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Vendors are responding to the new Web 2.0 trends of blogging, instant messaging and wikis with many new technologies and products that can track and control corporate communication. Companies are Read more...

A new IT consortium was recently launched to raise awareness of the need for service innovation and to increase the level of funding for services research. Dubbed the Services Research and Read more...

Katherine Spencer Lee of Robert Half Technology explains that attracting the most qualified IT candidate can be difficult in today's current market. She points to Bill Gates' recent testimony Read more...

According to an ongoing survey by the Society of Information Management, IT organizations that follow a federated model are probably better aligned with the business. Federated models combine the Read more...

Whatever you do, don't choose a vendor based on price alone. That's just one piece of advice offered by three CIOs at a roundtable held by market research firm Forrester. Price is a reasonable Read more...

It might be an expensive and painful switch from Windows to Macintosh world, especially for smaller businesses, but some businesses believe that the effort is well worth it. Not only is it cheaper Read more...

While everybody is still talking about the importance of IT and business alignment, effective execution remains an elusive outcome. Experts say that building a governance framework is important to Read more...

Between growing demand for hybrid vehicles and the barrage of bad news about global warming, it should come as no surprise that saving energy is shaping up to be an imperative that CIOs cannot Read more...

Perhaps it's spring fever, but CIOs are not taking the time necessary to put business continuity plans in place. Hewlett-Packard recently polled 564 IT decision makers at large and mid-sized Read more...

Employees everywhere continue to be inundated by spam. Even CIOs are beginning to feel the pinch. Spam is costing companies $712 per employee annually--and a total of $71 billion a year for all Read more...