news Hands on with the new Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ The new Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ 'phablet' packs a ton of top-of-the-line features and functionality, and it's a great-looking smartphone. However, based on first impressions, it also has a few notable shortcomings. By Al Sacco Aug 13, 2015 Android Consumer Electronics Smartphones news How the PGA uses analytics, beacons and social to enhance fan experience During this year's PGA Championship, golf fans can create data visualizations based on statistics on their favorite players and receive real-time updates via beacons and live feeds, thanks to a number of innovative technology enhancements. By Lauren Brousell Aug 13, 2015 Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps opinion Why you should always estimate ROI before buying enterprise software Donu2019t gamble when prioritizing enterprise software projects. See why you should prioritize by ROI, and how to do it using the risk-adjusted value method. By Chris Doig Aug 13, 2015 Business IT Alignment Financial Services Industry IT Governance opinion IBM’s insatiable appetite for healthcare data Thereu2019s obviously a great sense of urgency to realize the full potential of Watson, but for that to happen, IBM needs data u2013 and lots of it. Can Watson 'see' far enough into the future to tell if itu2019s going out play out as expec By Paddy Padmanabhan Aug 13, 2015 Big Data Healthcare Industry Wearables feature Meet the 9 most influential tech leaders on LinkedIn With more than 380 million total LinkedIn members, itu2019s difficult to find the most relevant people in IT to follow. These nine individuals are among the most active and respected users in the technology industry, according to LinkedIn, and they&# By Matt Kapko Aug 13, 2015 IT Leadership Social Networking Apps feature How to help your agile team succeed Are you a manager struggling with agile? Are you wondering why projects are failing and teams are frustrated instead of engaged and productive? Perhaps the problem isn't with agile. Here's how you can help your team succeed. By Sharon Florentine Aug 13, 2015 Agile Development IT Skills ITSM news analysis IBM Watson brings cognitive computing to fantasy football Edge Up Sports is teaming up with IBM to create a new app powered by Watson that provides a one-stop shop for fantasy football managers to glean insight from NFL players' social media interactions, weather reports, injury histories, analyst writ By Thor Olavsrud Aug 13, 2015 Analytics High-Performance Computing Predictive Analytics opinion Traction Watch: 5 connected car startups to watch Itu2019s pedal-to-the-metal time for connected cars. The market is expanding at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 45 percent, 10 times more than the overall car market, according to Business Insider. Take a look at these 5 connected car star By James A. Martin Aug 12, 2015 Car Tech Gadgets Startups opinion How to fix the tech talent shortage Non-traditional methods must be employed to identify and recruit truly exceptional engineers By Michael Rosenbaum Aug 12, 2015 Agile Development IT Skills Outsourcing opinion Why Windows 10 notebooks won’t kill Chromebooks Acer recently announced new notebooks powered by Microsoft's Windows10, and some bloggers were quick to call it the end of Google Chromebooks. Is it?rn By Swapnil Bhartiya Aug 12, 2015 7 mins Linux Open Source Small and Medium Business opinion How to turn a crisis into a project management and leadership opportunity In our normal routines, managers attempt to plan every detail of a project to ensure success. Life, on the other hand, is always interfering with that plan and presents us with an unlimited supply of disasters and the occasional crisis. This is my By Christian Youngblood Aug 12, 2015 IT Leadership Project Management Tools opinion Bringing enterprise analytics to the cloud Cloud solution partners are creating new methods to long time problems such as parallelizing statistical processing and automating common data integration tasks. As we move into the era of self-service analytics, a number of vendors envision a future By Mike Lamble Aug 12, 2015 Analytics Big Data Data Warehousing opinion iOS 9: Purify ad blocker ready for beta testing One of the first ad blockers for iOS 9 is looking for beta testers By Jim Lynch Aug 12, 2015 iOS opinion Instrumenting the human and socializing the machine The convergence of human-machine work processes By Nicholas D. Evans Aug 12, 2015 9 mins Digital Transformation Robotics Wearables feature How to use culture interviews to build a better team Companies ranging from big names like Pinterest to