CIO Insights

Archive: 06-2012

• Microsoft Surface: Has iPad’s first serious rival finally arrived?

  Thanks to the iPad’s success, Microsoft’s Surface tablet would have been largely unthinkable a year or so ago. Despite that Apple influence, a significantly different ideology runs...

  Posted by Seb Janacek | June 29, 2012, 3:52 AM PDT

• BYOD will push up IT costs, say tech chiefs

  Staff expect to use their own gadgets at work but this could be a major headache - and cost - for the organisation.

  Posted by Nick Heath | June 27, 2012, 5:05 AM PDT

• Gesture recognition: Wave if you think it’s the future

  At the moment the latest user interfaces are dominated by touch. But things are changing fast and technology is pointing us in new directions.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | June 22, 2012, 5:05 AM PDT

• Ultrabooks? Too expensive for us, say CIOs

  Hefty price tag puts corporate Ultrabook deployments on hold, according to the TechRepublic CIO Jury.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | June 22, 2012, 4:08 AM PDT

• Five ways social media can help you get a promotion

  Managers often take a dim view of staff who use social media at work, but research suggests these networkers are the very employees who really get ahead.

  Posted by Mamta Saha | June 21, 2012, 5:07 AM PDT

• Indian outsourcing: Why skills shortages persist despite the graduate glut

  The boom in India’s services has spawned the growth of new engineering colleges. Yet the outsourcing industry thinks too few of their graduates are up to scratch.

  Posted by Saritha Rai | June 20, 2012, 12:16 PM PDT

• Tech manufacturing: A disaster waiting to happen

  The manufacture of technology, along with its essential raw materials, is now concentrated in a single region. This lack of resilience leaves the industry dangerously vulnerable to disruption.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | June 18, 2012, 6:21 AM PDT

• GPL and free software licensing: What’s in it for business?

  Free software - or copyleft - licensing seems to have got off on the wrong foot with business, which is surprising given its many commercial benefits.

  Posted by Richard Hillesley | June 15, 2012, 9:31 AM PDT

• Curtains for CIOs? Five tips to put them back in the spotlight

  Some say the rise of the cloud and BYOD will spell the downfall of the CIO. But could these developments in fact strengthen the CIO’s hand?

  Posted by Mark Samuels | June 13, 2012, 1:50 AM PDT

• BYOD: Four reasons why your staff will take the plunge - with or without you

  Trying to ban BYOD will just drive it underground, so IT departments need to address four reasons why staff are frustrated by their existing hardware.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | June 12, 2012, 7:54 AM PDT