Will Obama’s data-privacy bill of rights work?
After a month fraught with data privacy disasters, the big guns are stepping up to the plate. Yesterday, the White House issued a call for Congress to pass a “privacy bill of rights” that will give...
View ArticleThe new iPad release: A win or a wash?
Each week, we cover all the best blogs and give an executive summary for busy CIOs. Things were shaking in the world of IT last week, with the breaking news that there’s a risk of data privacy on Skype...
View ArticleWill vendor relations be strained after Dell acquisitions?
It’s been a busy week for Dell, not to mention for managing CIO vendor relations. This past Tuesday, Dell announced its impending acquisition of Wyse Technology Inc., a cloud software and hardware...
View ArticlePractical lessons in workplace culture from Google and Facebook
When it comes to retaining your IT talent, it’s about more than benefits and job security — workplace culture matters too. It’s the intangible (and sometimes tangible) practical lessons in keeping your...
View ArticleTechnology for competitive advantage is CIOs’ new Job One
Competitive advantage is not that new a business term — it was popularized by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter in the 1980s — but it has never been more important as a business...
View ArticleThe most popular mobile OS? Hint: It’s not an Apple product
We’ve scoured the Web looking for the top notes for your executive lunch break. This week, we’re digging into mobile and smartphone news, including the most popular mobile device and the risks your...
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Market forces and the final chapter of the browser wars
Browser wars? What browser wars? A recent news story reported that Google Chrome has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the most used browser on the Internet. My first thought was, “What took...
View ArticleThe Apple Retina display: Big whoop?
Each week, we round up an executive summary of the high points around the blogosphere. This week, we’re taking a look at the legality of Internet traffic regulation and how the big Internet companies...
View ArticleWeb censorship: Should you be alarmed?
Each week, we scour the Web looking for the choicest bits of blogs and news that midmarket CIOs will find appealing. This week, we’re taking a hard look at Web censorship, the Google Nexus release and...
View ArticleLeap second creates havoc for cloud computing services
Did the “leap second” get you down this weekend? Did the Amazon cloud computing services outage prevent you from watching old episodes of Louie on your iPad’s Netflix app? Us too. Between all of the...
View ArticleBig data market in flux; Apple and Google confront diversity in IT
Kicking off this week is SearchCIO senior news writer Nicole Laskowski’s Data Mill, where she addresses a looming question on everyone’s minds during the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium’s big data panel: Is...
View ArticleThe dawn of the chief marketing technologist; cloud ERP to the rescue
Marketing and brand awareness today sure aren’t what they looked like in the age of Mad Men, associate editor Emily McLaughlin writes in this week’s Searchlight. Marketing to today’s digital consumers...
View ArticleAn analytics team how-to for small business, from Google
Experimentation has become trendy. The test-and-learn philosophy — a variation on the fail fast approach — has been embraced by companies for building products or adding new features to a website. CIOs...
View ArticleStartup Hopper’s chief data scientist puts Spark in travel industry
Come one, come all, and take a gander at the inaugural video for our new series Startup Spotlight! SearchCIO features writer Kristen Lee gives us a peek inside the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices of...
View ArticleNordstrom dives into text analytics; Uber sets enterprise mobile pace
SearchCIO’s CIO Innovator Essential Guide is out! Make sure to take a look through the collection of CIO profiles to meet the IT execs, your peers, who are using IT enable the business, and see what...
View ArticleWearable tech and IT consumerization rattle the enterprise
Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of mobile messaging app WhatsApp turned heads not just for the price tag, but also for its signal to CIOs of the reality of IT consumerization. In this week’s Data Mill,...
View ArticleAdidas’ iterative approach a winner; Apple shakes up mobile landscape
Germany won this summer’s World Cup thanks, in part, to Adidas’ miCoach Elite Team System, a suite of technologies that includes a smart shirt, heart-rate monitor, GPS and more, Features Writer Kristen...
View ArticleCloud computing economics ezine; the NYT’s messy apps mobile strategy
There’s much for CIOs to to consider when it comes to cloud computing: your company’s specific needs, the financial benefits and data security, to name a few. Learn how to make the most of cloud...
View ArticleHow to disrupt old-school IT; a CIO cheat sheet for 2015
The traditional model of IT is going the way of the dinosaurs, according to former CIO and author Ian Cox, who recently chatted with Senior News Writer Nicole Laskowski and laid out a blueprint for how...
View ArticleProfiting from your digital strategy; PayPal boosts innovation via startup...
Are CIOs being seduced by digital eye candy instead of thinking about profitability? In the latest Data Mill, Mark McDonald, managing director at Accenture, gives tips on how CIOs can maximize profit...
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