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Which iPhone Retailers Tell the Truth?

Buyer beware is a good idea when making any major purchase. Yet a recent survey found iPhone retailers, including Apple itself, intentionally withhold information from customers about the potential availability of new phones. Is any retailer honest

Google Drive, LinkedIn and Stitcher Radio Apps Get Solid Updates

Three already-good iOS and Android apps just got better, thanks to recent updates.

IT Security Hack 1, AntiSec 0: Stolen Apple UDIDs Didn’t Come from FBI

The IT Security Hack blog told you so. AntiSec's too-good-to-be-true story about Apple UDIDs it stole from the FBI proved to be false. App-developer Blue Toad said it was the source of the stolen Apple data.

Intuit Opens Financial Data Service APIs to Developers

Hoping to unleash a wave of developer creativity in financial apps, Intuit is giving developers access to the financial data service that powers Quicken, QuickBooks and Mint.com.

How to Secure Your Future With Robust Risk Assessment

Richard Gardner, CEO of Modulus Financial Engineering, offers his advice on how to avoid, prevent and mitigate the risks associated with high-volume automated software — and the employees who wrote the code.

15 LinkedIn Tips to Improve Your Job Search

Having a LinkedIn profile is a great way to network with professionals as you begin your job hunt, but having an unfinished or poorly compiled profile can send the wrong signals to recruiters and potential employers.

Tech Policy 2012: Comparing the Democrat’s and Republican’s Platforms

Where do the major parties stand on the technology policy issues? Their recently ratified party platforms offer a glimpse.

Has Apple Ended the “Change Management” Nightmare?

The use of user-friendly iPhones and iPads in the enterprise has taken a lot of the pain out of change management, for both workers and IT groups.

Microsoft Expands Retail Play as Windows 8 Launch Nears

In preparation for the Windows 8 launch in late October, Microsoft plays catch-up on the retail front by opening 32 temporary Microsoft storefronts in malls across the country. Will it be enough to sell a bold, new OS like Windows 8?

BlackBerry 10 Carrier Support Good for RIM Stock—and Consumer Confidence

Verizon Wireless said it will offer a BlackBerry 10 device soon after RIM's official launch, but RIM needs to keep the carrier support coming if it wants to draw consumer interest away from the new iPhone.

How Genius Is Your IT?

Connect 2 Monitors to Your PC, Mac with Matrox DualHead2Go Adaptors

The Matrox DualHead2Go Digital SE adaptor lets you quickly and easily connect two external monitors to your Display-Port-equipped PC, and it's relatively affordable at $179–at least when compared to the $329 TripleHead2Go adaptor, which lets yo

Splunk Adds Visibility Into Virtual Environments

IaaS provider CloudShare deployed Splunk to correlate machine-generated data and provide insight into every aspect of its business.

How to Improve Application Performance and Reduce Latency

Web developers can no longer look at network latency and application performance as mutually exclusive concerns. Fortunately, there are several ways that developers can "hide" data transmission and computation so that user experience doesn&

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD Data Plan: Don’t Be Misled

Amazon says it will only charge you $49.99 a year to download data on the Kindle Fire HD. But the plan is so skimpy you’ll probably spend closer to $400 a year.

Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup: Bandits Bust Bitfloor for $250K in Bitcoins and More

This week's IT security roundup has stories on a Bitcoin robbery that resulted in a shutdown of the online-currency exchange; a security fix from Apple meant to address controversial Java flaws in Mac OS X; the first ever Irish-language ransomwa

Two iOS, Android Apps Let You Digitally Sign Documents

With the right mobile app, adding your digital signature to a contract or other document can be relatively simple. CIO.com blogger James A. Martin put two digital-signature apps to the test, one for iOS and another for Android, and found one to be co

5 Steps to Ensure Your Cloud Provider Is Ready for Ediscovery

Businesses need to be prepared when an ediscovery request is made pertaining to data being stored in the cloud. Here are five steps IT leaders can take to ensure that their cloud computing vendors don't get them into hot water when responding to

How HP Can Use Itanium Ruling to Beat Oracle

If Hewlett-Packard plays its cards right, it could turn Oracle's court-ordered support for HP servers running Itanium chips into a better platform for Oracle software than it was when HP and Oracle were bosom buddies.

10 Top Advanced Data Visualization Platforms to Watch

Business Intelligence (BI) vendors are seeking to help organizations deal with increasingly massive data sets from a plethora of sources with new advanced data visualization capabilities. Here are 10 advanced data visualization solutions to watch.

Logitech UE Boombox Review: A Portable Stereo System with Serious Sound

Logitech's new UE Boombox is sure to impress casual listeners and audiophiles alike thanks to its pristine music playback, which is comparable to the sound from a full-fledged stereo system, according to CIO.com blogger Paul Mah.

Norton ’12 Cybercrime Report Magically Makes $278B in Damages Disappear

CIO.com blogger Constantine von Hoffman says Norton's 2012 cybercrime report commits a huge sin of omission and just plain doesn't make sense.

Want Firefox on Your iPhone? Forget About It

Mozilla and Apple have divorced. Firefox Home has been pulled from the iTunes Store and Mozilla won't develop for iOS as Apple's tight restrictions have turned the browser developer away.

Hey Seinfeld: Stick to Standup, Leave Device Advice to the Pros

Jerry Seinfeld is a talented actor and comedian, but broken iPhones are no laughing matter.

How to Become a Better Communicator With Your IT Staff

Do you find that you or your IT team members aren't communicating as well as they could or should? If you said 'yes,' here are two powerful techniques you can apply to significantly improve the way you communicate and the impact you ac

23 IT Certifications That Mean Higher Pay

Looking for IT certifications that deliver more bang for your buck? Well, here they are. These IT certs are commanding premium pay from employers and promise to be hot in the coming year.

