Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up'
Yahoo will now have to figure out how to grow Tumblr revenue without alienating its user base
Bart Perkins: Avoiding IT audit nightmares
IT's problems can draw unwanted notice now that Sarbanes-Oxley requires them to appear in 10-K reports as 'material weaknesses.'
Immigration reform may spur software robotics
A clampdown on visa use by offshore firms may prompt creative responses.
CIOs' relationship with marketing is weak: survey
CIOs are not putting the same amount of effort into partnering with marketing as they are with finance and operations.
Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes
Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.
Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train
Companies in search of workers with the most sought-after IT skills may be better off investing in training programs for current workers than hiring new employees, according to IDC
Report: Yahoo board approves deal to buy Tumblr for US$1.1B
Rumours that Yahoo might be in talks to acquire the blogging site emerged last week
Larry Page: Deconstructing the sadness
Jason Snell analyzes Google CEO Larry Page's speech at Wednesday's Google I/O keynote.
New Intel CEO creates 'New Devices' division focused on 'cool technology'
A mere five days after taking the reins at Intel, new CEO Brian Krzanich is making waves.
5 reasons to move to Big Data (and 1 reason why it won't be easy)
Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that big data can benefit your business--and one precaution that may well thwart your big data plans.
Big Data—How to extract value from the information explosion
Without preparation, organisations may be overwhelmed with the sheer volume, variety and speed of raw information now available.
Paul Glen: The secret to keeping processes vital
As long as a problem seems present, gnarly and intractable, we enjoy following the process that solves it. But once the problem has been solved, it's not so interesting to us anymore.
IT's new concern: The personal cloud
Personal Cloud services are difficult to control, and users are adept at going around IT.
Gartner analysts on the ‘Nexus of Forces’
In Singapore, some Gartner analysts did some crystal ball gazing to share with CIOs their insights on the biggest forces impacting businesses today.
BLOGS
BLOG: Yahoo goes big and buys Tumblr
The Tumblr purchase has to be followed up with other moves to bolster its mobile and social strategies.
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CAREERS
Skill shortages? Not if you pay or train
Companies in search of workers with the most sought-after IT skills may be better off investing in training programs for current workers than hiring new employees, according to IDC
IT GOVERNANCE
US power companies under frequent cyberattack
Legislation that would give the federal government power to oversee the protection of utilities has stalled.
LEADERSHIP AND MGMT
IT leadership in the PRD's other SAR
Macau's tech gurus crowded into the Four Seasons Hotel on the Cotai Strip for the 2013 Macau CIO Leadership Forum, sponsored by Computerworld Hong Kong with Macao Computer Society as supporting organization.
LEGAL
House bill would mandate guns with .007-style smart tech
Rep. Tierney cites Bond movie Skyfall for idea; older handguns would have to be retrofitted.
OUTSOURCING
How India's IT outsourcing leaders can stay on top
After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are six things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow.
PROJECT MGMT
Guest View: The hidden costs of support
Sunil Desai, Director for Managed Services at Dimension Data Asia Pacific, points out that the bulk of support-related expenses fall outside the scope of traditional support offerings. It is important therefore to identify and eliminate 'hidden' expenses.
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APPLICATIONS
VMware launches network-savvy cloud service
VMware's new vCloud Hybrid Service offers virtual networking as a way to cut cloud deployment costs.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Social enterprise can boost productivity by up to 25 per cent: NewsGator
Social software vendor highlights how organisations can benefits from a social strategy.
DATA CENTER
NextDC awarded ISO quality management certification
Certification covers design and development of secure data centre infrastructure
IMAGING AND PRINTING
Sanity deploys Oki printers
B431dn devices to appear in 120 retail stores
INDUSTRIES
Telstra in the sights of Privacy Commissioner
Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has begun an investigation after some Telstra customer's phone numbers, names and home addresses contained in spreadsheets were found online during a Google search.
INTERNET
Yahoo overhauls Flickr with one free terabyte for every user
After snapping up hipster blogging platform Tumblr on Monday, Yahoo summoned the tech press to a New York media briefing. But explaining why it dropped a cool $1.1 billion on Tumblr was so 15 minutes ago, Yahoo apparently decided. Instead, it used the event to focus on updates to Flickr, the tech giant's Web-based photo hosting service.
MOBILE AND WIRELESS
Opera's new Android browser hits Google Play, rebuilt from the ground up
Opera's new WebKit-based Android browser sports some nifty features and a bevy of under-the-hood changes.
NETWORKING
Aruba Networks latest to unveil 802.11ac access points
Joins other WLAN vendors ushering in the "gigabit Wi-Fi" enterprise
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Awesome video shows Leap Motion's Windows 8 gesture control capabilities
A new demo video from Leap Motion shows how waving your finger in your air like you just don't care is totally possible with Windows 8.
SECURITY
The true root causes of software security failures
Developers being overly trusting is one of them.
STORAGE
Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive
HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.
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IT administrators are faced with number of important considerations when weighing data protection methodologies for virtual machines. This Paper explores several different approaches that will provide the right kind of coverage for your virtual machine workloads.
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How to Migrate Without Downtime: An Executive Overview
Migrating applications, systems and data has always been a challenge for IT staff; most have just gotten used to the pain that comes with migrations. To properly migrate applications and data to new platforms involves risk and takes time to complete.
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Replication technology enables information sharing between primary and backup servers. This whitepaper discusses different replication methodologies and how they pair up with multi-tiered computing environments.
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