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IT WAS 1967. Students were protesting an unpopular war. Beatle John Lennon was on the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone. And Patrick J. McGovern started Computerworld, a […]

Even the best IT leaders have made blunders in their careers--in fact, those lessons often forge stronger leaders. These are some of the decisions that our Premier 100 IT Leaders […]

Pop quiz: Which came first, the wired LAN or the wireless LAN? Today, we tend to think of wireless LANs and wireless connections to the Internet as exotic, new applications, […]

You've found an application service provider. You've talked about money, goals and partnership, and you're ready to sign up for a long-term commitment. But have you worked out the prenuptial […]

There could be 1.3 billion subscribers to third-generation (3G) wireless networks in 2010. That's the optimistic case in one market research forecast. Or there could be only 744 million 3G […]

History books routinely describe the delivery of the Univac I to General Electric Co.'s Appliance Park in 1954 as the first installation of an electronic computer at a business. But […]

The trucks rolled up to the brand-new, ultramodern factory in Louisville, Ky., one day in January 1954. Now, 47 years later, no one seems to remember the exact date. There […]

When Joseph Glickauf returned from the messy laboratory of ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, he felt he'd seen the future. His notes from the Philadelphia visit had […]

The PC-based GeoVoter system in Darryl Howard's office is getting a workout before next week's elections. As executive director of the Oregon Republican Party in Salem, Howard is a leading-edge […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made it clear last week that it's still learning about business-to-business e-commerce exchanges - and that it's in no hurry to regulate the fledgling […]

Labor experts are predicting that turmoil from the high-profile antitrust case may give competitors an opening to steal Microsoft Corp.'s top-notch software engineers and other employees. 'With the government's recent […]

Generalizations that all IT workers are socially challenged nerds aren't accurate, according to a new study of IT professionals' 'emotional intelligence.' The preliminary study by Multi-Health Systems, Inc. in Toronto […]

If it isn't an El Nino-induced power outage, it's a construction backhoe that rips out a bundle of fiber-optic cables, or 760 end users who suddenly sign up for PointCast […]

AT MICHIGAN.GOV, citizens can find licensed day-care providers, reserve a campsite, renew licenses and get alerts about road closures delivered to their wireless devices. That helps to explain why Michigan […]

EDITOR'S NOTE WHEN YOU HEAR IT managers complain about storage problems--whether they involve maintenance, adding disk drives, provisioning, load balancing or backup--their beefs all fall into one broad category: storage […]

EDITOR'S NOTE I QUIETLY CHUCKLE to myself when someone talks about "the wireless enterprise" as though there's some monolithic definition of what that is. The fact is that wireless applications […]

EDITOR'S NOTE MY OWN career plan is called 'stumbling forward.' I just walk through career doors that, through pure luck, happen to open at the right time. It's worked OK […]

EDITOR'S NOTE ONCE, I WAS TRYING to interview a CIO in his office, but his phone kept ringing every few minutes with sales calls. He'd pick up the phone, bark […]

EDITOR'S NOTE LET'S TAKE IT BY THE NUMBERS: When Sage Research asked 104 executives which technology areas are the greatest sources of pain in their organizations, they ranked security No. […]

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT? We explain on-demand computing in plain English and explore the three-way split among users: Some are doing it, some are examining it, and some are extremely […]

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY--with its incompatibilities, security holes, dead zones and fuzzy ROI--has got to be the most immature and frustrating field for IT managers. But it's also the most exciting. Almost […]

Restoring Data Tapes After the Coffee Spill As your store's night manager is driving home with the backup tapes, he has to slam on the brakes. Hot coffee spills onto […]

Many ClOs predict that real-time communication technologies, such as instant messaging, SharePoint, Chatter and Yammer, will overtake classic email in the workplace in the next five years. That's the conclusion [...]

MANY application development professionals are likely to obsess over what tools and technology they should choose to develop a mobile app. While that's important, 'it is less than half the [...]

A UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND researcher has developed inexpensive wireless sensors that could avert the kind of bridge collapse that killed 13 and injured 145 along I-35W in Minneapolis four years [...]

THE BUZZ about mobile shopping focuses on the smartphone as the device in hand. But Forrester Research analysts suggested in a report last month that retailers should prepare for 'tablet [...]

Software purchases made by non-IT business departments used to be called 'rogue IT' or 'shadow IT.' But when it comes to today's software-as-a-service model, those buying decisions are now out [...]

THE COMBINATION of data mining and predictive modeling can help companies reduce injuries on the job and save money, according to a report by Deloitte Consulting that was released last [...]

PHARMACEUTICAL sales reps are under pressure to find better ways to engage doctors during sales visits. Time-pressed primary care physicians typically give salespeople only 30 seconds per interaction. Some medical [...]

If you think email overload is bad, just wait until employees are hit with 'activity streams' that combine status updates from various corporate systems and social networks into a single [...]

DICKIE OLIVER is on a mission to build an enterprise 'know-how platform' so that 1.6 million employees across no countries can do a better job of selling chicken, pizza and [...]

IT SOUNDS IMPOSSIBLY FAST. But $23 billion electronic components distributor Avnet can usually bring acquired companies into the fold--including IT systems--within 90 days. Avnet CIO Steve Phillips explained the process [...]

CORPORATE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS should devote as much attention to IT matters as they do to accounting rules, but they rarely do, according to a report released earlier this month [...]

Robert Plant learned much about delivering bad news from doctors and nurses who worked at a hospice where his father was a patient. 'There's a lot of bad news in [...]

WHEN ANALYST Sam Jaffe began researching smart buildings, he figured his report would be about using IT systems to turn dumb buildings into smart ones. And while there is some [...]

A hot topic among CIOs and management consultants is the notion that IT departments should play a major role in developing new products, entering new markets or improving customer service. [...]

Leading-edge banks are earning additional revenue by enabling customers to use mobile devices to transfer money, pay utility bills, apply for credit or trade stocks, according to a TowerGroup study [...]

RETAILERS ARE rapidly deploying systems that support item-level RFID tagging of apparel and footwear, according to an ABI Research report released earlier this month. The radio frequency identification systems 'allow [...]

We usually think of 'green IT' as making data centers more energy efficient. But there's another form of green IT emerging-, the use of business intelligence systems to analyze data [...]

SHOULD EMPLOYEES be able to download enterprise applications just like smartphone users download consumer software from online app stores? That's a question some IT shops and software vendors are pondering, [...]

Computer technology may drive the U.S. economy, but computer science education is absent in most American K-12 classrooms, according to a report by the Association for Computing Machinery and the [...]

The next wave of green IT will be improving the energy efficiency of office buildings, and it will set up intense competition among the incumbent makers of building-control systems and [...]

TECHNOLOGY MANAGERS at video distributor Netflix Inc., which last year took a big plunge into the public cloud, have started a remarkably candid blog about their experiences with mission-critical cloud [...]

THE U.S. General Services Administration, which recently announced plans to move all employees to a cloud-based e-mail system, could learn a lot from the early experiences of the Los Angeles [...]

Computer programmers have an especially hard time falling asleep, which leads to a lower quality of life, according to a small study of 91 software engineers in India. Insomnia is [...]

YOU KNOW THE STORY: The CEO orders up an internal 'Facebook for the enterprise' to boost employee collaboration, but six months after deployment, it's a ghost town. Getting users to [...]