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CIOs Must Be Healthcare Leaders to Battle Consumer Confusion

A new survey finds that healthcare consumers are worried and confused about Obamacare. Healthline CEO Dean Stephens urges CIOs of healthcare providers and others in the healthcare sector to mobilize to engage and inform consumers.

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter Earnings Tell Very Different Tales

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are often lumped together as the kings of social media. They are also often unjustly compared. The reality is the companies have little in common, as evidenced by their recent earnings reports.

A Must-Have Galaxy Note 4 Accessory for Business Travelers

Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 Extra Battery Kit is a must-have accessory for business travelers who depend on their Galaxy Note 4 smartphones to get work done on the go.

Facebook’s Anonymous ‘Rooms’ Could Cause IT Headaches

Facebook released a new app that's designed to provide anonymity and encourage users to discuss things, in secret, that they might not normally share with friends. CIOs and their IT teams would be wise to keep an eye on apps like Rooms that let

State CIOs List Security as Top Priority for 2015

In the coming year, top state tech officials aim to ramp up efforts to secure digital systems as they shift to the cloud, consolidate data centers and move on a host of other priorities.

Piazza Helps Companies Recruit Female Tech Talent

Predicting the Role of Healthcare CIOs in 2020

In a market as tumultuous as healthcare, there's little doubt that the role of the CIO will be dramatically different in just a few short years. Embracing partnership and collaboration will help today's healthcare CIOs continue to succeed t

Federal IT Leaders Look for Trust, Transparency in Cloud Vendors

As the FedRAMP security certification standard evolves, government tech officials are having an easier time evaluating private cloud offerings. However, they caution that trust and vendor relationships are key, and regardless, some sensitive applicat

Number of New IT Outsourcing Deals Hits All-Time High

The multisourcing trend continues in an increasingly competitive market while government spending on outsourcing now outpaces that of the private sector, according to a report by outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group.

Microsoft Adds IoT, Big Data Orchestration Services to Azure

Looking to expand on the big data capabilities of its cloud platform, Microsoft has introduced Internet of Things streaming analytics, data production and workflow services for Azure.

8 Ways Facebook and Twitter Make Money

It may be unclear to the casual observer just how Facebook and Twitter monetize their hugely popular social sites, but both companies are raking in the ad dollars. These eight examples detail the ways Facebook and Twitter make money from their users.

Power Tools Company Uses Marketing Analytics to Compete With Big Box Stores

Big Data tools to combine internal and external information helps determine how to counteract the marketing muscle of Home Depot and Lowe's.

Healthcare CIOs Can’t Be Afraid to Innovate

Kodak invented the very technology that led to its demise. There are lessons there for healthcare, where everything from wearables to robot surgeons threaten to disrupt — for the better –the way the industry practices medicine.

iPad App Helps Energy Company Prevent Power Outages

LG&E and KU Energy uses helicopters to get a birds-eye view of damages and potential problems that could bring down power. The challenge came when the pilots tried to document and relay the info inflight.

Twitter Announces ‘Fabric’ Framework in Attempt to Woo Mobile Devs

If Twitter pulls the right strings with Fabric, a new mobile development platform cobbled together from recent acquisitions, it could gain significant prominence and power in the mobile app ecosystem.

CIOs Tasked With Federal IT Overhaul Battle Culture and Bureaucracy

Government officials urge CIOs to work with senior management to break down cultural and operating siloes. To be successful, IT and the business units must work together in common cause on shared services, data centers and cybersecurity.

Future Points to Healthcare IT as a Service

Adopting social, mobile, analytics and cloud technology should save healthcare providers money in the long run. It should also help them use their EHR systems as a service, according to a joint report from EMC and MeriTalk.

Google Adds 5 New ‘Glass at Work’ Partners

The latest group of official Glass at Work partners includes companies that make "Glassware" for industrial, manufacturing, sports and healthcare organizations.

Snapchat, Whisper Promise Privacy but Fail (Miserably) to Deliver

Privacy and anonymity in the era of social media are promises left unfulfilled. The events of recent months make this abundantly clear, yet Snapchat and Whisper, two companies at the center of controversy, place the blame on users.

Employees Excited, Concerned About Wearables in the Workplace

A new report suggests corporate workers see clear value in enterprise wearable technology, but they're also worried about security and privacy implications, as well as their ever-increasing tech dependence.

Microsoft Outlines Vision for Azure With New Services

Microsoft puts the pressure on cloud competitors Amazon and Google with a slate of new Azure offerings, including a 'cloud-in-a-box' hardware appliance geared for on-premises hybrid deployments.

Booz Allen Takes Data Science Training Online

Aiming to make data science training more accessible, Booz Allen Hamilton introduces a hands-on online training course complete with gamification elements.

5 Ways Digital Health Startups Can Break From the Pack

It's a good time to be a healthcare startup, as investors are pouring billions into the market. However, itu2019s a crowded field and to attract funding you have to stand out. Here are five tips to help digital health startups land venture capit

Building the Next Generation of Female IT Professionals

It's no secret that women are under-represented in technology jobs. To help turn that tide, while at the same time building a pipeline of talent, some companies are putting money where their good intentions are.

FBI Chief Urges Tech Firms to Rethink Encryption

FBI Director James Comey warns that default encryption settings on Apple and Google devices could impede law enforcement investigations, calling for an update of 20-year-old wiretapping law.

