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When I was a kid one of my favorite parts of Disney World was Tomorrowland’s Carousel of Progress. It was steeped in 1950’s futurism: Why, of course! Every family will have their own electric paint mixer in the future! And I only wish I’d been...

A Pew Internet and American Life Project studying who uses broadband at home found that • Roughly one-quarter -- 27%-- of U.S. adults are not Internet users. • 43% of those who don't surf are over the age of 65. • 43% have household incomes under $30,000 a...

To compensate for the Gmail outage embarrassment this week, Google on Wednesday launched a new dashboard to provide its users with more information about the status of its products. The outage, Google explained Tuesday afternoon, was the result of some buggy code that was introduced at...

As the clouds started gathering over the economy this past fall and winter, I heard the drumbeat grow louder from my security contacts who all gave the same warning: layoffs are going to exacerbate security problems. As pink-slipped workers start thinking about looking after number one,...

Moral: don't dig yourself into a newsworthy tech hole. Online IT products and services reseller CDW ran a contest last fall called Project Upgrade, sponsored by HP and Microsoft. Small businesses with 50 or fewer employees entered the contest to win $50,000 worth of hardware and...

When Howard Rubin speaks, people listen. And when the subject is cloud computing, today’s IT leaders—many of whom are attempting to chart nascent cloud strategies—are bound to lean forward a little farther in their chairs. CIO Insight contributor Tony Kontzer recently spoke with Rubin, an IT...

Everyone is talking about the race toward cloud-based computing, but apparently, most organizations aren't rushing to embrace the emerging Web-based infrastructure as quickly as they might - based at least in part on concerns over security. A new study into cloud computing adoption trends published by...

Is it true that we're able to reach the same number of users in shorter and shorter time frames with each new technology. It certainly seems so when compared to the decades it took to get the telephone and electricity out to the world....

The U.S. economic recovery is at least a year out, slamming the brakes on IT and other business capital initiatives, according to a broad-based survey of 200 companies conducted in the fourth quarter of 2008 by the Boston-based Delphi Group. Spending on information technology initiatives...