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Twitter Flips Ad Model to Rival Facebook’s Structure

Advertisers on Twitter can now create campaigns with specific objectives in mind and pay only when those goals are met. The shift away from a cost-per-engagement model puts the company on pace with Facebook and its refined ad structure.

Federal CIOs Lean on Virtualization, Shared Services to Trim Data Centers

Government IT leaders, operating under a mandate to consolidate their agencies' data centers, look to new technologies and operating models to cut costs and improve efficiency.

The Internet of Things Brings Far-Reaching Security Threats

Bringing new devices online at home and in the enterprise raises a host of security concerns that will require a more hands-on CIO and an organizational rethinking.

How Marketing Picks Tech Vendors (and Who Decides)

The head of digital architecture at MasterCard says marketing should bring in IT at the beginning of technology vendor discussions. The director of customer engagement at Cox Media Group agrees, but she adds, u2018There's a time and place for r

2014’s Starting Salaries for College Tech Majors

As summer is winding down and colleges and university are about to kick it into high gear, it's time again for us to look at how college technology majors stack up in regards to starting salaries.

Forget Five 9s, Splunk Promises 100 Percent Uptime

With its new service level agreement, Splunk assures its Splunk Cloud customers that their machine data analytics will be available 100 percent of the time. Splunk reports that is is also cutting costs and adding making its service tiers more flexibl

IT Outsourcing Customers Mad as Hell, Ready to Walk

IT outsourcing customers are demanding more from their providers and consider showing the door to those who can't move up the value chain of IT services, according to recent survey.

What Google I/O Moves Mean for Developers, Small Businesses and Consumers

Audience Is Dead, Long Live Active Content Consumers

Today's hyperactive users present brands with exponentially more opportunity than the passive audiences of years passed. On YouTube, users are seeking out and finding the content they want with no direction. To tell your brand's story there

10 Social Media Certifications and Classes to Advance Your Career

While some social media masters may have learned their trade on the streets, formal training and education is a safer bet for the rest of us. To help you stay on course, here are some of the top certification programs and classes to advance your care

Why Hospitals Still Struggle to Sell Telehealth

Yes, the technology can get complicated. Yes, licensure and reimbursement remain a regulatory mess. That said, telehealth is arguably one of healthcare IT's few 'easy wins' for physicians as well as patients. If your organization has y

‘Provider Sprawl’ Complicates Government Move to Cloud

The market for cloud providers catering to the federal government is getting crowded, challenging CIOs to keep up with the available applications and services while taking pains to stipulate management responsibilities in their SLAs.

Twitter Scores by Moving the Goal Posts

Twitter is at a crossroads as it strives to improve user experience and leverage greater opportunities in advertising and commerce. With a user base just one-fifth the size of Facebook, the company is beginning to change the script — and it's w

Security, Budgets Slow Mobility in Government

Officials at state and local agencies are slowly warming to a more mobile workforce, but telework remains the exception amid tight budgets and security concerns.

18 big data certifications that will pay off

Data scientists and data analysts as well as engineers and developers with the skills to work with big data technologies are sought after and well-compensated. Want an extra edge looking for your next job? Get big data certified. (Originally publish

10 Biggest CIO-CMO Relationship Hurdles

To reach digital customers, CIOs and CMOs have to get a lot of things right. They need to work together with speed and precision. Unfortunately, at many companies the partnership between these two executives is still a work in progress.

Healthcare Industry Enters Meaningful Use Waiting Game

The federal government is working on a rule to relax the requirements for stage 2 of meaningful use. Electronic health record users and vendors have little choice but to wait. That doesn't make them happy.

6 Job Search ‘Hacks’ That Will Get You Hired

These six job search 'hacks' can help you set yourself apart from other candidates and put you on the path to land your dream job.

CIOs in Europe Say BYOD Is Stalling

Think CIOs in the U.S. are struggling with how to handle BYOD? IDCu2019s John Delaney says itu2019s much worse in Europe where employees simply u2018donu2019t like BYOD.u2019

Sprint Boosts Enterprise Cloud Offering With Google Apps for Business

Sprint, looking to capitalize on companies moving to the cloud, will provide direct sales and support for Googleu2019s suite of services like Gmail, Drive and others. Beginning next month, Google Apps for Business will be available to Sprintu2019s bu

14 Must-Have iPhone, iPad Travel Apps

These 14 iOS travel apps will make your iPhone, iPad touch or iPad a more valuable travel companion. They'll help you book your trip, plan your itinerary, navigate unfamiliar streets, convert foreign currencies and much more.

EHR Failure Partly to Blame for VA Troubles

In a wide-ranging critique of federal IT, former defense secretary Robert Gates says the inability to set up an electronic health record system linking the Pentagon and the VA is one of his 'chief regrets.u2019

Technology Leapfrogging: How the Cloud, Tablets and Phablets Advance Tech Adoption

Technology upgrades don't have to be incremental journeys from version 1.0 to 2.0. Here are three examples of innovations that have let specific demographic groups u2018leapfrogu2019 standard tech for something that better suits their needs.

