People in the Sunshine State stood in line for hours to exercise their franchise, in some cases six hours or more after the polls had officially closed. Numerous causes have been cited, from a shortened early voting period to a 10-page-long ...
CIO - If you lead an IT shop today, chances are at least some of the employees who report to you are millennials--young adults in their 20s. Millennials--also known as Generation Y--think about life and work differently than older boom and ...
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Enterprises have long lived in a world where storage meant buying in bulk,preparing for possible influxes of data and signing cheques to make even the wealthiest of businesses wince. However,with the growth of cloud computing,a shift has ...
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Computerworld - American Airlines Wednesday said it plans to deploy 17,000 first-generation Samsung Galaxy Note devices to flight attendants for use onboard its planes. The flights attendants will use the smartphone-tablet Notes device to ...
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CIO - Hurricane Sandy left devastation in its wake, first pounding the Caribbean and then pummeling the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the U.S. People and businesses are now struggling to get back on their feet. As a CIO or IT ...
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The internet is revolutionising the newspaper industry, and for the publisher of the Daily Mail and Metro, it is having the same effect on IT strategy. David Henderson, CIO at A&N Media, says the publisher’s websites attract 100 ...
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BP is putting its global messaging infrastructure into a private cloud to benefit from pay-per-use functionality and the flexibility to easily scale up and down the number of users. Over 83,000 staff at BP will be connected to the cloud. ...
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How Dell IT has changed Internships and reverse mentoring Women in IT It is one thing being CEO of a company with best-in-class supply chain.But what happens when the business refocuses? Adriana Karaboutis has been global CIO at Dell ...
The government expects to slash its software licence and maintenance bill with Microsoft and SAP by up to£150m by 2015,via a framework renegotiation. Under the deal the public sector will avoid recent Microsoft's licence fee ...
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COLUMBUS, OH, December 18, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Big data may not be a term often discussed outside the CIO's office today, but according to experts at ICC, a leader in business technology services with a focus on big data and ...
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As the new chief information officer (CIO) at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) – the world's largest business travel management company – Kevin O'Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company's IT strategy to support ...
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CIOs should stop worrying about BYOD according to analyst Gartner. Instead they should focus on technology transformation. The analyst company is urging CIOs to focus on technology-led business transformational change, instead of ...
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Liam Maxwell, formerly the deputy government CIO, has been appointed as the first Whitehall chief technology officer (CTO), in the latest stage of a major shake-up of the government IT leadership organisation. As revealed last week by ...
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The regular rant heard from mobile operators is how much "over the top" service providers are stealing their revenue. The likes of Skype and WhatsApp operate on their handsets, but allow users to circumvent the core voice, text and data ...
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The top IT leaders in the UK talked to Computer Weekly throughout 2012 to share their opinions and experiences of modern technology leadership and transforming business and government through IT innovation. Their views are valuable not only ...
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