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The Real Apple iPad Killer App? Reading

Steve Jobs was wrong. People love to read on the iPad. Let’s hope newspaper publishers don’t ruin it for everyone.

Google+: I’m Just Not That Into You

CIO.com’s Kristin Burnham has had enough with Google+. It’s not that the new social network doesn’t have potential…it’s just not living up to her admittedly high expectations.

BlackBerry Curve 9370 to be First 4G LTE BlackBerry?

RIM’s upcoming Curve 9370 smartphone could be the BlackBerry-maker’s first 4G, LTE smartphone. And CrackBerry addicts eager to get their hands on the 4G-BlackBerry-goodness may only have to wait until next month.

A CIO’s-Eye View of the Debt Ceiling Crisis

The debt ceiling crisis was an economic matter. How it was handled? You can learn a lot from this about what to do in your capacity as business leader … and what not to do.

ERP Market Shake-Up: What It Means to Your Company

ERP vendors continue to merge and be acquired at a steady pace in 2011. Here are some tips on how you can protect your company’s interests as the marketplace continues to shift, from analyst Albert Pang.

Cut IT Costs for Older ERP Apps With Third-Party Support

Some large enterprises are looking to third-party ERP support providers to reduce their maintenance and support costs by 50 percent or more rather than sticking with their existing ERP vendors. Rebecca Wettemann of Nucleus Research explains the circu

Out of Touch CEOs: How to Demotivate Your Employees

When a CEO tells his employees that he’s taking a year off to fulfill a longtime sailing dream, does he honestly expect employees to be happy for him?

How to Fight Back When Your Boss is Out to Get You

When your boss undermines your every move and even goes so far as to give you a formal, 30-day warning about your performance, you know trouble is brewing. Here’s what to do when your “poor performance” is your boss’s fault, not your own.

BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Gets Security Nods from Australia, Russia Gov’ts

Both the Australian and Russian governments are currently evaluating RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook for secure government use. Russia is simultaneously considering a government ban of Apple’s iPad tablet due to security concerns, according to reports.

BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 Release Imminent; Camera-Less Version Expected

RIM should release its first BlackBerry smartphone with the new BlackBerry 7 mobile OS, the Bold 9900/9930, in the very near future, and the device will likely be available without a camera for organizations that have security policies barring the us

Can IE9 Save Enterprises Money?

A Forrester study concludes that a migration to Internet Explorer 9 will save an enterprise a few million bucks over three years due to better malware protection and security features and increased user productivity. Let’s look at the numbers.

How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions

CIO.com’s Virtualization and Cloud blogger Bernard Golden presents a clear picture of what the IT world will look like when cloud computing becomes the status quo. The future of IT has never looked more promising.

How Our CIO 100 Award Winners Are Setting the Pace of Innovation

What can companies accomplish when innovation really becomes everyoneu2019s business? The August 1 issue of CIO magazine has the answers.

Cloud CRM: The Politics of Data Ownership and Control

In CRM systems, you’ve got to be really sensitive to the politics of ownership and control. The cloud doesn’t change that any. Here’s a look at some general rules that apply to nearly any B2B marketing & sales company.

The Risk Right Under Your Nose

Product development is the biggest differentiating factor in today’s hypercompetitive business environment. Lead times continue to shrink, development budgets remain strained, and customers demand more and more features. When it comes designing a ris

Want to Up Your Firm’s Leverage? Boost Jobless Benefits

Companies are willing to take on more debt when their workers are shielded from the costs of joblessness through higher unemployment insurance provided by the government, according to a paper from New York University’s Stern School of Business and No

Is Marketing The Biggest Opportunity For IT Since The Internet?

In today’s fast-paced global economy, examples of how empowered customers and citizens use social technology to influence everything from brands to governments are all around us.

SAP and Google Maps Team Up to Visualize Corporate Data

SAP and Google have announced a new partnership intended to help enterprises use Google Maps to better visualize their data. Here’s how this partnership can help your business use its data even more effectively.

News flash! IT does its best to circumvent capitalism!

Do you have a 21st century workforce? Or is yours mired in 20th century habits?

Best Practices for Streamlining Sourcing Life-Cycle Governance

For sourcing organizations to mature, they must understand both the complexity of the sourcing process and the intricacy of each step of the life cycle. Here are some best practices for sourcing and vendor management professionals to follow in order

4 New Offshore Captive Center Models

Captive center models have been in play since the early 1980’s, and since then, they’ve changed and evolved. As captive centers become an increasingly important part of offshore work, sourcing and vendor management professionals must work with the re

Job Interviews, Lies and Videotape

Do job seekers work harder to impress hiring managers when they know they’re going to be videotaped during a job interview? Hardly. See how regrettably a handful of job seekers conducted themselves when they were taped during interviews.

Slow Product Ramp-ups Challenge Oracle and SAP

Both companies still have some things to prove to customers as they continue to unveil their product strategies around Oracle’s Fusion Apps and SAP’s HANA technologies, according to one analyst.

HTC Bliss is an Android Smartphone for Women…Seriously?

Leaked images of HTC’s new “Bliss” smartphone suggest the company may be trying to raise female awareness, and uptake, of the Android mobile OS. But will women embrace the marketing stunt…or avoid it?

How To Document in the Cloud

Nobody ever has time to document systems. In the cloud, people aren’t any more likely to document — but it becomes doubly important to do so. Enter sky-writing: leveraging the cloud to solve this timeless problem.

Horrible Bosses: 7 Ways to Drive Your Best Workers Out the Door

If you recognize the following seven behaviors in any of your managers, get rid of them before they send your top performers packing.

Is nearshoring the new IT outsourcing?

BlackBerry Job Cuts Continue; RIM to Drop 2,000 More Staffers

RIM will lay off 2,000 more employees, or about 10 percent of its total workforce, within the coming weeks as part of an ongoing “cost optimization program.”

Where Will Your Future IT Workers Come From?

Finding the right IT people with the right skills is critical to keeping your business running smoothly. So what are you doing to groom the next generation of IT workers for your future hiring needs? It’s time to mentor some kids through groups like