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BlackBerry PlayBook Security Tips: How to Protect Your Tablet

Boost your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet security and protect your personal privacy with these simple tips and tricks, from CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco.

Office 365 Tips: Adding a Registered Domain Name

Adding your registered domain name to Office 365 lets you use your domain with the cloud service's e-mail, instant messaging, and Web hosting capabilities, and create new users. Here are detailed tips on how to get this done.

Closing the Innovation Gap

How do we close the gap between business demand for innovation and technology and centralized IT's ability to deliver it?

Do You Need An IT Execution Plan For Social Business Strategy?

CIOs should assess the organization's current social maturity and position IT to successfully support a social business strategy

How to Shrink The Data Center: 4 Lessons Learned

The business that manages New York City's hospitals consolidates 11 data centers into two facilities, dispensing with two-thirds of their physical servers for a predicted savings of $70 million over 5 years. Consider these four tips.

The Tech Tug-of-War

This week, I interviewed Joel Feldman, senior director of financial planning and analysis at baked goods company Otis Spunkmeyer. He talked about the move from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to a SaaS-based system for budgeting. Interestingly, he said

CFOs Will Start Hiring — When Results Surge

A survey of large-company CFOs suggests that they are waiting for proof of a solid economic turnaround — in the results in their own companies — before committing to major hiring.

iPhone Location Tracking Draws Fire, Shrugs

Tech analysts differ on the seriousness of the iPhone location-tracking controversy.

Facebook’s Constant Tweaks: 5 Ways to Stay Up to Date

For Facebook users, the only constant is change: The social network tweaks its security and privacy settings and features all the time. Check out these five official Facebook groups that help keep you in the know.

How to Craft Actionable Business Strategy from the Bottom Up

While most business architects might prefer a top-down approach to strategy development, this doesn't often happen. Follow these three steps to crafting better strategy, Forrester Research's Jeff Scott advises.

Microsoft Waits on Tablets: Better Late Than Buggy

As Android tablets and the RIM Playbook gain little ground against the iPad, Microsoft's waiting game is looking smarter.

ROT (“Relationships Outlive Transactions”) turned upside down

Trying to impress someone almost always backfires, and in multiple directions.

Two Open-Source Cloud Standards: What It Means to You

VMware's new CloudFoundry platform emerged last week, marking a new alternative to the existing OpenStack standard. What's really going on here and what does it mean to your cloud migration plans?

iPhone App Spotlight: Chaikin Power Tools for Stock Traders

The Chaikin Power Tools iPhone app delivers real-time stock data and analytics to your fingertips for free.

Which Comes First: The Pursuit of Happiness or Success?

Success won't necessarily make you happy, but happiness will lead you to success, brain research shows.

Outsourcing: IT Customers Disappointed With Results

A survey of IT and business executives reveals that they're not achieving their desired results from outsourcing, and many of them blame their own management practices for outsourcing's ineffectiveness.

Why Your Negative Outlook is Killing Your Career

Bad news, pessimists: A growing body of scientific research reveals an indisputable connection between a positive attitude and career success. Take these five actions to start seeing your glass as half-full and watch your productivity and prospects r

Material Boys: Tech CEOs with the Highest Net Worth

Many CEOs make the big bucks, but when you're the top exec of a technology giant and can exercise stock options, your wealth can reach the stratosphere. Led by a couple of guys named Larry, each of these eight tech CEOs has a net worth that will

Best Android Widgets: 19 Apps With a Personal Touch

CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco handpicks 19 must-have Android widgets. With these apps you can put just the data you want onto your Android device's home screen. And most are free.

My First 48 Hours with iPad 2: One CIO’s Story

One CIO who has already made the iPad a critical part of his organization shares what he liked – and still wished for – after his first couple of days with the iPad 2. Read on for his take on FaceTime, Apple's not-so "smart" cover, an

Why You Don’t Need a Cloud Computing Strategy

You must view cloud computing as part of a complete IT strategy, argues Peder Ulander, CMO of Cloud.com. He shares five guidelines to use as you identify the right areas for cloud adoption your business.

Social Networks: A New Hotbed for Hiring Discrimination Claims

As corporate recruiters and hiring managers turn to social networking websites to source and screen candidates for jobs, what constitutes illegal discrimination? Find out what information about job seekers gleaned from social networking websites you

Cisco Kills the Flip Camera, Consumers Ask Why

The death of the Flip is a good lesson in how the technology industry really works, and how your interests as a consumer of technology are not always the same as that of Cisco or other Silicon Valley giants.

IBM’s Growing Outsourcing Business in India

IBM lands another big outsourcing deal with a company in India; this time with PepsiCo.

