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Only Big-League CIOs Join Corporate Earnings Conferences

Talking IT at your company's meetings with Wall Street analysts shows you've arrived. But you may be lonely.

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Pepwave Surf On-The-Go: The Swiss Army Knife of Travel Routers

The Pepwave Surf-On-The-Go is a versatile travel router that offers a variety of Internet sharing capabilities, making it a must-have gadget for frequent travelers and road warriors.

By Paul Mah

Feb 17, 2012 5 mins

Laptops Routers Smartphones

OS X Mountain Lion: Will Apple Crash the Windows 8 Party?

Apple has integrated OS X and iOS even more with Mountain Lion, which it will launch a month or so before Microsoft is set to release Windows 8. Nice timing Cupertino.

By Shane O'Neill

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Apple Small and Medium Business iPhone

ITC Rules in Apple’s Favor in HTC Dispute

HTC said it may appeal the decision

By Nancy Gohring

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Legal Mobile Small and Medium Business

Security in the Cloud Is All About Visibility and Control

When it comes to security in the cloud, organizations are confident in their cloud providers, but also and reluctant to expose certain types of data and applications, according to IT industry association CompTIA. Security vendors maintain the problem

By Thor Olavsrud

Feb 17, 2012 10 mins

Developer IT Strategy Private Cloud

Google: Third Oracle Damages Report has ‘fatal’ Flaws

The judge has said he won't set a trial date until Oracle submits an acceptable damages report.

By Chris Kanaracus

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Developer Enterprise Applications Legal

The Lowdown on Google’s Safari Tracking Cookies

A grad student has caught Google with its hand in the cookies jar.

By Brad Reed

Feb 17, 2012 5 mins

Enterprise Applications Internet Privacy

Apple Counts Down to 25 Billion Apps, Offers $10k App Store Prize

Apple, which launched its App Store in mid-2008, is on the verge of celebrating its 25 billionth app download and is dangling a $10,000 prize to one lucky customer.

By Bob Brown

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Enterprise Applications Mobile Small and Medium Business

Uncle Sam Wants IPads, and Maybe Androids

The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy as many as 18,000 tablet computers to serve as "electronic flight bags" that will replace the paper manuals and documents that air crews use today.

By Patrick Thibodeau

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Government IT Tablets

Crypto Researcher Arjen Lenstra Shares Thoughts on Paper Blasting RSA Cryptosystem

What a week for the RSA cryptosystem! A group of prominent researchers published a paper blasting it as woefully insecure, RSA said there's nothing wrong with the RSA algorithm, it's an implementation issue mainly with random-number key gen

By Ellen Messmer

Feb 17, 2012 4 mins

Security

IRS Warns of Dirty Dozen 2012 Tax Scams

The Internal Revenue Service this week issued its annual "Dirty Dozen" ranking of tax scams the agency says tend to surface around tax season each year.

By Michael Cooney

Feb 17, 2012 9 mins

Government Markets Security

Oracle Drops One of Its Patent Claims Against Google

The US Patent and Trademark Office had already rejected the claim

By Chris Kanaracus

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Developer Enterprise Applications Legal

Top Brands Dominate Google+ Growth Numbers

The number of Google+ fans for the site's top 100 brands grew at a 1,400% pace last month, but almost all of the new followers were concentrated in the top 10 brands on the social media site, according to a new report.

By Brandon Butler

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Internet Social Networking Apps Unified Communications

Slow Smartphone? it’s Not the Network, it’s NAND Flash

Bad performance can be blamed on flash memory rather than CPU or network bandwidth, a team of researchers have found.

By Lucas Mearian

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Smartphones Virtualization

Some of the worst consequences of terrorism come not from the real dangers that terrorism poses but in our efforts to defend ourselves from something that is incredibly hard to define and predict.

By Mark Gibbs

Feb 17, 2012 5 mins

Government IT Internet Social Networking Apps

Attackers have All They Need From Leaky Cellphone Networks to Track You Down

GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new University of Minnesota research.

By Bob Brown

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Security Wi-Fi

Twitter Finally Completes Redesign Rollout for All Users

Twitter this week finally wrapped up the rollout of a Twitter.com redesign first announced in December.

