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The idea of innovation has been on a conceptual roller coaster in recent years. In the mid- to late-'90s, with dot-com mania giving credibility to even the most off-the-wall business […]

Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir has learned that knowing what to say to financial analysis can help to boost a company's fortunes and a CIO's career. He has implemented IT projects that have been heralded by the company and hailed by Wall Street for reducing costs.

Amid various signs of economic recovery, corporations appear to be loosening their purse strings for information technology (IT) projects. 'We're expecting a slight up-tick in corporate spending in IT budgets [...]

WITH FOUR OUT OF FIVE MANUFACTURING PLANTS EXPECTING INCREASED revenues this year, it's no wonder that the IW/MPI Census of Manufacturers reveals a relatively positive outlook for new investment in […]

Online grocery coupons, tax forms available 24 hours a day, telecommuting and Web-based education courses have all become commonplace in Indiana's exploding technology-based economy. But without a computer and a [...]

January electronic equipment and PCB orders brought some guarded smiles. Based upon the 'early-warning' Durable Goods release, U.S. 'Computers & Electronic Product' orders (Chart 1) jumped 3.2% over December 2002 […]

Yammer, a Facebook-like social network for businesses, has received $25 million in third-round funding, a sign of the growing demand for collaboration and social technologies in companies. Two-year-old Yammer started [...]

The CIA's investment arm, In-Q-Tel, has invested in two startups in hot tech areas that it thinks can help the government. Cleversafe transforms and portions out data into slices that [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department has ended or cut funding for 15 information technology projects that it temporarily halted this summer, VA officials said on Tuesday night. Read the full story [...]

Businesses are increasingly looking to social media to monitor and manage their brands online. U.S. intelligence agencies now have similar capabilities as part of their technology portfolios. In-Q-Tel, the investment […]

Pirate Bay, aided and abetted by some open and some anonymous supporters, appears to be digging in for a long battle, determined to keep its Web site in operation. In […]

Salesforce.com has made a multimillion-dollar investment in Practice Fusion, a company that provides Web-based electronic medical record applications free to physicians via a cloud computing model. The investment, which is […]

Startup MobileIron came out of stealth mode Thursday, and the mobile technology company is attempting to capitalize on the growing number of companies using smartphones. The company has raised $9 […]

Large companies such as Microsoft and Google aren't the only ones getting attention from the surge in interest around cloud computing. RightScale, a startup that offers developer tools for setting […]

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will give $3 million to the Wikimedia Foundation to help improve the quality and reach of Wikipedia. The organization announced the gift this week and […]

After decades of lagging other industries, IT spending in the health care sector will surge in coming years, according to two studies. A big portion of the health-IT spending growth […]

What is the key to computer system cost control? Why is it that the cost of computer systems, in every area of the process industry, keeps going up while the [...]

The card authentication technology vendor QSecure Inc. has received $5 million in financing. The Los Altos, Calif., company announced the Series C stock offering Monday. The offering was led by [...]

A new grant program from Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is designed to help other provider organizations accelerate their use of information technology. As part of its application to the state [...]

IT projects on time and on budget Information technology projects easily go awry because of their complexity and the different groups of people involved in their design, testing and implementation. [...]

Federal government IT spending will slowdown a little, increasing just one half of one percent from Fiscal Year 2006 to FY07, according to a forecast released Tuesday by government business […]

A research firm is predicting that IT spending will reach $496.7 billion in the United States and $1.3 trillion globally by 2009. Healthcare, government, utilities and communications and media sectors […]

Your company just posted an $8.6 billion loss, the second-worst year in its history. It's planning to lay off 30,000 people and shut about a dozen factories. And you're holding […]

CedarOpenAccounts has made its first major acquisition since the two companies joined forces last year. The purchase of HR and payroll software business Grampian underpins COA's strategy to provide a [...]

When financial services firms open up the IT spending spigot this year, the money for outsourcing is going to pour into application development and implementation. And it will rain down [...]

More accountants should take advantage of a government-led IT scheme that could prove to be a lucrative money-spinner, according to the head of an accountants' networking-group, writes Kevin Reed. The [...]

When it comes to pitching information technology, CIOs often are stuck between a rock, the CEO, and a hard place, the CFO. The former wants to hear how information technology [...]

So-called world-class IT organizations spend 18% less than the average company on IT, and do so with 36% fewer workers. They do it while providing higher levels of strategic value […]

Department of Homeland Security CIO Steve Cooper should be given more authority and control over departmental IT spending, according to the General Accounting office, the investigative arm of Congress. In […]

In an increasingly interconnected world, large financial services institutions (FSIs) are already sourcing their IT and business process services from a variety of international locations. As outsourcing services have evolved [...]

Byline: Tony Fong Amid problems at one of its facilities in Florida, the Veterans Affairs Department now finds itself possibly having to shelve a $472 million test computer system that [...]

The days of shrinking IT budgets appears to be over for carriers. Recent research by such firms as Celent, Datamonitor and Forrester concludes that carriers plan on increasing their IT [...]

A Commerce Department report Tuesday on durable-goods orders failed to provide a clear picture of the direction the IT sector is moving. New orders for computers and related products fell […]

During lunch recently, a customer asked me how much it cost him to have a computer on an employee's desk each year. 'More than you think,' was my initial response. [...]

Dell Computer Corp. has developed some criteria to guide small-business owners in their decisions to either lease or buy computer equipment. Although the decision hinges on factors particular to each [...]