Two-Faced: Taking Facebook Studies in Stride

With new contradictory reports and claims popping up daily, here's why the findings shouldn't shock you.

PlayBook Tablet: Why You Don’t Need a BlackBerry for E-Mail

Think you need to own a BlackBerry smartphone to employ RIM's new PlayBook tablet? Think again. Al Sacco clears up the confusion

The Godfather of Gore on Project Management, Part II

Making movies is project management, and has a lot in common with what IT does. But not everything.

Risk Management in Cloud Computing

The rewards of cloud computing can be tremendous if the risks are well managed. E-Com Canada's Sri Prakash discusses how best to manage the risk when planning to move assets to the cloud.

Don’t Buy Into the Cloud-Based Call Center–Yet

The fully cloud-enabled call center is a few years off, but that isn't preventing vendors from pitching their "call center in the cloud" solutions. Here's what's really available today and five questions you should ask yourse

Q&A: Cisco CIO Offers Tips for Talkin’ Business

In this Q&A, Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby shares advice on how IT pros can translate technology needs into business terms, manage the devices employees bring to the office and make a variety of collaboration tools work together.

When Recruiting is a ‘Growth Business’

External growth — especially the kind that takes a company into new markets — usually means adding headcount in finance, too. And that exercise has been front-and-center for CFO Mark Castaneda since he joined Primo Water in March 2008.

Cloud CIO: The Next Generation Cloud Offering

Recent announcements from Facebook and VMware reflect how profoundly cloud computing will change the nature of corporate IT in the future. CIO.com's Bernard Golden discusses what the takeaways from these announcements are for cloud CIOs.

Google Apps: 5 Hidden Calendar Tools and Tricks

Think you know your way around Google Calendar? These five tips will help you quickly maneuver your appointments, easily reschedule events and collaborate more efficiently.

Leaked BlackBerry Roundup: Torch2 9810; Storm3/Touch 98xx; Bold Touch 99xx

CIO.com's BlackBerry black belt Al Sacco has the latest leaked information — technical specifications, images and video — on three of the most interesting upcoming Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphones.

10 Must-Have Facebook Apps and Add-Ons

Are you a Facebook user and a music- or movie-buff? Can't wait for an official "Dislike" button? Or always looking to identify connections who've "unfriended" you? If so, download these 10 must-have Facebook apps and add

Android Market Tips: How to Boost Your Google App Store Experience

Get the most out of Google's official Android mobile software shop, and learn how to find the right apps for you, better manage software and share noteworthy downloads via these 10 simple Android Market tips.

Project Management: 5 Characteristics of ‘Transformational’ PMOs

A new report from Forrester Research describes the characteristics of next-generation project management offices with real-world advice from leading PMO directors on how to get there.

Gartner Tablet Forecast Oddly Overlooks Microsoft

Research firm Gartner omits Microsoft from a recent four-year tablet forecast after predicting a Windows Phone 7 surge for the same time period. But can a smartphone succeed today without a tablet counterpart?

5 characteristics of ‘transformational’ PMOs

Epsilon E-Mail Hack: How You Can Protect Yourself

Hacking has long since ceased to be about juvenile fun and games, modern hackers are out to make money. Here's a look at how the bad guys use your information and how you can protect yourself.

6 Biggest Cloud Computing Myths

Think you know whatu2019s great, or not, about the cloud? Donu2019t be so sure

How Cloud Computing Rose From Lehman Brothers’ Ashes

The inside story of how Lehman Brothers is being dismantled in the cloud

CIO Magazine Goes All Cloud, No Fluff

Editor in chief of CIO magazine Maryfran Johnson shares highlights from our special cloud computing issue.

The Hype Was Right on Cloud Computing

Michael Friedenberg, President and CEO of IDG Enterprise, shares data from our recent survey on cloud computing that shows actual adoption is well under way.

How Cloud Computing Promotes Business Growth

For Coty, IHG, Synaptics and Lojas Renner, using cloud computing is a key part of a strategy to expand business operations and increase profits.

Why Cloud Computing Is Not Just a New Name for Outsourcing

When you can buy a sever for 12 cents an hour it changes everything about how you run your IT department

What the Cloud Really Costs: Do You Know?

14 ways CIOs under estimate the costs of cloud computing

How the Cloud Can Turn Toxic

Technology attorney Matthew Karlyn tells CIOs how to avoid poisonous cloud contracts

iPad 2: 5 Lessons

What I learned after a week on the iPad 2.

The 5 Ps of Career Management: A Framework for Making Career Decisions

Five criteria for simplifying the process of determining whether a particular career move is right for you.