How Carleton chose WordPress - and sold management on open source
Management was nervous about moving to WordPress, an open source content management system,to power Carlton University's website, but the proprietary CMS wasn't keeping up. Here's how manager of web...
View ArticleWomen computer science grads: The bump before the decline
In 1971 just 14% of all bachelor's degrees in computer science went to women. By 1984 that number had jumped to 37% before beginning a spectacular decline to just 18% in 2011. What happened?
View ArticleVanilla never wins: The case against business process standardization
You developed software customizations for a reason. Don't just dump them for the sake of simplification and standardization, argues CIO Eric Robinson
View ArticleExcuse me while I update your .Net...
When some Windows apps install they also push out major updates to your machine's operating system, often without asking first. It's a funny way to do business.
View ArticleX1 rises again with Desktop Search 8, Virtual Edition
X1, the innovative desktop search vendor that rose to prominence a decade ago, has reinvented itself once again. With today's release of X1 Search Client 8, the company has refocused on the enterprise...
View ArticleCIO of the future: Innovator or ERP baby sitter?
IT organizations that fail to gain traction as leaders in business innovation may soon end up as nothing more than legacy ERP system baby sitters. CIOs need to move up the food chain quickly -- or...
View ArticleMobile app lets you bypass your cellular carrier
This fall, when our daughter spends a semester in Europe, she'll be using her Verizon smartphone to call home -- and it won't cost us a penny more. We use Vonage voice over IP telephony service for...
View ArticleHow Enova programmers gamified recruiting
The financial services firm's sofware engineers have gamified recruiting by challenging aspiring programmers to compete in a friendly game of poker.
View ArticleHas Snowden affair given China carte blanche to continue industrial espionage?
Edward Snowden's revelations about U.S. spying on China may have damaged the U.S.'s credibility in terms of its complaints about China's allegegly government-sponsored industrial espionage program.
View ArticleExtended warranty claim game: Where's the Easy Button?
My effort to make a Staples protection plan claim on a failed OfficeJet printer shows how important it is for businesses to make sure the business processes are oriented around the customer experience...
View ArticleSo your boss is a sociopath. Now what?
What should you do if you personally have to work with -- or worse for -- a sociopath?
View ArticleForget the resume: Recruiting search engines build Web dossiers about you
Thanks to a new generation of Web crawlers used by recruiters, the Web is the new battleground for portraying yourself to potential employers. What kind of profile will they build about you? Suddenly,...
View ArticleLicense plate readers: Where are the guidelines?
As with other government programs involving citizen data, law enforcement has moved ahead with deployments of LPR technology, depite the fact that there are no national guidelines to control potential...
View ArticleCIO of the future: Innovator or ERP baby sitter?
IT organizations that fail to gain traction as leaders in business innovation may soon end up as nothing more than legacy ERP system baby sitters. CIOs need to move up the food chain quickly -- or...
View ArticleMobile app lets you bypass your cellular carrier
This fall, when our daughter spends a semester in Europe, she'll be using her Verizon smartphone to call home -- and it won't cost us a penny more. We use Vonage voice over IP telephony service for...
View ArticleHow Enova programmers gamified recruiting
The financial services firm's sofware engineers have gamified recruiting by challenging aspiring programmers to compete in a friendly game of poker.
View ArticleHas Snowden affair given China carte blanche to continue industrial espionage?
Edward Snowden's revelations about U.S. spying on China may have damaged the U.S.'s credibility in terms of its complaints about China's allegegly government-sponsored industrial espionage program.
View ArticleExtended warranty claim game: Where's the Easy Button?
My effort to make a Staples protection plan claim on a failed OfficeJet printer shows how important it is for businesses to make sure the business processes are oriented around the customer experience...
View ArticleSo your boss is a sociopath. Now what?
What should you do if you personally have to work with -- or worse for -- a sociopath?
View ArticleForget the resume: Recruiting search engines build Web dossiers about you
Thanks to a new generation of Web crawlers used by recruiters, the Web is the new battleground for portraying yourself to potential employers. What kind of profile will they build about you? Suddenly,...
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