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Major IT outsourcing acquisition will have mixed impact

Information Service Groupu2019s purchase of competitor Alsbridge creates a larger, more well-rounded outsourcing advisory, but will also reduce competitive pricing leverage for clients.

By Stephanie Overby

Mergers and Acquisitions Outsourcing Technology Industry

Preparing your enterprise for IoT and automation in the workplace: Part 1

The first installment of a three-part series explores key findings, recommendations and business-critical areas to understand when planning, refining or implementing IoT systems

By Stephanie Atkinson

Big Data Hybrid Cloud Internet of Things

The 3 worst on-site ad fails

Advertising messages can form an essential part of an effective online strategy for a website. But ads are often used in ways that hinder rather than promote success.

By Ian Mills

Internet Mobile Small and Medium Business

LinkedIn ‘Interest Feed’ aims for better content discovery

LinkedIn wants to help you find more relevant content with a new, restructured 'Interest Feed.'

Internet LinkedIn Social Networking Apps

Storytelling in the C-suite

One of today's hottest technology trends has nothing to do with the internet.

By Jill Dyché

Business IT Alignment CIO IT Skills

Why AWS is the IBM for the cloud computing age

Scalable cloud computing that helps businesses get up and running quickly and securely means you'll never get fired for buying Amazon Web Services.

By Clint Boulton

Dec 2, 2016 6 mins

Amazon.com CIO Cloud Management

How tech vendors can successfully articulate a vision

First, your company needs a vision, then, writes columnist Rob Enderle, it needs to know how to articulate it as Corning does with its Day Made of Glass series.

By Rob Enderle

IT Leadership Technology Industry

What your CEO needs to know about securing the Internet of Things

Without a unified set of behavioral expectations, business leaders must confront a u201cWild Westu201d of connected devices. This places an emphasis on defending their organizations through proactive security focused around monitoring, threat isolati

By Todd Thibodeaux

C-Suite Internet of Things Security

What you don’t know about cloud adoption doesn’t have to hurt you

At least 95 percent of U.S. companies are embracing some sort of cloud strategy. Yet IT leaders struggle to avoid common mistakes and initial purchasing decisions hamper their ability to move forward.

By Christopher C. Barron

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud IaaS

Google App Maker aims to ease enterprise development

Google is making it simpler for business to create custom apps. Its new App Maker service lets you integrate apps with Google's services and run them on the same data center infrastructure as its G Suite of productivity software.

Developer Development Tools Software Development

Accenture expands AWS Business Group

In a move designed to help customers be more agile, Accenture is expanding its Accenture AWS Business Group to enhance its cloud application migration, development and management offerings.

By Thor Olavsrud

Cloud Computing Cloud Management IT Strategy

CIO battles nuclear industry regulation in digital shift

Newport News Shipbuilding CIO Bharat Amin is challenging regulations as he drives a transformation geared to digitize IT systems and processes.

By Clint Boulton

CIO IT Strategy Technology Industry

7 ways to support IT diversity this holiday season

Want to support diversity in the workplace and help girls, women, people of color and the LGBTQ community? Here are seven organizations that are making a difference that you can donate to this holiday season.rn

By Sharon Florentine

Careers Relationship Building

Find lost items faster with Chipolo Plus Bluetooth tracker

Chipolo Plus is supposedly the loudest Bluetooth item tracker available today, and its chirpy tune can be heard from a greater distance than other similar trackers.

Consumer Electronics Mobile Apps

Social media has so far failed to live up to its promise as an online one-stop-shop for consumers and retailers. The biggest platforms haven't given up, but some critics say it may be too late.rn

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12 tech gifts that should be on your holiday wish list

We reviewed a lot of gadgets and services in 2016, including suitcases that lock themselves and apps that turn tablets into additional displays for laptops. Here are our top 12 recommendations for tech tools that make unforgettable holiday gifts.

Consumer Electronics Mobile Small and Medium Business

Payment systems evolve to keep pace with a changing economy

It seems like only yesterday when all payments were made in cash, but the rise of e-commerce and other changes in the way we do business have led to the emergence of more convenient cashless transactions.

By Dipti Parmar

Internet Marketing

IT Resume Makeover: Presenting an executive image

Looking to land your first tech executive role? Hereu2019s how to overhaul your resume to catch a recruiter's eye and demonstrate your qualifications.

By Sarah K. White

IT Jobs IT Skills Resumes

6 reasons to buy Sony PlayStation VR over Oculus and HTC Vive

The best VR experience money can buy.rn

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Nov 30, 2016 6 mins

Consumer Electronics Virtual Reality

Finland’s largest airline inks iOS deal with Apple and IBM

Finnair will work with Apple and IBM to develop a set of enterprise iOS apps for airplane mechanics and their supervisions. The software is expected to be available in early 2017.

Apple IBM Small and Medium Business

The return of the infrastructure engineer

Infrastructure engineers have many opportunities. But these opportunities require fresh thinking about what makes a great engineer and a great engineering culture.

By Mark Tonsetic

Careers IT Leadership

Building your business case for consumption-based IT pricing

Tips for making the case for turning fixed IT costs to elastic costs.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

CIO IT Governance Technology Industry

5 tips to help developers keep up with changing technologies

Developers want to learn new technologies and build new things. These five tips can help keep your developers happy and the innovation flowing.

