Opinion

T-Mobile, Sprint Sell Out BlackBerry Bold 99xx Online: Strong Sales or Just Short Stock?

Both T-Mobile U.S.A. and Sprint temporarily sold out of RIM’s new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 smartphone last week, but CIO.com’s Al Sacco says the brief sellouts aren’t really an accurate indicator of strong sales.

August Employment Figures Show Job Growth for IT Industry

Consulting/professional services is the best place to find IT jobs today.

Dreamforce 2011: Ukelele’s, MC Hammer, Free iPads, Chatter Still Matters

Highlights of Saleforce.com’s user/developer conference, Dreamforce, from three different perspectives: Atmospheric, management and technical.

Hands On Video: The Toshiba Portege R835

Toshiba is going all thin and light on us with the Portege R835 model, its lightest ultraportable laptop at 3.2 pounds with an amazing eight hours of battery life and an unbeatable price.

Conquering The Technology/Marketing Divide

The new “it” couple is the CIO and CMO. Why? In the digital world we live in today, which Forrester defines as the Age of the Customer, empowered buyers demand a new level of customer obsession.

Infographic: Who’s Using Social Media Today?

Which words — both positive and negative — do people associate with social networking? How much has social networking grown in the last year? A new report highlights how social networking usage has changed, with some findings that may surprise you.

Still the “Toughest Job in the World”?

If IT leadership isn’t the “toughest job in the world” … the world of business, that is … it’s pretty high in the rankings. And you thought you were just having a bad day or two. Or three. Or 365 …

5 Signs Your Competitors Will Steal Your Best IT Workers

Michael Greco, a partner in the Employee Defection & Trade Secrets Practice Group at law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP, identified several warning signs that indicate your best IT employees may be ready to accept job offers from your competitors. Here a

AT&T Enforcing Tether Requirement for BlackBerry PlayBook Bridge Browsing?

AT&T said a data plan with tethering support is necessary for its BlackBerry customers to share their smartphones’ Web connections with PlayBook tablets in July, when it first announced BlackBerry Bridge BlackBerry support, but some users say they we

Three Steps to Combatting Rogue IT

CIOs need to be more yes-oriented when it comes to embracing consumer tech and the tech demands of their internal customers

What We’re Reading from the Sept. 15, 2011 Issue for CIO Magazine

Books, blogs and research about IT, management and leadership

Good CFO/Bad CFO

Passed in 2002, Sarbanes-Oxley introduced the most sweeping changes to U.S. business legislation since the 1930s. And most of the responsibility for effecting this change has fallen on CFOs, particularly insofar as sections 302 and 404 are concerned.

Tablets Take Precedence

As tablets gain a foothold in the enterprise, CIOs are scrambling to create consumer-tech-friendly policies.

How the Right Tech Plans Can Lead to Better Customer Service

Keep your average customer in mind when developing the products they must interact with, recommends CIO magazine publisher emeritus Gary Beach.

Best Social Networks for Finding IT Jobs

LinkedIn tops the list, but IT job seekers shouldn’t ignore Facebook or Twitter, according to a recent survey.

Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) Gets 4.0 Update

Google has released version 4.0 of its Google Apps Connector software for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), and the update supports the most recent versions of RIM’s BES and adds some minor functionality.

Yammer’s Freemium Model Creates a Viral Effect Inside Companies

R-E-S-P-E-C-T…

How to influence, even when we lack authority, is one of the finest arts a finance professional can learn.

CEOs Brace for the Return of Shadow IT

As CEOs press for growth and business leaders find opportunity all around them, an old IT nemesis is backu2014rogue consumer devices.

What We’re Reading from the Sept. 1, 2011, Issue of CIO Magazine

Books, blogs and research about technology and leadership

Why CIOs Still Like DIY Software Development

Companies from NYSE Euronext to Alcoa are bypassing ready-made software and developing their own programs in-house in hopes of creating competitive advantage

A Strategic-Finance ‘How-to’

For more than a decade, executive recruiters and other experts on the CFO role have insisted that CFOs must be more strategic-thinking. Moreover, the business-minded finance chief must in turn lead the finance team to align with the rest of the organ

Cloud CIO: The Challenges of Competing with Cloud Computing Providers

There is no question that corporate IT departments need to change their cultures and their organizational structures to compete with cloud providers, but doing so introduces a variety of practical challenges–including convincing the CFO to embrace a

Steve Jobs Leaves Apple Without a Future

What does Apple really lose with Steve Jobs no longer at the helm? Everything.

iPad’s Starring Role in Sci-Fi Movies

The cozy relationship between sci-fi and tech gadgets just got a little tighter. Check out how life imitates art, and vice-versa.

Providing Technology Leadership

IT should provide technology leadership for the company. The two big challenges: Figuring out what this means, and doing it in a way that can turn into actual business action.

What CIOs Need to Know About HP’s Acquisition of Autonomy

Here’s why you should be paying attention: it’s a big analytics play that could help lead the way to making sense of all the unstructured data that’s overwhelming enterprises of all sizes, says analyst Charles King.

“Here Comes Everybody” Gives Insight to the Power of the Group

Companies Need to Be Aware of Collective Action — Also Known As Power of the People

WebOS Developers Consider Jumping Ship to Windows Phone 7

Microsoft will be losing a valued PC hardware partner in Hewlett-Packard. But it’s not all bad news for Redmond. With HP’s WebOS now marginalized, developers seeking a port in the storm may land at Windows Phone 7.

Is Your CRM Business Process Really a Workflow?

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a business process, you don’t know what you are doing.” — W. Edward Deming