By Sharon Gaudin

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Internet Social Networking Apps Twitter

How to break down the OpEx vs. CapEx cloud computing debate

Cloud computing is too often reductively branded as an economic calculus that would trade a CapEx model for an OpEx model. But it's a little more complicated than that. Bernard Golden explains what we talk about when we talk about cloud computin

By Bernard Golden

Feb 17, 2012 7 mins

Budgeting CIO IT Strategy

The Decision to Strip Online Certificate Revocation Checks From Chrome is Misguided, Symantec Says

Symantec says that Google and other browser vendors should help fix OCSP instead of giving up on it

By Lucian Constantin

Feb 17, 2012 4 mins

Data and Information Security

Auditor: State’s HR Software System has Series of ‘material Weaknesses’

Issues with the SAP-based Kentucky Human Resources Information System are being addressed, according to officials

By Chris Kanaracus

Feb 17, 2012 4 mins

Developer ERP Systems Enterprise Applications

WSJ: Google Disregarded IPhone Privacy Settings

Google planted cookies on millions of iPhones despite settings in place from Apple

By Joab Jackson

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Browsers Privacy Small and Medium Business

Wall Street Beat: Tech Reaps Rewards of Market Surge

Tech-heavy Nasdaq hits 11 year high in wake of strong earnings season

By Marc Ferranti

Feb 17, 2012 5 mins

Technology Industry

Blue Coat Systems Taken Private for $1.3 Billion Cash

Security vendor Blue Coat Systems is once again a private company after the company's shareholders confirmed a December takeover that values the company at $1.3 billion (APS830 million).

By John E Dunn

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Networking Security

Two file-sharing sites that allegedly made hundreds of thousands of copyrighted ebooks available as free downloads have been forced to close, after a coalition of book publishers obtained an injunction against them.

By Sophie Curtis

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Internet Legal Security

Twitter Enables HTTPS By Default

Twitter has enabled secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) for all its users by default, meaning that traffic on the micro-blogging site is now encrypted, providing better protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.

By Sophie Curtis

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Encryption Social Networking Apps Twitter

Salesforce.com: ‘Cloud Computing Debate Is Over’ in Washington

With the federal government climbing on board with the cloud revolution, the important questions for service and application providers turn to issues surrounding security, architecture.

By Kenneth Corbin

Feb 17, 2012 4 mins

CRM Systems Government Government IT

Goldman Sachs IT Analyst ‘Caught Up in Major Investigation’

Henry King, a high profile IT analyst at Goldman Sachs, is reportedly under investigation for leaking insider trading information.

By Leo King

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Legal Security

MIT Offers Free Online Electronics Course

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is offering a free, undergraduate-level circuits and electronics course online, to virtual learners around the world.

By Anh Nguyen

Feb 17, 2012 2 mins

Careers

5 Ways CIOs Benefit From Facetime with Customers

CIOs who get out of the office and talk face-to-face with customers can bring back ideas for new products and better systems.

By Kim S. Nash

Feb 17, 2012 14 mins

CIO IT Skills IT Strategy

Did You Really Think Those iPhone Apps Were Free?

Of course iOS and Android developers want their apps to hijack your address book. There's money in it for them.

By Bill Snyder

Feb 17, 2012 3 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business iPhone

Hackers Hack Hackers’ Site

Information-leak site infected with Blackhole exploit kit

By Constantine von Hoffman

Feb 16, 2012 2 mins

Cybercrime Intrusion Detection Software Security

The Best Cities for Finding IT Jobs in 2012

With the help of three national IT staffing firms, CIO.com pinpointed eight U.S. cities that offer enterprising, mobile IT professionals the best chances of finding jobs. We also identified the industries in each of those markets that have the most o

By Meridith Levinson

Feb 16, 2012 5 mins

Careers IT Jobs

Quickoffice for Android Tablets: Productivity with a Touch of Pain

Quickoffice Pro HD lets you create and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" tablets—but not without a few compromises.

By James A. Martin

Feb 16, 2012 4 mins

Microsoft Office Office Suites Tablets

Readying Ethernet for the Converged Data Center

Ethernet has emerged as the dominant network protocol but it has to overcome several key limitations if it is to become the foundation of choice for the converged data center.

By Mark Teter, chief technology officer, Advanced Systems Group

Feb 16, 2012 7 mins

Data Center

TechAmerica Foundation: Governments Need to Get Into the Cloud

The cloud is being pitched as the best way to do more with less, but government agencies are slow to modernize, California official stresses

By Paul Krill

Feb 16, 2012 3 mins

Cloud Computing Government

IT Takes Wait-and-Hope Approach to Apple Mac Mountain Lion

Apple OS X Mountain Lion for Macs promises both benefits and costs for IT groups. Mac experts are looking forward to delving into the preview release and hoping for some Apple tools to support deployments later this year.

