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City of London starts CIO hunt
Square Mile hunts for IT chief for 'high-profile and uniquely rewarding' role...
Posted by Steve Ranger | October 26, 2011, 7:53 AM PDT
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Apple's Siri: Cheat Sheet
The iPhone 4S' virtual voice assistant - ask and you shall receive (an answer)...
Posted by Natasha Lomas | October 26, 2011, 4:30 AM PDT
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Start-up Life: Drowning in numbers - my descent into analytics hell
Confessions of a metrics addict...
Posted by Richard Leyland | October 26, 2011, 2:44 AM PDT
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Kipper ties, flares, big hair - tech takes education back to the future
We're witnessing the end of mediocre lectures and the start of just-in-time education...
Posted by Peter Cochrane | October 25, 2011, 8:28 AM PDT
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'Don't think too much about technology': EAT's IT chief on how to serve up successful projects
Interview: Sandwich chain tech chief on NFC, tablets and getting creative with tech...
Posted by Natasha Lomas | October 25, 2011, 8:13 AM PDT
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Email overload, Twitter updates, monster slippers... Top 10 ways to avoid distractions at work
The secret is to keep colleagues at bay and do a job you love...
Posted by Shelley Portet | October 25, 2011, 5:00 AM PDT
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Tech City: Inside London's digital start-up hothouse
How entrepreneurs in a corner of East London are gearing up to compete with Silicon Valley...
Posted by Jo Best | October 24, 2011, 7:56 AM PDT
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BYO - bring your own device: Cheat Sheet
The bring-your-own revolution explained...
Posted by Natasha Lomas | October 24, 2011, 4:49 AM PDT
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Morrisons adds Ben Wishart to its tech team
Former Whitbread CIO joins supermarket giant as evolve programme director...
Posted by Natasha Lomas | October 23, 2011, 3:36 AM PDT
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Psst! Want to know the top 10 technologies you can't afford to miss next year?
From tablets to big data, the trends your business needs to know about revealed...
Posted by Shelley Portet | October 20, 2011, 8:13 AM PDT
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Outsourcing fatigue: Why CIOs have gone from fans to fed up
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Three reasons IT chiefs worry about outsourcing - and a silver lining...
Posted by Steve Ranger | October 20, 2011, 7:24 AM PDT
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Appetite for destruction: CIOs need to make more time to kill off zombie projects
IT chiefs should start taking out the tech trash...
Posted by Shelley Portet | October 19, 2011, 8:21 AM PDT
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The iPad and iPhone revolutions presage a deeper turmoil
Can this rate of tech change be sustained and exceeded?
Posted by Peter Cochrane | October 19, 2011, 7:41 AM PDT
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BlackBerry outage fallout: CIOs slam RIM's communication breakdown
CIO Jury extra: "This was hardly a small problem that we weren't going to notice - this was a great big Titanic-sized problem"...
Posted by Natasha Lomas | October 18, 2011, 8:52 AM PDT
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BlackBerry outage - what do CIOs think of RIM now?
CIO Jury: "It could not have come at a worse time for the company trying to compete against the iPhone"...
Posted by Steve Ranger | October 14, 2011, 5:46 AM PDT
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: High-speed trading? It's just a dangerous sham
There's no benefit to mankind and it fails to create one iota of real value...
Posted by Peter Cochrane | October 14, 2011, 3:34 AM PDT
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BYO security: Three ways to tighten iPad and smartphone access without choking innovation
It's hard to stop staff using their own iPhones and tablets, so make the most of it...
Posted by Bob Tarzey | October 12, 2011, 8:48 AM PDT
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Disappointed by the iPhone 4S? Here's why you are missing the point
The iPhone 4S does not signify Apple's shortcomings - it's a sign of highly evolved mobile times...
Posted by Natasha Lomas | October 12, 2011, 8:04 AM PDT
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The world according to Facebook and Twitter
What the world's social network use says about us...
Posted by Peter Cochrane | October 11, 2011, 5:53 AM PDT
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Join the silicon.com CIO Jury
IT directors, CIOs - make your voices heard
Posted by silicon.com staff | October 10, 2011, 4:38 AM PDT
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Windows Server 2012: Cheat Sheet
Get the lowdown on the latest version of Microsoft's server operating system.
Posted by Nick Heath | October 29, 2012, 3:22 AM PDT | Latest comment by Elliyeti
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Hybrid mobile apps: the future of app development?
