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Exclusive Research Shows CIOs Embrace Consumerization of IT

With BlackBerry and Apple still leading the pack, and tablets and Android rising in the ranks, CIOs surveyed by CIO magazine are widely supporting employee-owned devices

Holiday Shopper Beware: Smartphone Thieves Are Getting Smarter

It's beginning to look a lot like a mobile Christmas, and Grinch-like phone thieves will be out and about. Here are tips on how to keep your smartphone and data safe.

Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Player: How They Stack Up

The newest player in the cloud-based music space — Google Music — is stirring the pot with a number of competitive specs. How does it stack up to Amazon's popular Cloud Player? CIO.com's Kristin Burnham takes a look.

IT Loses Control–and That’s Okay

As users discover and attain access to software and services that empower them to do things that used to require IT intervention, IT has to change.

LinkedIn Tip: Digitize Business Cards with CardMunch

LinkedIn is re-launching CardMunch, an iPhone app that scans business cards and turns them into contacts you can connect with on LinkedIn. Here’s how it works, along with some new features.

Explorers, Servants, and Players

Continuing our exploration of CEO types from last week, here are three more – explorers, servants, and players – to help you figure out who you're really working for and how they think.

Resume Makeover: How to Write an IT Executive Resume

In CIO.com's latest IT resume makeover, certified professional resume writer and career coach Ross Macpherson shows how to write a resume that will get qualified IT managers interviews for executive-level IT jobs.

iPhone App Spotlight: SecureSafe

Where do you keep your list of passwords on your iPhone? If you're not using an app like SecureSafe, you should.

Hottest Tablets for Your Holiday Wishlist

Tablet PCs have become the must-have holiday gift. This year though, Apple's iPad is no longer the only tablet on the market with significant "wow factor." CIO.com's Al Sacco presents a list of the best tablets available for this

How to Achieve Global ERP

IFS North America CTO Rick Veague explores why companies aim to achieve global ERP and the challenges and benefits of attaining that goal.

Cartoon Company Uses Cloud Computing to Reduce Data Center Costs

Cookie Jar Entertainment, a producer and distributor of children's cartoons, turned to cloud computing in 2008 to meet the company's growing computing needs without having to grow its data centers.

4G Promises: Are Wireless Carriers Pulling a Fast One?

Verizon LTE wins speed tests, but the download speed of your “4G” phone, no matter what carrier, depends on wireless standards and location more than you think.

Android’s Success Makes It a Malware Magnet

Google's smartphone OS is now a much bigger security risk than Apple's iPhone

Poll: What Does the Future Hold for Windows Phone?

Do the sunny forecasts for Windows Phone hold water or is Microsoft's mobile OS just dead in the water?

Analytics Help Police Stop Crime Before it Happens

Two California cities are pioneers in "predictive policing." Analysis of historical crime data produces digital maps that show officers where to patrol to prevent burglaries and vehicle thefts.

Apple Readies for Holiday Bonanza

What gadget tops your holiday wish list? A Siri-speaking iPhone 4S? A shiny, new iPad 2? Or maybe you're hoping for an ultra-thin MacBook Air.

Why Law Enforcement Can’t Stop Hackers

The threat that criminal hackers pose to corporate and government information systems has spiked in the past five years, according to the FBI, and shows no signs of abating. The worst part: Law enforcement is virtually powerless in cracking down on c

Robocall Hell: Debt Collectors and Marketers Want Your Cell Number

A bill sneaking through Congress would make it easier for bottom-feeding businesses to make robocalls to your cell phone. Don't let them.

Google Ad Accidentally Shows What’s Wrong with Passwords

Google's marketing push around online safety would be more impressive if its example of a good password wasn’t so bad.

Poll: Do You Care If Your Gadget Maker is “Green”?

Vote in our poll to let us know what role electronics makers' environmental friendliness efforts play in your decision to purchase new gadgets, if any.

The IT Consumerization Grief Process

IT groups must go through a "grief process" when they are pushed by users to adopt a consumer product, and IT has to recognize that there's really no choice–and that the end result is almost always the same.

More CFOs Become ‘Chief Sustainability Officers’

The CFO's responsibilities are ever-increasing — with finance chiefs sometimes overseeing everything from IT to corporate counsel to HR. Now, add the sustainability effort to their workload at more and more corporations.

Company Docs in the Cloud: the Risks and Rewards

DropBox, GoogleDocs, Microsoft Office 365, SkyDox … the field of companies urging you to put your documents in the cloud is growing by the minute. Appealing as this concept might seem, CFOs and IT teams have to take a step back and evaluate the ben

BlackBerry Tip: How to Avoid a “Bricked” or “Nuked” BlackBerry

CIO.com's Al Sacco offers advice on one way to help ensure you never find yourself with a BlackBerry that's stuck in an endless reboot cycle or frozen on a BlackBerry error screen.

iPhone Battery’s Bad Rap

Has iPhone 4S battery life got you down? Stop complaining. The new iPhone is the torchbearer for battery life among smartphones.

