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Do You Believe CMOs Will Spend More on Tech Than CIOs by 2017?

Gartner's prediction has gotten attention during 2013

Google’s New, Simpler CAPTCHA Coming at Ya

Those squiggly hieroglyphic puzzles you need to solve to access certain websites or services can be a major nuisance. Thankfully, Google is rolling out a newer CAPTCHA system that should be easier for humans to use – and harder for bots to circumvent

Why Good Employees Leave (And How You Can Keep Them)

If you're losing good workers and you're not sure why, the problem may lie with your firm's management style. The good news is that you can make small changes that will make a huge difference when it comes to employee retention.

10 Simple iOS Tips and Tricks for iPhone/iPad Newbies

Got a new iPhone or iPad? These 10 easy iOS tips and tricks can help quickly navigate around your device, streamline processes, organize home screens and much more.

How Cloud Computing Puts Adverse Selection in Its Place

For years, operations departments have used adverse selection principles to allocate resources, often deeming small projects unworthy of enterprise computing power. Today, though, the cloud makes computing so cheap that there's no reason to deny

Tablet App Lets Subway Find the Best Sandwich Artists

Subway's tablet apps attract more job candidates and help franchisees streamline the hiring process.

This C-Suite Recognizes That Failure is Part of Innovation

At Toyota Financial, a close-knit, collaborative group of C-level execs allows for missteps in the company's innovation strategy.

The Best Mobile Browsers Based on Usability

FixYa recently ranked mobile browsers based on usability ratings from its visitors. The findings suggest third-party browsers are good alternatives to default options, but the "official" browsers are still more popular.

It is Time to Deal with the Legacy below the Surface

Bruce Lee, CIO of NYSE Euronext, offers CIOs some tips on reducing their legacy problems.

Molto: the Android, iOS Email App You’ll Actually Use

Molto, formerly known as Incredimail, was spruced up for iOS 7 devices, and it's now available for Android tablets. Molto is a free, attractive app that's definitely worth a download, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.

U.S. CIO Sees Healthcare.gov Glitches as a ‘Teachable Moment’

The federal healthcare portal may have stumbled out of the gate, but CIO Steven VanRoekel says the rollout marks an important step forward as the government seeks to digitize its operations.

Microsoft’s Windows Launches Through the Years

The launch of Windows 8 last year was the biggest product launch in the industry's history. How do the company's previous Windows launches stack up? Follow the timeline of Microsoft's operating system releases in this infographic. n

Why BBM for Android, iOS Success will be Short-Lived

CIO.com's Al Sacco likes the new BBM for Android and iOS apps but says they're not compelling enough to make the average iOS or Android user switch from their messaging apps of choice. Here's why.

10 Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

Consumers are increasingly using their mobile devices to connect to businesses of all shapes and sizes. From optimizing your website to capturing holiday sales on mobile devices, these tips will help improve your mobile marketing strategy.

CIO at Waste Management Wears Many Hats

Puneet Bhasin is CIO and senior vice president of technology, logistics, customer service and strategic accounts — a portfolio that keeps him focused on business matters.

How Toyota Financial Turns Failure Into Innovation

A tightly knit group of execs form a 'C-suite dream team' to take collaboration to new heights at the finance arm of the worldu2019s largest automaker.

5 Best and 5 Worst Cities for IT Salaries

Want to know where IT professionals make the highest — and the lowest — salaries? We dig into Kforce's 2014 Salary and Employment Guide to see where today's tech workers make the most and the least, the top paying IT roles in each city, a

10 SharePoint Success Stories

Historically, Microsoft SharePoint has been associated with intranets and content management. But customers are increasingly using it to enable a much broader range of capabilities from communications to business intelligence, enterprise search, even

Microsoft’s Big Data Service Available After a Year in Preview

After a year of in-the-field testing, the Windows Azure HDInsight Service, which allows customers to spin up Hadoop clusters in the cloud, gets the green light for release into general availability.

5 Quick Tips for Taking Better Pictures with Your Smartphone

Everyone has a smartphone camera these days, but a relative few get the best photos possible from their devices. CIO.com's Al Sacco shares five quick tips to help you take better smartphone photos.

ERP Comes to the Cloud and (Finally) Smaller Businesses

Trek Global claims that its cloud-based ERP service can help midmarket and small businesses leverage ERP to create efficiencies.

Growth in Teleradiology Studies Spurs SAN Upgrade

As a virtual radiology firm saw its workload nearly triple, storage performance suffered. That, in turn, impacted the underlying database, to the point that maintenance jobs overlapped. Rather than rewrite the database, Virtual Radiologic opted to up

How the C-Suite Can Close the Gender Gap

CIOs and other top execs should identify women for the executive talent pipeline, then provide coaching and workplace flexibility, says Elaine Miller, a managing director with PricewaterhouseCoopersu2029

How CIOs Can Become Business Heroes

Columnist Michael Hugos offers clear directions for how CIOs can open the exit door from the techie trap.

