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How a Midsize Textile Maker Uses Technology to Compete Globally

The textile manufacturing industry shipped out a generation ago. But a midsize North Carolina company uses IT to bring home the profits of globalization.

Taking Virtual Servers to the Next Level

Smart CIOs are using virtualization for much more than data center consolidation. They're becoming masters of flexibilityu2014delivering results for the business like lightning-fast provisioning and greatly improved disaster recovery.

Postini Deal Lets Google Take Aim at Big Businesses

Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector: Shifting Focus from Bottom Line to a Better World

Innovation is the name of the game in today's nonprofits.

Five Quick Tips for Integrated ID Management

Lessons from Pfizer's ID management effort.

How Pfizer Did ID Management Right

IT pros at Pfizer used innovative smart card technology in a challenging ID management revamp.

The Race to the Bottom — of the Software Stack

Second Take at Second Life

Dramatic Industry Shifts: What Can You Do to Survive Major Transitions?

From the advent of the Internet to PCs and digital phones, smart business leaders hedge their bets by taking strategic risks on new technologies.

Mobile Mastery

Texas Instruments CIO Brian Bonner shares his strategy for managing mobile and wireless devices

Business Transformation at the Department of Defense

Dennis Wisnosky, CTO of the Department of Defense Business Mission Area talks about the process of transforming the worldu2019s largest business from an "as-is" to a "to-be" state.

Suing Google – Not a Winning Business Plan

Six Reasons Not to Get an MBA

You don't need to earn an MBA to get the expertise you need. Real-world business experience is not only an education, it's a path to learning how to be a leader, James Clark argues.

Should You Get an MBA?

The pressure is on IT leaders to prove their business savvy, and job postings are asking for an MBA. Do you really need one to make it as a CIO? We asked two IT executives for help assembling arguments for and against pursuing the degree.

PodSmart, MP3 Technology to Deal With Information Overload

New technology from IBM will enable you to listen to your e-mail, appointments and news feeds from your MP3 player or iPod. Cool. But the PodSmart software was finished in 12 weeks, by college students. Now that's the way to run a summer interns

Smart Companies Take the LEED for Energy Efficiency

Cost savings, sustainability benefits of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards begin to take hold with data centers

Show Your CEO the Money

With one hand squarely on internal operations, CIOs are developing revenue-generating products with the other

AMD Project Brings Web Access to Third World

AMD aims to bring Web access to 50 percent of world's population by 2015.

SEC Plans Radical Revamp of Web Data

SEC's Edgar database for financial records gets a major facelift: XBRL technology should improve searching.

Pegasystems CIO Tells Colleagues: Drink Your Own Champagne

Internal business users helping create company's BPM software

What ever happened to Patience?

Memo to Congress:Cut H1B Visas by 50%

Plone Sprint: the Wrap-Up

The Dark Side of Web 2.0

Why the iPhone Being Cool Matters

Brazil Sambas onto Offshore Outsourcing Stage

Areas around Rio, Su00e3o Paulo emerge as alternative to India, other destinations, for applications work.

Abolish The United States Dept of Education

Who Are the Million Dollar CIOs?

Win Prizes Playing CIO History Game

The Three Types of Web 2.0 Critics

How One CIO Escaped E-Mail Attachment Hell

The CIO at an insurance company found a network appliance to help sift through chunky attachments before they reach end-users.

Reaping the Big Business Benefits of SOA

Advice on maximizing the benefits of service-oriented architecture (SOA), including reusing assets and cutting time to market.

CTO: A Dangerous Title

The four most common definitions for the CTO title are unhealthy for the broader IT function.

GPL3 Sees the Light of Day

CIO Promotions at Guardian and Worksoft

Are You Really Ready for SOA?

Before you design a modern IT architecture, you have to understand your business model.

The Web 2.0 Craze Sounds a Bit Like, Well, the Web 1.0 Craze

A critical look back at the hype surrounding Web 2.0 and how it compares to the dotcom boom.

Don’t tell me what you think I want to hear…..

My Web 2.0 Suite

Plone Sprint: Exploring Developer Preconceptions

The View from the Top Series

What C-suite executives expect from IT.

Five Things Wikipedia’s Founder Has Learned About Online Collaboration

Jimmy Wales explains his views on effective collaboration, organization and what 'World of Warcraft' wiki writers can teach us about shared ideals.

Five Reasons the iPhone Will Infiltrate Your Business

The iPhone comes at a time when customers are demanding easy-to-use, smart devices. And smart IT executives are looking at the iPhone as a way to connect with their customers.

Five Reasons the iPhone Won’t Infiltrate Your Business

Sure Apple's latest innovation is going to be popular. But here are reasons why it won't be an important business tool.

A Brief Pre-Release History of the Apple iPhone

With the much-anticipated Apple iPhone set to hit shelves this Friday, we've assembled a pre-release history of how the device became one of the most hyped gadgets of all time.

Web Rage: Why It Happens, What It Costs You, How to Stop

There's a scientific reason why your coworker writes rude things in e-mail that he would never say to your face.

Plone Sprint: Quietly Making Noise

Why do people laugh at “Truth”

Enterprise 2.0: A Must in a Dog-Eat-Dog World

New CIOs at Discovery, Rosetta Stone and more