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Ethics Code Seeks to Deter Dishonest Analytics

The INFORMS code of ethics requires analytics professionals to report unbiased answers, not just what the client wants to hear.u2002

By Mary K. Pratt

Business Intelligence IT Leadership

How to Deal With Office Politics and Gossip

Three tips for handling people who are poisoning the organization's culture.

By Brandon Moser

Feb 26, 2014 2 mins

IT Leadership

Is Your IT Shop a Scrambler or a Leader?

An IT veteran describes the four stages of the technology organization — and what it takes to move up a notch

By Bob Ronan

IT Leadership IT Strategy

Yuri Aguiar, CIO at Ogilvy and Mather, says a new social, intranet-based portal manages the company's content and has become 'a vital and vibrant place for our employees around the world to quickly find each other and the information they n

By Yuri Aguiar

CIO Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

How Unemployed CIOs Can Survive the Dark Days

A long job hunt takes a personal and professional toll. CIOs have family and financial concerns while they reassess their careers and face a changing job market. But here's how CIOs can emerge stronger than ever.

By Kim S. Nash

Feb 26, 2014 15 mins

Careers IT Jobs IT Skills

Cloud-based Ecommerce Platforms Give Retailers Global Flexibility

French cosmetics company Clarins uses Demandware for international ecommerce expansion.

By Mary K. Pratt

Cloud Computing E-commerce Software SaaS

7 ways to create a successful integrated marketing campaign

Marketing experts share their strategies for developing a successful marketing campaign in today's multichannel, mobile, social-media-driven world.

By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff

Feb 26, 2014 5 mins

E-commerce Software Internet Marketing

Inside Samsung’s New York City Galaxy Studio with Google Glass (Video)

CIO.com's Al Sacco shares a video glimpse inside Samsung's New York City Galaxy Studio, captured with Google Glass.

Data Center Mobile Small and Medium Business

Feb 25, 2014 1 min

Mobile Front-End Extends Life of Legacy Systems

Interview with Sheryl Fikse Bunton, CIO of AGCO

By Martha Heller

Feb 25, 2014 7 mins

CIO IT Jobs IT Strategy

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Envisions a ‘Dial Tone for the Internet’

Calling it an 'on-ramp to the Internet,' Mark Zuckerberg advocates for carriers and other gatekeepers to provide free basic services for all in his first-ever keynote at Mobile World Congress.

Collaboration Software Facebook Small and Medium Business

Feb 25, 2014 6 mins

Are iPhones the New International Currency?

When traveling to a foreign country, the exchange rate may not always be in your favor, but your iPhone is as good as gold — and with the markup you can charge, it may be better than gold.n

By Tom Kaneshige

Feb 25, 2014 4 mins

Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business iPhone

Helping Data Centers Cope With Big Data Workloads

Big data workloads tend to suck up enormous amounts of compute resources, which can create serious log jams in your data center if the workloads aren't scheduled optimally. Adaptive Computing's Big Workflow is designed to leverage HPC and c

Big Data Enterprise Architecture High-Performance Computing

Feb 25, 2014 4 mins

5 Data Center Gaffes in Popular Hollywood Movies

Hollywood isn't afraid to bend the truth to tell a tale. The data centers depicted in five popular movies prove this point — as do the ways characters get into them and steal data from them.

By John Brandon

Feb 25, 2014 4 mins

Data Center Markets Servers

Bouncing Back From CIO Unemployment

A long job hunt takes a personal and professional toll, even on the most accomplished IT leaders. Here's how to emerge stronger than ever.

By Maryfran Johnson

Feb 25, 2014 3 mins

CIO

How CIOs Unravel IT Systems After a Business Divestiture

With divestitures on the rise, CIOs at Hess, DuPont and other companies that are selling off pieces of the business must rip apart deeply integrated systems.

By Stephanie Overby

Feb 25, 2014 3 mins

CIO IT Leadership IT Strategy

15 Photos That Show the Power of the iPhone’s Camera

The iPhone has changed the world of digital photography. Not only are more images than ever shared around the world, but photographers from amateurs to pros are using iPhones to capture the moment in creative new ways.

