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Microsoft and Google riding the cloud wave

Cloud-based services and infrastructure are boosting the financial performances of Microsoft and Google. In earnings calls this week, Google says it has developed 'deep enterprise' strengths and Microsoft says it's executing on digital

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The North Face’s parent company names new CIO

Sandra Harris is taking over for retiring Martin Schneider at a time when retailers are overhauling both back-end and customer-facing technology to meet consumers' digital shopping habits.

By Clint Boulton

CIO IT Jobs Technology Industry

What the Fox News Bill O’Reilly fiasco teaches businesses

Columnist Rob Enderle writes that there is a lesson to be learned from the Bill Ou2019Reilly Fox News fiasco: The cost of not identifying and eliminating abuse of power is far too high to ignore.

By Rob Enderle

IT Leadership

IT leaders say current H-1B program works

Corporate technology leaders worry that proposed H-1B visa changes will increase costs and scarcity for highly skill IT talent, according to Harvey Nash survey.

By Stephanie Overby

H-1B Visas Outsourcing Technology Industry

Why swarm intelligence enhances business and Bitcoin

Can intelligence be amplified by thinking together? Ants do it. Birds do it. What about humans? Collective intelligence is the next wave of intelligence. Swarm intelligence connects systems with real-time feedback loops. Individual efforts combine to

By Peter B. Nichol

IT Strategy Predictive Analytics Virtual Reality

ATSC 3.0: Broadcast’s last addressable stand

ATSC 3.0 represents another opportunity for broadcasters and marketers to cash in on knowing more about viewers. But it's arriving just as cellular-based live TV streaming is heating up.

By Ross Rubin

Broadband Consumer Electronics Marketing

Digital success: 3 areas where you need to broaden your horizons

Organizations such as Allianz look far beyond the boundaries that defined traditional tech projects

By Pradeep Henry

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Corporate culture will always matter

Will remote working options be the end of company culture as we know it? Hardly.

By William Craig

Careers IT Leadership

Ditching passwords and increasing ecommerce conversion rates by 54%

If you want to dominate ecommerce, focus on removing friction u2013 especially from checkout. rn

By Andre Bourque

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Retail CIO accelerates IT service delivery

Gap CIO Paul Chapman has reorganized his technology organization and created a new IT operating model that emphasizes collaboration and faster decision-making.

By Clint Boulton

Apr 27, 2017 5 mins

ITSM’s MVP

And it may not be who or what you think…

By Joel Pomales

Apr 27, 2017 6 mins

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Is there a misalignment between healthcare enterprises and the tech community?

The flow of healthcare investment dollars toward transformative digital health solutions may be overstated.rn

By Paddy Padmanabhan

Electronic Health Records Healthcare Industry Venture Capital

Information governance for counties and municipalities

Most local governments don't have formal information governance programs, but adopting IG would reduce risks, lower costs and improve the quality of services.

By Jeffrey Morgan

Government Government IT IT Governance

Can Project Halium revive Linux on mobile?

A group of developers have come together to bring open source mobile projects under the same roof to create a fully open source mobile framework.rn

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Linux Open Source Small and Medium Business

Digital advertising surpassed TV ads in 2016

Television has finally been ousted by smaller and smarter screens. Digital advertising jumped 22 percent in 2016, beating the TV market for the first time.

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Are poor communities “redlined” out of AT&T’s fiber-to-the-home service?

AT&T deploys ultra-fast broadband in rich neighborhoods, while poor communities are stuck with slow DSL, researchers claim.

By Bill Snyder

Broadband Consumer Electronics

Who’s smartest — Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant?

You won't be shocked to learn that Apple's Siri virtual assistant has the best sense of humor. But you might be surprised to learn which virtual assistant is the smartestu2014and which one is no. 2 with a bullet.

By James A. Martin

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9 essential tools for the security-conscious mobile worker

From a webcam cover and laptop lock to a USB port blocker and an encrypted flash drive, we've found some security- and privacy-centered gadgets you will want to keep handy.

By Paul Mah

Chrome OS Laptops Small and Medium Business

Twitter adds 9M new users, revenue beats low expectations

Twitter turned in an impressive quarter to kick off 2017, but 9 million new users and better-than-expected, but still declining, revenues wonu2019t keep investors happy for long.

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Apr 27, 2017 5 mins

Why neural networks and deep learning hold the secret to your health

Your daily habits could be interrupted by connected systems enabling access to new processing paradigms. Information processing systems inspired by biological nervous systems may change your diagnosis.

By Peter B. Nichol

Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry IT Strategy

The state of privacy and security in an ever-evolving world

How can you secure your data in a world full of mobile devices, IoT and the cloud?

By Travis Wright

Cloud Security Cyberattacks Identity Management Solutions

How to switch from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy S8

Switching from Appleu2019s iPhone to Androidu2019s Galaxy S8? As long as you cut the iMessage cord, the process of switching over is easier than you think. Hereu2019s how to make the transfer yourself and avoid waiting in a store.rn

By Sarah K. White

Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Majority of C-level executives are hopeful about the future of technology

Survey of more than 500 C-level executives in Europe and the U.S. reveals data security and client retention as top priorities.

