CIO Insights

Archive: 09-2012

• Outsourcing’s five cast-iron rules: Break them at your peril

  How do you get the best from outsourcing contracts without them getting the better of you? One CIO who has worked on both sides of the outsourcing divide offers his key tips.

  Posted by Mark Samuels | September 27, 2012, 2:01 AM PDT

• Apple’s iPhone 5: Have secrets and lies rendered it boring?

  Critics of Apple’s iPhone 5 say its predictability and lack of innovation are a big disappointment. But the cash registers are telling a different story.

  Posted by Seb Janacek | September 26, 2012, 2:01 AM PDT

• Twitter API changes: Why it’s time for developers to adapt

  Twitter’s restrictions on how developers’ access its platform are inevitable but don’t mean the demise of popular third party apps and services.

  Posted by Nick Heath | September 25, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

• CIO50 - help decide who really are the most influential CIOs in the UK

  Voting for the CIO50 is now open for UK-based CIOs - so get involved.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | September 25, 2012, 4:56 AM PDT

• Apple vs Samsung: Time to fix this patent farce

  Forget the Apple vs Samsung courtroom drama: what really should be on trial is the broken nature of patents and the so-called intellectual property industry.

  Posted by Richard Hillesley | September 25, 2012, 3:13 AM PDT

• Wireless bands are old tech: For mobile’s sake let’s abandon them

  Today’s wireless systems are mired in analogue legacy stretching back 100 years. Splitting the spectrum into bands is something that we can drop to great advantage.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | September 25, 2012, 2:49 AM PDT

• IT departments warned: Evolve or die

  Keeping the lights on is no longer enough: IT departments need to meet business demands or risk being demoted to a minor support role.

  Posted by Nick Heath | September 21, 2012, 3:10 AM PDT

• Apple iPhone 5 will fend off the pack - but for how long?

  CIO Jury: Apple’s latest handset is good enough to fight off the competition for the time being but the gap is narrowing, according to tech chiefs.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | September 20, 2012, 3:59 AM PDT

• Recipe for disaster? Developers pressured into delivering vulnerable code

  Software development teams are finding themselves unable to scale security practices to match the volume of code they are expected to produce.

  Posted by Nick Heath | September 19, 2012, 6:21 AM PDT

• History repeating: Why cloud computing could revisit the mistakes of the 1980s PC boom

  If you want to see what happens when business cuts out the IT department you should swot up on what happened after the PC boom in the 1980s, says a UK academic.

  Posted by Nick Heath | September 19, 2012, 5:22 AM PDT