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LinkedIn’s New Free Apps: Review, Part Two

Here's a look at the rest of LinkedIn's apps currently available on the new LinkedIn App Platform. They run the gamut, from presentations to file sharing to what you're reading.

When “IT Alignment with the Business” Isn’t a Buzzword

Need to justify your IT budget? Priority's Health's Krischa Winright believes that by using transparency and business alignment, the economic downturn can be a great opportunity for IT departments to maximize internal development talent.

Maturing SOA Adoption Leading to Wider Deployment in Asia-Pacific

A Springboard Research study says that service-oriented architecture and Web services are gaining attention in APAC software development communities.

Privacy Compliance 101: Why Massachusetts Data Security Standards DO Affect You

Regulatory compliance tips on how to meet new data governance regulations that affect your company–failure could mean fines, loss of reputation and other risk management nightmares.

Live Research: The CIO Role is Reaching its Destiny

How to Feel Safer and More Secure in Times of Turmoil

The Ugly Truth About “One Version of the Truth”

Apple vs. Microsoft Vista: Who’s Winning the Ad Battle?

IBM’s Rational Quality Management Portfolio Promises to Reduce IT Risk and Developer Frustration

IT managers under the gun to trim their budgets may be attracted to IBM's promise that its new software quality tools can cut costs for both development time and labor. But software developers and SQA professionals are more likely to respond to

Bad Economy Good for Client Virtualization?

Smart CIOs will be looking at client virtualization with open eyes, particularly in this economic environment.

How to Use Technology to Maximize Bargain Hunting

Want to avoid mall madness? Cyber Monday may offer consumers an alternative from visiting crowded stores during Thanksgiving weekend, but the evolution of online bargain hunting lets consumers hunt down deals year round.

Holiday Helpers: Free Web 2.0 Apps

Track your holiday to-do and shopping lists, manage travel details and plan perfect soirees with these free Web 2.0 apps.

10 PowerPoint Tips: Keep Your Audience Awake

New to Microsoft's presentation software or just want to improve your skills? PowerPoint-aided presentations can either wow a crowd or put them fast to sleep. These five design and five technical tricks will help keep your audience on the edge o

RIM BlackBerry Storm Shortcuts: 20 Touch Screen Tips and Tricks

The new BlackBerry Storm smartphone is packing a brand new version of RIM's handheld OS, v4.7, and with that OS comes a whole new set of shortcuts. These 20 tips and tricks will help you get the most out of your shiny, new Storm–and its SurePr

Windows 7 Taskbar: Most Interesting Part of New OS?

Microsoft is sharing details about the Windows 7 Taskbar after not including it in pre-beta software. Will this be Microsoft's speediest, most clutter-free taskbar to date? Here's an early look at what you'll get.

IT Jobs Market Down But Not Out

Some online job boards are seeing a steep decline in the number of IT jobs employers and recruiters are posting. The good news for your IT career? Executives at these job boards don't anticipate IT unemployment and job losses to be nearly as bad

Why Twitter Should Have Said Yes to Facebook Acquisition Offer

How To Get the Best Internet Connectivity While You Travel

If you need to be productive while you get from Point A to Point B, taking the plane may not be the best use of your time. Daniel Dern compares the bus, train and airline options for short-hop connected mobile productivity, and discovers that the ide

How I’m Moving My Data Center into The Cloud

Preferred Hotels Group will soon become a cloud computing early adopter, moving its whole data center into the cloud. Here's a look at how they'll jump into the cloud, where virtualization fits in, and what they'll save.

BlackBerry Storm Video: BlackBerry Application Center Walkthrough (CIO.com Hands-On)

RIM's answer to Apple's iPhone App Store, the BlackBerry Application Center, debuted on the touch screen BlackBerry Storm last week. Take this video walkthrough with CIO.com's Al Sacco to get a hands-on look at the new BlackBerry softw

Holiday Travel: 10 Ways to Keep Your Laptop and Privacy Safe

Holiday travelers, hang onto your laptops: One is now stolen every 53 seconds. Here are 10 tips to keep your PC and data safe as we enter the busiest travel season of the year.

The Differences Between Dynamic/Scripting Languages and “Regular” Languages No Longer Matter

Work and Spirituality

BlackBerry MySpace App Breaks Download Record; Why No LinkedIn for BlackBerry?

