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Buying may still be suffering and job-growth lackluster, but things are looking fairly good when it comes to company earnings. More than half of S&P 500 companies have reported their quarterly Read more...

Microsoft is trying to get tough with Congress in an issue over taxes, of course. Microsoft chief executive Steven Ballmer said Microsoft would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts Read more...

Intel is set to produce a 32Gb NAND flash memory that it jointly developed with Micron Technology. Based on a 34-nanometer technology, it is the smallest NAND process geometry on the market and

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Starbucks, its stock having plummeted and its comparable store sales plunging, has hired a new CIO, Stephen Gillett, to help in what the iconic Seattle-based coffee chain hopes will be a major Read more...

There's no limit to what IT can do, as every CIO knows. But there is also an unfair burden being placed on IT departments these days, to save money that lives outside of their sphere of influence. Read more...

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal said that it's often easy to spot problems in the IT department after the fact and "once the damage is done." There are plenty of signs at that Read more...

In a surprising twist, a new report says that pay premiums for noncertified skills are now exceeding the average salary paid for certified tech skills. Research firm Foote Partners' studied the pay Read more...

> Indian outsourcing continues to grow despite weaker dollar. Article > R&D Read more...

Software companies that grew more than 20 percent last year were, for the most part, driven by merger and acquisition activity, a recent Baseline survey shows. The acquisition trend is Read more...

New IT-driven business model innovations can only occur when organizations achieve the right balance between the CIO's two key roles: one as Chief Innovation Officer and the other as Chief Read more...