Hadoop Platform, Apps Represent $1 Trillion Opportunity

Hadoop will evolve into an invisible foundational data infrastructure technology this year, says Cloudera Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer Mike Olson. Now's the time to focus on building applications on top of the platform, he says.

Social Sites Gaining Market Share Faster Than Search Engines

The 2014 holiday shopping season is fast approaching, and the major social networks are about to see greater competition for ad revenue, according to Adobe. Here's how the companies stacked up in the third quarter of 2014.

CIOs and CMOs Must Join Forces to Win Digital Consumers

Winning in the age of the digital consumer and the u2018mobile momentu2019 requires the CIO and the CMO to work together, Forrester CEO George Colony said at Dreamforce. Together, they can truly understand customer behavior and how customers use tech

Medical Device Security Benchmarks Emerging

In recent weeks, the FDA and the Center for Internet Security have released guidance documents on medical device security. While there are no hard and fast recommendations, given the diverse types of devices and environments in which they're use

For Advertisers, True YouTube Rivals are Few and Far Between

Online video is a valuable format for advertisers, and YouTube dominates the space. Even with so much money at stake, YouTube's would-be competitors significantly lag behind in the majority of metrics.

Hortonworks Boosts Support for Enterprise Needs in HDP 2.2

The latest version of the Hortonworks Data Platform distribution of Hadoop adds numerous features with a special focus on enterprise requirements around governance, security and operations.

MapR Makes Its NoSQL Database Freely Available in Community Edition

The in-Hadoop NoSQL database is now available for unlimited production use as part of the free MapR Community Edition of Hadoop.

Top 10 IT Skills Based on Increases in Demand

On any given day, employers post approximately 80,000 jobs on Dice.com. Here are the 10 fastest-growing categories based on number of mentions compared to a year ago.

At Dreamforce 2014, Salesforce Joins the Analytics Revolution With Wave

The Dreamforce conference is far more than a tech conference. It is a festival with celebrities and music, and tech. The two big tech announcements of particular interest are mobile development and analytics.

12 Tips for Responding to Rising Healthcare IT Security Threats

Healthcare faces a growing breadth and depth of security threats (both intentional and accidental). These 12 steps will help IT leaders prepare for, respond to and perhaps even stay ahead of the latest dangers.

Social Media Giants Fail in Response to Online Abuse

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are criticized in a scathing report from a campaign committed to eradicate technology-related violence against women.

GE Says Industrial Internet Is Here

GE will open up its Predix operating system for the industrial Internet in an effort to help companies of any size and in any industry create applications for the industrial Internet.

Ranking the World’s Least Friendly Markets for U.S. Tech Firms

A new study looks at policies hostile to multinational IT companies and calls on U.S. officials and allied nations to step up trade enforcement and prioritize the tech sector ahead of other industries. Some in the tech industry, though, want the U.S.

With Windows 10, Will Microsoft Truly Listen to Customers?

Microsoft has launched what it calls its 'largest-ever open collaborative development' effort to try to ensure its next operating system is what customers want. But has Microsoft really learned from the mistakes of Windows 8?

IBM Watson HQ Opens for Business in New York’s Silicon Alley

The 12-story IBM Watson Global Headquarters will open its doors in the heart of New York City's Silicon Alley tomorrow morning in an effort to attract talented students and entrepreneurs.

How the CIO Role Is Changing As Business Needs Evolve

A decade ago, the typical CIO was concerned mostly with IT infrastructure. Today's CIO faces a bevy of additional challenges, namely user desires for mobility and the cloud. There's an upside, though: Helping users get what they need makes

How Facebook Plans to Control Digital Advertising

Facebook has been relatively quiet about its plans for Atlas since it acquired the ad server from Microsoft last year. But now the social network is poised to unleash its trove of user data for greater control over digital advertising across the enti

Local virtual desktops may be the (old) new thing in BYOD

For IT organizations seeking to take a more employee-centric stance by employing a Bring Your Own PC (BYOPC) program, client hosted desktop virtualization may be what the doctor ordered.

CBS Interactive CIO Says Shadow IT Is an Opportunity

By looking at the shadow IT that lines-of-business deploy and asking business leaders how it improves their business, IT organizations can gain a better understanding of what they can bring to the table to help the business succeed.

12 CIOs Who Are Earning Millions

Taking into account both base salaries and 'other' compensation, these 12 CIOs are raking in millions.

‘Cloud gives me a little bit of a headache,’ says Xerox CIO

Private Health Insurance Exchanges Poised for ‘Hypergrowth’

Public health insurance exchanges removed nearly 10 million American adults from the ranks of the uninsured. However, the sites were plagued with problems — and the second year of sign-ups may bring additional headaches. That leads some to suggest t

How Live Tweeting Is Changing Broadcast Media

Live tweeting by cast members and official accounts for TV shows is lifting the reach and engagement of their programs, according to Twitter. Read what happens when stars take to Twitter during the premiere of their show.

Intel Encourages Women to Pursue Cloud Training

Aiming to make cloud computing and DevOps training more accessible to women, Intel is sponsoring the IC3 Cloud Scholars program.

Open Internet Central to U.S. Trade Policy

Administration officials say they are sympathetic to U.S. cloud service providers' concerns that data-localization requirements, other restrictive policies and the fallout from Edward Snowden's revelations cut off access to foreign markets.