Microsoft Tied Its Own Hands with ‘Vista Capable’ Fiasco

Beyond the Trillion Dollar Bonfire

Facebook Etiquette: Five Dos and Don’ts

Facebook and other social networking sites can create an uncomfortable overlap between your personal and professional life. We show how to manage your Facebook profile so it can work for both business and pleasure.

The Risks, Rewards and ‘Repo’ Challenges of Financing Tech Purchases

Reacting to the economic downturn, vendors such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are offering new and aggressive financing options to their credit-challenged customer base. But what happens if customers suddenly can't pay the vendors back? The repo

Self-Promotion Do’s and Don’ts

RIM BlackBerry Storm Accessories: 10 Must-Have Add-Ons for $10 to $100

RIM's BlackBerry Storm 9530, the first touch screen BlackBerry, hits U.S. retail shelves today, and with it will come a veritable storm of related add-ons. We've hand-picked 10 of the best BlackBerry Storm accessories, so you don't ha

Amazon CloudFront Could Be the Ford Model T of Content Delivery

There's a good chance we'll look back in a few years and see CloudFront has transformed content delivery networks much as Ford transformed cars, by making them affordable to many more businesses.

Why I Didn’t Skip Microsoft Vista: Security

Microsoft's Windows Vista OS continues to be dogged by a bad reputation, but some recent security reports give it an edge over Windows XP. And some users say security is precisely why they didn't skip Vista.

How to Prioritize IT Spending During an Economic Recession

Tips for IT cost-cutting–both big and small–including outsourcing, staffing, consolidation of data centers and storage and server virtualization.

Getting Bogged Down By Browsers: How Do You Manage Web Apps?

Crisis Time

What to do when incrementalism just isn't enough

5 pitfalls of data center consolidation and relocation

More than half of U.S. companies have plans to relocate or expand their data centers. Here's how to avoid the five mistakes that can turn your data center relocation into a disaster.

Self-Promotion at Work: 8 Tips for Shy People

IT people are often taught that their work should speak for itself, but if you want to survive the economic downturn with your job intact, you've got to promote your work. Here are eight ways to self-promote without being obnoxious.

MDM: Buzz-Worthy Since 2000, But Still a Back-Breaker

When Agile Projects Go Bad

Your software development projects can benefit from Agile – assuming it's really what's used. Learn about the sins that have been committed in the name of "Agile."

Microsoft Q&A: Why is Office Online Taking So Long?

Now that online versions of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint are available to all Microsoft customers, CIO caught up with Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division and talked about Microsoft's move into the cloud u2014 and w

GM’s Visual Modeling, Outsourcers in India after Obama’s Win, Green IT and More

This issue of Trendlines from the 12/1/08 Issue of CIO Magazine covers GM's Visual Modeling, Outsourcers in India after Obama's Win, Green IT and More

VMware and Citrix Make Virtualization Mobile: What it Means to You

Want your life encapsulated on a virtual machine that travels from phone to phone? Sounds good to BlackBerry and iPhone users. Get ready IT departments: Virtualization's going mobile.

Five Tips: Make Virtualization Work Better Across the WAN

How can enterprises overcome poor WAN performance to reap the rewards of virtualization? Consider these five tips. n

Hot Jobs: Data Modeler

Performing the design work that enables production systems and applications to use data and drive business processes.n

How to Make Your WAN a Fast Lane: One Company’s Story

Linklaters, one of the world's largest law firms, has to support lawyers in 23 countries, working on 9 million documents with about 30 million versions. To keep pace with the torrent of data being shared via core business apps, the company had

A Techie Holiday Wish List

Gadget makers hope you have some money to spend this holiday season.

Is Windows Vista ‘Capable’ or Culpable?

iPhone Google Mobile App w/ Voice Still MIA…Apple Strikes Again

Microsoft Further Embraces Cloud Computing With Online SharePoint, Exchange

Microsoft's announcement that it would offer online versions of SharePoint and Exchange to all its customers further validates the industry's gravitation towards Web-based applications and cloud computing. But Microsoft insists the desktop

Lawsuit Increase Forecasted Due to Economic Recession

Litigation will increase during the coming year, according to more than one-third of U.S. in-house counsel members from 10 industries, including financial services, energy, health care, technology and real estate. Offshore outsourcing may be one solu