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Windows 7: 10 Cool Keyboard Shortcuts

For all you mouse-happy Windows 7 users who click the day away, save time with these 10 keyboard shortcuts for opening, moving, minimizing and switching between apps.

CRM: Playing the Percentages Correctly

In nearly every CRM system, Opportunities have percentages that correspond to the Sales Stages. Here's why they're almost always wrong — and what you can do to make them less misleading to management.

Google Chrome: 5 Must-Have Tips and Tricks

If you've ditched Internet Explorer for Chrome, you're probably enjoying the browser's clean look. Here are five ways to make your Google Chrome 6 browsing even better.

Microsoft Technology Centers Use Touch to Teach

Microsoft's Chicago tech center is using giant touch screens to inform customers on SharePoint and other Microsoft products.

Ban Offshoring By Order of Executive

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland issued an order that bans the state government from spending any public funds on offshore services.

Oracle Q1 Results: “I Love It When a Plan Comes Together”

Does CEO Larry Ellison finally have his "A-Team" assembled? The explosive Q1 fiscal returns show that his plan is working.

Microsoft to Customers: Beware Blind Love of Oracle Fusion

On the eve of Oracle OpenWorld, a Microsoft exec offers a bit of trash talk on Oracle's Fusion Apps and future ERP strategies.

Gartner: IT Spending Persists As CIOs Upgrade Infrastructure

Without waiting for any categorical confirmation if the global financial crisis has finally ended, global CIOs continue to upgrade their organization's IT infrastructure.

DEMO Fall 2010: 4 Cool Mobile Startups with an iPhone Twist

At the DEMO show this week, CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige found 4 mobile startups destined to make a splash in the iPhone apps and services world. Take a peek.

The End of Traditional IT Outsourcing: How It Impacts Customers

Cloud computing is threatening to kill the traditional IT outsourcing industry. Accenture's Kevin Campbell explains to CIO.com what this transformation of the traditional IT services industry means for outsourcing customers.

Cloud Disrupts Delivery Models: Change or Perish

Cloud is reshaping many delivery models. You can use this as a chance to reinvent your business, if you focus on true value and identify new opportunities — or you can watch cloud ruin a nice existing business.

New ‘Forrester Wave’ Chart: Tech Analyst Shocker

Move over Gartner Magic Quadrant guys: Forrester Research has a Wave diagram that has to be seen to be believed.

BlackBerry Battery Tips: How to Extend the Battery Life of Your BlackBerry Torch 9800

BlackBerry-maker RIM posted a handful of new battery-saving tips for the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 and its new OS, BlackBerry 6.

IE9: 5 Ways It Cuts Browser Clutter

Microsoft is going all out to integrate IE9, which debuted Wednesday in beta form, with Windows 7 user interface features. Take a look at the design and judge for yourself whether it's a cleaner, simpler browser.

DEMO Fall 2010: 4 Social Startups to Watch

Startup companies from around the world took the stage at this week's DEMO event, presenting their products and services for a shot at the $1 million prize. CIO.com's Kristin Burnham shares a look at her four picks for the most innovative a

How Social Technologies Can Kickstart Innovation

Today's Web 2.0 technologies foster collaboration and ignite business innovation, Forrester Research says. Are you helping move your company toward a "need to share" culture?

iPhone and Android Owners Most Sophisticated Apps Users

A Pew Internet Research Center survey underscores two types of smartphone users.

How a Project Manager Can Sleep Like a Baby

Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night worrying about your projects?

All That’s Old Is New Again in Enterprise Software

Vendors' cyclical game of repackaging the old is in style this season: Best of breed is back, baby!

Is “Game” To Be Called in India Vs. USA Outsourcing Match?

U.S. CTO Chopra attempts to allay concerns Indians have about the United States’ sentiment toward offshoring.

10 Ways To Know You’re in the Twitter Twilight Zone

Too many tweeple go to some bizarre dimension when using Twitter. Here are my favorite examples of Twitter behavior gone wrong.

7 New Windows 7 Tablets: In Pictures

Hardware makers both well known (HP and Asus) and obscure (Hanvon and Pegatron) are putting the final touches on Windows 7-based tablet PCs to take on the iPad and Android Tablets. Here's a slideshow of the most anticipated Windows tablets due o

Beyond Social Computing: Lessons For CIOs In The Empowered Era

Social Computing a stepping stone along the path to the empowered era.

Tech Jobs Grow During First Half of 2010

Job growth indicates that the technology industry is creeping out of the recession, according to a tech industry trade group.