By Tom Kaneshige

Feb 24, 2014 4 mins

Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business iPhone

Hands-On First Impressions of Samsung’s Galaxy S5 Smartphone (Video)

CIO.com's Al Sacco goes hands-on with Samsung's brand new Galaxy S5 smartphone. The device has a handful of notable new hardware features and software enhancements. But none of them translation into any real "wow factor." Here&#03

Android Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Feb 24, 2014 7 mins

Healthcare CIOs Must Make Better, More Enlightened IT Decisions

For IT to stop being a 'cost center' in hospitals and other healthcare organizations, CIOs need to dictate their own IT strategy. Demonstrating the value of information technology to reluctant end users and making better decisions will help

By Brian Eastwood

Feb 24, 2014 5 mins

CIO Healthcare Industry Innovation

How IT Can Establish Better Cloud Control

There's no getting around it: Employees who use SaaS applications are more irresponsible about password security, file transfer and IT compliance. But IT's failure to communicate about risky behavior and provide tools to help employees do t

Cloud Security IT Governance SaaS

Feb 24, 2014 8 mins

How to Test the Security Savvy of Your Staff

How do you know your employees retain what you teach them in company-required security awareness training? You don't — unless you regularly test their security savvy and effectively address their mistakes during post-test follow-up sessions.

By Ed Tittel, Kim Lindros

Feb 24, 2014 6 mins

Data Breach Data and Information Security Phishing

How CIOs Prepare for the Worst

Three CIOs discuss how a successful business continuity plan requires prioritization, awareness and testing

By CIO Executive Council

Feb 24, 2014 4 mins

CIO Disaster Recovery IT Strategy

Microstrategy Adapts to New BI Realities

The business intelligence software veteran is adapting to the latest analytics trends–and to new rivals.u2002

By Joab Jackson

Feb 24, 2014 3 mins

Business Intelligence

Internet Feud Slows Netflix Streaming Speeds

Consumers are caught between ISPs and content providers as companies feud over the costs of transporting bandwidth-hungry video. As a result, millions of Netflix subscribers are seeing significant decreases in streaming speed.

Consumer Electronics Internet Service Providers

Feb 21, 2014 3 mins

Trying to Make Sense of Facebook’s Massive Bet on WhatsApp

Facebook is concerned about losing mind share and apparently not concerned about owning complementary properties that may not ever be fully integrated or generate revenue for the foreseeable future. So why is this a good deal for Facebook?

Facebook Internet Small and Medium Business

Feb 21, 2014 6 mins

8 Tips to Deal With Liability When Outsourcing to Multiple IT Vendors

Parceling out an IT services portfolio among a number of vendors is the new normal for IT outsourcing. However, these multi-sourcing arrangements are complicated — if things go wrong there's no single provider to blame. Here are eight steps you

By Stephanie Overby

Feb 21, 2014 6 mins

IT Leadership Legal Outsourcing

McAfee Offers Global Response to Nationalized Malware

In medieval times, kings let barbarians break down the castle gates but made sure they paid the price once they got inside. McAfee's approach to security takes a similar approach — since data breaches are inevitable, companies should worry less

By Rob Enderle

Feb 21, 2014 4 mins

Firewalls Malware Windows Security

T-Mobile CEO’s Immature Antics are Childish and Annoying — but Effective

T-Mobile CEO John Legere's in-your-face style has been a boon for the wireless carrier, but CIO.com's Al Sacco suggests his brash behavior could also have an unintended consequence.

Carriers Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Feb 20, 2014 3 mins

New WikiLeaks Search Helps Average Joes Find Secret Documents

WikiLeaks, the website with a huge store of confidential U.S. government documents, added a search engine that makes it easier to uncover the secrets you seek.

Android Smartphones iPhone

Feb 20, 2014 2 mins

Internet Security

How WhatsApp is Different Than Other Messaging Apps

Facebook is buying WhatsApp Messenger for a staggering $19 billion. Time will tell if that's a wise investment, but CIO.com blogger James A. Martin has three good reasons why the free app is unique in the crowded messaging market.

By James A. Martin

Feb 20, 2014 4 mins

How 19 Tech Titans Target Healthcare

Healthcare is a huge market with much room for improvement. Here's how the world's largest technology companies — from Amazon to Verizon — are lining up for a piece of the pie.

By Brian Eastwood

Feb 20, 2014 12 mins

Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry Regulation

Facebook’s Auto Play Video Ads ‘Imminent’

The social network's march to a mobile-first mindset and delivery mechanism has been persistent and widely recognized, but Facebook is rising to the video occasion with a more deliberate rollout.

Facebook Internet Small and Medium Business

Feb 20, 2014 5 mins

Mobile Device Management Lets You Track Your Teens

It's becoming more common for companies to deploy mobile device management to track smartphone and tablet use as part of a BYOD policy. However, now MDM software is coming home to help parents keep tabs on their teens — and possibly each other.

