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Why Your Workers Hate BYOD

If CIOs and other IT leaders have any doubt that employees are down on BYOD, senior writer Tom Kaneshige clears up any confusion.

The Second Machine Age Will Make Everything You Know Obsolete

Think you're prepared for the economy of tomorrow? Unless you're ready to replicate something that Google build at 2 percent of the cost, willing to accept new robot overlords and able to affect U.S. economic, immigration and technology pol

Facebook’s Anonymous ‘Rooms’ Could Cause IT Headaches

Facebook released a new app that's designed to provide anonymity and encourage users to discuss things, in secret, that they might not normally share with friends. CIOs and their IT teams would be wise to keep an eye on apps like Rooms that let

iPad Editing App Faceoff: Microsoft Word vs. CloudOn

During the past week, both CloudOn, a virtualized Office suite for your iOS device, and Microsoft Word for iOS received significant updates. CIO.com mobile apps reviewer James A. Martin weighs in on which one deserves a place on your iPad.

State CIOs List Security as Top Priority for 2015

In the coming year, top state tech officials aim to ramp up efforts to secure digital systems as they shift to the cloud, consolidate data centers and move on a host of other priorities.

Workplace Bullying a Costly Epidemic in the Enterprise

Workplace bullying opens your organization up to poor productivity, lower retention rates and possible legal action. And it's not an isolated issue – the workplace statistics are shocking. Is your culture cultivating a bully mentality?

What 15 Years in Telecom Taught Me about Enterprise Mobility

The changes keep coming

Digital Leadership Strategy and Personal Brand Makeovers

The CIO's role in being a collaborative partner with the LoBs on digital transformation has diminished. Is the change due to a skills shortage or a personal branding problem?

AT&T, Sprint Make it Hard to Unlock Your Phone

AT&T and Sprint want to sell customers expensive roaming plans instead of unlocking their phones for international use.

10 IBM Watson-Powered Apps That Are Changing Our World

IBM is investing $1 billion in its IBM Watson Group with the aim of creating an ecosystem of startups and businesses building cognitive computing applications with Watson. Here are 10 examples that are making an impact.

Piazza Helps Companies Recruit Female Tech Talent

7 Enterprise-Grade Gadgets Built for Business

The consumer technology market abounds with gadgets. Many are cool, but they won't help you get work done. However, these seven devices will.

How to Develop Applications for the Internet of Things

What's the best way to build an application that could do anything from control home appliances remotely to gather meteorological data from sensors to produce a weather forecast? Startups offering data ingestion platforms take much of the hard w

Bubble for Android, iOS Offers Conference Calls Without Access Codes

Bubble for Android and iOS is designed to make it easy to initiate and participate in conference calls. The software works as advertised, according to CIO.com app reviewer James A. Martin, but it doesn't have many advanced calling features.

6 things Galaxy Note 4 does that iPhone 6 can’t

The Apple iPhone 6 and Galaxy Note 4 are two of the hottest smartphones available, but they each have their own individual strengths and weaknesses. Here are six ways the Galaxy Note 4 outperforms the iPhone 6.

6 things iPhone 6 does that Galaxy Note 4 can’t

The Apple iPhone 6 and Galaxy Note 4 are two of the hottest smartphones available, but they each have their own individual strengths and weaknesses. Here are six ways the iPhone 6 outperforms the Galaxy Note 4.

The Art of Storytelling

Eash Sundaram, CIO of JetBlue, on transaction-free air travel

Loosen the Rules to Unleash Teamwork

When you trust your team to do the right thing, without the need for lots of rules, you facilitate enhanced cooperation and teamwork.

How to Help Millennials Prepare to Be Successful Leaders

Gen Y is currently the largest generation in the workforce, so itu2019s inevitable that many of your next leaders will be millennials u2013 whether they have the experience or not. For that reason, itu2019s important that you know how to train and pr

How Does Endpoint Security Change in a BYOD World?

Four Best Practices for "Any Point Systems Management"

Google Play Books Gets Unique New ‘Skim’ Feature

A new 'skim' feature in Google Play Books makes flipping through the pages of an ebook much easier, and it's particularly valuable when reading nonfiction books.

How to Build a Culture of Learning (and Why You Need to)

To thrive in an ever-changing IT climate, CIOs and other businesses leaders must create a culture of learning that embraces innovation and leverages it into a competitive advantage.

30 Ways Google Glass Could be Used for Education (and 2 Reasons it Won’t)

An online learning organization published 30 examples of why Google Glass could be a valuable tool for education, but it overlooked two obvious reasons why the wearable computer isn't (yet) suited for the average student.

Predicting the Role of Healthcare CIOs in 2020

In a market as tumultuous as healthcare, there's little doubt that the role of the CIO will be dramatically different in just a few short years. Embracing partnership and collaboration will help today's healthcare CIOs continue to succeed t

My Big Data Has Schizophrenia

There are many business models that lends themselves for the monetization of Internet of Things (IoT) and big data convergence. The critical success factor is to generate context sensitive, real actionable alerts.

