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Cybercrime, Hiring, Broadband Investment All on the Rise
CIO Update Staff | Published Sep 8, 2011

New IT hiring, more cybercrime and increased broadband spending lead this week's IT research round up.


Tags:Facebook,broadband,social media,ISP,Microsoft Azure,cybercrime,EtherNet,Hiring,Robert Half Technology,BSA
Yahoo Syncs Up With Facebook
Kenneth Corbin | Published Jun 8, 2010
Pioneer Web portal continues efforts to position itself at the center of the online world.
Tags:Facebook,social networking,privacy,social media,Yahoo
Bye-Bye Landlines, Voice Communication?
Andy Patrizio | Published May 17, 2010
People are getting rid of their landlines at a record rate in favor of a mobile phone, which they're rarely using to talk. Instead, the trends are toward text messaging and IP-based communications.
Tags:wireless,social media,cell phone,texting,CTIA
Enterprises Barely Tapping Web 2.0 Potential
David Needle | Published Apr 26, 2010
Tim O'Reilly says companies can gain a lot more insight and value from online social networks, but they have to go beyond paying lip service to Facebook, Twitter and similar phenomena.
Tags:Facebook,social media,Adobe Flash,Web 2.0,O'Reilly
Shelved IT Projects Moving Forward
CIO Update Staff | Published Feb 25, 2010
CIOs plan to move their IT strategy forward with projects - Cloud computing, virtualization, branded social media - that were put on the back burner during the recession.
Tags:cloud computing,Project management,virtualization,social media,IT projects
IT Staffing - Jobs Report Shows Android, iPad Skills in Demand
David Needle | Published Feb 18, 2010
The latest quarterly report from online contract services firm Elance indicates strong demand for mobile tech skills, and a few surprises.
Tags:Android,iPhone,iPad,social media,Elance
The Top 10 Social and Digital Media Developments of 2009
Kenneth Corbin | Published Dec 31, 2009
A look back at the events and trends that punctuated a year of profound upheaval across the social Web and digital media.
Tags:Top 10,Facebook,Amazon,Twitter,social media
Human Centricity, Social Media and the Knowledge Enterprise
Raj Datta | Published Oct 3, 2008
Companies have forgotten that knowledge management (KM) is a human-centric phenomenon, writes CIOUpdate columnist Raj Datta of Mindtree Consulting.
Tags:social networking,social media,Web 2.0,Gen X,knowledge management
Social Networking Meets the Mainstream
Susan Kuchinskas | Published Jul 11, 2008
Consumers fast becoming regular users, but is business catching up?
Tags:IT culture,social media,IT Leadership,CIO Insights
Social Networking and the Business: Friend or Foe?
Julie Craig | Published Feb 11, 2008
If IT is all about managing change and risk, where does social networking fall in this hierarchy, asks CIOUpdate columnist Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.
Tags:services,social networking,networking,social media,business
The Trend Skeptic: Social Networking is a Benign Technology
Jeff Vance | Published Jan 29, 2008
MySpace, Facebook, Linked In. As this new wave of consumer technology works its way into the enterprise, it’s best to prepare for a few, unpleasant surprises, writes CIOUpdate’s Trend Skeptic Jeff Vance.
Tags:Windows,Microsoft,social networking,social media,MySpace
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