By John Cox

Feb 16, 2012 6 mins

Enterprise Applications IT Leadership Wi-Fi

RSA Brushes Off Crypto Research Findings That RSA Algorithm is Flawed

After having its flagship RSA crypto system called flawed this week by prominent researchers in a paper they made available online, EMC's RSA security division struck back by saying the paper's results don't indicate a fundamental flaw

By Ellen Messmer

Feb 16, 2012 5 mins

Security

Five Exciting App Changes in Mountain Lion

Though Mountain Lion snuck onto the scene just this morning–big cats are sly like that–I've already discovered a few delightful details about the apps in Apple's upcoming OS update for the Mac, thanks to editorial director Jason Snell&#03

By Serenity Caldwell

Feb 16, 2012 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Operating Systems

McCain, GOP Vow Alternative Cybersecurity Bill

Arizona Republican blasts bipartisan cybersecurity bill for DHS authority, new regulations on private sector operators.

By Kenneth Corbin

Feb 16, 2012 6 mins

Government Government IT Regulation

8 Tips to Defend Against Online Financial Fraud Threats

Criminals are increasingly seeking to hijack the accounts of business owners and executives to initiate fraudulent wire transfers that can cost organizations a fortune. Here are eight steps you can take to defend your organization against such attack

By Thor Olavsrud

Feb 16, 2012 6 mins

Cybercrime Data and Information Security Phishing

Government Moves Toward Cloud Computing ‘Perfect Storm’

As FedRAMP initiative ramps up, cloud service providers can look forward to clearer guidance from federal clients and a robust market as administration tech chiefs press on toward a 'Perfect Storm' in cloud computing.

By Kenneth Corbin

Feb 16, 2012 5 mins

Government Government IT Regulation

How to Manage a Distributed Development Team

Managing developers is always a challenge, but supervising a distributed development team adds complications and costs. However, with consistency and a little (OK, a lot) of communication, it's a proven approach that can — among other things —

By Joe Brockmeier

Feb 16, 2012 6 mins

Developer Mentoring Remote Work

Accurate Sales Forecasts and Other CRM Fantasies

Every company needs a sales forecast, but generating sound growth projections is devilishly hard, and accuracy depends on rethinking old forecasting processes.n

By David Taber

Feb 16, 2012 6 mins

Business Intelligence CRM Systems SaaS

Cisco to EU: Dig Deeper on Microsoft-Skype Buy

Cisco is asking the European Commission to demand more standards-based video interoperability as part of approving Microsoft's acquisition of Skype.

By Shane O'Neill

Feb 15, 2012 2 mins

Internet Internet Service Providers SaaS

Free Microsoft OneNote for Android App Mostly Pleases

Microsoft recently released a free Android version of its popular note-taking desktop software application OneNote. The new Android edition makes it easy to capture notes on the go, but some key features are missing.

By James A. Martin

Feb 15, 2012 2 mins

Microsoft Office Small and Medium Business Smartphones

NBA, NHL Stop Making BlackBerry Apps; Is MLB Next?

More bad news for RIM and its customers: The NBA and NHL both stopped making official BlackBerry sports applications for the 2011/2012 seasons, and MLB could also soon cease to offer its official baseball app. Dwindling developer support for BlackBer

By Al Sacco

Feb 15, 2012 4 mins

Enterprise Applications Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Hands-On Look at CRU-DataPort’s RTX100-3SJ Portable HDD Enclosure

On the lookout for a fast, high-quality external enclosure for your stack of 3.5-inch SATA hard disks drives? The CRU-DataPort RTX100-3SJ may just be what the doctor ordered.

By Paul Mah

Feb 15, 2012 3 mins

Apple Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Obama Budget Ups DHS Cybersecurity Spending as Congress Considers Expanding Agency Private Sector Authority

Timing of funding boost for Homeland Security seems a little more than coincidental

By Constantine von Hoffman

Feb 15, 2012 2 mins

Cybercrime Regulation Windows Security

Top 10 Celebrity Tech Mishaps and Lessons Learned from Them

Sexting aside, celebrities often fall victim to a lot of bonehead mistakes with technology that CIOs are just as guilty of. Here are 10 examples of famous gaffes by famous people and tips for how to avoid making them yourself.

By Lauren Brousell

Feb 15, 2012 6 mins

Consumer Electronics Social Networking Apps Twitter