LinkedIn Bets Big on Mobile, Unveils 3 New Updates

As LinkedIn continues to focus on its mobile offering, the professional social network has announced three updates to its site and mobile app: real-time notifications, Company Pages and a handful of new languages available to iPad users.

Motorola, Nokia Announce 5 New Smartphones in 24 Hours: Images and Video

Nokia and Motorola put their latest cards on the table yesterday, announcing five brand new smartphones between them in a matter of hours. Here are images and video of each of the handhelds, along with release information, where available.

iPhone 5: Expert Predictions and the Challenges Ahead

Kyle Wiens of iFixit has a proven track record with Apple product predictions. Here are his expectations of the upcoming iPhone 5 regarding battery life, 4G LTE, backwards compatibility, and more.

How to Develop a High-Performance Enterprise Architecture

Even if your Enterprise Architecture (EA) program is effective at managing technology or helping application development, you need to work on repositioning EA to be more business-focused. Here are some recommendations to help you develop a strategy t

Social Networking Still on Political Sidelines

Even in the era of Facebook and Twitter, a new survey finds that only a minority of social networking users engage in political activities on the sites.

History, IT Innovation and the Pace of Change

A visit to the English countryside gave CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden the chance to see Roman ruins, a medieval church and a replica of the first supercomputer. It wasn't until he returned home and saw a driverless car on a California freeway

Why Nokia Lumia 920 Is Another Great Windows Phone Nobody Will Buy

Windows Phones are falling on deaf ears despite innovation, marketing and smart partnerships, and that's not likely to change with the new Nokia Lumia phones running Windows Phone 8.

How to Succeed at Social Business

Social business can be tricky to succeed at if you don't have the right culture, support or proper integration.

Office Suite for iPad Supports Word’s Track Changes

Office˛ HD for iPad is one of a handful of mobile apps that fully supports Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature. It’s a solid Office-compatible suite, and CIO.com blogger James A. Martin says it’s well worth the

Microsoft Stores: Waiting for Windows 8

Microsoft opened a store Boston with a new physical layout and plenty of colorful products to sell. The problem is none of them run Windows 8 and late-to-the-game Microsoft can't start pulling consumers into an Apple-like ecosystem until tablet-

Purloined Apple IDs: Either the FBI or AntiSec is Lying

An anti-government hacktivist group says it stole millions of Apple IDs from an FBI agent's laptop. The FBI says it never had any of the data. Somebody is lying, according to CIO.com blogger Constantine von Hoffman, and it shouldn't take lo

Easy Risk Management Can Prevent Costly Errors (Ask United Airlines)

A roundtrip flight to Hong Kong for less than $50 may sound too good to be true, but a glitch on the United Airlines website back in June let customers get a ticket for just four miles points, plus fees. Three simple tips that any company can apply t

Does a Cyber-9/11 Loom?

The longer Congress waits to gets its act together on cybersecurity, the longer the U.S. remains at risk of an attack by spies, terrorists, hackers or companies representing themselves or an entire rogue nation. Can Washington rise to the challenge w

CIO Required Reading: Apple’s Secret Genius Manual

The traditionally rocky business-IT relationship stems from poor people skills. Apple’s leaked Genius Training Student Workbook helps create empathy.

New Microsoft Mouse Ditches Scroll Wheel for ‘Touch Strip’

The upcoming $45 Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse is an evolution of the company's earlier Arc Touch and Explorer Touch mice, and it has a "touch strip" that can be used for rapid vertical and horizontal scrolling, among other things.

Top 3 Back-to-Work iOS, Android Productivity Apps

Labor Day has come and gone; now it’s time to get back to work. But not all work gets done in the office. Here are three iOS and Android apps CIO.com blogger James A. Martin relies on to get work done while on the road.

12 Tips to Prevent a Healthcare Data Breach

High-profile healthcare data breaches continue to make the news. Heed our 12-step program and keep your organization out of the headlines.

RIM’s First All-Touch BlackBerry 10 Phone Caught on Camera

A new photo of RIM's first all-touch BlackBerry 10 "L-Series" smartphone leaked this week, and it probably won't be long before an image of the full QWERTY BlackBerry 10 "N-Series" device is similarly caught on camera an

How Integrating Physical and Information Security Mitigates Risks

Though both are critical, physical and information security remain separate entities at many organizations. However, you can get a better grip on overall risk by integrating the two. Austin Recovery, a drug and alcohol treatment center, successfully

The Case for LTE: 4 Reasons Why You Need 4G

Recent surveys indicate that smartphones users don't care about 4G/LTE cellular networks and the faster data speeds they offer. But most of these people have probably never used an LTE device. Depending on where you live and how you use your sma

BYOD Trend Highlights Need for Chief Mobility Officers

Weekly Security Roundup: No More World of Warcraft for Iranian Gamer Geeks

This week's IT security news roundup has stories on a World of Warcraft shutdown in Iran; Presidential campaign apps that collect users' personal information; a former IT contractor who's charged with stealing data from Toyota; and muc

Can IT Open New Sources Of Revenue?

At an IT strategy offsite a senior director of IT asked this simple question: "How can we use information technology to help our company open up new streams of revenue?" A refreshing question, given that nine out of ten CIOs ask the opposit

RIM Details BlackBerry Enterprise SERVICE (BES) 10

RIM released a number of new details about its upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Service, which will merge all of its BlackBerry, iOS and Android smartphone-and-tablet management products into one unified IT management product.