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It’s 10 p.m. — do you know what your APIs are doing?

Do you know what cloud services and APIs your systems are relying on? And do you know how to tell how reliable they are, and whether your vendoru2019s service level agreement (SLA) covers the performance you need?

By Mary Branscombe

Cloud Computing SaaS Software Development

Amazon takes aim at YouTube, Netflix via new video offerings

Amazon this week unveiled its new Video Direct user-generated video service, a direct shot at YouTube, and it also upped the competition with Netflix via new, aggressively-priced streaming video offerings.

By Bill Snyder

Consumer Electronics

To get digital, be the dog

Executives and decision makers may think they have the power, similar to Pavlov, to elicit a reaction from their customers. However, an executive's approach to technology is more similar to the dog's reaction than to Pavlov's position

By Bryan Kirschner

Amazon.com Developer Small and Medium Business

How to do influencer marketing like a pro

With 81 percent of marketers already going gaga about influencer marketing, you sure can bet on this promotion tactic to amplify the reach of your content amongst your target audience. But influencer marketing isnu2019t anything like what youu2019ve

By Dipti Parmar

IT Strategy Marketing Relationship Building

Are you paying too much for outsourced resources?

CIOs need to check for u201coutsourcing bloat.u201d

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

CIO Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

More than half of IT projects still failing

An annual survey from project management company Innotas shows that more than half of IT projects fail, three years after a similar survey showed nearly identical findings.

By Sharon Florentine

CIO IT Strategy Innovation

Stick it to the man: Disable Touch ID on your iPhone or iPad

A recent court ruling shows that law enforcement officials can require you to use Touch ID to unlock your iPhone or iPad. So hereu2019s how you can stick it to the man by disabling Touch ID.

Legal iPad iPhone

Big data essential to cancer ‘moonshot’

Vice president Joe Biden says data analytics, common standards and cultural changes will be critical to success of administration's efforts to improve cancer treatment.

By Kenneth Corbin

Government Healthcare Industry Technology Industry

Making healthcare bills easier to understand

As part of a broader health IT push, the Department of Health and Human Services secretary rolls out challenge to bring transparency to opaque medical billing practices.

By Kenneth Corbin

Government Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry

Why banks are finally cashing in on the public cloud

World Bank, Capital One and other banks are moving past their fears about security and regulatory risks turned and embracing the business agility of public cloud services.

By Clint Boulton

Cloud Management Financial Services Industry Technology Industry

Igniting Faster Analytics With the SMACK Stack

To gain the full value of data, you need to analyze it in real time

By Armando Acosta

Apple Small and Medium Business iPhone

Analytics

The REAL ‘real reason’ Apple made the Apple Watch

Despite an amusing report to the contrary, Apple's main motivation behind the release of its first smartwatch was not to improve the overall health of its customer base and change modern healthcare.

By Al Sacco

May 10, 2016 5 mins

5 key terms to know for vendor contracts

Vendor and third-party contract management is a challenge for every organization. Focus on key contract areas to address risks from effects of mobile, social, cloud and big data on employee, vendor and customer access and use of digital information a

By David Adler

IT Strategy Legal Small and Medium Business

Will healthcare play nice with data science?

Data science brings new understanding to healthcare and other fields. But does healthcare want to be told something different from such an understanding?

By Damian Mingle

Big Data Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry

5 key requirements of successful big data projects

In her keynote presentation at Apache: Big Data North America, Amy Gaskins, a data scientist with more than a decade of experience, shared five key requirements that can make or break big data projects.

By Thor Olavsrud

Analytics Big Data

SAP design chief talks details of Apple deal

SAP's chief design officer says modern workers have high expectations for the enterprise apps they use each day, and the company's recent deal with Apple is designed to elevate business software and enhance the overall SAP user experience.

By Matt Kapko

Apple Small and Medium Business iPhone

Public sector embraces bigger, longer outsourcing deals

Public sector outsourcing deals are growing as the U.S. government seeks shared services efficiencies.

By Stephanie Overby

Managed Cloud Services Outsourcing Technology Industry

6 traits engineers need to succeed as IT leaders

Finding managers who motivate, lead and inspire is easier said than done. Here are six tips for hiring IT leaders with successful outcomes.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Skills ITSM

Forrester calls for CIOs and CMOs to improve their relationship

A new report looks at the relationship between CIOs and CMOs, citing that a big shift needs to take place if businesses ever hope to live up to increasing customer expectations.rn

By Sarah K. White

CIO CMO IT Skills

Should Apple remove sandboxing from the Mac App Store?

Sandboxing in the Mac App Store has never been popular with developers. Should Apple remove it to encourage developers to put more of their software products in the Mac App Store?

Consumer Electronics MacOS Software Development

May 10, 2016 7 mins

6 important announcements from day 1 of CoreOS Fest, Berlin

New technologies, more open source, more funding

By Swapnil Bhartiya

Linux Open Source Virtualization

3 things world-class achievers do nonstop

Author Tim Grover wrote, u201cSuccess is the result of knowing what to do, the willingness to do it and the drive to continually improve at it.u201d World-class achievers find success by having three qualities u2014 three things they have or do nonst

By Bas de Baat

IT Leadership Project Management Tools

The ‘business’ in business intelligence: There’s NOT an app for that

Identifying and prioritizing business needs is the most important step to take before making an investment in a technology tool or platform.