How Brands Can Convert Facebook Users Into Customers

Converting users into customers on Facebook isn't a science, but the social network is quickly becoming a valuable way companies to boost sales. Brands need to embrace potential influencers and provide insights with a purpose if they hope to tur

8 Strategies to Fund Your New Business

Entrepreneurs and small business experts share their advice on the best ways to raise money to finance a new business or product.

Federal IT Leaders Look for Trust, Transparency in Cloud Vendors

As the FedRAMP security certification standard evolves, government tech officials are having an easier time evaluating private cloud offerings. However, they caution that trust and vendor relationships are key, and regardless, some sensitive applicat

CIOs Must Put Customers First in Business Technology Decisions

While CIOs have always needed to keep tabs on new technology, disruptive technologies are now driving your business. If you have any doubt, just ask your customers. In a report released today, Forrester identifies 15 technologies that will drive busi

How CIOs Can Keep Their Jobs by Picking the Right Vendors

CIOs don't stay in their jobs for long. Messy IT systems, cobbled together over many years, go a long way toward explaining why. To fix this problem, and to give themselves some job security, CIOs would be wise to study their vendors more carefu

Not Reading Your Wireless Bill Could Cost You Money

Wireless customers who don't carefully check their monthly phone bills are sometimes ripped off by carriers that 'cram' unauthorized charges.

Number of New IT Outsourcing Deals Hits All-Time High

The multisourcing trend continues in an increasingly competitive market while government spending on outsourcing now outpaces that of the private sector, according to a report by outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group.

6 Ways to Attract and Retain Female IT Talent

While there's no magic formula that will instantly close the gender gap that still exists in the IT field today, business leaders can take these steps to help shift the male-dominated culture towards increased diversity.

Microsoft Adds IoT, Big Data Orchestration Services to Azure

Looking to expand on the big data capabilities of its cloud platform, Microsoft has introduced Internet of Things streaming analytics, data production and workflow services for Azure.

Mobility/BYOD = Power to the People

Changing the way we work

IT Through the Lens of the Business: Social Supply Chain

Social Supply Chain is one of the most vivid examples of the need for enterprise IT to develop double- and triple-deep skills to avoid disintermediation by the business and other service centers.

8 Ways Facebook and Twitter Make Money

It may be unclear to the casual observer just how Facebook and Twitter monetize their hugely popular social sites, but both companies are raking in the ad dollars. These eight examples detail the ways Facebook and Twitter make money from their users.

CIOs Need to Drive Companies to Their Digital Destination

There are multiple definitions of what it means to be a 'digital enterprise.' But getting there is 'the perfect stretch assignment for CIOs,' says Maryfran Johnson.

Confidential Business Data at Risk at the Border

U.S. agents can search and seize the laptops of international travelers at the border, so take precautions to protect confidential business information

IT Learns to Trumpet Its Contributions to the Business

Under the leadership of CIO Kim Stevenson, Intel's IT team produces its own annual report, plus a mobile app full of multimedia content, to showcase tech plans and accomplishments.

Power Tools Company Uses Marketing Analytics to Compete With Big Box Stores

Big Data tools to combine internal and external information helps determine how to counteract the marketing muscle of Home Depot and Lowe's.

Cloud migrations require big changes in IT staffing

These three CIOs have learned to weather the organizational and staffing changes caused by cloud computing.

Dating App Targets the Rich and Attractive (and Those Who Lie About It)

A new social dating app called Luxy seeks to filter out the u2018poor and unattractive.u2019 However, Luxy doesn't make it difficult for users without good looks or fat bank accounts to join the snobbery. Just ask CIO.com's Matt Kapko.

CIOs Must Market IT’s Value

Why don't more CIOs make it a serious priority to market IT internally? Done well, it shows the business value of IT and gives visibility to top performers, says CIO Publisher Adam Dennison.

Lack of Parental Leave Drives Employee Turnover

Not offering flexible family leave to employees may send your top talent heading for the door.

Healthcare CIOs Can’t Be Afraid to Innovate

Kodak invented the very technology that led to its demise. There are lessons there for healthcare, where everything from wearables to robot surgeons threaten to disrupt — for the better –the way the industry practices medicine.

iPad App Helps Energy Company Prevent Power Outages

LG&E and KU Energy uses helicopters to get a birds-eye view of damages and potential problems that could bring down power. The challenge came when the pilots tried to document and relay the info inflight.

CIOs Should Focus on Their Workplace Legacies

You'll probably be remembered most for how you treated people, not for business results.

12 Shocking Social Media Horror Stories

There are right ways for companies to use social media, and there are wrong ways. These 12 horror stories, spotlighted by a set of digital marketing professionals, are perfect examples of what organizations should never (ever) do on social sites.

Fighting the Halloween Monsters in Your CRM System

Heavily used CRM systems house a collection of monsters that grows over time. Here's how to find and defeat them before they get you.