CIO Insights

Archive: 08-2012

• CIOs predict the death of the PC and the desk phone

  Mobile working means we will soon be bidding farewell to some of the staples of business tech.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | August 29, 2012, 4:03 AM PDT

• A rare Apple failure but why did Ping go pop?

  Launched noisily by Steve Jobs, closed quietly by Tim Cook, Apple’s foray into the social web has been a rare misstep. There are a number of small reasons for Ping’s failure - and one...

  Posted by Seb Janacek | August 28, 2012, 3:41 AM PDT

• The citizen developer: A security risk that can’t be ignored

  Businesses need to act to prevent corporate data being put at risk by the increasing number of non-programmers building their own apps.

  Posted by Nick Heath | August 24, 2012, 8:31 AM PDT

• How coffee, traffic jams and hotel pools can crash networks

  Organisations can do as much network capacity design as they like, but people and events inevitably conspire to create largely unpredictable challenges that put paid to the best-laid plans.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | August 24, 2012, 7:02 AM PDT

• Is BYOD turning us all into workaholics?

  Staff may be working harder - and spending more - because of the bring-your-own-device trend and flexible working, according to a survey.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | August 22, 2012, 8:58 AM PDT

• Big data: We’ve got big plans, say CIOs

  CIO Jury: Big data isn’t just for the biggest organisations - there is pent-up demand from many types of organisation, according to TechRepublic’s panel of IT leaders.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | August 21, 2012, 7:01 AM PDT

• Future IT trends: Experts pick out their top tips

  Spotting tech trends is notoriously difficult but a group of experts have put forward their best predictions for important growth areas for IT.

  Posted by Mark Samuels | August 17, 2012, 9:04 AM PDT

• Guns and 3D printing? A dud but the message still hits home

  Reports that you can download and print off a gun from the internet turn out to be wide of the mark. But they nevertheless draw a bead on a worrying issue.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | August 16, 2012, 3:54 AM PDT

• Mountain Lion: Mac users should pounce on its greatest feature

  Along with a notable performance boost for Macs, Apple’s Mountain Lion OS X upgrade offers one thing that is far more valuable than any amount of shiny new stuff.

  Posted by Seb Janacek | August 14, 2012, 4:26 AM PDT

• Cloud computing: What does it really mean for IT jobs?

  As adoption of cloud computing services takes off, some argue demand for certain IT jobs will all but disappear.

  Posted by Nick Heath | August 8, 2012, 6:30 AM PDT