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CIO’s 50 Most Popular Articles

From 9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless to Six Free BlackBerry Downloads You Don't Want to Miss to 5 Things You'll Love about Firefox 3, take a look at the most popular articles from May through July.

Patricia Morrison Leaves Motorola; Leslie Jones New CIO

A New Role for CIOs

The SVP of Technology and Operations is emerging as a cool new role -- and career path -- for CIOs

Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects

Linus Torvalds explains how he keeps the people and software on-track, with the software quality Linux demands.

Mobile Phones on Airplanes: Thumbs Up or Hang Up?

Teaching Kids to Program, or Don’t Try to Teach 8-Year-Olds Java Subclassing

Unsafe Texting Sends More to the ER: Doctor Offers Up 5 Tips

5 Reasons Why a Developer Might Want to Become a CIO

The CIO job comes with lots of money and lots of perks. But would a software developer ever be willing to cash in his integrity and passion for programming to become a corporate wonk? Here are five compelling reasons why developers might do so.

8 Reasons Why a Developer Would NEVER Want To Be a CIO

Sure, CIOs earn lots of money and don't have to worry about their job getting shipped off to India, but they do have to deal with a lot of crap software developers wouldn't ever want to touch. Here are eight reasons why developers would rat

New Household Robot Promises to Make Virtual Visits Easy

iRobot's ConnectR, a new robot in beta testing, allows you to be in (almost) two places at once.