By Philip Kushmaro

C-Suite Emerging Technology Technology Industry

Why white men must lead the push for diversity

It turns out that white men should take the lead in advocating for diversity, because they're the only ones who aren't punished for doing so.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Jobs Relationship Building

Federal CIOs tackle the next phase of cloud migration

Many government agencies have already moved basic applications and services to the cloud, but when it comes to the next wave, CIOs must take a hard look at their systems and negotiate flexible contracts with vendors.

By Kenneth Corbin

CIO Government Government IT

What makes Samsung Galaxy S8 the best phone you can buy

This is the phone that will tempt even hardcore iPhone users to switch.rn

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Apr 26, 2017 6 mins

Android Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business

How to prepare for the next major digital touchpoint, conversational commerce

Conversational commerce means interacting with your customer in an automated dialog via voice or text. Usage of voice-based conversational interfaces such as Alexa and Siri are exploding. Meanwhile over 100,000 active bots have been created on FaceBo

By Howard Tiersky

Artificial Intelligence CRM Systems Consumer Electronics

How open banking can drive competitive advantage

And why it's more important now than ever

By Rob Hetherington

Apr 26, 2017 5 mins

Data Center Financial Services Industry Software Development

What IT pros need to know about interfacing with other carbon-based life forms

Carbon-base life forms are everywhere and we can't live without them.

By Andre Bourque

Apr 26, 2017 5 mins

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MacBook Pro: Is the Touch Bar a gimmick?

Appleu2019s new Touch Bar feature in the MacBook Pro is causing its share of controversy. Is it a gimmick or is it worth using?

By Jim Lynch

Apr 26, 2017 7 mins

MacBook MacOS Small and Medium Business

Does the world need a Windows smartwatch?

The answer is, 'yes,' if you like the idea of a commercial-grade wearable for retail, hospitality, healthcare and manufacturing. But the track record of squeezing Windows into a small device isn't good.

By James A. Martin

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps Wearables

Online courses become effective for building technical skills, earning certifications

Lower cost, course variety, schedule flexibility and the optional endorsement of top universities are among the forces driving the wave of online technical education. However, spotty feedback from teachers and follow-through from students can comprom

By Ross Rubin

Careers IT Skills Technology Industry

How storytelling ignites IT innovation at Lowe’s

The home improvement retailer creates comic books with narrative arcs to make virtual showrooms, guide robots, and interstellar 3D printing viable.

By Clint Boulton

CIO Retail Industry Technology Industry

How can machine learning create features in human-understandable ways?

Why explain and re-explain logic when you can design a machine learning system to automatically learn for you? Performing activities that add value required access to data and intelligence. Start by defining the data you require to make intelligent d

By Peter B. Nichol

Big Data IT Strategy Technology Industry

LinkedIn passes the 500 million registered user mark

On the heels of rapid improvements across much of the platform LinkedIn now has 500 million registered users on board, one analyst says it could double or triple its reach under Microsoft.

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Why CarMax’s “shock the system” digital strategy is working

CIO Shamim Mohammad and fellow leaders at CarMax made big, bold changes to transform CarMax into a product organization

By Martha Heller

CIO IT Jobs Innovation

Why you need a systems reliability engineer

How can you make sure the software your company builds today will stand the test of time? Hire an SRE.

By Sharon Florentine

Developer Enterprise Architecture IT Jobs

Top IT hiring trends for recent grads

Curious if your STEM degree will keep you from having to move back home after college? Check out these hiring trends to find out how you stack up against the competition.

By Sarah K. White

Careers IT Jobs IT Skills

FCC gives a gift to phone companies, but you’ll foot the bill

Commission kills price caps on business data services even when thereu2019s very little competition.

By Bill Snyder

Consumer Electronics

Cloudera’s IPO is overshadowed by a rival it won’t mention

Big data's poster child is selling itself to investors as a machine learning company, but is really still in the Hadoop business just like Hortonworks, the competitor it would like to ignore.

By Arik Hesseldahl

Big Data Hadoop Mergers and Acquisitions

How design thinking can transform IT outsourcing

In the era of digital transformation, design thinking can enable a new way of working between IT outsourcing customers and providers.

By Stephanie Overby

Managed Cloud Services Outsourcing Technology Industry

Many businesses are just beginning their digital transformation journeys

Results from three surveys suggest many organizations have delivered benefits from digitally driven initiatives, but transformation is a journey in progress and CIO have to invest more in executing digital and analytics programs.

By Isaac Sacolick

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Apple’s stores will never be the new Starbucks

Angela Ahrendts is leading some big changes to Appleu2019s retail stores, but sometimes change is not a good thing. Apple wants to turn its stores into a version of Starbucks. Has the company lost its mind?

By Jim Lynch

Apr 25, 2017 6 mins

Digital transformation requires IT departments to be interwoven.

By Bask Iyer

Technology Industry

What would a woman in tech do about the gender gap?

Executives from Canada, New York and Australia respond.

By Anna Frazzetto

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

CIO Quick Takes: What you need to know about women in tech

We asked seven CIOs and other IT executives, who happen to be female, what they think everyone should know about women in technology.

By Dan Muse

CIO IT Strategy Technology Industry

AI is about to open the door to a new role for CIOs: Explorer

AIu2019s potential extends far beyond menial tasks, and companies are now looking to leverage AI in a way that yields a competitive edge. Thatu2019s where the CIO can come in as a coach to the rest of the company, an explorer of AI and its possibilit

By Chris Curran