Hybrid apps may be the norm, not the exception, within a few years as companies try to cut the cost of app deployment across multiple platforms.
Posted by Nick Heath | February 5, 2013, 1:22 AM PST | Latest comment by JTepoorten@...
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Windows 8 Cheat Sheet
UPDATED: Windows 8 will be with us soon, here's what you need to know about the most radical redesign since Windows 95.
Posted by Nick Heath | October 24, 2012, 2:00 AM PDT | Latest comment by Eric Hall
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Ten business trends for 2013 - and four ways they affect you
The ratchet of change just went 'click' and is the new stable, the new economy, and there is no going back, and what is in store is even more radical.
Posted by Peter Cochrane | January 16, 2013, 1:11 AM PST | Latest comment by peter@...
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Big data skills: Should data scientist be your next job?
A look at how IT workers can prepare to meet business demand for big data analytics skills.
Posted by Nick Heath | December 11, 2012, 7:35 AM PST | Latest comment by pawintx@...
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Bye bye MacBook, hello iPad: Why I'm taking the tablet
Many people are still undecided about whether they could use Apple's tablet instead of a notebook. There's no doubt in Seb Janacek's mind.
Posted by Seb Janacek | May 16, 2012, 1:35 AM PDT | Latest comment by Vulpinemac
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iPhone now as secure as BlackBerry, say tech chiefs
IT leaders and industry experts believe that Apple now roughly matches RIM on mobile security, removing BlackBerry's last remaining advantage over the iPhone in enterprise.
Posted by Nick Heath | September 18, 2012, 3:39 AM PDT | Latest comment by AllanMarcus
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Agile development: Five ways it can trip you up
Agile software development is often praised for helping combat scope creep and late projects. But making the transition to agile delivery is fraught with potential pitfalls. Here are five to look...
Posted by Nick Heath | September 6, 2012, 8:10 AM PDT | Latest comment by jeffarmstrong
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Want the right techie for the job? Employ more women
Attempts to get more women to work in IT are in the long-term interest of the industry and should be supported.
Posted by Nick Heath | August 6, 2012, 3:07 AM PDT | Latest comment by tiina.ferm@...
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Tech workers back need for more women in IT but oppose quotas
UK IT workers argue the industry needs to address its gender imbalance but say positive discrimination is not the answer.
Posted by Nick Heath | December 10, 2012, 7:51 AM PST | Latest comment by Manny_z
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Ten leadership lessons from the Steve Jobs school of management
What Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple's co-founder can teach about doing business the right way...
Posted by Natasha Lomas | November 18, 2011, 5:01 AM PST
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CIOs told: Keep BYOA at bay with a corporate app store
CIOs faced with staff buying apps and online services without running it past the IT department are being advised to build corporate app stores to tempt staff back into using sanctioned software.
Posted by Nick Heath | March 8, 2013, 2:22 AM PST | Latest comment by mckinnej
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Training, not outsourcing, is key to success say CIOs
IT leaders who focus on training and retaining staff are generally more successful than those buying in talent from outsourcers, a global survey of more than 2,000 CIOs finds.
Posted by Nick Heath | January 16, 2013, 6:43 AM PST | Latest comment by RMSx32767
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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 | Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson
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Mobile malware: Cheat Sheet
Should you be worried about mobile malware? Here's what you need to know and some tips on how to protect yourself from getting infected.
Posted by Nick Heath | November 7, 2012, 1:45 PM PST | Latest comment by Andrew Huttle
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Revealed: The jobs that will be wiped out by cloud computing
As businesses switch to cloud computing demand for some traditional IT roles will plummet - but new, different jobs will be created instead.
Posted by Nick Heath | May 29, 2012, 5:08 AM PDT | Latest comment by Bonnie Wolfe
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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
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Microsoft Surface: Cheat Sheet
Updated: Microsoft's new tablets - all you need to know.
Posted by Steve Ranger | October 25, 2012, 1:15 AM PDT | Latest comment by HAL 9000
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Why every executive is a tech executive now
Executives across an organisation need to embrace and understand technologies - from cloud to software-defined networks - if they want to stay ahead of the game.
Posted by Sam Shead | February 20, 2013, 6:36 AM PST | Latest comment by mhbowman@...
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Women in the IT department: Why the shortage matters
More women in the tech team could help rebuild the relationship between business and IT.
Posted by Steve Ranger | May 15, 2012, 7:29 AM PDT | Latest comment by LalaReads
