Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
By Chris Preimesberger DEL MAR, Calif. — Nobody likes to talk about the danger of their jobs evolving into something they do not like, least of all highly compensated enterprise C-suite executives. But a group of Fortune 500 CIOs did just that several days ago. The occasion was the second, and possibly annual, The Wall…
“It’s really incumbent upon CIOs to step it up a notch,” Gelsinger told the audience of fellow and former CIOs at the summit. “They really have to. IT systems are morphing into new entities that involve CMOs, in addition to CIOs and CTOs. The democratization of IT, thanks to the cloud and mobile devices, is…
No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. And these days, even non-technical employees know that technology goes way beyond desktop computers and networks. From smart phones and tablet computers to mobile apps and cloud-based technology, there’s a plethora of technological advancements to not only keep track of, but also to…
by Ernie von Simson August is usually a slow somnolent month; a torpid time to loll at the beach, play with the kids, or read empty novels, certain that nothing strenuous can happen before Labor Day. This August was different. The IT sector’s dynamic mobile business suffered three major reversals: Apple lost Steve Jobs; HP…
The reviews are in and they are not especially flattering. In the Wall Street Journal Walt Mossberg suggested the innovative, Google-inspired Chrome OS netbook is buggy, pricey, and just not ready for primetime. In the New York Times, tech columnist David Pogue was, if anything, more brutal; dis’ing the device (he reviewed the Samsung edition…
Despite the brouhaha over climate change in certain U.S. political circles, the science, proven to be real by armies of scientists in multiple countries, is being taken seriously by several industry giants. Google, for example, announced just last week that it purchased 100MW of wind power via Google Energy. Google isn’t just investing in clean…
With their location based services (LBS), mCommerce (mobile commerce), GPS-coded pictures, and applications as-yet-unseen, these smartphones and tablets are in the vanguard of a revolution in computing. These tiny devices with their touch screens, motion sensors, cameras, Internet access and always-on presence have infiltrated our everyday lives. That, of course, is the very nature of…
Most adults in the U.S. say that they have seen people misuse mobile technology and most adults say mobile manners are worse now than in 2009. Because of the growing number of mobile devices the need for increased awareness of “mobile etiquette” is growing as is the impact of mobile technology on societal norms. Texting…
Call it heresy if you must but now may be the ideal time to hold off buying iPads for enterprise deployment and, instead, bring in tablets running Google’s Honeycomb, the 3.0 Android OS specifically crafted to power tablets. Outside of saying anything bad about Apple, the heresy part is that — as Apple recently noted…
The postulation is not academic: millions of dollars in upcoming IT budget now ride on this question: Can (should) CIOs start cutting netbook budget allotments in favor of tablets? And that in turn raises a more foundational question: What has shifted the once derided and certainly ignored tablet into the category of must-have technology? First…