By Tom Kaneshige

Feb 20, 2014 3 mins

Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Facebook Open Sources Thrift Protocol … Again

After more than six years of internal development of its branch of the cross-language framework that powers its internal services, Facebook has released that branch to open source and hopes to work with the Apache Thrift community to incorporate the

Enterprise Architecture Open Source

Feb 20, 2014 3 mins

How to Protect Yourself from ‘Risky’ Mobile Apps

A new report from Appthority found that 95 percent of the top free Android and iOS apps pose some risk to users, compared to 80 percent of the top paid apps. CIO.com's mobile apps reviewer James A. Martin shares tips on how to protect yourself a

By James A. Martin

Feb 19, 2014 3 mins

Android Smartphones iPhone

5 Changes We Want to See in Samsung’s Galaxy S5

Samsung's most popular smartphone, the Galaxy S4, is about to get a significant update. CIO.com's Al Sacco shares five things Samsung could do to make the Galaxy S5 a significantly better smartphone than the GS4.

Android Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Feb 19, 2014 6 mins

Agile Comes to Data Integration

Informatica is aiming to ease the pain of data integration with a new platform designed to allow businesses to rapidly prototype and validate before sending projects to development.

Careers IT Jobs Productivity Software

Feb 19, 2014 4 mins

Big Data Data Management

Personal Websites Give Job Seekers Greater Control

If you are looking to land your next tech job, creating and promoting a personal website can help you control Google search results, better highlight relevant skills and provide an edge in a competitive job market.

By Sharon Florentine

Feb 19, 2014 3 mins

7 Tech Acronyms and Abbreviations That Need to Go Away

IT is full of shorthand. (Hey, there's one example.) Many abbreviations and acronyms have become standard terms in tech, if not everyday language. But some terms just need to be retired.

By John Brandon

Feb 19, 2014 4 mins

Agile Development Mobile Device Management Retail Industry

4 Ways Consumers, Banks and Retailers Can Collaborate to Stop Data Breaches

The issue of online data breaches is out of hand, according to CIO.com blogger Bill Snyder, and something needs to be done. Here are four ways banks, retailers and their customers can work together to address the problem.

Data Breach E-commerce Software

Feb 19, 2014 3 mins

15 Non-Certified IT Skills Growing in Demand

Whether you're a senior IT executive evaluating staffing needs and preparing budgets or an IT pro deciding where to invest your time to gain new skills, knowing what technologies are in demand should be a key part of your strategy.

By Rich Hein

Feb 18, 2014 8 mins

IT Jobs IT Skills IT Strategy

Global Smartwatch Market Belonged to Android, Galaxy Gear in 2013

Roughly 1.2 million of the total 1.9 million smartwatches shipped in 2013 ran Google's Android OS, according to new research.

Feb 18, 2014 2 mins

Consumer Electronics

Twitter Suffering From Growing Pains (and Facebook Comparisons)

Twitter faces growing pressure to attract new users and dramatically increase engagement on the platform. Can it ever rival the numbers and growth of Facebook?

Internet Technology Industry Twitter

Feb 18, 2014 6 mins

Gigabit Internet Service Providers Challenge Traditional ISPs

Companies such as Comcast and Time Warner don't think the United States is ready for — or even needs — gigabit Internet, but Google Fiber and a host of independent initiatives suggest that they are faster and cheaper.

By JD Sartain

Feb 18, 2014 6 mins

Comcast Internet Service Providers Regulation

Tech Industry Praises Cybersecurity Framework From White House

Leaders of the tech sector laud the Obama administration's rollout of voluntary cybersecurity guidelines, but broader private-sector adoption could remain a challenge.

By Kenneth Corbin

Feb 18, 2014 7 mins

Cloud Security Cybercrime Regulation

MapR’s New Hadoop Distribution Promises No-Risk Upgrade

MapR's latest Hadoop distribution includes support for Hadoop 2.2 with YARN, but is also backward compatible with the MapReduce 1.x scheduler, promising organizations a risk-free upgrade path to the latest Hadoop architecture.

Feb 17, 2014 5 mins

Big Data Open Source

How Much is Too Much to Spend on a Mobile App?

CIO.com mobile apps reviewer James A. Martin examines some recent research on mobile-app purchasing habits and shares insights on when it makes sense to pay for apps — and when it doesn't.

By James A. Martin

Feb 14, 2014 4 mins

Smartphones iPad iPhone

How the Comcast, Time Warner Merger Will Endanger the Internet

Combining the two largest U.S. cable companies will give Comcast too much power over what you watch on TV and download on the Web, according to CIO.com blogger Bill Snyder, and consumers should do everything they can to stop the merger.