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McAfees 10 Tips To Secure New Devices and Guard Against Cybercrime in 2011

Chasing Google: Bing’s ‘Search Overload’ Message Falling on Deaf Ears?

Despite Bing’s market share gains and a strong ad campaign, Google remains unscathed as the search king. Will that ever change?

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Cloud App Integration: What’s the Best Path?

Cloud-based or SaaS applications need to live in an ecosystem, integrated with the rest of your infrastructure and enterprise applications. Sure — but what integration strategy actually works best?

Why BlackBerry PlayBook May Be “Totally Useless for Enterprise”

RIM’s PlayBook packs a cutting-edge hardware/software combo, but hold on, enterprises. CIO has the scoop on PlayBook’s big flaw.

RIM Details BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0.3 Features; Launch “Very, Very Soon”

RIM will release BES 5.0.3 in “early 2011,” and the company announced specifics on the software with a number of new features.

Cloud Makes Capacity Planning Harder: 3 Fight-Back Tips

Cloud computing will kill capacity planning as CIOs know it and utilization risk will move to cloud providers, says CIO.com’s Bernard Golden. Here’s his take on what IT and airlines will soon have in common — plus three strategies for avoiding troub

Montana Town Sees Significant Rise in Identity Theft

Data Leakage is a Correctable and Solvable Problem

iGate Buys Patni in West Meets East Outsourcing Market Move

U.S.-based iGate is anteing up lots of dollars to buy India’s Patni in a deal valued at $1.22 billion.

Cloud City: Survey Ranks Most Cloud Computing-Friendly U.S. Urban Areas

Cloud computing is slowly fueling IT jobs in U.S. cities. Here are the top 10 cloud cities, according to a Microsoft survey.

IT in 2020: Will It Even Exist?

Dear IT leaders: You’re used to expecting the unexpected, but a Forrester report questions if IT will survive to 2020.

Is Your Private Cloud Defensive or Responsive?

Companies building private clouds mainly to keep developers from going to public clouds are too focused on the physical aspects of cloud — and missing the point about the operational requirements, says Forrester Research’s James Staten. Here, he sha

BlackBerry in Indonesia: Censorship Slope a Slippery One

RIM says it’ll censor pornographic websites so it can keep operating in Indonesia. But the decision may have unintended effects.

ITIL vs The Cloud: Pick one

The Cloud is fundamentally incompatible with ITIL — the most widely accepted framework for professional IT management.

5 Ways to Update Your PC for the New Year

10 Tips to Post Holiday Home Security

What We Learned About Tablets at CES

Expect the iPad to dominate the high end, Android to capture volume and new competitors galore.

IT Budgets Will Get Bigger in 2011

According to our latest Economic Impact Survey of 333 top IT execs, spending looks to be at its highest level since 2008, with more money going to mobile solutions, top-line revenue-generating projects, and applications.

RIM BlackBerry Booth Tour at CES 2011 (Video)

CIO.com’s Al Sacco offers this video tour of RIM’s BlackBerry booth at CES 2011, where the PlayBook tablet is on display.

IT Outsourcing in 2011 – The Best of Predictions

Hear what outsourcing experts expect, such as an Indian/Western mega-merger, cloud pressure, Latin American spotlight.

Apple Global Service Providers Behaving Badly

An Apple service provider sues a customer in Greece – and the mess lands on Apple’s doorstep.

New BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Accessories at CES: Cases, Sleeves, Chargers and More

CIO.com’s Al Sacco shares images of RIM’s brand new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet accessory lineup at CES 2011 in Las Vegas.

Social Media Resistance: Sustain or Surrender in 2011?

Linchpinning

In an era with no job security, here’s a path to less job insecurity.

New BlackBerry PlayBook Videos Tease Tablet Before CES 2011

RIM has released two new video teasers for its much-anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC, just in time for CES.

The Internet of Things and the Cloud CIO of the Future

The ease of cloud computing and the explosion of computing devices means that the nature of IT and the role of CIO is going to change dramatically.

Microsoft at CES: Put Up or Shut Up Time on Tablets

Will Microsoft get its tablet act together in 2011? Here’s what we’d like to hear from Steve Ballmer about tablets at CES.

CIOs Recharged and Ready for 2011

Happily, our 2011 State of the CIO research reveals that this coming year will be all about enhancing productivity, investing strategically and fueling growth.

Happy Holidays and Thank You From Robert Siciliano and Home Security Source