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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 [...]