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Finding the Talent Your Business Needs

How CIOs are meeting the challenge of a small high-tech pool by making the most of the teams they have

Creating New Corporate Value

How CIOs are optimizing their infrastructure to meet changing business needs

5 Things You Need to Know About Social Analytics

It's a big business that's matured a lot in recent years. Is your company doing as much as it can to take advantage of new data streams?

How Thermo Fisher Mines Customer Feedback to Improve Service

Thermo Fisher Scientific overhauled its customer feedback system to allow it to be more responsive to current customers and to take advantage of emerging markets

NASA’s New Innovation Mission

This 2012 CIO 100 Award-winning strategy gets everyone in on space exploration

NKU Grads Get High-Tech Education, Jobs

Northern Kentucky University built a new high-tech building, Griffin Hall, to host students in tech-related majors and the employers who may hire them

How to Succeed in Business: Award-Winning IT Innovation

IDG Enterprise CEO Michael Friendenberg finds that the 25th annual class of CIO 100 winners exemplify organizations that know how to succeed in business in even a challenging economic climate

How a Private Cloud Helped Applied Materials Save Suffering Engineers

When ginormous 3D CAD files kept crashing, engineers were literally quitting in frustration. Applied Materials' CIO gambled by moving it all to a private cloud and won much love and a CIO 100 Award for innovation

How the 2012 CIO 100 Winners Fight Risk With Innovation

CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses some of this year's CIO 100 winners and how their projects protected companies against big risks

CIO 100 Award-winners Are ‘Risk Busters’

Many of the honorees in the 25th annual CIO 100 awards program are using IT innovation to reduce risks that threaten employees, customers and entire business models.

6 Steps to Happy Hires With Longterm Potential

Reed Technologies is among the rare companies that has recruit-and-retain down to a science. Here are 6 lessons from their strategies that you can use to build your own homegrown talent pool

2012 CIO 100: The Judges

Each of the 300-plus applications for the 2011 CIO 100 Awards was reviewed by two members of our judging panel

How We Chose the 2012 CIO 100 Winners

CIO magazine's method for selecting this year's CIO 100 winners

ChargeCard: The Smartphone Charger That Fits in Your Wallet

The ChargeCard is a credit-card shaped mobile-device charger that plugs into a USB power source for charging and syncing, and it's available for iPhones and all devices with micro USB ports.

Cybersecurity News Roundup: Siemens Plugs Stuxnet Holes; Gamigo Loses 8M IDs; AC/DC Rocks Iran Nuke Facility

This week's IT security news roundup features stories on Siemens' efforts to patch holes that could have led to Stuxnet-like attacks; new Android malware hidden inside the Opera Mini browser; an AC/DC-themed attack on an Iranian Nuclear Age

Businesses Fill Hadoop Skills Needs With Partners

Enterprises are adopting Hadoop faster than they can hire IT talent to build and maintain these distributed computing deployments. To fill the gap, many are turning to partners that can offer a mix of Hadoop consulting, software development and train

Are Foreign Cloud Providers Exploiting Privacy Concerns?

Tech officials are warning House subcommittee members that foriegn cloud services providers are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers.

IBM Beats Indiana in Outsourcing Case No One ‘Deserves to Win’

A rare and costly judgment in favor of the IT service provider yields lessons about the folly of public sector mega outsourcing deals, the importance of a detailed contract, and why IT can't outsource responsibility.

Why Location Is a Growing Issue for CRM Systems

As people get more mobile, even transitory, there are new twists to the question, 'Where on earth is the customer?' Unfortunately, CRM systems aren't always equipped to provide an easy answer.

Why the Latest Senate Cybersecurity Bill is a Joke

A new version of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) is about to be put to vote in the U.S. Senate., and it could very well pass. But the modified bill is no better than earlier versions, according to CIO.com blogger

Top 3 iPad, iPhone Apps for Summer 2012

Every few months CIO.com mobile-apps blogger James A. Martin rounds up his favorite new apps. The iOS apps featured here in his summer 2012 showcase are sure to boost your productivity and social-media savvy.

Videoconferencing in Action: From Skype to 3D Holograms

Video conferencing can be anything from a Skype session between a mother and daughter to 3D holograms of people across the world appearing as if they are standing next to you. Here's a look at the vast and various ways videoconferencing and tele

Lessons from a Big iPad Enterprise Adopter

Genentech is one of the biggest iPad adopters in the world, and its mobility team manager, Paul Lanzi, is sharing what he's learned. So what does he have to say about enterprise app stores, iOS apps, user feedback and HTML 5?

5 LinkedIn Tips to Prepare for Your New Job

You may have landed a new job, but your work on LinkedIn isn't done. Here are five things you need to do before day one.

6 Easy Ecommerce Shopping Carts for Small Business Websites

Looking to add an ecommerce shopping cart to your existing business website? Here are six fully-featured carts that will meet the needs of most SMBs.

Online Sales Tax Effort Gains Momentum

House Republican and Democratic lawmakers begin the debate to work out legislation to permit states to force the collection of Internet sales taxes, which will ultimately affect the prices consumers see when they shop online.

