?u2019 To borrow a line from u201cLes Miserables,u201d that chorus is the jubilation of Internet citizens worldwide that Adobe Flash is, for all intents and purposes, dead.

IT best practice: A little thank you goes a long wayThank you very much

Sincerity matters, so don't overstate a person's contribution. But, for those people who truly were helpful, let them know.

10 healthcare tech conferences you shouldn’t miss

Stay on top of the latest emerging tech trends in healthcare by attending one (or more) of these 10 conferences.

Women celebrate ‘Our time to lead’ at Grace Hopper event

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology 2015 will focus on the success, achievements and accomplishments of women in technology and emphasize leadership, community and the importance of connections.

How CIOs can reinvent IT with ITaaS

Strategies that will help CIOs take advantage of ITaaS to transform their IT organization into the strategic partner business lines need.

IT Resume Makeover: When all else fails, break the rules

Aside from her incredible academic credentials from top engineering schools, Marydawn Meeder's resume could have been confused with almost any high-level IT professional. Here's how resume expert and career consultant Donald Burns helped he

Chromecast 2 review: Dude, where’s my remote?

Performance improvements, better playback, and some hardware curiosities

How to do product launches right: Microsoft is back

All product showcases should be staged events professionally done where people leave excited about what they saw, says columnist Rob Enderle. Hereu2019s a look at why Apple has been so successful and how Microsoft just got back in the game with a suc

Find out if your iPhone 6s has a TSMC or Samsung chip

The 'Chipgate' controversy has iPhone users wondering if their phone has a Samsung or TSMC chip

Internet freedom based on the First Amendment is unattainable

The European approach to the "right to be forgotten" laws shows the danger of seeking to globalize a local information ordinance

Facebook (finally) goes beyond the ‘Like’ with new ‘Reactions’

Facebook is set to roll out a new way for users to interact, beyond comments and the simple 'Like' button. However, its new 'Reactions' emojis aren't the "Dislike" option many users want, and they attempt to solve a

Is your IT a honeydew melon or a watermelon?

Does your dashboard show usersu2019 true opinions?

The death of the OS (Part 1)

With the successful introduction of mobile devices into the enterprise, apps have slowly been taking the place of the operating system in driving usage and creating the user experience. Apps are supplanting and moving the focus off the OS as the key

12 extreme (and obscenely expensive) laptop bags

All laptop bags are not created equally u2026 and some cost a lot more than others. These 12 lavish notebook satchels may not be in your price range (unless you're a Saudi prince) but they're sure to inspire envy, confusion, disdain, or som

6 things Galaxy S6 edge+ does that iPhone 6s Plus can’t

Samsung's Galaxy S6 edge+ and the Apple iPhone 6s Plus are two of the hottest 'phablets' available today, and though both smartphones are worthy options for discerning gadget geeks, each has distinct strengths and weaknesses. Here are

6 things iPhone 6s Plus does that Galaxy S6 edge+ can’t

Apple's iPhone 6s Plus and the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ are two of the hottest 'phablets' available today, and though both smartphones are worthy options for discerning gadget geeks, they have distinct strengths and weaknesses. Here are

How digital transformation is disrupting IT outsourcing

Brad L. Peterson, partner and co-leader of the business and technology sourcing practice of law firm Mayer Brown, discusses how new digital services are disrupting the IT outsourcing industry and what this means in terms of how outsourcing contracts

New CTO role at Starbucks reflects rise of digital business

Starbucksu2019 hiring of Adobe CIO Gerri Martin-Flickinger as its CTO underscores the importance digital innovation is playing in traditional businesses. But does it also mean the CIO role is under siege?

How to choose the right mobile hotspot

Mobile hotspots can save you when you're in a pinch and need Wi-Fi, but there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution to data. Here are four tips to determine what the right mobile hotspot is for your needs.

3 reasons to get serious about clinical decision support

Clinical Decision Support will be be a big part of medicine in the future. Here's why health IT should help and how to do it.

Linus Torvalds needs to fix the communication bug that is hurting his project

He created Linux and Git. Now we need Torvalds to create a best-of-breed communication style

‘Refined’ iPad Air 2 gets custom body, Qi wireless charging

If the thought of owning an iPad Air 2 that looks just like everyone else's rubs you the wrong way u2014 and you have $1,700 to burn u2014 Brinell's new 'iPad Air 2 refined' is a lavish alternative.

CIOs: ‘We have a platform for that’

Borrowing a page out of the playbooks of Microsoft, Apple and Google, CIOs are using software platforms to extend their brand online, a necessity in todayu2019s mobile-device-driven digital economy.

Qualcomm unveils intelligent protection component of Snapdragon security suite

Smart Protect looks for bad behavior rather than known villains.

Enhanced Harry Potter books aren’t worth buying in the iBooks store

Enhanced versions of Harry Potter offer illustrations, animations and annotations by author J.K. Rowling but it's not enough for me to buy them

Real Time Linux becomes a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

The foundation will now sponsor the work of long time maintainer Thomas Gleixner as a fellow.

The CFOs case for moving to a cloud-based accounting system

Are your accounting systems no longer meeting your needs and are expensive to maintain? Are you intrigued by cloud applications, but donu2019t know where to begin? I recently led a panel discussion with a CFO, CIO and COO to discuss their decision to

Microsoft hopes to wow with Surface Book and Surface Pro 4

Every vendor likes to claim itu2019s u2018reinventingu2019 technology, but with the Surface Book, in particular, Microsoft may really change the way you view notebooks.

In the war for talent, who are your rock stars?

9 characteristics that may help you to recognize your rock stars as well as the hidden gems u2013 the unsung u201cAu201d players u2013 on your team.

Survival of the fittest: Platforms beat products

From your 1990s PC to the various cell phone trends we've seen over the last decade, platforms are a complex battle ground where winner takes all.

Wacom Bamboo Spark elegantly digitizes handwritten notes, drawings

If you still like sketching and writing by hand, but also want quick digital backups of your notes, you'll find a friend in Wacom's new Bamboo Spark. However, plenty of alternatives exist, and some are significantly cheaper and have more fe

Why capturing enterprise software requirements is so difficult

Gathering requirements is simple: just ask the users what they want. However, experience shows this fails dismally. In this article, we look at why gathering requirements is so hard, and what can be done about it.

7 new business books you must read this fall

If youu2019re looking for some required reading, start with this curated list of the latest theories on leadership, management and success.

Security through simplicity: The fantasy sports scandal and IoT

Are the flood of exploits inevitable or can we improve security by expanding and simplifying our security architectures?

Big data makes a difference at Penn Medicine

Hereu2019s how one healthcare organization is making use of the massive amount of information u2013 measurable in petabytes u2013 it now has at its disposal to save lives.