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How to Use Facebook’s New Privacy Checkup Tool

Facebooku2019s privacy checkup tool aims to simplify how you control and manage your content. Hereu2019s how to make the most of the new tool in just a few minutes.

9 Digital Marketing Tips for Connecting With Teens

Marketing experts share their tips on how and where to reach the lucrative teenage consumer market in the highly fragmented mobile social universe.

Top Two News Apps for iOS and Android: Circa News and Yahoo News Digest

CIO.com mobile apps reviewer James A. Martin takes a look at the updated versions of his two favorite news apps for Android and iOS to see if there's a clear winner. There is: You.

Windows Server 2003 End of Support Looms

IT organizations must begin putting in place their migration plans now or risk major disruptions in 2015.

IT Leaders Aren’t All Coming From Tech

Today's IT leadership looks a lot different than in years past. Many are climbing the ladder from marketing, sales and other departments.

7 Free Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools

Get the most out of your team and your budget by taking advantage of these free collaboration and project management tools.

5 cybersecurity tips for consumers: Lessons learned in the enterprise

Hands On With the New BlackBerry Passport Smartphone

CIO.com's Al Sacco spent a week with the new BlackBerry Passport before its official release. Here are five things you'll likely love about the unique and innovative device, along with four more things you very likely won't.

HIMSS Leadership Survey: Everything Old Is New Again

Is BYOD Burning Out Your Workforce?

Employees who buy into the bring your own mobile device lifestyle may be bringing on a lot of stress as well.

Next-Generation Video Surveillance Comes to Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office protects one of the country's fastest-growing areas. Video surveillance systems in its jails couldn't keep up with the growth — or the times. Find out why the department turned to fully integrated

The Dangers of Dark Data and How to Minimize Your Exposure

Structured data, like content in a database, is relatively easy to manage. However, confidential or sensitive unstructured information — log archives and other untagged, non-inventoried data — presents a real challenge to CIOs. Find out why '

10 Ways CIOs and CMOs Can Tap iOS 8 for Better Mobile Apps

New APIs abound in iOS 8, bringing the promise of making the lives of mobile users easier. But taking advantage of these opportunities won't be easy or cheap, according to a Forrester report.

10 Ways Big Data Is Changing the Business of Sports

Advances in capturing, storing and analyzing data are revolutionizing every aspect of sports, from training to broadcasting to fan engagement. Here are just a few examples of the ways big data is changing sports.

10 Ways Big Data Is Changing the Business of Sports

Advances in capturing, storing and analyzing data are revolutionizing every aspect of sports, from training to broadcasting to fan engagement. Here are just a few examples of the ways big data is changing sports.

Most CEOs Still Don’t Get Social Media

Social media participation among the worldu2019s leading CEOs is inching upward, but the overall level of activity is still surprising low. Almost seven out of every 10 Fortune 500 CEOs have no social media presence at all.

A Mobility Checkup

Notes from the Healthcare Innovation Challenge

Developing Blended Executives

John Marcante, CIO and Managing Director of Vanguard, takes a multi-faceted approach to leadership development

In Evolving Healthcare Business Model, Tech Plays Vital Role

The healthcare industry's shift toward value-based, coordinated care won't succeed if providers, payers and patients aren't connected to the information they need to make better health and wellness decisions. Entities that fail to do s

How to Keep CMOs From Making Disastrous Software Purchases

Without a C-level advisor, CMOs buying software will increasingly create IT problems that CIOs will be expected to step in and solve. But who should fill the role of the so-called Chief Marketing Technology Officer?

Consumers Increasingly Dissatisfied With New PCs

A new survey of 1,400 recent PC buyers suggests consumers are less than satisfied with the majority of new PCs u2014 including PCs from Apple.

Handwriting Recognition Keyboard for iOS 8 Is a Blast From The Past

The free iOS 8 app MyScript Stack does a good job of translating handwritten characters into text and words. Unfortunately it (and other third-party Apple keyboards) require "full access" to whatever you type and could represent security an

Is Conflict the Secret to a Successful Business?

Conflict in the workplace is inevitable. Don't fight it. If handled correctly, conflict can actually lead to happier, more engaged employees — and that translates into a better business.

Cloud Storage Users Share Pros and Cons of Leading Services

Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and Google Drive are among the most popular cloud services for storing, syncing and sharing files. Picking the best service for your organization can be a challenge, but this guide will help determine which cloud service is rig

(Internet of) Things as a Service (TaaS) – Hype vs. Reality

With all of the excitement around Internet of Things (IoT), it can be difficult to separate hype from reality. IoT is more about disruptive new business models than technology.