By Thor Olavsrud

IT Leadership IT Strategy Technology Industry

25 tech certifications earning the highest cash premiums right now

Is it any secret that employers value info/cybersecurity and architecture the most when it comes to paying their workers extra cash for certifications?

By David Foote

Nov 30, 2016 7 mins

Careers IT Leadership IT Skills

iOS: Netflix launches downloads for offline viewing

iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners can now download movies and TV shows from Netflix to watch while offline.

By Jim Lynch

Nov 30, 2016 4 mins

Small and Medium Business iPad iPhone

Trump presidency could sound death knell for offshore outsourcing

U.S.-based offshore outsourcing customers should prepare for the effects of a Trump presidency on their IT services deals.

By Stephanie Overby

Government H-1B Visas Technology Industry

How privacy and personalization intersect in our data-filled world

For many this can seem like a catch-22, while consumers demand privacy, it's not likely they'll become long-term customers without some type of personalization.

By Philip Kushmaro

CRM Systems Data and Information Security Internet

Hulu exec talks mobile video and offline viewing

Hulu's experience chief this week compared mobile video users and traditional TV viewers. He also addressed one of the company's biggest shortcomings: the inability to download Hulu content for offline use.

By Al Sacco

Media and Entertainment Industry Small and Medium Business Video

5 apps to gamify your personal and work lives

Being productive can be a challenge some days, but these five apps are designed to turn your to-do lists, habits and chores into a role-playing game.

By Sarah K. White

Consumer Electronics IT Skills Mobile Apps

Mobile ads thrive on Facebook, Google, Instagram and Pinterest

App-install advertisements are among the fastest-growing and most effective mobile ad formats today, but the companies that buy them aren't necessarily the household names consumers might expect.rn

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Nov 30, 2016 4 mins

Qapital app saves money when you sleep or go to Starbucks

If you have a New Year's resolution to save more money, the Qapital app for Android and iOS can help. It's easy to set up and use, and it automatically socks money away towards financial goals.

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8 tech startup trends to watch in 2017

Artificial intelligence startups will be big next year, along with startups in cybersecurity, chatbots, VR and legalized recreational marijuana, according to experts. rn

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Emphasizing innovation

Two CIOs say innovation happens in settings where collaboration is paramount and failure is acceptable.

By Brendan McGowan

IT Strategy Innovation Technology Industry

The lean journey in IT

Lean is a methodology that every IT department can adopt to do things better, faster and cheaper. But what's more important than adopting the lean framework is transforming the culture to think lean.

By David Chou

C-Suite IT Leadership IT Strategy

Splice Machine boosts hybrid relational data platform

The startup adds support for columnar storage, in-memory caching and cost-optimized AWS storage to its hybrid transactional and analytical processing platform.

By Thor Olavsrud

Hadoop Startups Technology Industry

How digital workplaces keep workers connected

Innovative companies are overhauling their offices and upgrading their technology systems to create business agility, according to MIT research.

By Clint Boulton

Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

What’s in your architecture?

Why the architecture has far-reaching effects and how to get it right before you invest in implementing it

By Pradeep Henry

Business IT Alignment Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy

Get a better grip on your iPad Pro without a case

Is the iPad Pro a bit too slippery to handle well? Hereu2019s how you can improve its u201cgrippinessu201d and make it easier to hold without using a case. rn

By Jim Lynch

Nov 29, 2016 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Tablets iPad

4 critical questions for every professional relationship

Learn the four questions we ask ourselves consciously or subconsciously about our colleagues. Are you four yeses or for noes?

By Morag Barrett

Careers IT Leadership Relationship Building

Productivity linking and mapping

Productivity improvements in one IT department can positively affect other areas of IT and the company overall. Understanding these connections allows you to strategically prioritize your productivity initiatives, based on what is best for IT as a wh

By Eric Bloom

BPM Systems IT Leadership

5 tips for succeeding with a virtual workforce

Ensuring team effectiveness in a global virtual environment takes great communications skills and a willingness to understand different cultures. Hereu2019s how one company gets the most out of its global virtual teams.

By Ed Tittel, Mary Kyle

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

11 tips for using Facebook for business

Small business owners and social media marketers discuss how you can use Facebook to promote your brand, engage with customers and grow your business.

By Jennifer Lonoff Schiff

Nov 29, 2016 7 mins

BPM Systems E-commerce Software Internet

SAP CIO on leading IT when the business is IT

Michael Golz, CIO of Americas at SAP, has a unique perspective on IT's role in product development and digital transformation.

By Martha Heller

CIO IT Jobs Technology Industry

How to watch offline Netflix on a plane (or anywhere else)

The free PlayOn Cloud iOS app is a 'streaming digital video recorder' that lets you watch offline video from Netflix, Hulu and other services. However, it costs 99 cents to capture recordings, and they only last for 30 days.

Media and Entertainment Industry Small and Medium Business Video

Mobile ads are now as effective as desktop ads

Marketers now reach their target audiences at similar rates via mobile and desktop advertisements, according to Nielsen, and mobile ads actually outperform traditional desktop ads in a few key demographics.

Marketing Mobile Small and Medium Business

A thought on making service design better

Here are some ideas regarding service design, and how it can provide more value to your organization by solving some problems 'to the left' of service transition and operations.

By Joel Pomales