small startups are conducting culture interviews at every level to help build cohesive teams that click. Here's how to do it right while avoiding pitfalls and common mistakes. By Sharon Florentine Aug 12, 2015 Careers IT Jobs Relationship Building opinion Corvette hack is one more reason to be wary of connected cars A cheap, Internet-connected dongle placed in cars by insurance companies let researchers take control of various systems inside a 2013 Chevy Corvette. The flaw has since been patched, but it's just the latest incident in a string of hacks involv By Bill Snyder Aug 12, 2015 Consumer Electronics feature Why SharePoint is the last great on-premises application While it seems like almost every piece of IT is moving to cloud these days, there are still plenty of reasons to keep SharePoint in your server room u2013 where it belongs. By Jonathan Hassell Aug 12, 2015 Collaboration Software Microsoft Small and Medium Business feature Why Instagram started banning hashtags (and why it’s a bad idea) Instagram recently made a controversial decision to ban select hashtags associated with inappropriate posts, but the company eventually backpedaled, and it's unclear whether the censorship worked to combat spammers or only alienated its loyal us By Lauren Brousell Aug 12, 2015 Consumer Electronics Social Networking Apps feature 7 ways creating an IT team is like building a winning NFL team The first thing that comes to mind when you think about building an all-star IT team probably isn't an all-star NBA or NFL team. But a successful sports team and IT team have more in common than you might think.rn By Sarah K. White Aug 12, 2015 ITSM Mentoring Relationship Building feature 5 legacy technologies still in high demand today Hadoop, Ruby on Rails, Python and JavaScript are the new hot. But that doesn't mean older technologies are any less important. Chances are you've got one or more of these golden oldies running behind the scenes. Here are the top 5 legacy sk By Sharon Florentine Aug 12, 2015 Careers IT Jobs IT Skills opinion Oracle to ‘sinners’: ‘Stop reverse engineering our code, already’ Oracle threatens customers with legal action for reverse engineering code to find security vulnerabilities By Swapnil Bhartiya Aug 11, 2015 6 mins Enterprise Applications Open Source Security news The Takeaway: Windows 10’s uptake surges Microsoft's newest OS now runs on about 45 million Windows systems worldwide By Ken Mingis Aug 11, 2015 Operating Systems Small and Medium Business Windows how-to iOS 9: Use the QuickType keyboard The QuickType keyboard in iOS 9 offers a Shortcut Bar and other helpful features By Jim Lynch Aug 11, 2015 iOS opinion New CIOs for the Summer Near-constant pace of new CIO appointments continues By Martha Heller Aug 11, 2015 CIO IT Jobs Technology Industry feature The 6 best things at Campus Tech 2015 From online platforms for collecting and assessing student data to user virtualization, here are some highlights of the products and workshops at the Campus Technology 2015 conference. By Kacy Zurkus Aug 11, 2015 opinion Hitlist helps you plan (and daydream about) your next vacation Hitlist for iOS and Android can help you plan travel and plot specific activities from afar, thanks to its curated lists of notable destinations across the United States. By James A. Martin Aug 11, 2015 Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps opinion Windows 10 won’t play DVDs unless you pay Microsoft $15 Microsoft chose to omit the Windows Media Center app from Windows 10, and it wants $15 for the new Windows DVD Player, but many of the same features are available for free in third-party alternatives. By Bill Snyder Aug 11, 2015 Consumer Electronics opinion Why your business strategies must constantly change Change is the one true constant in business. Having defined processes in place to effectively manage change can help companies sustain success. By Moira Alexander Aug 11, 2015 IT Leadership IT Strategy opinion Why bad things happen to big health IT projects Waste and mistake are functions of size not sector — private or public. Health IT is rife with the potential for both. Here's how to tell when things are going very wrong. By Greg Freiherr Aug 11, 2015 4 mins CIO Electronic Health Records Health and Fitness Software news Nymi Band uses your heartbeat to secure mobile payments A Canadian company claims to have enabled the 'world's first biometrically authenticated wearable payment using your heartbeat.' The pilot is a small, consumer-oriented program, but the target audience is much larger. By Al Sacco Aug 11, 2015 5 mins Consumer Electronics Payment Systems Wearables feature How Microsoft and Google cloud tools make IT