October, 2008

How Microsoft takes stock of your online experience

At the Web Experience Forum in Boston yesterday, Mark Hydar, principal group manager for global quality of service (QoS) initiatives for Microsoft,...

Gartner: IT budgets in 2009 are like a ‘ham and cheese sandwich’

From the Swan and Dolphin resort hotels in manicured (hot as blazes) Lake Buena Vista, Fla., a quick dispatch before the day’s fun begins. I am here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008. I actually arrived a day early this year to get a bead on what’s in store for CIOs in 2009. Gartner did...

CIO weekly wrap-up

Happy Monday! We had another busy week at SearchCIO.com. Here are our latest stories:

• Web 2.0, Web 3.0 mashup to yield more...

In economic meltdown, CFO is a CIO’s BFF

As if you didn't already know, your buddy with the middle initial F is back. And I do mean buddy. A memo out this morning from consultancy Gartner Inc. reminds that in economic crises, CIOs need to "build a powerful alliance" with their CFOs to improve business value. That would seem to...

The CIO, Obama and electronic health records

SearchCIO.com senior news writer Linda Tucci wrote an excellent, layered story yesterday on electronic health records. "Privacy issues, interoperability issues, liability and physician...

Three cheers for Web 3.0

Yesterday on SearchCIO.com, we ran a story I wrote about the burgeoning mashup of Web 2.0 technologies into something that's being called Web 3.0. It's based on the assumption that the...

CIO weekly wrap-up

Happy Monday! For those who missed it, here's what we produced on SearchCIO.com last week:

• Microsoft: Spatial computing the...

Bailout for economy, a boon for R&D?

If you're looking for another reason to pay attention to whether the $700 billion bailout bill gets passed by the House today, you might want to look at this call for action from the Information Technology Association of America...

Three men arraigned in alleged IT kickback scheme

Three Boston-area men have been arraigned in connection with allegedly setting up kickbacks from a vendor in exchange for securing computer software and service contracts for Partners Healthcare. According to the

Women as CIOs and branding in the workplace

My colleague Linda Tucci's story this past week on how women in IT should brand themselves (and, by the way, most of the advice applies to our male readers, too) really struck a chord...