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Five Steps to Take If Your Outsourcing Service Provider Is Sold

Merger activity is on the uptick among IT service providers and experts say the industry is ripe for more consolidation. Here's how to protect your company if your outsourcing provider is sold.

Greenpeace: Sony Ericsson Most “Green” Electronics Company; Microsoft, Nintendo Take Last-Place Slots

Greenpeace's quarterly guide is meant to motivate electronics manufacturers into reducing toxic materials in their products, as well as to improve their recycling efforts.

The Mess at ACS: A Time Line

One expert calls it the soap opera of the outsourcing industry. Here is a rundown of recent buyout bids, boardroom fights and other notable developments at Affiliated Computer Services.n

Some Recruiters Skeptical of Stuart Scott’s New Job with Mortgage Company

The former CIO of Microsoft has moved to a muchn smaller company in an embattled industry, leaving some executive recruiters wondering if Stuart Scott's new job isn't such a golden opportunity.

CEO of WordPress Blog Tool on the Future of Blogging in Big Business

Developer guru gives his take on why the success of blogs hasn't permeated the enterprise space just yet.

Virtualization of Desktop PCs on the Rise

Virtualization of desktop PCs is still a young idea, but one with a bright future. And Global 2000 enterprises are leading the way, says new Forrester study.

Wireless in Retail: The Risks and Rewards

An RSR report identifies the dangers of wireless technologies (remember TJX's nightmare?) and offers three ways to ensure your company doesn't suffer a data loss during the holiday season.

Zoho Adopts Offline Mode For Its Web-Based Applications

Announcement quells criticisms mounted by businesses accustomed to traditional installed tools

Ousted Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Scores COO Post at Mortgage Lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker

From adversity to opportunity: Scott's new job is good for him and for CIOs in general.

A Proud Member of the LinkedIn Generation

How one baby boomer executive learned to love the social network for business contacts. Don't ask him to be a Facebook friend, though.

10 Tips to Help Employees Collaborate

Collaborative development environments will be the next "killer app" in software development, says IBM Fellow Grady Booch. They'll make use of wikis, instant messaging, forums and online presence. But don't just barrel into it wit

Strategies for Dealing With IT Complexity

Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business.

Microsoft to Build Siberian Data Center

In the region famous for its Russian exiles and freezing-cold winters, Microsoft will reportedly add 10,000 heat-generating servers

Consumer Tech: The New Complexity Add

Fitting the iPhone, MySpace and Facebook into the enterprise increases complexity.

Holiday Shopping Season Off To Strong Start Online

Online retail sales on Black Friday rose 22 percent versus a year ago

Is Computer Language Popularity Important?

Holiday Job Searches

Ex-Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott Lands at Mortgage Lender

Former CIO takes Chief Operating Officer position at Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage

Generation Gap or Innovation Gap?

Preparing for executive-level interviews

Gen Y and Boomers: Stop Whining and Save Ferris

The Web 2.0 Campaign for the White House

The presidential candidates may disagree about Iraq, health care and taxes, but their campaigns demonstrate a clear consensus that the rise of Web 2.0 tools offers the chance to engage interested citizens, one market niche, one voter, one message at

Higher Gas and Energy Costs May Hurt Holiday Shopping

CUNA and the Consumer Federation of America forecast dip in holiday spending.

The Hiring Manager Interviews: Outtakes from the Q&A with Accellent’s CIO

William Howell discusses how he works with his team to select candidates for jobs.

Reader Q&A: How To Make Actions Convey Your Agenda

Tips for getting feedback and how to communicate a reorganization

Annual Technology Salary Survey Predicts Substantial Increase

Base compensation, signing bonuses and other perks, particularly for in-demand jobs, such as lead applications developer, messaging administrator and data modeler.

The Most Critical Attribute of a CIO

Innovations to Reduce Airline Delays? Giving Passengers Better Information Would Be a Start.

HP CEO: Vista Never Had Its Moment in 2007

Dearly Departed 2: Readers’ Most Mourned Dead Products

Products that just didn't deserve to die, as chosen by CIO.com readers. We revisit a handful of your favorites–from gaming products to operating systems–and mourn the best and brightest that died an untimely death.

Holiday Travel Tips

A rough Thanksgiving travel season makes following transportation guidelines crucial.

In Defense of Gen Y Workers

Spoiled? Entitled? Forget it. Generation Y employees simply know what they want, know what works, and won't settle for anything less from the companies and managers for whom they work.

Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You

Google is great, but it can't always tell you what makes a website or source of research material authoritative. Professional nlibrarians and researchers explain where to look online to find the professional, technical and industry expertise you

Benchmarking How Well You Manage Virtualization

Are you running a superior virtualization effort? You're ngoing to need the measurements to prove it. A recent study by IDC examines metrics that IT leaders can use to nbenchmark how well they're managing virtualization.

Laptops of the Future Promise Sleek Designs, Smarter Storage

What's coming up next for enterprise laptops? Slimmer profiles, smarter storage and faster bootups.

Extreme Commuting More Popular than Relocation Among Executives

Long commutes may suck, but they sure beat moving for a new job, according to a Korn/Ferry survey.

Orbitz says Bye-Bye to CIO Bahman Koohestani

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You……

Offshore Call Centers Get a Bad Rap… and Other Thoughts

Google’s Android Mobile Platform and the Enterprise

Search king Google has unveiled Android, its open-source platform for the smartphones of tomorrow. What will it mean for corporate IT? Perhaps a greater number of targeted, portable applications that hop from phone to phone, for starters.

CIO Compensation Includes Lots of Perks

From plane privileges and company cars to personal drivers and club dues, the millionaire CIOs get more than just fat paychecks

Retailers Want Business Intelligence Benefits, But Struggle With Challenges

Study finds the majority of retailers are using business intelligence, but that doesn't mean they're all using it well.

E-Commerce and Supply Chain Systems Gird for Black Friday

It's crunch time for retailers and their suppliers. Now is when we find out if their technology systems are yielding returns. For many companies it can be the difference in whether they are seeing black or red ink this year.

Business Intelligence: A Must for Winning the Holiday Shopping Wars

For retailers, holiday shopping season began months ago, when business analysts worked to turn customer data into actionable insight. Whether retailers have done this well or not will likely determine who wins and who loses this important holiday sho

The Fedora OS: Free, Stable and Customizable

A stable, robust operating system fit for use on millions of business computers worldwide.

Online Shopping: How to Get the Impulse Purchase

This year, e-commerce merchants must turn e-mail, pop-ups and website marketing into spontaneous sales.

Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use

Besides ease of use for end users, Ubuntu is cost-effective and even eliminates per-seat license costs entirely, on both the desktop and the server.

SUSE Linux Enterprise: The Leading OS for Business

SUSE Linux Enterprise helps customers lower costs, manage complexity and mitigate risk, clearly making it the best operating system for business today.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Business OS for Flexibility and Value

The choice for reducing operating costs and providing a secure, reliable, scalable operating system.

Making the Case for Linux Distros in the Business

From Ubuntu to Red Hat, Novell's SUSE to Fedora, developers offer their reasons why their distro is best for business use today.