more productive The more technology IT organizations run in the cloud, the less likely they are to waste time on menial tasks, according to a recent report. Popular tools like Google for Work and Office 365 cloud tools can also help position IT pros as enablers inst By Matt Kapko Aug 11, 2015 Cloud Computing Office Suites news The Takeaway: India tops in H-1B use for computer jobs Most of the H-1B visas that the U.S. government granted for workers in computer jobs are for people from India, a Computerworld analysis shows. By Marian Prokop Aug 10, 2015 Outsourcing reviews Linux Mint KDE 17.2 review: A great distro that misses Plasma 5 I loved everything in Linux Mint 17.2, but the lack of Plasma 5 is a deal breaker for me. By Swapnil Bhartiya Aug 10, 2015 Linux Open Source Operating Systems feature How legacy technology is creating the next skills gap Many IT pros with skills in Cobol and mainframes will be aging out of the workplace in the near future. How can CIOs address the inevitable skills shortage? By Sharon Florentine Aug 10, 2015 IT Jobs IT Skills ITSM opinion CIO Challenge: Transforming the organization to leverage disruptive technologies What can CIOs do to maximize the benefits of emerging, disruptive technologies? By Gary Matuszak Aug 10, 2015 Business IT Alignment IT Strategy Innovation opinion iOS 9 makes iBooks look like Daring Fireball Apple has added a gray background with white text to iBooks in iOS 9 By Jim Lynch Aug 10, 2015 Consumer Electronics IT Leadership iOS opinion 7 steps to get your boss to take security and compliance seriously Here are seven ways to flip security and compliance at your company from a weakness to a strategic advantage. By Michael McAlpen Aug 10, 2015 Compliance Security opinion How data science can turn the vision of connected vehicles into reality Data-science-driven predictive and prescriptive analytics can transform connected vehicles to improve safety and mobility, provide new 'infotainment' options, and result in a cleaner environment. By Raman Mehta Aug 10, 2015 Big Data Data and Information Security Hadoop news analysis CIOs vastly underestimate extent of shadow IT New study from Cisco reveals CIOs are operating in the dark, failing to meet end users' needs for cloud applications and services. By Kenneth Corbin Aug 10, 2015 CIO IT Strategy opinion 6 steps to great leadership Soft skills are the "secret sauce" to effective leadership. Here are six ways to take your leadership skills from good to great. By Morag Barrett Aug 10, 2015 IT Leadership opinion You’re not just leading a digital revolution. You’re also leading a people revolution! Successful innovation requires more than a focus on the technology and systems. You need to focus as much care and attention to the people who are making your digital transformation real. By Morag Barrett Aug 10, 2015 CIO IT Leadership feature Why you shouldn’t accept every LinkedIn connection invite Your LinkedIn network is only as strong as your connections, and it's the people you actually know who will help to advance your career. By Matt Kapko Aug 10, 2015 IT Jobs Social Networking Apps feature 7 rugged gadgets for harsh conditions From laptops to tablets to smartphones to flash drives, an increasing number of devices are designed to withstand extreme conditions. By Paul Mah Aug 10, 2015 Consumer Electronics Gadgets Small and Medium Business opinion What a messy desk says about a CIO CIOs aren't all cut from the same cloth. And some pieces of cloth are more tidy than others. That got us thinking: What does a CIOu2019s desk say about how he or she views objectives and challenges. 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Here experts discuss techniques for dealing with difficult behavio By Rich Hein Aug 10, 2015 Careers IT Jobs ITSM how-to 4 ways Twitter plans to keep you safe and secure While Twitteru2019s battle against trolls and bullies is far from over, the social network has made improvements that aim to cut down on abusive behavior and strengthen your safety and security. By Kristin Burnham Aug 8, 2015 4 mins Internet Social Networking Apps Twitter opinion Traction Watch: The smart decisions leading Touch of Modern to $100M in sales In 2012, the e-commerce site Touch of Modern was just beginning to see growth on its daily sales of unique products. Just one year later, they were approaching $20M in sales and by 2014 they more than doubled that revenue. Today, Touch of Modern is o By John Brandon Aug 7, 2015 ITSM Retail Industry Startups news Firefox zero-day hole found, exploited: Update now Go update Firefox. Then come back and read this story. No, really, I mean it. 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