Carol A. Bartz, chief executive of Yahoo, has been hobbled. Three weeks ago, doctors gave her a new left knee, made of titanium and plastic. As a result, she is limping around Yahoo’s headquarters here, occasionally standing to hold a chair and stretch her leg while...
Things are tough out there, but IT recruiters report that there's still a market for the right skillsets. According to Tom Silver, senior vice president for IT employment firm Dice.com, Dice is seeing lots of demand from hiring managers in the following nine categories. Read full...
Washington Mutual's failure last September marked a precipitous moment of this recession. But for JPMorgan Chase, it was an opportunity. And for Guy Chiarello, JPMorgan Chase's CIO, it was the right time to invest in the company's IT infrastructure, including millions of dollars in new...
"I agree on the one condition it's not going to be a girl power post, ok"? That's what Gali Ross requested when I asked to profile her for TechCrunch. So this isn't going to be a 'girl power' post, but the fact of the matter...
Those looking to extend their SOAs to cloud computing platforms are not alone. Interest in SOA has perked up a lot in the last few months, mostly around the movement and interest in cloud computing. However, many of those moving to cloud computing are making...
IT vendors have tried going around the CIO and straight to top business executives or specific business-line managers to sell their wares. But who has the most influence? Forrester Research asked almost 1,000 enterprise decision-makers in North America and Europe to find out. Read full article>> ...
IBM and SPSS Inc. today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement for IBM to acquire SPSS, a publicly-held company headquartered in Chicago, in an all cash transaction at a price of $50/share, resulting in a total cash consideration in...
Epix, a struggling biotechnology firm working with the British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to develop an Alzheimer’s disease drug, says it is winding down its operations and selling off assets to pay off creditors. Read full article>>...
Constructive debate is an important component in healthy organizational dynamics. However, once a decision is made, the whole group needs to get on board and forge ahead. The CIO must clarify priorities and move the group toward that goal. Benny Sisko shares with you one...
A group of computer scientists at the University of Washington has developed a way to make electronic messages “self destruct” after a certain period of time, like messages in sand lost to the surf. The researchers said they think the new software, called Vanish, which...