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How a CIO Navigated the Task of Creating Two Big Companies From One

Robert Logan, CIO of Leidos, discusses how his team balanced the difficult preparations for creating two publicly held companies, while at the same time providing services to a multibillion-dollar corporation. He shares lessons learned and where he&#

It’s Time for IT Pros to Declare Their Technology Freedom

We donu2019t think enough about our freedom and that applies to IT, too, writes CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle. Too many technology vendors are eager to limit your decision-making. Now is the perfect time to reclaim your independence.

Enjoy the Free Songza Music App While You Still Can

The Songza service is one of the best streaming-music options on the market, according to CIO.com columnist James A. Martin. Unfortunately, the free Android and iOS apps' days are numbered so you should download post haste.

Why You Should Invest in Training Your IT Team

Tinder Mired in Sexual Harassment Scandal, but It Won’t Matter

Tinder and its executives are fostering a casual, highly sexualized culture that you might expect from a red-hot app. However, the dating app's users are not likely to care.

BYOD Users Work Longer and Earlier

According to a recent survey, the average BYOD-carrying employee works an extra two hours and sends 20 more emails every day.

Data Scientists Frustrated by Data Variety, Find Hadoop Limiting

A survey of data scientists finds that a majority of them believe their work has grown more difficult as a result of the rapidly increasing variety of data sources they need to draw upon, and nearly a quarter feel Hadoop is not suited to the analytic

Microsoft Promises Frequent Office 365 Roadmap Updates

A Look Inside the YouTube Culture

The YouTube Nation of video creators, fans and businesses dedicated to the underworld of online video make VidCon a conference like no other. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says the platform is being 'redone in a way that's never been done bef

CIOs, IT Hiring Managers Optimistic, But Challenges Remain

A majority of CIOs and IT managers plan to hire tech pros in the second half of 2014, according to two recent industry surveys — but salary pressures and high turnover rates still present tech workforce challenges.

The Real Cloud Computing Revolution

Mobilizing Your Sales Team Brings Challenges, High Expectations to IT

Equipping your sales force with smartphones and tablets makes for more efficient and happier sales people. However, if sales pros are always connected, does your IT team need to become a 24/7 operation?

Best Selfie Apps, Cameras, Smartphones and Accessories

Are you part of the #selfie movement? If so, you'll want to take a look at our gallery of gadgets and apps for taking better selfies, which includes a 'selfie stick,' a selfie button and even a drone.

So Long, AT&T! T-Mobile Free Trial Convinced Me to Switch

Lower prices, no contract, free streaming music and better voice connections convinced CIO.com columnist Bill Snyder to switch from AT&T to T-Mobile after a seven-day trial.

Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs

Cloud Platform Simplifies Spark Clusters, Big Data Deployments

As part of his keynote at Spark Summit 2014, Databricks CEO Ion Stoica announced Databricks Cloud, a turnkey platform for in-memory cluster computing that promises huge performance improvements over Hadoop MapReduce for processing big data.

Does Meaningful Use Need an Overhaul?

The meaningful use incentive program has stimulated electronic health record adoption in the United States — but confusing, conflicting proposals to change and delay the program's next stages lead many to wonder if meaningful use needs to be fi

The Most In-Demand Marketing Tech Skills

As organizations look to strengthen their digital presence, jobs in digital marketing are in demand and expected to rise 38 percent by year's end, according to Mondo data.

Opera Mini iOS Browser Gets Updated Look, New Compression Mode

Need to economize your mobile data consumption? The Opera Mini 8 iOS browser has two data-compression modes, though one makes some image-heavy sites look much less inviting, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.

Aereo Deserves to be Put Out of Business for Stealing Content

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that startup Aereo can't sell broadcast TV content it picks up from the airwaves, effectively killing the small company. CIO.com blogger Bill Snyder, ever the consumer advocate, says the decision was the right one.

Are Digital Retailers Focusing Their Security in the Wrong Place?

Digital retailers spend the lion's share of their IT security budget on network security, but most experts say they'd be better off focusing elsewhere.

The Danger of Google’s Development Cadence

Instead of updating products every six weeks, as Google promised at the I/O developer conference, the company might want to slow down and make sure its products and services actually represent what its customers want.

Why It’s Never Been More Important to Pick Your Mobile Platform Wisely

Is moving from one mobile OS to another a big deal? Maybe not right now, but the platform you choose today could have ramifications on your fitness tracking, car navigation and TV viewing in the future, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.

Google+ Noticeably Absent at Google I/O

Google didn't just ignore its social network at its developer conference this week, writes CIO.com's Matt Kapko. It's already acting as if Google+ doesn't exist at all.

Amazon Web Services Sharpens Focus on Public Sector

Hardly content to rest on its laurels, Amazon is adding clients in the government, education and nonprofit sectors, vying for public-sector contracts and looking to build its apps marketplace into a research and development hub.

