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Cloud Computing: Advice for Application Control Freaks

The whole point of cloud computing is to easily leverage services you don't have to build and operate yourself. How do you make sure that the things you depend on will really be there over time?

IT Outsourcing in Latin America: Hot Hot Hot!

HP scores $100 million deal with Coca-Cola in Mexico as the region’s outsourcing market grows up and up.

Free Android Apps: 11 Great Utilities for Your Google Phone

You can never have too many Android apps…especially when they're free. Here are 11 downloads that deserve a spot on your device, each designed to add functionality to your Google phone and enhance your overall Android experience.

Inside The Next Generation Vendor Management Office

How will your vendor management group do more for the business in the next few years? Consider this expert advice from Forrester Research.

Anti-Virus Software Driving You Mad? 5 Fight-Back Tips

Last week some Windows users struggled through unexpected PC slowdowns due to a security program bundled in with a Java update. Security programs still hog PC resources and pose annoyances — but here's expert advice on how you can regain contro

5 Gotta Have Social Media Apps

Vulture Or Venture? These VCs Are All Right

To many in the business community they are "vulture capitalists," not venture capitalists. VCs — their critics contend — seize opportunities improperly, and exploit the weaknesses they detect in people they are dealing with. But a recent

Three CIO Forums for Peer-to-Peer Resources

CIOs find guidance from their peers to be of the highest value. Here are three forums provided by CIO magazine where CIOs can connect with one another.

What We’re Reading from the April 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Books, blogs and research about IT, management and research

Making Space for Creative Thinking

CIO magazine Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson reflects on our April 1 cover story and the ways technology can hinder or aid strategic decision making.

Cloud Computing: Will Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk Platform Appeal to Enterprise CIOs?

With Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon.com enters the platform-as-a-service market with a product designed to lure more enterprise CIOs as customers.

5 Awesome iPad Productivity Tools for Under $5

Do you take notes in meetings? Get people to sign electronic documents? Write long missives? These economical and under-the-radar productivity apps will make your job a little easier.

You Can’t Use a Smartphone for Everything

The types of devices you give your colleagues and the way you deliver data have an impact on how they understand information. Business-focused CIOs learn how people in their organizations think, so they can apply the right technology to spark better

Make IT Innovation Everyone’s Job

How JetBlueu2019s CIO instills a culture of innovation throughout his IT organization

Integrating Social Media Is Hard to Do

CIOs want to integrate social media updates with enterprise CRM systems, but the tools to do so are still emerging

Does Obama Really Have an Internet Kill Switch?

Cybersecurity may be top of mind for Congress this year, but the whole u2018kill switchu2019 thing is overblown and thereu2019s much more on the table.

Facebook Questions: 4 Warnings Before You Start

Facebook started rolling out the updated Questions platform to all users yesterday. But before you try it, consider some privacy, search and online reputation issues.

Teach Young Workers to Be Business Thinkers

Train employees how to think about using data, not just how to use IT systems

BlackBerry PlayBook to Run Android Apps: What It Means to You

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will support certain Google Android applications, but performance could be an issue. Here's expert analysis on what this news means to you–as a PlayBook owner, software developer or IT administrator–from C

Three Ways Royal Caribbean Has Embraced Mobile, Made Customers Happy

Managing multiple mobile devices can yield headaches from security issues and make development confusing. But the payoff for customer-service reps is worth the effort.

Can a Smartphone App Juice the Market for Electric Cars?

A maker of charging stations bets a mobile app will help convince consumers and business partners to put faith in new vehicles

The Tech CIOs Are Paying For

CIOu2019s latest tech priorities survey suggests cloud and mobile continue to be in high demand

Words Enterprise Architects should only speak in whispers

Attention enterprise architects: Showing how smart you are is a losing proposition

BlackBerry “Enterprise Activation” App Enables Wireless BES Activation on Personal Data Plans

A new, free app lets BlackBerry admins wirelessly connect employees' personal smartphones to some versions of BES.

Facebook Quick Tip: Enable Encryption to Avoid New Privacy Glitch

Some Facebook traffic this week took a misguided trip from AT&T servers through China and South Korea, exposing some user data. To protect yourself against such glitches, here's how to enable Facebook's HTTPS feature.

The ‘Gentle Evolution’ in Finance

Boris Groysberg, associate professor at Harvard Business School, collaborated with search firm Heidrick & Struggles to produce the March cover story for Harvard Business Review, "The New Path To the C-Suite." Recently, Groysberg and Jer

Server Virtualization: 6 Management Myths

Hint: You don't really know what hypervisors you're running, or what it all costs. Consider some expert advice on 6 common management mistakes.

iPhone: The World’s Most Popular Camera, Says Geekaphone

Here are six picture perfect apps and three cool photos that support their finding.

