Opinion

iPad At Work: A Life Saver?

Lee Medical hopes its iPad app can lessen the risk of the leading preventable cause of death in hospitals.

When ERP Forces You to Befriend Excel

It’s a fun ride following the adventures of business users as they attempt to “outwit” their enterprise software with Excel. This week, that ride has led me to a usability survey conducted by IFS, a developer of an extended ERP application suite, in

How To Support Cloud Applications

Support organizations and Internal help desks have been supporting user applications for decades. But cloud apps make for some new twists, here are some best practices that are the cornerstones of cloud system support.

Persuasion as Human Engineering

Persuasion is a form of engineering. What makes it special is that we’re what’s being engineered. Is that an ethical thing to do? It’s a question with no simple answer.

Oracle’s Horrible, No-good, Very-bad Java Security Week

Hackers are using the software to cause trouble for the company, users of its products and average web browsers

BlackBerry Media Card Encryption a Security Risk?

A Russian software vendor has released a product that it says can crack BlackBerry smartphone passwords, if the BlackBerry owner has enabled a media-card encryption security setting.

What Nestle’s Martello Pick Says About the CFO Role

For anyone interested in how the CFO position is evolving — not just into a business partnership with the chief executive’s office, but also into a whole new cross-functional corporate force — Wan Ling Martello’s appointment at Nestle proves this t

Don’t Think BPM And Customer Experience Are Your Problem? Think Again

Development leaders! Project leaders and business analysts! Application & solution architects! Want to move forward on your Business Technology (BT) journey and be viewed by your business stakeholders as a valuable team member? Take a tip from last w

Facebook Tip: How to Create a List for Subscriptions

Have Subscriptions overrun your Facebook News Feed? One way to separate subscription updates from your friends’ updates is to create a list. Here’s how to make one in five quick steps.

Android Apps on BlackBerry PlayBook: More Details, Restrictions

RIM has reportedly announced new details on the restrictions and limitations of its Android App Player for PlayBook, which will allow some Android apps to run on the BlackBerry tablet. And PlayBook owners may be disappointed with the revelations. Her

What We’re Reading from the Oct. 15, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Books and blogs about innovation and leadership success

Enterprise Mobile: 7 Things CIOs Need to Do Now

Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine, spoke with rock star CIOs at a conference on enterprise mobility and learned that the time is now to throw significant investment into mobile.

CIOs Are in a Mobile State of Mind

When the “kill the laptop” breakout session was an unexpected success at our last event, CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson knew mobility had become the hottest topic in IT.

The CIO vs. CFO: Dueling Surveys Debate Who’s in Charge of IT

CIO magazine says most CIOs authorize IT spending, but a Gartner survey says more CFOs do. Whou2019s right?

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How Long Until You Fall for a Social-Engineering Attack?

These attacks are on the rise. They are also getting more effective by using ever more specific information about their victims.

iPhone 5: 4G, or Not 4G?

Apple sends out invites to an Oct. 4 event with the tagline, “Let’s talk iPhone.”

Virtualization: 4 Building-Blocks for Achieving Benefits

Advice on how to get results from virtualization and IT consolidation projects.

How to Provide People-Friendly Tech

The Oct. 1 issue of CIO magazine features three stories that deal with the people issues behind ITu2019s biggest potential game-changers: BYOT, unified communications and social media.

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Nature’s Business Lessons

After earthquake, hurricane, fire and flood, surely there’s much to be learned about continuity.

Microsoft Breathes Life into Bing Homepage with Video

Starting today with a beautiful time-lapse video of Grand Teton National Park, Microsoft will occasionally add video images to the Bing homepage. But you’ll need an HTML5-enabled browser to view.

Verizon CEO: WP7 > BlackBerry

Verizon’s CEO says Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will overtake RIM and BlackBerry as one of the “Big Three” in the mobile space in a year or so. But CIO.com’s Al Sacco is skeptical of Microsoft and WP7. Here’s why.

Recap: Facebook’s Biggest F8 Announcements

After weeks of hype and speculation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new profile design called Timeline, a new class of Facebook apps and some pretty cool media integration. Here’s a run-through of Thursday’s announcements from F8.

Fall Brings More Hiring

Is Your Car Spying on You?

OnStar is collecting a lot of information about drivers, even after the device is turned off.

The 7 Dumbest Things Job Seekers Write on Their Resumes

CareerBuilder and Jobfox founder Rob McGovern sounds off on the idiotic details he sees job seekers put on their resumes.

Everybody Hates Facebook, a Pictorial

If you’re fed up with Facebook’s changes, you’re not alone. Check out some of the entertaining photos from unhappy users making the rounds on the Web.

Objectivity Traps

While you can never be perfectly objective, knowing the major barriers to objectivity will help you get closer to it. Ignoring them makes you vulnerable.

Taking the Wireless Office to the Dogs

Zoom Room Shows How Wireless is Done