Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Training focused on goals brings targeted change The former CIO for AT&T Universal Card, Los Angeles County, Alcatel and McGraw-Hill offers an excerpt from his book Technical Impact: Making Your Information Technology Effective, and Keeping It That Way
Thursday, May 27, 2010
SEO is a minefield of misinformation, expert says A search optimization consultant dishes on what IT managers should know about SEO ahead of next month’s Search Engine Strategies Toronto 2010 conference. Find out why most need a refresher course on search optimization
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
10 cutting edge snooping gadgets Data thieves rely on an ever growing cache of high-tech surveillance weaponry to extract valuable information from their victims. Here are 10 illegal and legal ways cyber crooks tap into networks and computers to capture data and conversations
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Learn to be Agile Companies can no longer afford to take several months or even years developing applications. That’s why many IT departments have turned to Agile practices to speed delivery. The CIO of transportation firm Con-way offers some sound advice in making the move to this rapid development approach
Monday, January 12, 2009
CIOs take critical look at management training Personal development is about helping individuals become effective leaders able to set direction, persuade others to follow and deliver IT benefits to the business. But no matter how inventive the training courses on offer, many CIOs, like the unfortunate delegate in Herefordshire, are struggling to apply them to the practical problems of running an IT department
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
New coalition wants to go Batman on cybercrime With financial support from the likes of Bell, Rogers and Microsoft, the newly formed NCFTA hopes to boost cybercrime research and development in Canada. Read what some of the organizations involved had to say
Monday, May 07, 2007
Virtual workplaces offer new challenges We’ve talked quite a bit recently about the inexorable shift toward the virtual workplace and reviewed the technical requirements for supporting one. Now it’s time to look at the challenges. 
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Info on demand new top goal: Exec As general manager of information management in the IBM Software Group, Dr. Ambuj Goyal ensures the success of IBM’s Information On Demand initiative and its constellation of products. But in a recent interview with InfoWorld executive editor at large Eric Knorr, Goyal still sounded like a scientist, expounding on the nature of information vs. data and the unique position IBM’s new Information Server occupies in the history of computing
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Collusion confounded - malware mafia join forces to intensify Internet attacks Creators of malware – worms, trojan horses, spyware, adware – are teaming up in the underground to propagate Internet threats at an even faster rate, according to a Canadian researcher
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Rock Phish 'most active' phishing group Nobody knows exactly who, or what, Rock Phish is. But security experts estimate that Rock Phish is responsible for between one-third and one-half of all phishing messages being sent out on any given day.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Of dashboards and scorecards DASHBOARDS AND SCORECARDS are becoming ubiquitous business tools, according to a recent survey from The Data Warehousing Institute, “Deploying Dashboards and Scorecards.” The report, which is based on a winter 2006 survey of corporate IT professionals, BI consultants, and business sponsors/users, identifies numerous trends found in recent dashboard and scorecard deployments.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
McAfee sees 400,000 virus definitions by 2008 Although widespread virus outbreaks may be a thing of the past, the total amount of malicious software being written is on the rise, according to McAfee Inc.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Developer Web site is Aussie’s pet project Chris Maunder started The Code Project six years ago with the aim of creating a Web site for developers done right. Today this resource for Visual Studio users garners 1.7 million unique page views monthly.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
CRM gains ground as management tool Customer relationship management (CRM) is gaining importance as a management tool among executives globally, according to a recent study by Bain & Co. Survey respondents ranked CRM second to strategic planning among 25 of the most popular management tools and techniques. 
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Intel prepares for next 20 years of chip making Intel Corp. drew the curtain Friday on some of its future research projects to continue making transistors smaller, faster, and less power-hungry out as far as 2020.
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
SCO claims Unix's ELF in Linux A recent move by the SCO Group Inc. promises to make Unix ELF code as well-known in IT circles as Orlando Bloom's portrayal of the Lord of the Rings' elf prince, Legolas, is with teenage girls.
Thursday, July 08, 2004
PM graduate degree goes online Project management is a key discipline in the 21st century, and the IT industry is one of the areas where it comes in most handy, according to Shauneen Furlong.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Fujitsu announces new servers with 90-nanometer chips Fujitsu Ltd. became the latest chip maker to introduce a 90-nanometer product with the launch of a faster version of its Sparc64 V processor for enterprise servers, the company announced Tuesday.
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Mydoom knocks SCO offline Living up to its namesake, the Mydoom e-mail borne worm succeeded in bringing sco.com to a grinding halt on Sunday as thousands of infected computers launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Lindon Utah-based The SCO Group Inc.'s primary Web site. 
Sunday, February 01, 2004
UPDATE: SCO downed by Mydoom Computers infected with the Mydoom worm launched a massive attack against the Web site of Unix software maker The SCO Group Inc. Sunday, cutting off access to the company's Web site. 
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
New e-mail worm breaks infection records A new computer virus that spreads using e-mail messages is breaking records for new infections set by the last major e-mail worm, Sobig.F, according to leading antivirus software companies and e-mail security firms.
Monday, December 29, 2003
Mitnick offers cash for hacking tales Noted computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is offering cash in exchange for tales of hacking escapades to fill a new book he is writing for publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Certified security Simply buying firewalls, intrusion detection systems and anti-virus software to prevent IT disasters is like sending money to a university and expecting a PhD by return post. It's not that easy. Without trained people, the investment in IT security may be worse than useless if it leads the enterprise into false confidence. 
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Sun utters the 'F' word At the SunNetwork conference held recently, Rich Green, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s vice-president of developer tools and Java software, led his pitch for the Java Enterprise System (formerly Orion) by saying,