IT Management/Strategy

Career advice for IT managers, including job search tips, interview techniques, project management, IT-business alignment, outsourcing, and vendor management.

Study links IT spending to profits

Posted May 15, 2012 - 9:33 pm

New research finds a link between IT spending and corporate profitability, but only for IT projects that are focused on revenue growth.
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This is the golden age of Facebook privacy

Posted May 15, 2012 - 12:19 pm

After Facebook's IPO, the only way the company can boost revenues is by sharing more and more of your data. So enjoy what little privacy you have left before it's gone.
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Mark Cuban sees college like housing bubble

Posted May 15, 2012 - 11:07 am

Cuban, of Broadcast.com and now owner of the Dallas Mavericks, sees student loans as too easy to get and believes the $Trillion owed may sink the economy.
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Taking the measure of big data: More is more

Posted May 15, 2012 - 8:00 am

Some believe that 99.9% of big data is worthless, but I disagree. What you might discard as worthless today, may be useful to another analyst tomorrow. It depends on the questions you ask the data, how you ask them, and when.
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Kaspersky doubles up slam at Apple, Mac OS X

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:11 pm

Two Kaspersky Labs top execs publicly and explicitly slammed Apple for poor security in recent weeks as Apple customers go through the pain of growing into malware targets and Kaspersky makes a big push to round up new customers for its cloud security service. Apple users, maybe.
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Faking IT: 5 executives who lied on their resumes

Posted May 14, 2012 - 5:23 pm

Scott Thompson isn't the first executive from an IT company to be forced out due to false information on the resume. The ignominious list contains other CEOs, CFOs and even the IT Head of the Department of Homeland Security.
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Five things CIOs should know about big data

Posted May 14, 2012 - 3:51 pm

#1 You will need to think about big data
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WSJ: Thompson told Yahoo board he has cancer

Posted May 14, 2012 - 2:31 pm

Thompson revealed the illness as evidence arose that seemed to contradict his story about his padded resume, the newspaper reports.
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Resume writing in IT terms

Posted May 14, 2012 - 2:23 pm

Don't look at your resume as a way to get a job interview. It's your introduction to someone you don't know.
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Is your BYOD policy out-of-date?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 2:23 pm

Fluctuating consumerization trends will force IT decision makers to evaluate their policies on a regular basis.
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How many more Scott Thompsons are out there?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:41 pm

Scott Thompson may be gone from Yahoo, but many of you still are reporting to a phony running your own department or company.
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Centage/IOMA Budgeting Survey: Benchmarks and Issues

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:20 pm

How are other financial professionals dealing with the issues you face? This report offers you an inside peak into what the minds at over 200 financial executives are thinking and doing to impact their own bottom line.
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Hard time: 10 tech CEOs sent to the slammer

Posted May 13, 2012 - 8:00 am

A sampling of famous and not-so-famous tech execs who ran afoul of the law
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How much is that Facebook post worth to you?

Posted May 11, 2012 - 6:14 pm

Will Facebook start charging users to promote their posts to friends? A test going on in New Zealand says this might well be so.
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Science news: Chimps are mean, sneaky bastards

Posted May 11, 2012 - 5:40 pm

A chimp named Santino made news three years ago for gathering rocks in the morning to throw at humans in the afternoon. Now he's hiding the rocks and his own anger until it's time to whip out the rocks and have at the enemy, which dumb animals are not supposed to be able to do.
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Why 'Game of Thrones' is the most pirated TV show

Posted May 11, 2012 - 11:14 am

Is the "most pirated TV show" award as satisfying as an Emmy? Game of Thrones may find out.
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Twitter acquires email marketer RestEngine

Posted May 11, 2012 - 6:29 am

Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social graph, RestEngine said on Thursday.
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Panasonic books US$10 billion annual loss, largest ever by Japan manufacturer

Posted May 11, 2012 - 4:59 am

Panasonic said Friday it booked a loss of nearly US$10 billion for the fiscal year that ended March 31, the largest ever loss by a Japanese manufacturer according to local media.
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Senator asks DOJ for information on its cellphone tracking practices

Posted May 11, 2012 - 2:39 am

U.S. Senator Al Franken has in a letter asked the Department of Justice for information on its practices in requesting location information from wireless carriers, following reports that law enforcement agencies are requesting such information sometimes without warrants.
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Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit

Posted May 10, 2012 - 9:15 pm

Megaupload filed a motion in federal court on Thursday asking to delay a civil suit filed against the file-sharing site while it prepares a defense for its criminal case.
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Facebook's Instagram buy could be delayed by FTC, report says

Posted May 10, 2012 - 6:42 pm

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe of Facebook's proposed acquisition of Instagram that could delay the closing of the deal, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
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FSF President Stallman falls ill at conference

Posted May 10, 2012 - 4:14 pm

Rumors that free software guru Richard Stallman suffered a heart attack at a Spanish conference are off the mark.
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New York City agency pushes plan to prevent cyberattacks on elevators, boilers

Posted May 10, 2012 - 4:03 pm

Imagine what would happen if an attacker broke into the network for the industrial control systems for New York City's elevators and boiler systems and decided to disrupt them, imperiling the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents relying on them. Think it could never happen? Think again.
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The 24/7 CIO: Are you really open for business?

Posted May 10, 2012 - 4:00 pm

The Web offers cheap and easy access for our clients (internal or external) to access services 24/7. As a result, our Web stores and public facing sites have become "must be available" on the same basis. But how many of us actually follow through?
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IDC White Paper: Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:50 pm

In an IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, IDC covers how cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today and how HP is helping organizations address this trend. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and efficiently allocate their compute resources.
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