How to Protect Your Smartphone from Bad Apps

Antivirus software maker McAfee released a set of five new tips to help ensure that your smartphone remains secure and free of potentially harmful mobile applications.

iPad Invasion: Get Ready or Get Out of the Way

Is Microsoft Too Big to Fail?

As long as Microsoft keeps bringing home the bacon from its business software and investing in the right markets (cloud, phones, tablets) its victories will edge out its screw-ups.

“Face Unlock” Feature Another Android Security Risk

The "Face Unlock" feature in Google's new Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" OS can reportedly be "tricked" into unlocking a user's device with an image of the device owner's face.

BlackBerry Sure Ain’t “Green”: RIM Blasted by Greenpeace

Greenpeace included BlackBerry-maker RIM for the first time in its Guide to Greener Electronics, which ranks electronics manufacturers on a variety of sustainability efforts. Unfortunately, RIM took the last slot out of 15 leading gadget makers, sign

LinkedIn Tip: How to Find the Right Group for You

With more than 1 million LinkedIn Groups around, finding the one that best suits your needs can be quite a challenge. But now, with LinkedIn's new Groups Statistics dashboard, you have all the help you need to make an informed decision. Here&#03

How to Reevaluate Outsourcing Contracts Best Practices

In order to effectively address contractual protections for threats existing in today's environment Forrester urges sourcing professionals to consider variations on time-honored outsourcing contractual best practices.

Federated Cloud Strategies: What CIOs Need to Know

As cloud computing adoption skyrockets and business functions increasingly look to external cloud providers to provision IT services, CIOs need to consider federated cloud strategies to integrate and manage this mixed bag of cloud computing environme

Firefox 8 Upgrade: Mostly Ho Hum

Mozilla keeps cranking out new versions of its browser. Firefox 8 won't knock your socks off, but it has a few new features that make it worth the upgrade.

iPad at Work, Kindle Fire at Play

Despite some overlap, the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire are very different devices: One travels in a backpack or briefcase, the other sits nicely on a nightstand.

Facebook Updates News Feed; Tests New Buttons

Facebook users will soon be able to revert to the old News Feed design, which shows most recent stories first instead of top stories. In addition, users may notice new "Read" and "Listen" buttons appearing in the Ticker. Here&#039

Competitors, mechanics, referees, and economists

Different types of business executive have very different goals, which depend on what angle they view their world from. As an IT leader, you have to know which type you're dealing with.

AutoDesk Brings 3D Printing to Your Desktop

AutoDesk has launched two impressive desktop apps that allow you to convert pictures into a digital file that can be printed as a plastic or metal model, and also convert a computer model into a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.

Making Mobile Manageable: What You Need to Ask

If you're not looking for an enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solution already, you're behind the curve. Here are six key questions to consider when searching for an MDM provider, from CIO.com blogger Mark Gibbs.

Microsoft’s Greatest Successes and Biggest Failures

Give Microsoft credit; it never does anything small. Its successes rock the world. And when it screws up, it screws up big time.

As CFO Cites Woes, GM Pares Profit Target

General Motors Co. is pointing to its European operations as a trouble spot as it reports lower earnings, and CFO Dann Ammann says the company "obviously [has] significant macroeconomic challenges to address there."

Strategies for Pruning Data in the Cloud

In terrestrial systems, you don't think about disk space. In the clouds, you have to, if you don't it will cost you.

How to Find Out What Employees Really Think

Sentiment analysis software, often used for monitoring customer opinions, can also be used to analyze email and intranets to gauge employee morale. But be forewarned: Employees may see it as Big Brother surveillance.

What Adobe’s Decision to Kill Mobile Flash Means to You

Adobe has decided to do away with mobile Flash. CIO.com's Al Sacco explains what the news means to mobile users, developers and platform makers.

Microsoft’s Greatest Successes and Biggest Failures

Give Microsoft credit; it never does anything small. Its successes rock the world. And when it screws up, it screws up big time.

U.S. Admits Its Cyber Security Sucks and Hopes White Hat Hackers Will Ride to Its Aid

DARPA seeks expert public help to blunt attacks from Russia, China and others

iPhone Dev Sneaks Malware Into Apple App Store, Feels Swift Wrath of Cupertino

An iOS security researcher who submitted a tainted iPhone application meant to expose a weakness in Apple's App Store security process has been suspended from Apple's developer program. And rightly so—he violated clear terms of ser

Can Windows Play Well on the iPad?

A new Citrix SDK helps Windows software developers solve a big problem: How to extend desktop apps to the iPad and iPhone in a way that doesn't turn off mobile users.

Cloud Computing and the Truth About SLAs

SLAs don't provide much protection against cloud-related outages, writes CIO.com blogger Bernard Golden. They merely credit customers against the cost of a service. To prevent outages, IT departments would better spend their time planning appli

Google+ Pages: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Signing Up

Business and brands are flocking to Google+ after the announcement of Google+ Pages. Here's what you and your business should know about the new feature, and how to remedy problems you may have already encountered.