5 Apps That Spotlight Valuable New iOS 8 Features

Apple's new iOS upgrade brings with it a lot of new features. Using iOS 8-ready apps, such as SwiftKey, is a good way to familiarize yourself with some of the software's latest enhancements.

Health IT Backers Press Congress for Clearer Roadmaps

Supporters of health tech initiatives converged on Capitol Hill this week to appeal to lawmakers for clarity on overlapping regulatory efforts, more funding for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and telehealth legislation.

How to Spot a Tech Company That’s About to Lose

The list of failed tech products and companies is a long one, from A (Apple server) to Z (Microsoft Zune). If you're buying IT products and services, you need to be able to spot potential failures. A firm's unwillingness to do whatever it t

IT Outsourcing Market Far From Stable

IT services deal activity was steady in the second quarter, but the IT and business process outsourcing industry is undergoing significant shifts as customers fire existing providers, ink shorter deals and embrace emerging technologies.

15 Free Enterprise Collaboration Tools

Whether your business is looking to start small or go big, many free tools can help jumpstart your enterprise collaboration efforts. Here's a look at 15 of the best — some old, some new, some basic and some robust.

Meet the 12 Wealthiest People in Social Media

Some of the names on our Top 12 list are familiar industry figures. Others are hardly household names. The common thread: They have all made billions from social media.

FTC Fines Tech Giants for Violating Kids’ Privacy

Yelp is the latest tech heavy to admit that it violated federal policy by not screening kids when they register for the site, but it's hardly the only company with questionable privacy practices related to children.

Apple Lays Out Its Social Media Aspirations

Apple tried to make it in social media years ago, and it doesnu2019t plan to revive that fantasy any time soon, says CEO Tim Cook. Cook does, however, offer his thoughts on Google, Facebook and Twitter u2013 and he doesn't hold back when it com

BYOD: It’s Not About Devices

Three things an enterprise BYOD strategy is really about

Learn the Science of When to Post on Facebook and Twitter

Whatu2019s the best time and frequency to post on Facebook or Twitter? Digital marketers struggle with these questions 24/7. Hereu2019s how to map out a game plan for scheduling your social media activity.

IT Resume Makeover: How (and When) to Break the Rules

The ironclad rule of resume writing is to highlight your career in reverse chronological order u2013 all the time, every time, right? Wrong. Resume expert Donald Burns explains why.

The CIO as VC

Clark Golestani, CIO of Merck, on an entrepreneurial approach to IT leadership

Will Apple Pay Take Off (and Take Down BYOD)?

Apple Pay stands a good chance of making the mobile electronic wallet a reality. But one industry player says that if Apple Pay is a hit, u2018BYOD is dead.u2019

9 Digital Marketing Strategies to Woo Baby Boomers

Federal IT Leaders Seek Support From Developers for EHR Adoption

The White House's Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is looking to build a development community around the Blue Button electronic health record system.

Netropolitan Is an ‘Online Country Club’ for Wealthy Web Surfers

Tired of bumping elbows online with normal everyday non-rich folk? The new Netropolitan social network aims to keep out the riffraff with an exorbitant entrance fee.

Google Drive for Team Collaboration

Google Drive is an amazing tool for cloud-based team collaboration. Here some ways you can use Google Drive to enhance communication within your team.

MapR Aims to Take SQL-on-Hadoop to Next Level

Seeking to eliminate the need to manage schemas and perform time-consuming ETL tasks on incoming data before exploring it, MapR is adding the Apache Drill distributed ANSI SQL query engine to its Hadoop distribution.

A BYOD Education

Developing policies, managing employee expectations and reducing risk

LinkedIn Is the New Letter of Recommendation

Due to the universal acceptance of LinkedIn in all matters employment the traditional reference letter has been relegated to the analog dust bin.

Vendor Outreach Key to Unlocking Federal Cloud Market

Federal IT executives urge cloud service providers to offer agencies a glimpse of their roadmaps to help guide procurement strategies, which is often a byzantine process hampered by perpetual government tech talent shortages.

How to Choose the Best Vulnerability Scanning Tool for Your Business

Any shop with Internet access must scan its network and systems regularly for vulnerabilities, but old-fangled tools made this a painful and time-consuming effort. Find out how new and improved vulnerability scanners make life easier for network admi

How to Attract Agile Development Talent

The agile framework for software development brings speed, flexibility and efficiency to IT-focused organizations. But finding and hiring agile talent requires that you shift your outdated mindset and change your hiring practices.

ATK CIO Says Metrics-Driven IT Paves the Way for Innovation

How Big Data Is Helping to Save the Planet

With the help of HP's Vertica Analytics Platform, Conservation International is crunching data from images to monitor the biodiversity of tropical forests around the world.