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Wireless charging gets faster thanks to new Qi power spec

A new Qi wireless charging specification will let electronics makers build much faster wireless power options into their products, but how long will you have to wait for compatible devices to become available?

By Al Sacco

Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business Smartphones

13 tips for making your business blog a go-to destination

Social media and marketing pros share tips for how to use your business blog to attract new customers, improve customer loyalty and strengthen your brand.

By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff

CRM Systems Internet Social Networking Apps

SUSE brings full support for Docker as Open Container Project launched

As Docker created the much needed Open Container Project (OCP), SUSE announced full support for Docker in SLES

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Linux Open Source Virtualization

Red Hat, Samsung poised to take on Apple, IBM in enterprise mobile apps

Red Hat announces its Mobile Application Platform and a partnership with Android king, Samsung, to bring Open Source mobile apps to enterprise customers.

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Jun 24, 2015 3 mins

Android Linux Small and Medium Business

Apple versus the Confederate flag

Should Apple remove the Confederate flag from books and apps?

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Jun 24, 2015 16 mins

Marketo’s CMO on the future of marketing

Marketing technology is entering a brave new world and no one has a better view of it than Sanjay Dholakia, CMO at Marketo. CIO.comu2019s Tom Kaneshige visits with Dholakia to discuss where martech is headed.

By Tom Kaneshige

CMO Marketing Technology Industry

The Takeaway: Why Apple will let iOS 9 delete apps

Apple has tweaked iOS 9 to allow it to temporarily delete some of a user's apps if need be to make installation easier on devices with limited storage.

By Ken Mingis

Apple iOS

Amazon Echo now widely available, but is it right for you?

Amazon's unique 'Echo' smart home appliance is now publicly available, and though it isn't cheap at $180, CIO.com reviewer James A. Martin says it's worth every penny … if you're a very specific type of user.

By James A. Martin

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps

Hulu adds Showtime as costs of streaming services quickly mount

The ability to stream movies and TV shows is a great option, but when you build your own bundle it pays to keep a close eye on your monthly costs, which can add up rapidly, especially if you're still paying for cable.

By Bill Snyder

Consumer Electronics

When it comes to mobile apps, IT is ‘slow, poor and weak’

Smartphones and tablets are ubiquitous in businesses, but are your users getting the mobile support they need from your IT team or are they bringing their own apps because they donu2019t think IT can deliver?

By Mary Branscombe

IT Leadership Mobile Apps Mobile Development

Email 101: 11 tips to manage your email

If youu2019re a college graduate entering the workforce, you may quickly find you arenu2019t prepared for the volume of email that awaits you in the corporate world. These 11 tips will help you master forwards, filtering and more.

By Paul Mah

Internet Personal Software Software Development

Traction Watch: FollowAnalytics promises enterprise marketers fast, deep mobile and IoT analytics

Spring 2015 DEMO Traction champion FollowAnalytics has developed a "1:1 mobile marketing platform" that the company says helps enterprise marketers successfully transition to a mobile first strategy.

By James A. Martin

Mobile Apps Startups

Request for Solution: What some enterprises really want from outsourcing providers

When enterprises go looking for an outsourcing provider, they often enter the conversation thinking they already knew what solution would be best. In the era of so many emerging technologies, more and more buyers are finding it in their best interest

By Esteban Herrera

Android Linux Open Source

Outsourcing

Moto 360 gets Android Wear 5.1 update

Update brings all the goodies that I loved in the LG Urbane watch!

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Jun 23, 2015 6 mins

The Takeaway: BlackBerry looks to software for recovery

BlackBerry's technology and software licensing revenues were up 150 percent compared to a year ago.

By Ken Mingis

Mobile Small and Medium Business Smartphones

New CIOs Close Out Second Quarter

Volume of new CIO appointments continues to trend upward

By Martha Heller

CIO IT Jobs IT Leadership

Twitter tried to break into social shopping in the past, but its efforts mostly fell flat. The struggling social network hopes to make waves (and revenue) with new product pages built for ecommerce, but is it another ill-conceived initiative?

By Matt Kapko

Jun 23, 2015 4 mins

E-commerce Software Social Networking Apps Twitter

Healthcare providers lament lack of EHR standards

Senators take aim at health record vendors for turning their systems into walled gardens. But healthcare providers fire back at the government for u2018onerousu2019 and u2018inefficientu2019 requirements.

By Kenneth Corbin

Electronic Health Records Government Healthcare Industry

Should Apple remove the home button from iOS devices?

Losing the home button might irk some iPhone and iPad users

iOS iPad iPhone

What does the future hold for Microsoft Dynamics?

Microsoft Dynamics software line isnu2019t dead. Instead itu2019s moving to be a service you can build into the tools you need to make your businesses processes work better.

By Mary Branscombe

CRM Systems ERP Systems Enterprise Applications

How Apple’s privacy stance could give Google an AI edge

Today, there's a tradeoff between user privacy and the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) apps such as Siri and Google Now. Apple's strong privacy stance may drum up kudos from consumers but also give Google a technological advan

By Matt Kapko

Android Operating Systems Privacy

The grand unified theory of metadata governance

Metadata fabrics will be critical to IoT success, here's a look at why a curated, healthy metadata fabric is necessary for IoT ROI.

By Kumar Srivastava

Jun 23, 2015 9 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence CIO

Have you hugged your cloud today?

If you haven't yet embraced the cloud, you should at least give it a little hug.