Google Gets Down to Business with Android Work, Cloud Drive for Work

Google announced two new enterprise initiatives at its 2014 I/O developer conference: Android Work and Google Drive for Work. CIO.com's Al Sacco details the new IT security features in Android and breaks down the cloud-storage enhancements for b

10 bad coding practices that wreck software development projects

Most of the time, software developers do the right thing. On those rare occasions when they don't, bad things can happen. Avoiding these common coding practices will make your work easier — and your software more secure and scalable to boot.

Google’s Plan to Fix Email

At this week's Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google announced that it's taking a novel approach to improving email.

‘Fully Secure’ MailWise Email App for Android Unclutters Your Inbox

MailWise is an attractive, and "fully secure," email app for Android smartphones that aims to streamline your inbox, and it works, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin…sort of.

FAA Shoots Down Amazon’s Drone Delivery Plans

It's been a tough week for drones. The FAA told Amazon it cannot use unmanned drones to deliver packages, and Seattle police are investigating a "peeping Tom drone."

Garmin’s New ‘Viago’ App Lets You Build Your Own GPS

Garmin's latest Android and iOS navigation apps let you choose the features you want "u00e0 la carte". CIO.com blogger James A. Martin explains why it can make sense to pay for GPS directions when you can get them for free.

Is Your CRM Implementation Architecture or Interior Design?

Just because your CRM project involves software, infrastructure and the cloud doesn't mean it's just an engineering project. There's some design work involved, too — and, as any homeowner can tell you, sometimes the window dressing co

All About BYOD

BYOD (Bring You Own Device) promises many benefits such as greater innovation, better work-life balance and improved productivity, but it also increases pressure on IT to manage and secure devices and data. How to do BYOD successfully is a challenge.

Don’t Use Mobile Management to Build BlackBerry all Over Again

Learn from Lego — to users, everything is awesome.

CIA Off and Running With Amazon Web Services

The CIA intends to have its AWS deployment near completion this summer, it said at an AWS conference in Washington. The spy agency is working through security challenges while looking ahead to significant operating efficiencies and cost savings.

Are Social Media Giants Betraying Your Trust?

The leading social media companies are outraged over NSA surveillance, but would that spying even be possible if Facebook, Google and Twitter weren't collecting data and selling it to online marketers? Social media companies unintentionally open

New CIOs for the Summer

The summer is never the most active time for CIO moves, but June’s list brings with it some major new appointments.

iOS Calendar App ’24me’ Gets Valuable New Smart Alerts

The iOS calendar app 24me just got better thanks to a new "Smart Alerts" feature. The app is free and doesn't include ads, and it's definitely worth a download, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.

The Truth About Enterprises and the Public Cloud

Many companies look to the public cloud to cut costs, overhead and time to deployment. However, businesses need to understand how dramatically a move to the cloud will affect a key constituency: The IT department.

Native Data Analysis Comes to MongoDB

With the latest release of its business analytics and data integration platform, Pentaho claims to make it easier for organizations to apply analytics to their big data.

Why One CIO Is Saying ‘No’ to BYOD

A growing backlash threatens to thwart the BYOD movement. To illustrate the trend, the CIO of a large electrical contractor explains why his company will 'never have a BYOD environment.'

IT Resume Makeover: How to Avoid Selling Yourself Short

Resume expert Cheryl Lynch-Simpson helps an early career project manager develop her personal brand in this month's CIO.com Resume Makeover.

5 Things CIOs Need to Know About Pinterest

The social bulletin board can produce consumer buzz and website traffic, but needs better analytics for businesses.

CIOs Will Find That the Most Valuable Data Comes From Outside

Adam Hartung says CIOs are too focused on creating data about internal operations and need to augment that with external data about market conditions.

Microsoft Ups Ante in Cloud War with 15GB Free OneDrive Storage

Microsoft increased the amount of free storage it gives OneDrive users and cut its cloud prices by as much as 70 percent, making OneDrive a much more formidable competitor for Google Drive and Dropbox.

Google Glass Gets More Fashionable with Gaudy ‘DVF Made for Glass’ Frames

Google today announced a partnership with designer Diane von Furstenberg, called DVF Made for Glass, and a variety of funky new frames and shades are now available to new Glass buyers.

12 Tips to Help College Grads Land Their First IT Job

Technology and HR pros, as well as IT recruiters, share their advice on how recent graduates and those still in college can best position themselves for a technology career.

BYOD Stipends May Soon Go Away (If IT Gets Its Way)

Reimbursements for employees who bring their own mobile devices to work have gone through rapid-fire changes in just a few years. The most recent changes definitely don't favor workers. In fact, IT decision makers at companies envision the day w

NFL’s CIO Tackles Big Data, Player Safety and In-Game Technology

The National Football League's CIO, a position that didn't exist three years ago, explains how the NFL is tackling big data challenges, overhauling stats and bringing new technology on the field and behind the scenes.

CIOs vs. Consumer Tech: How to Win Over Your Users

CIO's Publisher Adam Dennison makes the case for CIOs to take advantage of user enthusiasm for new technologies while shoring up security and compliance controls.