13 Android Tools for Web Developers

Android mobile devices, while not typically thought of as places where development work gets done, can offer surprisingly useful apps to help developers get the job done, anywhere.

9 C-Level Titles Unique to Healthcare

An industry thatu2019s as unique as healthcare is bound to have some equally unique executive roles. Here are nine C-level titles that are either specific to healthcare or got their start in healthcare.

Microsoft Layoffs Mean ‘Open Season’ for Recruiters

IT recruiters are lining up for an influx of tech talent entering the market thanks to large-scale layoffs announced by Microsoft. Even workers not affected become potentials candidates for job openings, experts say.

Business Agility Drives Cloud Adoption

Companies adopting cloud computing most aggressively say that business agility — not cost — is the primary driver of adoption.

Apple Gets Serious About Social, Adds Familiar Functions to iMessage

Apple's most popular app will be getting its biggest overhaul to date when the company releases iOS 8 in the fall. iMessage users will soon be able to capture, send and set a self-destructing timer for audio and video messages without leaving th

Microsoft CEO Lays Out Vision of Cloud Convergence

Addressing some 15,000 partners at Microsoftu2019s Worldwide Partner Conference, Satya Nadella said he aims to bring the company past its software roots and establish dominance in a cloud and mobile world where lines between work and personal computi

10 Top Jobs by Salary for Social Media Pros

10 Web Services That Make Your Life Easier

There are thousands of apps and Web services out there. New ones are hitting the Internet as you read this. Here are 10 bona fide tools that can actually improve your life.

Microsoft Urges Partners to Court Public-Sector Customers

At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft outlines a vision of a cloud-first company, touts the opportunities in government, education and healthcare, and aims to reassure partners that it's keeping customer data safe.

9 Tips for CIOs as Summer Vacations Hit

Have trouble leaving the office behind when you go on vacation? Here are nine tips to help give CIOs peace of mind when they (and their staff and fellow employees) head out for summer R&R.

Are Messaging Apps the Future of Social Networking?

Mobile messaging apps are the 'new face' of social media with global audiences in the hundreds of millions, according to a new report from Forrester. But where do the marketing opportunities lie?

Mobile Advertising Will Dominate Social Networks

Televisionu2019s long run at the top is coming to an end. With mobile advertising growing at unparalleled rates, digital ad spending is on pace to overtake television by 2018.

Health Apps Ready to Collect Your Vital Signs, Wellness Data

Samsung, WebMD, Apple and Google are all getting into the health application game. The aim is to help consumers see all their health and wellness data in one place u2013 but will all that information be too much of a good thing?

8 Devices to Help You Cut the Cable Cord

As consumers become more savvy with their entertainment dollars, more devices have entered the streaming-media fray allowing even the digitally challenged to cut the cord on cable and satellite dependencies and save big money on movies and shows.

How Cloud Vendors Can Win Over Skeptical Federal Buyers

The federal government has been making a lot of noise about moving its IT operations to the cloud. At the ground level, though, significant concerns around security and portability remain obstacles for would-be cloud service providers.

Government Cloud Use Requires a Culture Shift

If government CIOs are the only voice in their agency championing the shift to cloud computing, it can be a lonely fight. That's why leaders say they need support from the upper echelons of their agencies as well as the business units.

Want to Know What Millennials Want? Just Ask Them

A survey of millennials finds, among other things, that Generation Y wants to be mobile and they donu2019t expect you to pay for it. But you better have a BYOD policy in place to support these consumer-tech-happy workers.

How WebRTC Is Making Enterprise Inroads

IBM to Invest $3 Billion in Chips for Cloud, Big Data Systems

To address the physical limitations of silicon transistors, IBM is investing heavily in research of new chip architectures and materials to power new generations of cloud, big data and cognitive systems.

Is Linux Dead for the Desktop?

Linux pops up everywhere these days, from household gadgets to the market-leading Android mobile OS. Everywhere, that is, but the desktop.

Why Healthcare IT Spending Needs to Shift Its Focus

Most healthcare IT spending emphasize architecture and electronic health records. This has the dual effect of adding little value and leaving little room for transformative innovation. With healthcare's business model on the verge of being turne

BYOD Users Work Longer and Earlier

According to a recent survey, the average BYOD-carrying employee works an extra two hours and sends 20 more emails every day.

Microsoft Promises Frequent Office 365 Roadmap Updates

Best Selfie Apps, Cameras, Smartphones and Accessories

Are you part of the #selfie movement? If so, you'll want to take a look at our gallery of gadgets and apps for taking better selfies, which includes a 'selfie stick,' a selfie button and even a drone.

Why Coworking Is a Hit for Telecommuters and Entrepreneurs

Cloud Platform Simplifies Spark Clusters, Big Data Deployments

As part of his keynote at Spark Summit 2014, Databricks CEO Ion Stoica announced Databricks Cloud, a turnkey platform for in-memory cluster computing that promises huge performance improvements over Hadoop MapReduce for processing big data.

Does Meaningful Use Need an Overhaul?

The meaningful use incentive program has stimulated electronic health record adoption in the United States — but confusing, conflicting proposals to change and delay the program's next stages lead many to wonder if meaningful use needs to be fi