By Rich Murr

Cloud Computing

8 reasons why committees fail when selecting enterprise software

While organizations use committees to select business-critical software, real world experience shows this doesnu2019t work as expected. Here's a look at why committees struggle with software decisions and what path leads to more successful enter

By Chris Doig

IT Governance IT Strategy Project Management Tools

Top 10 cities for IT pros looking to make a move

Business is booming in 2015, and across the country IT organizations are loosening the purse strings and shelling out big bucks for critical IT talent. Here's a look at the 10 hottest cities for IT pay based on percent increase in salary, area h

By Sharon Florentine

IT Jobs Remote Work Salaries

Google’s diversity numbers haven’t changed, but the conversation has

A year after pledging to improve diversity within its company and across the industry, Google's numbers haven't budged much. But what may be more important is that itu2019s effectively changed the conversation.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Leadership Regulation

Making the case for agile in the enterprise

In part 1 of our three-part series on how IT leaders can make sense of agile methodologies, we look at how to make the business case for agile (Includes video).

By Joe Mack

Agile Development Mobile Development Web Development

IBM announces container service for Bluemix

The new IBM Containers service, based on the open source Docker software container technology, is designed to help developers deliver applications across hybrid cloud environments.

By Thor Olavsrud

Hybrid Cloud Technology Industry Virtualization

CIO poll reveals a sharp increase in IT spending

The latest CIO Tech Poll: IT Economic Outlook survey reports that the majority of IT leaders will increase spending on new projects in the coming year.

By Dan Muse

Budgeting Business IT Alignment CIO

OS X El Capitan: Auto-hide the menubar

Apple finally lets users auto-hide the menubar in El Capitan

Apple Consumer Electronics MacOS

Jun 22, 2015 3 mins

IT executives have learned how to build strong, reliable and trustworthy teams so that no one person is the single point of contact. That not only allows for more efficiency, it lets CIOs unplug on summer vacations.

By Kacy Zurkus

CIO IT Leadership Technology Industry

6 steps to optimize your vendor relationships

Creating strong partnerships with vendors can be an important factor in determining whether organizations achieve their objectives. Here are six steps companies can take to maximize the results they get from their vendors.

By Bob Ronan

IT Leadership

3 skills you need to drop on the road to the C-suite

Becoming an executive leader may require you to let go of some beliefs and skills that you are holding onto. This article discusses three things you must release to effectively grow into your role as a CIO.

By Matthew Moran

CIO IT Leadership

How peer review leads to quality code

What if you could deploy resources you already have at your disposal to improve quality, get projects done earlier u2013 with fewer errors and with less budget impact u2013 by simply implementing a software quality control method that most likely alr

By Jonathan Hassell

CIO IT Leadership IT Skills

Winning workforce strategies for a new generation of talent

As millennials start to flood the IT workforce, organizations must make dramatic changes to their workforce strategies to attract, retain and engage a new generation of talent.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Jobs IT Leadership

Traction Watch: How NightSwapping uses Facebook to grow customers

Fast-growing French startup has a new twist on sharing rooms with strangers.

By John Brandon

Jun 22, 2015 3 mins

Social Networking Apps Startups

Attention Samsung Galaxy Users: Your phone has a big security flaw

Samsung readies fix for a security flaw that may have compromised as many as 600 million phones, including the Galaxy.

By Bill Snyder

Malware Mobile Security Small and Medium Business

Twitter lost the average Joe and Jane (and they may never return)

Twitter turns 10 next March, but itu2019s still acting like a toddler unwilling to accept change. Itu2019s losing users faster than itu2019s adding them. What are they missing? If Twitter is still struggling to answer that question, why should the r

By Matt Kapko

Jun 19, 2015 6 mins

Consumer Electronics Social Networking Apps Twitter

How to stop the security breach tsunami

Are you really doing all you can to catch data thieves and prevent security breaches? Columnist Rob Enderle says if you havenu2019t deployed a user-based analytics program you are not doing all you can.

By Rob Enderle

Data Breach Data and Information Security Security

5 great features in OS X El Capitan

Apple's next version of OS X offers some significant enhancements that make it a worthy upgrade

Apple Consumer Electronics MacOS

Jun 19, 2015 9 mins

It’s time to ban phone use while driving (and severely punish violators)

It's perfectly legal to talk on the phone while driving in the majority of U.S. states, as long as you use a hands-free device. Now is the time for the public to change its own perception of the issue and convince lawmakers to do the right thing

By Al Sacco

Government Small and Medium Business Smartphones

3 reasons to give Apple Maps another try

Though many iOS users prefer Google Maps, CIO.com's reviewer says Apple Maps is getting better u2014 and is expected to improve even more down the road.

By James A. Martin

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps

The Takeaway: Feds eye new rule for workplace wearables

Companies that use wearables as part of their workplace wellness programs may soon have to answer to the U.S. government about how they use the data they collect from employees.

By Ken Mingis

HIPAA Healthcare Industry Privacy

How to structure an outsourced IT project for less risk, more leverage

Large-scale IT outsourcing deals are doomed to fail if you donu2019t structure the project properly. Therefore, itu2019s imperative that during the negotiating and contracting phase you lay the groundwork to mitigate the risks and maintain leverage.

By Stephanie Overby

IT Strategy Outsourcing Project Management Tools

7 tips to get recruiters to look at your LinkedIn profile

LinkedIn profiles are a visual representation of your professional brand, but what makes a recruiter click on your LinkedIn profile over another? There are a few simple tricks you can use to make sure you get noticed by recruiters and hiring managers

By Sarah K. White

IT Jobs Relationship Building Social Networking Apps

Know the future with palm leadership, a new style for today’s CIO

As a CIO, a leadership role in something as fickle and ever-changing as technology, your leadership style can't just be charismatic, innovative, pace-setting and transformational. You also need to predict the future.

By Paige Francis