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Google Encourages Web Developers to Take Apps Offline

Tips for Assessing and Communicating the Value of IT

A new five-step approach for proving IT value will make your IT projects more successful and eliminate the need to defend IT initiatives.

10 Tips to Finding Great Web Design and Development Services

Gain a better understanding of what to look for in a Web design and development company, how to ask for it and how to ensure that what you pay for is really what you need.

Five Things William Cohen Has Learned from Peter Drucker

The author of A Class with Drucker shares what he learned while working with this business and management visionary.

Cloud Apps: Third Cube From the Left

Frustrated by cloud apps? They can make even angels swear.

Technology Brands Rule

Why Microsoft Office Going Free Would Be Good For Business (And Users)

Q&A: 6 Critical Tips for IT Managers and CIOs

From tips for IT budgeting to working smarter with other departments to the changing role of the CIO and outsourcing, this short Q&A can help IT managers be more successful.

BlackBerry Desktop Charging Pod Review: Power Up Your RIM Smartphone in Style

Your BlackBerry device deserves better than the standard charging cables with which it ships. Research In Motion's chic desktop Charging Pod is the perfect power-up partner–though it's only available for Pearl and Curve devices.

Open Source ERP Grows Up

ERP has been a kind of final frontier for open source software. But now more IT leaders at midsize and smaller businesses are saying yes to open source software for ERP systems that pump the very heart of the business.

Wired Asks the Wrong Question about Open Source

My Escape from Digital Camcorder Buying Hell

Finding a new digital camcorder for my parents in time for a family vacation

Deciding When to Upgrade to 802.11n

As 802.11n slowly crawls toward becoming a wireless standard, IT managers have to decide whether it's the right time to switch. Unfortunately, the standard is stuck in draft status. Here's why.

BlackBerry How To: Free Up Device Memory

Power users of Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry smartphones need all the device memory they can get. These seven tips can help free up memory and keep your handheld running as smoothly as possible.

Forrester: Consolidated Web 2.0 Market to Reach $4.6 Billion By 2013

The vendor market will shrink as IBM and Microsoft absorb the majority of the Web 2.0 pie, says an analyst report.

Innovation, Disruption and Riding the Waves of Change: CIO’s New Partnership with LinkedIn

Open Source as An Easy Answer for Better Developer Visibility (and Career Opportunity)

Four Facebook Faux Pas to Avoid

BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1 SP5 Hits the Web: What’s in It for You

SAP Pays Partners, Goes with Gusto for Small and Medium-Sized Business Customers

Enterprise software vendors such as SAP and Oracle are hot on the trail of the SMB market, offering substantial referral fees to technology partners for delivering small and midsize customers to them.

Tossin’ and Turnin’: Jobs that literally keep us up at night.

Work-related stress keeps 51 percent of Americans up every Sunday night.

CIO’s 50 Most Popular Articles

From programming language dos and don'ts to must-have BlackBerry tips and downloads to expert advice on how to be more successful, take a look at the most popular articles from January through March.

Pros and Cons of Dual-Mode Cellular/VoWi-Fi Mobile Phones

Socialtext To Add Features to Its Enterprise Wiki

Will MySQL Keep Lighting up LAMP?

MySQL leader Marten Mickos tries to calm Linux leaders' fears of MySQL abandoning the Linux market.

More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia

The technology npopularized by Wikipedia can help companies gather and manage their own collective knowledge. Here's how to nget started.

What You Can Learn about Risk Management from Societe Generale

Weak IT access controls cost the French bank $7.2 billion. The case should prompt you to rethink how you balance IT security with employee access to critical systems.

How CIOs Can Benefit From Having Dual Roles

More CIOs are being asked to take on responsibilities outside of IT. And it's not just the business that benefits. Expanding your job description can be good for your career, toou2014provided you master the politics and rethink how you run IT.

PCI Standards Body Moves Ahead on Payment-Application Certification

PCI Security Standards Council releases list of certified payment applications under Payment Application Data Security Standard.

Innovation: “Venturesome Consumers” get the benefits

$7 Billion to Fix Calif. Prison Health Care

What’s Behind Don Hopkins’ Resignation from NCR?

RIM BlackBerry “9000” Sneak Peek: Front-Facing Camera, Videoconferencing?

Why CIOs Must Embrace Social Software: A Conversation with Charlene Li of “Groundswell”

Charlene Li, co-author of "Groundswell," a book on social software in the enterprise, says CIOs and business leaders must let go of a command-and-control mentality and allow for collaboration to spring up via the Web. n

Why Business Analysts Are So Important for IT and CIOs

A new Forrester report sheds light on this little known, often misunderstood but critical liaison role that can unite the business and IT on enterprise projects, systems development and business strategy.

The limits of running IT like a business

Running IT in a businesslike way has its benefits, but it can also lead you into a trap. An IT strategy expert considers how to go from managing IT efficiently to exploiting it strategically. n

Text Analytics: Your Customers are Talking About You

When your company's customers talk, do you listen closely and nquickly enough? More CIOs are deploying text analytics ntechnology to examine customer comments on websites, surveys and the like.n

Why Leaders Need People Skills

To lead effectively, you must be able to connect and communicate your agenda to others.

The Net Generation Comes of Age

Delta to Merge with Northwest: Fasten Your Seat Belts

Can Google Apps Crack the Fortune 500 and Large Enterprises?

Analysts wonder if the web-based productivity software can truly crack the enterprise shell, hardened by a decade or more of Microsoft Office reliance, despite yesterday's announcement that Salesforce.com would offer Google Apps to all customers

SOA Migration: An Airline Keeping Its Feet on the Ground

Migrating United's and Lufthansa's reservation system to an updated architecture using SOA is a huge undertaking that's critical to the company's success. Here's how United is managing the changes the new system will create f

How IT Leaders Can Help CEOs Make Innovation Walk, Not Just Talk

A new executive survey shows that innovation is a top business strategy, but execution on the CEO's innovation vision is faltering. And that's an opportunity for IT veterans to show leadership.

The Hiring Manager Interviews: PG&E CIO Shares Her Unique Method for Engaging Candidates During Interviews

Pat Lawicki asks candidates the kinds of questions they'd have to answer on a day-to-day basis about projects if they got the job.

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Companies must keep IT on track as Bob DeRodes and Bruce Carver depart.

Home Depot, Dana Holding Corp. to Lose CIOs

Companies must keep IT on track as Bob DeRodes and Bruce Carver depart.n

Analysis: Salesforce’s Addition of Google Apps Shows Google’s Intent to Enter Business Software Market

By tapping into Salesforce's customer base and latching on to that company's reputation as a trusted corporate technology provider, Google can make inroads in selling its software to businesses.

BlackBerry How To: Transfer Files Between Devices Using Bluetooth

Ever wondered how to use your Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry's Bluetooth to wirelessly transfer an image or other media file to a coworker or friend's mobile device? Here's a set of simple, step-by instructions.

CIO.com Enters into Partnership with LinkedIn Professional Network to Enhance Readers’ Career Connections

CIO.com has released the first of several planned features that allow you to use CIO's content and the LinkedIn network to discover and create professional connections between you and the companies you read about on CIO.com.

Spotting a truly agile corporate strategy