Self-Service IT Catches On

Cloud-based software for the IT help desk turns out to be useful in departments outside of IT, too.

How to Find IT Talent Capable of Being Customer-Focused

CIOs need to find the IT workers who are comfortable focusing on customers, market forces and revenue.u2002

Stay Alert: Personal and Work Clouds Are Merging

As consumers and employees embrace the u2018digital self,u2019 CIOs will face new challenges, says Forrester analyst Frank Gillett

Good Governance Is a Make-or-Break Factor for IT

CIOs say that governance rules will ensure that IT initiatives are transparent, efficiently managed and provide maximum business impact.

Pay Cloud Vendors Based On What They Save You

Unresponsive outsourcing companies still exist

New Cannonball Gmail App for iPad is Interesting but Flawed

The new Cannonball Gmail app for iPad visually separates important messages from marketing, newsletters, and other mail. But CIO.com blogger James A. Martin quickly came up with five reasons why the app won't replace the native iOS Mail or the o

Tips for Traveling Abroad with Your iPhone

You can take your iPhone nearly anyplace in the world without running up horrendous voice and data bills, but it takes some preparation. CIO.com blogger Bill Snyder shares iPhone travel tips he learned during a recent trip to Spain.

The three waves of disruptive trends

Lukewarm Global IT Outsourcing Market Heats Up in Third Quarter

The first half of the year was relatively quiet for global IT outsourcing deals, but activity has picked up considerably in the third quarter. Outsourcing consultancy ISG examines why and predicts how the IT outsourcing market will finish out the yea

Why IBM Will Be Saved by Analytics — and Steven Mills

It's easy to tell executives exactly what they want to hear, even if it makes you like the violin player on the Titanic. Luckily, today's analytics technology gives executives real-time insight into how their firms are performing. At IBM, l

10 Job Search Tips for Introverts

Being introverted doesn't have to slow your progress when it comes time to ramp up your career. In fact, introverts have many characteristics that help them succeed in the IT world. However, it's important you understand your characteristic

Does Mavericks Burst Open the Door to BYOD for OS X?

By offering a free Mac OS X upgrade that's (quietly) enterprise-friendly, Apple may have found a way to appeal to both the consumer and business sides of Mac users' persona. And once they have a chance to test it, it may even make CIOs hap

Computer Criminals Continue to Vex IT Groups

As security breaches rise, CIOs and CISOs aren't as good as they think they are at protecting corporate assets.

Apple’s New ‘Pages’ App Much Improved but Still Trails Microsoft, Google

Apple recently updated its iWork suite of Microsoft-Office-compatible apps for iOS. CIO.com blogger James A. Martin put the Pages app through the paces, and though it's improved, the software still doesn't quite rival Microsoft Office or Go

8 cool heat maps that help you visualize big data

Big or small, data can be difficult to visualize. These examples use heat maps to put massive data sets into a context that's easy to understand.

8 Cool Heat Maps That Help You Visualize Big Data

Big or small, data can be difficult to visualize. These examples use heat maps to put massive data sets into a context that's easy to understand.

How to Use Google’s Keyword Planner for SEO (and 7 Free Alternatives)

Google's new Adwords Keyword Planner is geared for PPC rather than organic SEO, but it can still be useful for keyword research. Here are five ways to use the new tool — plus, seven organic keyword research alternatives.

Teradata Turns to the Cloud, Offers Data Warehouse as a Service

Aiming to give customers the flexibility to store, process and leverage their data on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, Teradata is making its portfolio of platforms and services available via the cloud, including Data Warehouse as a

STEM Talent Shortfall Frustrates Tech Recruiters

Survey of scientific and technical talent recruiters from across Fortune 1000 companies reveals brisk competition for STEM-educated workers as demand outstrips supply.

Hortonworks Makes Hadoop More Versatile in New Distro

Built on Apache Hadoop YARN architecture, HDP 2.0 changes Hadoop from a single-purpose Web-scale batch data processing platform into multi-use operating system for batch, interactive, online and stream processing.

15 Big Social Media Mistakes Companies Make and How to Avoid Them

Social media experts discuss the most common social networking business blunders and what companies can do to improve their social media IQ.

New CIOs in Financial Services, Retail, High-tech and More

Appointments include JPMorgan Chase, JC Penney, and SAP

Must-Have Android, iOS Apps for Fall 2013

CIO.com mobile-apps blogger James A. Martin shares his six favorite apps from the past three months, including one that's ideal for do-gooders and another that just might bring out your mischievous side.

10 Tech Tools to Get Things Done Faster

We could all use some help improving our productivity. Here are 10 apps that help you collaborate, take notes or just plain save time.

Microsoft’s graveyard: 16 products that Microsoft has killed

Some were killed off, others folded into new products. Either way, no product lives forever.

5 IT Security Horror Stories (and 5 Ways to Avoid Them)

When it comes to security, your employees may be your weakest link. While policies and training can go a long way toward helping them keep devices and data safe, sometimes technology is the answer.