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Getting Your Vendors to Flock Together 04 February, 2008 12:53:09
For better deals and stronger relationships, combine IT, legal and procurement experts in a vendor management officeKeeping track of bids, vendor performance, previous contract terms, alternative providers and technology differences was taking too much time for Bernard "Bud" Mathaisel as he settled in as CIO of electronics manufacturer Solectron in 1999 - +
What It Takes for a CIO to Be a CEO 30 January, 2008 11:57:26
With help from the CIO Executive Council, we tap into research about successful executives. Read on to learn more about the competencies CIOs need to develop to take the corner office, where CIOs fall short — and what CEOs expect from CIOsWith help from the CIO Executive Council, we tap into research about successful executives. Read on to learn more about the competencies CIOs need to develop to take the corner office, where CIOs fall short — and what CEOs expect from CIOs - +
10 Reasons Why You Should Get an MBA 23 January, 2008 11:47:50
An MBA education provides communication skills and training in pragmatic, analytical thinking, argues Thomas MacKayAn MBA education provides communication skills and training in pragmatic, analytical thinking, argues Thomas MacKay - +
No Break Seen in the IT Talent Wars 16 January, 2008 12:07:25
Job demand is forecast to remain strong in 2008, which means CIOs will pay higher salaries for quality talent. Learn from four staffing specialists about 2008's trends in IT staffing, recruiting and compensation, including jobs that will be most in demand.Job demand is forecast to remain strong in 2008, which means CIOs will pay higher salaries for quality talent. Learn from four staffing specialists about 2008's trends in IT staffing, recruiting and compensation, including jobs that will be most in demand. - +
Coping with Project Backlog 07 January, 2008 12:32:24
Demand for new applications is pushing IT departments to their limits. Here's why the workload has exploded and — more important — how to handle it.Demand for new applications is pushing IT departments to their limits. Here's why the workload has exploded and — more important — how to handle it.
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Presidential candidates stake out tech positions 05 February, 2008 07:13:30
Future of tech largely drowned out by the war in Iraq, the US economy and social issuesTechnology policy hasn't played a major role in this year's US presidential campaign, but the major candidates have staked out positions on issues such as net neutrality and skilled-worker visas. - +
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $US44.6 billion 02 February, 2008 08:35:01
Yahoo will carefully evaluate Microsoft's proposal, which it described as unsolicited.Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around US$44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services. - +
Six strategies for low-cost content management 25 January, 2008 09:20:56
Enterprise data is creating an information overload in many organizationsSome content is priceless, but the systems that manage them can wind up a little too pricey. - +
And they lived technologically ever after 14 January, 2008 07:21:34
Starting 2010, Kurzweil predicts computers will cease to exist as distinct physical objects, but will be embedded everywhere in the environment.In late 2002, a huge controversy broke out over a highly speculative theory from two mathematical physicists (who happened to be twins) about what may have preceded the Big Bang. - +
Eight ways to boost your career in '08 24 December, 2007 07:00:24
Here's what you need to do to stay in the driver's seat as the world changes.Today's IT professionals are an evolving breed. The job keeps morphing as companies demand not just technical know-how, but more business acumen, analytical skills and industry knowledge as well.
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Coming Soon: Computers That Read Faces
Your computer may soon know when you're in a bad mood. Researchers have developed an algorithm that can recognize a person's facial expressions and categorize them as expressing anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.
Researchers at the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Polytechnic University of Madrid's School of Computing worked with Madrid's King Juan Carlos University to develop a prototype software that can process a sequence of moving faces and recognize the person's facial expression. The software monitors facial movements in several parts of the face, examining up to 30 images per second. The data is compared to expressions captured from 333 sequences of people from the Cohn-Kanade database, with an 89 per cent success rate.
According to the researchers, applications that might take advantage of these capabilities include advanced human-computer interfaces, metaverse avatars and e-commerce.
Paul Williams, a software architect at LexisNexis Examen, believes the technology would make a great usability testing tool to help developers learn whether users are frustrated by the software or device.
