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President Obama is planning to sign an executive order on Monday rolling back restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, according to sources close to the issue. Although the exact wording of the order has not been revealed, the White House plans an...

Based on his track record, Vivek Kundra, the U.S. government's new CIO, is sure to push Web 2.0 tools to increase transparency. But what does that really mean? One idea: Requiring mortgages to have XBRL tags that describe them, so we could search and analyze...

Janet Marchibroda, chief executive officer of the eHealth Initiative, will leave the organization she has led since its founding to become chief healthcare officer at IBM. Marchibroda was recognized in 2005 as one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine and in...

For anyone wrestling with deciding what IT projects to keep and which to kill in this recession, here's a quick test from a CIO I just listened to: If an IT project doesn't map to a specific CEO priority, you shouldn't be doing it....

When Jeff Post took over as CEO at CUNA Mutual Group in 2005, he vowed to change what he called the "country club culture" at one of Madison's largest employers. While the financial services company was still profitable, Post said it was losing market share to...

A $2 million contract to provide Mediasite equipment to a university campus under construction in Saudi Arabia is Sonic Foundry’s biggest deal for 2009, chief executive and chairman Rimas Buinevicius told the company’s annual shareholders meeting at Monona Terrace on Thursday. The King Abdullah...

Perhaps not surprisingly, President Obama has formed a close friendship with the District of Columbia’s young, Blackberry-addicted, problem-solving mayor, Adrian Fenty. Now, the president has raided Mr. Fenty’s staff to name a youthful, Indian-born techno-whiz as his first federal chief information officer. The White House said...

How much pressure are CIOs feeling to deliver the proverbial more with less? At a lunch yesterday of IT and business executives in Madison, Wis., the strain was palpable. So was a creeping weariness with the do-more-with-less strategy that’s been the boast of every hotshot...

Prepare to enter the doldrums, because it may be the only way to get to recovery. In opening the Fusion 2009 CEO-CIO Symposium Wednesday evening, Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Jorge Lopez gave more than 100 information technology leaders tips on how to read cloaked...