The New Twitter: What’s Good and What’s Missing

Twitter rolled out a richer interface for users Tuesday — but did not include two features users have long sought. Here's a first look at what you'll get in the new Twitter and what you won't.

Smartphone Owners Will Pay for Apps, Hate Mobile Ads

PC users expect web content to be free, but to date, smartphone owners display a much different attitude about mobile content, according to a Nielsen study.

Will Android Smash the iPhone?

Android's dramatic rise threatens to topple iPhone supremacy. At the AppNation conference yesterday, much of the buzz was not about Apple.

Killer Computer Viruses

Criminal Web Mobs Responsible For Most Cyber Crime

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Uncomfortable Conversations

Bigotry is worse than ugly. It makes your teams less effective.

Why iPhone, Android Won’t “Replace” BlackBerry on Wall St. Anytime Soon

Wall St. bank JPMorgan is security testing iPhones and Android devices. But it's not time to say Bye-Bye, BlackBerry just yet.

Oracle OpenWorld 2010: Larry, Mark and Lots of Questions

This year's OpenWorld confab will feature Oracle's Mark Hurd — and plenty of customer questions. Will Oracle have good answers or just the usual verbal skewers?

CRM Records: Now Who’s the Dummy?

In most enterprise software, dummy records are a sign of data problems or sloppy thinking. Not so in CRM: dummy records can actually make the system smarter. Here's how to use them.

Four Best Practices To Get Your EA Program On Track

It's all too common to see enterprise architecture programs crash and burn because architects fail to convince key stakeholders of their value. Forrester shares four best practices to save your EA program from that fate.

How to Fix iPhone Outlook Calendar Problems

Why is it so hard to make Outlook calendars and contacts sync with an iPhone? CIO.com's Bill Snyder finds a workaround using Google Calendar and shares his tips.

4 Data Center Revamp Lessons from a College CIO

When Villanova University sought to improve IT readiness before the school year started, its CIO decided to move the entire data center to an offsite, third-party facility and rethink IT operations. Here he shares four lessons learned.

Brazil: An IT Outsourcing Alternative to India

Brazilian provider Stefanini is focused on North American market with IT outsourcing, consulting and systems integration.

Microsoft’s Cloud App Outages: Was Mea Culpa Enough?

Microsoft apologized for outages, but users may not tolerate them, especially as MS touts its enterprise muscle over Google's.

Carpe Diem SAP: Hit Oracle While It’s Dazed and Confused

The Hurd hiring tempest is only the latest in a string of reasons why SAP should attack Oracle now, while the getting is good.

Data Compliance and Cloud Computing Collide: Key Questions

On the crucial issue of data compliance, do you understand what you are responsible for versus your cloud service provider? One thing you don't want is a costly and labor-intensive manual audit mechanism, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

5 Strange Ways iPhones Die: Insurer Hears it All

What do toilets, beer and elevators have in common? They all send many iPhones to their death, says consumer electronics insurer Worth Ave. Group, which shared some unfortunate tales of iPhone disaster.

Apple Relaxes App Store Rules: Going Soft or Playing Safe?

Why did secrecy-loving Apple release App Store approval guidelines for developers? Fear of government oversight may be one reas

Google Instant Aims to Save Time, Distracts Instead

Wasting time with Google's new search, ironically, is easier than you'd think.

10 Ways To Know You’re in the Twitter Twilight Zone

Too many tweeple go to some bizarre dimension when using Twitter. Here are my favorite examples of Twitter behavior gone wrong.

Salesforce.com “Chatter” Mobile Collaboration Apps Coming Soon to BlackBerry, iOS, Android

Enterprise BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone users will soon get new apps for use with Salesforce.com's "Chatter."

Social Media, Sustainability Mark Future IT Manager

A new IBM Corp. global study of today's university and graduate students reveals unique Gen-Y traits that paint a profile of the IT manager of the future whose leadership strategy is built on an affinity for social networking and a global approa

4 Tips to Building a Better Wireless Network

Shoring up his wireless network to ride the mobile device wave, a CIO learns valuable lessons.

Windows Mobile Projected Growth Strong, but Won’t Match Android’s: IDC

Microsoft's mobile OS will still be in last place for worldwide smartphone market share in 2014, though it will gain while iPhone, BlackBerry and Symbian all decline, according to IDC. But Windows Mobile can't touch Android's growth, I

Offshoring: Ways to Reduce Your Risks When Congress, States Threaten Restrictions

Proposed bills in Congress and in state legislatures aim to discourage offshoring, but you can use your contracts to reduce the risk to your company if such measures are enacted.