"This kind of objective measurement would be far more useful and accurate than subjective measurements, such as surveys, questionnaires or even third-party observation," he says.
-Esther Schindler
Hanging Up on Landline
The mobile phone has finally passed the landline as the hardest communication technology for people to give up. It also beat out the Internet, television, e-mail and the BlackBerry (or other wireless e-mail devices).
People say it would be harder to give up:
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
| 2007 | 2002 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile phone | 51% | 38% |
| Internet | 45% | 38% |
| Television | 43% | 47% |
| Landline telephone | 40% | 63% |
| 37% | 35% | |
| Blackberry or wireless e-mail device | 36% | 6% |
China Emerges as Largest RFID Market
Radio frequency identification technology has generated considerable buzz among American businesses. However, the largest concentration of RFID applications in use isn't in the US Look instead to China.
The Chinese government's national identification card program is currently the biggest RFID project in the world in terms of overall value, according to the recent ID TechEx report, "RFID in China 2008-2018." The rollout has an overall estimated worth of $6 billion, which includes all the associated RFID tags and systems, such as card readers.
The Chinese ID card project began in 2005. Once it has been completed at the end of this year, nearly 1 billion government ID cards embedded with an RFID chip will have been issued, states a recent ABI Research report.
"Unfortunately, all good things must end," writes ABI's Research Director Michael Liard, noting the project's upcoming conclusion. "That one program generated significant revenue for local vendors and stood out in terms of its size and scope. However, China must prepare for RFID's next wave and the applications that will keep China in the RFID spotlight.
According to ABI Research, a wide range of application initiatives are on tap in China: transportation ticketing, animal tagging, anticounterfeiting, real-time location systems, asset tracking, e-ticketing and contactless payments. The total market revenue for all those projects in 2008 will reach nearly US$1.4 billion, states the report.
-Thomas Wailgum
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Best Western forced to play defense on data breach disclosure 29 August, 2008 08:08:00
Could hotel chain have done a better job of defusing story about system intrusion?The headline in this week's Glasgow Sunday Herald -- "Revealed: 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist" -- was a grabber. - +
US Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws 28 August, 2008 09:53:00
US Congress charges that US$500m project to prevent another 9/11 is a complete failure.A US House subcommittee is charging that a US$500 million IT project intended to "connect the dots" on terrorists and help prevent another 9/11 is a failure; it can't even handle basic Boolean search terms, such as "and, or and not." - +
Malware infects space station laptops 28 August, 2008 08:15:00
Not the first time, says NASA; astronauts load up Norton AntiVirusMalware has managed to get off the planet and onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed yesterday. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has stowed away on a trip into orbit. - +
Separation of duties and IT security 28 August, 2008 09:40:00
Muddied responsibilities create unwanted risk. Kevin Coleman says auditors may start labeling poorly defined IT duties as a material deficiency.Separation of duties is a key concept of internal controls and is the most difficult and sometimes the most costly one to achieve. This objective is achieved by disseminating the tasks and associated privileges for a specific security process among multiple people. - +
How to recruit and retain the best young security employees 27 August, 2008 08:32:00
Today's youngest generation of workers, known as Generation Y, have different career goals than their parents did. What do you need to know to get them to work for you?The final installment in a series of articles about generational differences and security. Part one looked at managing workers in different age groups. Part two examined the types of security concerns that are most commonly associated with different generations in the general workforce. This article provides recruiting and retention advice for security employees.
Tumbleweed appoints O2 Networks to its Australian Channel Partner Program 29 August, 2008 12:31:00
HP ProCurve Brings Big Business Gigabit Switching Features to Small Businesses 29 August, 2008 12:00:00
GlobalConnect Provides Treatment for Healthcare Provider’s Contact Support Requirements 29 August, 2008 09:59:00
Sybase and Logica Partner To Mobilise The Supply Chain 29 August, 2008 09:47:00
New global landscape for qualitative researchers with Spanish and Chinese software releases 29 August, 2008 09:34:00
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