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CIOs: Your next hire might not be an IT pro

Hipmunk for iPad Doesn’t Sink Kayak Travel App

The Hipmunk for iPad app is unique; it lets you use “Vice” as a search criteria for hotels, and sort airplane itineraries by “Agony.'” While that’s cute, Kayak is still preferred for its more robust filtering options.

Forget Beats by Dre; Fanny Wang 2000 Headphones Offer Quality Audio, Custom Style

The Fanny Wang 2000 Series headphones offer powerful bass and startlingly bright highs for audiophiles, and they’re available in a wide array of cool custom color options for fashionistas.

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Only Big-League CIOs Join Corporate Earnings Conferences

Talking IT at your company’s meetings with Wall Street analysts shows you’ve arrived. But you may be lonely.

Pepwave Surf On-The-Go: The Swiss Army Knife of Travel Routers

The Pepwave Surf-On-The-Go is a versatile travel router that offers a variety of Internet sharing capabilities, making it a must-have gadget for frequent travelers and road warriors.

OS X Mountain Lion: Will Apple Crash the Windows 8 Party?

Apple has integrated OS X and iOS even more with Mountain Lion, which it will launch a month or so before Microsoft is set to release Windows 8. Nice timing Cupertino.

How to break down the OpEx vs. CapEx cloud computing debate

Cloud computing is too often reductively branded as an economic calculus that would trade a CapEx model for an OpEx model. But it’s a little more complicated than that. Bernard Golden explains what we talk about when we talk about cloud computing.

Did You Really Think Those iPhone Apps Were Free?

Of course iOS and Android developers want their apps to hijack your address book. There’s money in it for them.

Hackers Hack Hackers’ Site

Information-leak site infected with Blackhole exploit kit

Quickoffice for Android Tablets: Productivity with a Touch of Pain

Quickoffice Pro HD lets you create and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablets—but not without a few compromises.

Accurate Sales Forecasts and Other CRM Fantasies

Every company needs a sales forecast, but generating sound growth projections is devilishly hard, and accuracy depends on rethinking old forecasting processes.n

Cisco to EU: Dig Deeper on Microsoft-Skype Buy

Cisco is asking the European Commission to demand more standards-based video interoperability as part of approving Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype.

Free Microsoft OneNote for Android App Mostly Pleases

Microsoft recently released a free Android version of its popular note-taking desktop software application OneNote. The new Android edition makes it easy to capture notes on the go, but some key features are missing.

NBA, NHL Stop Making BlackBerry Apps; Is MLB Next?

More bad news for RIM and its customers: The NBA and NHL both stopped making official BlackBerry sports applications for the 2011/2012 seasons, and MLB could also soon cease to offer its official baseball app. Dwindling developer support for BlackBer

Hands-On Look at CRU-DataPort’s RTX100-3SJ Portable HDD Enclosure

On the lookout for a fast, high-quality external enclosure for your stack of 3.5-inch SATA hard disks drives? The CRU-DataPort RTX100-3SJ may just be what the doctor ordered.

Obama Budget Ups DHS Cybersecurity Spending as Congress Considers Expanding Agency Private Sector Authority

Timing of funding boost for Homeland Security seems a little more than coincidental

How To Transform Strategic Supplier Relationships

Surveys reveal that sourcing vendor management professionals are dissatisfied with their strategic/partner vendors. Forrester has identified and outlines three characteristics that are key to transforming strategic supplier relationships from duels i

Firefox in 2012: What’s in Store for the Open-Source Browser?

A new, Windows 8-inspired look, an app store, better tab performance and privacy enhancements are on the Mozilla Firefox roadmap in 2012.

Two Truths And A Lie: Software Development In 2020

When getting introduced to a new subject or new people, we sometimes play a game called ‘two truths and a lie.’ The basics of the game are simple, anyone introducing a subject – or themselves – state two truths, and one lie. The audience then has to

Amazon Blocks Instant Video on BlackBerry PlayBook, Blames Apple

Amazon.com has blocked BlackBerry PlayBook users from streaming its Instant Video content on their tablets. The online retailer is oddly blaming the PlayBook’s Flash player as well as the company’s rival in the digital media and tablet space, Apple,

China’s Labor Conditions: Why Is Apple Being Singled Out?

Apple should not be singled out for outsourcing manufacturing to Communist China, but the company also shouldn’t be surprised that the freedom-loving customer base it cultivated is disappointed.

Speaktoit Assistant iPhone App No Match for Siri

A new iPhone app promises to outdo Siri and bring similar voice activated features and functionality to older iPhones. But CIO.com blogger James A. Martin says the app lags far behind Apple’s virtual assistant and doesn’t match up to the Sp

Boston Cops Show Hackers You Can Beat Them by Laughing at Them

Maybe humor will let the public know how trivial most of the attacks on law enforcement sites are.

Tablet Typing Made Simple with ZAGGkeys Flex Bluetooth Keyboard for iOS, Android

The ZAGGkeys Flex Bluetooth keyboard is a gadget designed to the typing process on your iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Despite its compact size, you’ll love the gadget’s tactile feel and portability.

Google Screenwise: Selling Your Privacy Is Stupid

Web users have already ceded far too much privacy and given away far too much personal data. Letting Google have even more, even if they’re paying you, could come back to haunt you. Don’t do it.

Would Steve Jobs Have Been a Good Politician?

Steve Jobs served on President George H.W. Bush’s Export Council despite sources telling the FBI that Jobs “will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.” Is this the intersection of business and politics?

Three Ways BYOD Changes Company Architecture

The iPhone, Android Walkie-Talkie App Everyone’s Talking About

Does anyone really need to turn their iPhone or Android smartphone into a walkie talkie? Sure they do, says CIO.com blogger James A. Martin.

Google Wallet Picked, iTunes Store Hacked and Other Stories from the Week

Hungarian hacker who tried to blackmail Marriott into giving him a job falls for promise of all-expense-paid trip to U.S. for job interview.