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  • Federal IT Mobile Plans Slowed by Security, Budget Concerns

    Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the White House's digital government strategy, a new study from the Mobile Work Exchange takes stock of how agencies are pressing ahead with mobility plans.

    Written by Kenneth Corbin • 21 May 13 13:07

  • Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train

    Companies in search of workers with the most sought-after IT skills may be better off investing in training programs for current workers than hiring new employees, according to IDC

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 20 May 13 21:48

  • How India's IT Outsourcing Leaders Can Stay on Top

    After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are six things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow.

    Written by Stephanie Overby • 20 May 13 21:47

  • Practical advice about disaster recovery planning

    Disaster recovery plans and the usual mix of uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), co-location services, data mirroring and hot-standby technologies theoretically make it possible to weather any storm. But are backup systems, replication rules and fast failover solutions enough?

    Written by Jeff Klaus, Intel Corporation • 20 May 13 20:33

  • Successful companies embrace shadow IT

    Businesses move quickly, and those that make missteps along the way or fail to adapt to the times rarely go unscathed. Consider the fate of the original 12 companies listed in the Dow. While General Electric is still an independent company, most of the others have been acquired by larger companies or have vanished altogether.

    Written by Quinton Wall, director, technical platform marketing, Salesforce.com • 20 May 13 20:33

  • A sensible approach to big data

    Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world's data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social media to Internet search results and the ever-present email, the rate of data creation is growing exponentially with no signs of slowing.

    Written by Duncan Angove, president, Infor • 20 May 13 20:33

  • Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China

    Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company.

    Written by Michael Kan • 20 May 13 13:17

  • Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers

    Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier.

    Written by Matt Hamblen • 20 May 13 10:14

  • Half of world's companies to embrace BYOD by 2017

    About half of the world's companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 20 May 13 10:14

  • Career Watch: The growth of consulting

    OnForce CEO Peter Cannone says the use of IT contractors is expanding and will continue to do so.

    Written by Jamie Eckle • 20 May 13 10:14

  • US Defense Department approves Apple's iOS devices for its networks

    Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department moves to support multivendor mobile devices and operating systems.

    Written by John Ribeiro • 20 May 13 04:46
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    Dual-Persona Smartphones Not a BYOD Panacea

    Mobile vendors are pushing technologies that split a smartphone into two separate platforms for business and personal data. Problem solved, right? Not so fast. It's still easy for employees to circumvent the two worlds.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 17 May 13 17:21

  • eBay's CIO succeeds by innovating and 'connecting the dots'

    eBay CIO Scott Seese says he and his team are using technology and innovation to drive the company's mission of connected commerce. He explains how the ecommerce giant taps into the power of social and mobile to help customers find and purchase exactly what they seek from among millions of sellers. Seese also discusses his strategy for success and why it's important to connect the dots.

    Written by John Gallant • 16 May 13 21:01

  • Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands

    The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers' pay checks declined by nearly 2%.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 16 May 13 20:38

  • U.S. CIO Shares Vision for Federal Agency IT Operations

    Steven VanRoekel sees the federal-agency CIO as a pivotal figure, but not a micromanager. At FOSE, the nation's tech chief outlines how federal CIOs can lay the groundwork for a more fluid, productive IT apparatus.

    Written by Kenneth Corbin • 16 May 13 16:26

  • Maile Carnegie new Google ANZ boss

    Google Australia and New Zealand has appointed Procter & Gamble (P&G) boss Maile Carnegie as its new managing director.

    Written by Computerworld Staff • 16 May 13 11:34

  • SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery

    Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 15 May 13 21:57

  • Google CEO on innovation: 'We're at one per cent of what's possible'

    Google CEO Larry Page took the stage today to wrap up a nearly four-hour long keynote that kicked off the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin • 15 May 13 20:08

  • VMware and Verizon Tackle BYOD with Dual Persona Phones

    VMware has partnered with Verizon to offer dual persona smartphones for Verizon enterprise customers. It's currently available on two Android-based phones, but more Android devices and iOS support are expected soon.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 15 May 13 14:28

  • Australia remains top professional destination

    Australia remains one of the top destinations for migrating professionals, but has slipped in a global rankings survey amid the high-value dollar putting pressure on exchange rates.

    Written by AAP • 15 May 13 11:10
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