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Monster.com Data Breach: Share Your Reaction

The Fragile Facebook Economy: Developers Struggle As Rules Change

Among the more than 650,000 developers who make a living in the ecosystem around Facebook, resentment is brewing. A redesign to the service several months ago has made it tougher to recruit new app users and make money. But Facebook says third-party

Free BlackBerry Downloads: Five (More) Essential Apps

There's no shortage of free BlackBerry downloads for your RIM smartphone. The real challenge is not simply locating freebies, it's finding quality free BlackBerry software. That's why we put our thumbs to the keyboard and came up with

Microsoft’s Financial Troubles Least of Our Concerns, IT Managers Say

IT managers are shrugging off Microsoft's recent layoffs and poor earnings. Yet they remain critical of Microsoft's poor handling of Vista, at a time when their loyalty is being put to the test by Mac and Linux alternatives.

5 Things Mark Shuttleworth Has Learned about Organizational Change

The open source leader and founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution explains the elements that can inspire innovation and change the world–or at least your small piece of it.

Monster.com Data Breach Threatens Job Search Sites’ Effectiveness

The data breach Monster.com disclosed late last week raises the question of whether job seekers will become more reluctant to share their work histories and contact information on job boards and job search sites, making the sites less effective for a

Do Boards Think a CIO’s Aim is to Influence Spending?

Apple’s MacBook Air Laptop Has New Rival in Dell’s Adamo

Apple's claim on "world's thinnest notebook" no longer true.

Super Bowl XLIII: Tech Vendors Pass on $3 Million Ad Spots

Every Super Bowl has some splashy TV ads, but don't look for many this year from tech vendors. The gloomy economy is keeping even the tech giants on the Super Bowl sidelines. At the same time, Nortel and Satyam's recent fumbles have affecte

Hiring Software Developers: The Agile Aptitude Test

Menlo Innovations' Richard Sheridan and Lisamarie Babik explain how "extreme interviewing" can help hiring managers choose Agile developers who are ready to apply its principles.

Top Three Outsourcing Initiatives for 2009

It is a good time to look at outsourcing as a means nto cut costs, launch new business ventures, and improve efficiencies.

How Does IT Develop ‘Business Intimacy’?

Windows Live and Office Live Merge, But I’m Still Confused About What They Do

Career Advice from a Software Developer, a Search Engine Marketing Expert and Squawkfox

Open Source ERP Applications: They’re Real and They’re Spectacular

Protecting Your Identity In Your Job Search

Microsoft “SkyMarket”: Not a Cheesy Airline Catalog, a New Mobile App Store

Don’t Want to Throw Out Your Old Mac Computer? You Aren’t Alone.

Macs are so cool that people are discovering innovative ways of reusing them when they upgrade to a new computer because they're too attached to let the machines rot in a landfill.

SaaS Success: Four Recent Deals Show It’s Working for Davids and Goliaths

Apple to Sue Palm Over Pre Multi-Touch Tech? Much Ado, Much Too Soon

Lessons Learned from People Who’ve Quit Google

Microsoft Layoffs, Earnings Woes: They Can’t ‘Windows’ Their Way Out of This

Social Networking Sites a Hotbed for Cybercrime

The distribution of malware on social networking sites first occurred in small amounts towards the end of 2007, but that trend appears to be on the rise.

Evaluating Agile Software Development Programs

Agile development used to be relegated to small-scope software development projects. No longer, says IBM's vice president of development transformation and integration. She argues that Agile can adapt to the most complex of development projects.

RIM BlackBerry Storm Gets Full QWERTY Portrait Keyboard; Bye-Bye SureType

Five Changes Microsoft Must Do — Or Die

BarackBerry: Look at What Will Replace President Obama’s BlackBerry

GE CIO Gets His Head in the Cloud for New SaaS Supply Chain App

Think a SaaS application can't handle GE's massive supply chain needs, including how to manage $55 billion in spending with suppliers? GE's CIO has already proven you wrong. One more thing: He's liking Google Docs, too.

The Case Against Cloud Computing, Part One

The case against cloud computing being ready for the enterprise centers around issues of migration, compliance, management, SLAs and cost. In this multi-part-series, we'll examine the key arguments — and pick them apart.

Practical Advice for CIOs Struggling to Survive in Tough Times

The former CIO of General Motors Europe offers seven suggestions about how to cut expenses (and when not to) and how to find opportunities in times of adversity.

12 Top Popular Applications with Critical Security Vulnerabilities

A key element of successful risk management is mitigating the risk of security vulnerabilities. Bit9 research shows that enterprises face a substantial risk from critical flaws found in popular applications.

Windows XP Upgrades: Why You Must Start Planning Now

Windows XP shops should begin Windows 7 upgrade plans this year, even for 2010 rollouts, warns new research. And despite the new brand name, Windows 7 migrations will carry the same challenges that Vista upgrades did.

How I Used Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Software to Prevent IT Staff Cuts

The City of Miami Beach's application development group uses project portfolio management (PPM) software to justify each and every developer to the budget office when the bean counters are looking to cut programmers.

Business Isn’t Mature About Technology – What Are We Going To Do About It?

Data Center Colocation Crisis: Act Now or Pay Later

BlackBerry Gets a ‘Lil IBM Lotus Love: New Collaboration, Developer Tools Due in ’09

Risk Adjusted Compensation, Data Center Budgets and the Credit Crunch, Social Spammers and More

This issue of Trendlines from the 2/1/09 Issue of CIO Magazine covers Risk Adjusted Compensation, Data Center Budgets and the Credit Crunch, Social Spammers and More.

Dynamic Languages: Not Just For Scripting Any More

It used to be that software developers used scripting languages like Python, Perl and Ruby for prototyping, fully expecting to re-write their applications into a "real" language (such as C++ or Java) before deployment. Charles Martin argues

Reinvention Time

From the airlines to Starbucks, customers drive change

Open-Source Mobile Telephony Goes Legit

Open source may be accepted for your company's software development efforts and in your data center. But FOSS options haven't gained as much adoption in telephony, mobile devices and the VOIP market space. Expect that to change–though the

United Nations’ SAP ERP Rollout: High Profile and High Risk

Give Your Resume Sex Appeal

CrackBerry: True Tales of BlackBerry Use and Abuse (Book Review)

Microsoft Shows Business Smarts with People-Ready Ad Campaign

As RIM Seeks New Apps for BlackBerry Application Storefront, Memory Problem Looms

LinkedIn Clamps Down On Super-Connected Users

LinkedIn has imposed new restrictions on the number of connections any one person can have, say members of the LinkedIn open networkers, a controversial group that accepts almost all LinkedIn connection requests. The group appears to be walking an in

Our Elastic Future

Get ready for a world of completely flexible resources

IT Spending Benchmarks Are Only An Imperfect First Step

Inverting Moore’s Law, and Stimulating Demand

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