By Scott H. Diehl

Analytics Business Intelligence

Helicopter CIOs: stop micromanaging

CIOs usually have progressed to their position from the technical world. But where does providing hands-on support from that experience become micromanagement?

By Francois Estellon

CIO IT Skills Mentoring

It would be madness for Apple to buy Netflix

Netflix is too expensive for even Apple to buy, and the companyu2019s programming library and subscriber base arenu2019t worth $53 billion dollars.

Consumer Electronics Mergers and Acquisitions

May 9, 2016 4 mins

Microsoft Outlook for iOS, Android gets 3 useful calendar features

Microsoft continues to make Outlook one of the best productivity apps available for mobile devices today, via valuable enhancements such as integration with its calendar and Facebook, Wunderlist, and Evernote.

By James A. Martin

Microsoft Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

4 tips to help switch marketing automation systems

What's more nerve-wracking than selecting a marketing automation system? Switching from an old platform to a new one. The transition process can be painful, but these four tips can help you avoid some of the most significant pitfalls.

By Matt Kapko

Analytics CMO Marketing

Is student loan assistance the next big thing in corporate recruiting?

Nearly 40 million Americans hold some kind of student loan debt, and a recent survey from education finance portal iontuition shows that the majority of them would like their employers to help with repayment.

By Sharon Florentine

Careers IT Jobs Relationship Building

Should you hire for bimodal IT?

Since Gartner coined the term of bimodal IT, plenty of CIOs have jumped on the bandwagon and separated their IT departments into two camps. But a recent report from Forrester suggests that bimodal IT only complicates things, and the real success lies

By Sarah K. White

Agile Development CIO Developer

Gathering and managing software requirements for buying or building

When developing software requirements it can be helpful to use existing products for inspiration. It is also useful to have several tools that can be used to manage those requirements.

By Chris Doig

Agile Development Development Tools IT Governance Frameworks

Can UC keep remote workers engaged?

For something that seems so simple in theory, unified communications can be hard to pull off in practice. But it might be the only thing helping to keep your distributed workforce engaged.

By Jen A. Miller

Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Unified Communications

How gender differences can make your company stronger

Leading companies are applying gender intelligence practices to boost diversity in their technology ranks and to capitalize on different perspectives of men and women for competitive advantage.

By Beth Stackpole

May 7, 2016

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

You can’t make money from open source

Is the open source u2018business modelu2019 broken?

By Swapnil Bhartiya

May 6, 2016 4 mins

Linux Open Source

CIO focus needs to shift from cutting IT costs

CIOs and IT departments need a new cost emphasis beyond slashing their own costs.

By Peter Bendor-Samuel

Budgeting CIO Technology Industry

What does the future of the Apache Software Foundation hold?

At Apache: Big Data North America in Vancouver next week — alongside a huge array of keynotes, panels and tutorials — the ASF and ODPi will host a Q&A session about their collaboration and address concerns about project independence.

By Thor Olavsrud

Developer Linux Technology Industry

15 steps to become a CEO success

At EMC World this week Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci said goodbye to the company. Columnist Rob Enderle writes that Tucci is a fine example of what a CEO should be, and shares 15 elements that go into making a CEO successful.

By Rob Enderle

IT Leadership

How hardware builds two-sided markets in the Internet of Things

3 lessons on how to use hardware to create self-sustained value.

By Scott Nelson

Apple Internet of Things SaaS

Cloud coding pitfalls: Tips for avoiding big, bad bugs

Sometimes the freedom of loosely coupled cloud-based services makes for a serious bugfest.

By David Taber

Cloud Computing Software Development

Apple’s SAP deal means more iOS enterprise apps

Apple continues to make headway in the business world. This week it landed a significant partnership with SAP that could have a major impact on mobile productivity.

By Matt Kapko

Apple Small and Medium Business iPhone

Prepare your project for the 7 faces of change

Change is not something to be avoided, but a reality to be navigated. Let's understand the seven faces of change in your projects and engage strategies to handle change effectively.

By Mark Faggion

IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Toys “R” Us hires CIO to boost ecommerce, customer tech

The toy retailer, battling Amazon.com and other ecommerce-savvy players, hires Phil Newmoyer from Serta Simmons Bedding as its new CIO.

By Clint Boulton

Carriers E-commerce Software Technology Industry

Netflix app gets stream-speed option, but you still can’t download video

Netflix subscribers can now stream video to their mobile devices at the highest possible speed available via their wireless networks, but the company still won't let users download content.

By Bill Snyder

Laptops Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Consumer Electronics

5 things you need to know about ‘Vibrant Gorilla Glass’

Corning's latest version of Gorilla Glass is not designed for use in mobile device displays, but instead uses a proprietary ink technology to provide vivid custom imagery on phones, tablets, PCs, gaming consoles and more.

By Al Sacco

May 6, 2016 6 mins

6 free Star Wars games for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Star Wars has never been more popular, and now you can battle the forces of evil in these 6 free Star Wars games for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Do you have what it takes to become a hero and save the galaxy?