4 Reasons Why IT Matters More Than Ever

The argument that IT no longer matters has resurfaced. In this age of consumerization, BYOD and the cloud, IT departments are, in fact, vital to any business, able to create value and sort the wheat from the chaff as stakeholders eye new investments

Connect 3 Displays to 1 PC with the Matrox TripleHead2Go Adapter

The Matrox TripleHead2Go DP Edition adapter lets you quickly connect up to three different displays to your laptop's DisplayPort output.

How Big Is Apple?

Did you know Apple’s annual revenue matches the GDP of New Zealand? Here are other fun facts.

Mobile WorkHorse Wins ASBPE Gold Award for Best Blog

CIO.com's Mobile WorkHorse blog is the American Society of Business Publication Editors' 2012 Gold Azbee award blog of the year.

RIM Posts Q&A with BlackBerry CIO Robin Bienfait

RIM's CIO Robin Bienfait spoke with a BlackBerry social media manager to answer questions from company's enterprise customers about the future of BlackBerry business services.

One Cheap and Easy Thing All Companies Can Do to Boost Security

Event logs are the basic text of what happens in your corporate systems. So why do so many companies ignore them?

Nike+ Run-Tracking App for iOS, Android is Sleek and Easy to Use

Nike recently gave its Nike+ iPhone running app a significant overhaul and released an Android version too (finally). The result is a much-improved GPS/exercise-tracking app that goes the distance.

Best Musicians to Perform at IT Conferences

With Jon Bon Jovi playing the party at this year's VMworld and the Red Hot Chili Peppers highlighting the Dreamforce agenda, CIO.com looks at some of the best (and a few of the worst) musical acts to take the stage at IT conferences.

How to Improve Your Application Security Practices

The number of serious vulnerabilities in applications declined in 2011, but they are still common. Improving your application security posture requires determining whether you're a target of opportunity or a target of choice and understanding yo

Where Are the Women CIOs? Three Speak Out

The number of female CIOs in the U.S. continues to decline. To find out where the next generation will come from, CIO.com asks three well-respected women CIOs how more women can make it to the top of the IT ladder–and we asked what advice they have

Samsung Galaxy S III: 10 Must-Know Tips and Tricks

Samsung's new Galaxy S III is one of the hottest Android phones on the market. CIO.com's Al Sacco shares a pile of valuable GSIII tips and tricks that will help new owners customize the device, take screen shots, watch video while using oth

TD Bank Gets Social, Cashes In on IT-Business Teamwork

A smooth and efficient business-IT partnership was imperative to TD Bank's successful enterprise social network deployment. Here's how they worked together to bring collaboration to more than 65,000 users.

Facial Recognition Abuse Is Bad, Government Regulation Even Worse

Congress is making noises about regulating facial recognition software and other abuses of privacy. Instead of having the government damage the technology industry with too much regulation, vote with your feet and boycott sites that abuse facial reco

KeyFolio Pro 2 Case for iPad Packs Best-in-Class Portable Keyboard

The $100 Kensington KeyFolio Pro 2 is a faux-leather case and tablet stand with one of the best portable iPad keyboards on the market, according to CIO.com blogger Paul Mah.

Amazon Faces Commodity Cloud Competition

Until recently, Amazon Web Services stood alone among commodity cloud service providers. Then Microsoft and Google stepped in. The world will never be the same, columnist Bernard Golden says.

Mega IT Outsourcing Deals Move Offshore

An analysis of second quarter outsourcing deal activity reveals an increase in billion-dollar-plus deals, all of them awarded outside the mature U.S. and European markets.

Enabling the Mobile Workforce

Slick B&W Desktop Speakers Pack Big Sound—and a Bigger Price Tag

The Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 Speakers are compact, great-looking and they deliver high-quality audio, but the $500 price tag is sure to turn off some potential owners.

Cybersecurity News Roundup: Huge Botnet Shut Down; Dropbox Hack; and Wall St. Tech Recruiter Attacked

This week's IT security news roundup features stories on the shutdown of the world's third-largest spam botnet; a possible hack of the Dropbox cloud-storage service; a Wall St. IT recruiting site that was attacked; and more.

AT&T Jumps on Shared Data Bandwagon with Confusing Choices

AT&T and Verizon are pushing customers toward shared data plans and AT&T's new shared options are a tangled web indeed. For most people, such plans are not a good deal, but in some cases they can give you an advantage.

How Businesses Can Get Consumers to Share Their Data

Consumers are increasingly aware of the value of their personal data to companies. But they're also willing to share so long as the information isn't too personal and they get something of value in exchange.

Pulse Shows Pros of Appliance Computing to Fight Fraud

Card transaction handler Pulse is investing in HP's appliance computing technology in an effort to make the battle against bank card fraud less expensive and more consumer-friendly. The company also saved considerably cost by moving away from Or

Tips on How IT Leaders Can Attract (and Retain) Millennials

Hiring and retaining millennials–young adults in their 20s–can be challenging for IT organizations that don't understand how to attract and engage them. While compensation remains important, millennials are really looking for social and fun wo

Camera Zoom FX for Android is Not Just Another Goofy Image-Editing App

The feature-packed Camera Zoom FX app for Android has a ton of valuable photography features, filters, and effects, and it’s well worth the current $3 price tag, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.