Age Discrimination in IT: What Would You Do?

If you possess more experience than necessary for a job, should you scale back your experience to avoid automatic rejection?

Cloud CIO: 3 Private Cloud Use Case Scenarios

Organizations looking to deploy private clouds must understand where they're headed. A development cloud is an appropriate start, but consider these three scenarios for how use of your cloud will evolve — for better or for worse, says CIO.com&#

Emerging iPhone, iPad 2 App Enables Remote Surveillance

A new iPad app aims to give soldiers on the street a bird's eye view of the combat zone.

Microsoft Windows Intune: Better Way to Manage PCs?

Microsoft just launched Windows Intune, a Web-based service to let IT manage chores including updates, service packs, inventory and security. Will Windows Intune, aimed at companies with 25 to 500 PCs, save money on management costs?

Enterprise Collaboration Tools: 4 Ways to Achieve More Value

Two-thirds of businesses don't reap the desired range of benefits from enterprise collaboration tools, according to a Forrester Research report. Here are four pieces of expert advice on how to drive adoption and capture greater results.

Amazon Appstore for Android: 5 Reasons to Love It–And 4 to Hate It

Trying to decide whether to download Amazon's new Appstore for Android mobile devices? Check out these five reasons to install the software now–and four reasons why you might want to pass, as CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco sees it.

Avoid 3 Cloud App Development Sand-Traps

Done wrong, cloud software projects can subject you to all the pitfalls of traditional software projects. Consider these three no-no's carefully.

Will Offshore IT Prices Rise? Yep!

There are rumblings that Indian IT outsources are raising prices by about 5 percent.

10 iPhone and iPad Apps to Download, Then Delete

Some of the best iPhone and iPad apps are seasonal or have a short shelf life — that is, they fill a fleeting need. So go ahead and download these apps, then delete them when you're finished. It's okay, really.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0.3 Expected This Week: 9 Key Features

With BlackBerry administrators and corporate smartphone users in mind, CIO.com's Al Sacco breaks down the most valuable features in the soon to be released BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0 Service Pack 3.

How to Network: More Tips for Shy People

Introverts are often better at networking than most people think. In fact, their perceived weaknesses may actually be great strengths when it comes to forging new and lasting professional connections.

CRM: Avoid 3 User Identity Mistakes

Putting customers aside for once, let's talk about your users who log in and work with CRM systems daily. Are you making any of these three big mistakes while managing user identities?

Future of CIO Role: Drive the Business or Face Career Stall

Forrester's IT Forum 2011: Helping to put IT leaders in the driver seat

Salary Negotiation Lessons Learned from Hiring a Nanny

Hiring managers should always ask job seekers whether they're entertaining other job interviews or offers. It's about leverage.

Android Apps: 9 Best, Free Social Networking Choices

Share, save and savor all things social with these nine free Google Android apps, hand-picked by CIO.com's mobile maestro, Al Sacco.

Your Next Project: Managing By Projects

If you feel like you are overburdened by projects, you probably are not alone. During my 13 years in the finance profession, cross-functional teams have evolved from a major change initiative to a part of everyday working life. I still remember my fi

Switching Outsourcing Providers: 10 Tips

IT leaders are doing as much re-sourcing–bringing work back in-house or transferring it to a new provider–as they are signing new outsourcing deals. But "recompeting" an IT services deal isn't simple: Consider this expert advice befo

Firefox 4: 3 Ways It Beats IE and Chrome Browsers

The browser wars are back with a vengeance, which means your choices keep on coming: Firefox 4 hits this week. CIO.com's Bill Snyder breaks down several features that will wow you.

Gmail Tips: 10 Features to Try Now

How e-mail savvy are you? We've sifted through Gmail's many customization features, from remote sign-out to keyboard shortcuts, to find the best time and aggravation savers.

Wake Up Microsoft: Tablet Users Like You, They Really Do

Forrester reports that iPad competitors are in trouble, but that users are surprisingly in favor of a Windows tablet.

IBM Finds Outsourcing Work in India

IBM has hooked a mega, 10-year deal with an Indian manufacturer of automotive systems.

Android Quick Tip: How to Move Files on Your Google Phone

Move music, images, documents and other files around your Google Android smartphone using this simple, five-step process.