• About 4.5 million Catholic school students to get Office 365

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 18:55

  About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC).

• Are CEOs getting the social media thing?

  By Michael Cooney | 24 May, 2012 13:33

  IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

• Box to beef up IT administration features of cloud content management software

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 May, 2012 13:00

  Box will start letting customers test a new set of IT administration controls for its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software on Thursday.

• IT service management going social

  By CIO Staff | 21 May, 2012 09:22

  IT professionals have to face the fact that social networking is no longer just the domain of families and friends trying to stay in touch with each other or businesses trying to reach out with enhanced customer intimacy. It is emerging as a potential killer app within IT teams striving for continual service improvement, collaborative effort and efficiencies in the way knowledge is retained and shared.

• Final count down to Facebook's IPO begins

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 May, 2012 23:43

  After all the buildup, Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering is finally here.

• The social business network

  By Darren Horrigan | 29 February, 2012 11:23

  You’ve gotta feel for the CIO who has to write a business case to convince his or her board to spend money on new technologies with names like Yammer, Mr Tweet, Pluck, Chatter or Jive. After all, whimsy is only so cool to the chequesigners in multi-billion dollar corporations who quickly follow their tacit approval of anything leading edge with that old-school refrain of “show me the money”. Look past the funky names of today’s social networking tools, however, and chances are there will be enough nifty features to justify the investment.

• 9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012

  By Brad Reed | 11 January, 2012 07:32

  While there are sure to be a lot of new networking and IT companies that emerge in 2012, these nine stood out for their potential to deliver game-changing innovations in a wide array of fields, including Cloud computing, enterprise search, and mobile application development. (These are in addition to seven hot Cloud companies and seven storage companies to watch that we highlighted last year.)

• Enterprise collaboration: 4 ways to achieve more

  By Kristin Burnham | 24 March, 2011 06:28

  A new report from Forrester Research finds that while businesses continue to adopt enterprise collaboration tools in 2011, they're not seeing a wide range of benefits from them.

• With thick skin, Google CIO finds job rewarding

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 14 January, 2011 05:25

  When Ben Fried left his post as IT managing director at Morgan Stanley and took over as Google's CIO in May 2008, he knew what he was getting into: supporting a user base full of technology experts and computer industry stars, like co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, CEO Eric Schmidt and Vice President Vint Cerf. In a recent interview with IDG News Service, Fried spoke candidly about his job and shared tips and advice for fellow CIOs, including the urgent need for tablet device strategies. An edited transcript of the interview follows.

• Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars, controversy and Internet dominance

  By Jon Brodkin | 11 January, 2011 23:25

  Wikipedia and its users are planning more than 300 celebration events across six continents for the 10th anniversary of the free, online encyclopedia that has become an Internet juggernaut by spreading access to information with a model that lets anyone edit its articles.

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