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It's a presidential election year, and with limited time available in the 2008 session, and little appetite for rocking the boat, any reforms of the U.S. immigration system will not be on the Read more...

CIOs seeking to align information technology with business goals and processes often complain their IT employees are unable to provide the business with the support it needs or, in some cases, do not Read more...

Alex Cullen, of Forrester Research, has some tips--a kind of top 10 list--for CIOs who want develop an affective strategic plan. One key point, he says, is to create a blueprint for action, not just Read more...

The Hispanic population in the U.S. is booming and will continue to grow, but Latinos now fill only a small percentage of technology jobs. IBM hosted a summit in New York this week with leaders from Read more...

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a means to eliminate nano flaws or minuscule defects in computer chips, a breakthrough that could improve chip performance and allow manufacturers Read more...

There is new emerging job for CIOs and IT departments at many big corporations that have employees scattered across the country as well as around the globe. According to Business Week, IBM has found Read more...

CIOs know that their IT departments are an integral part of their company's business, but some executives inadvertently talk about the "business side'' as if it were some foreign unit disconnected Read more...

For CIOs and their IT employees at Global 1000 companies, it may not seem like your department's budget is bloated, given all the needs and the long wish list. Yet, the Hackett Group, a research Read more...

For most CIOs, IT managers and long time computer specialists, text messaging may seem to be part of the hard-to-fathom under-30 culture and little more than a method of trivial cell-to-cell Read more...

IT executives often focus on data center replication, building design and backups when doing disaster planning. Yet experts say that recovery plans should be customized for whichever type of major Read more...