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Facebook in the enterprise

Posted by James Lawrence | Wed 28 Jul 2010

Facebook may be poised to follow other consumer-first brands, such as Google, into the corporate space ...Read more

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The new shape of innovation

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 19 Jul 2010

Mulitnational organisations need to transform the way they innovate – or risk being sidelined, say Jaideep Prabhu and Navi Radjou from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. For them, the future lies in the BRICs… ...Read more

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The race for m-banking

Posted by Alan Edwards | Mon 12 Jul 2010

Banks need to move their mobile strategies up a gear, says Fujitsu's Alan Edwards ...Read more

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Pictures worth 1,000 words

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 5 Jul 2010

The development of cutting-edge visual search software is set to become a powerful new business tool ...Read more

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Crime as a service

Posted by | Mon 14 Jun 2010

Cyber-criminals are bringing together their specialist skills through online collaboration hubs where they can sell their services to each other to create an entire criminal ecosystem ...Read more

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The longevity gene

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 14 Jun 2010

Commitments to R&D are keeping IT’s founding companies on top. Of the top five companies (all of which have annual revenues of over $50 billion), three have been delivering innovation to customers since the early part of the last century ...Read more

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Social call: Contact centres go Web 2.0

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 31 May 2010

For the past two years, social media monitoring tools have enabled organisations to track discussions of their brand and select keywords online - on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and elsewhere. Now they want to inject themselves into those customer conversations by blending social media and contact centre tools. ...Read more

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Essential reading for CIOs

Posted by Kenny MacIver & James Lawrence | Tue 25 May 2010

Two of the latest must-reads for CIOs: a business maverick's story and a novel approach to Lean and Six Sigma ...Read more

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Should employees be allowed to buy their own PC? Part 2

Posted by Jim Ginsburgh | Mon 10 May 2010

Jim Ginsburgh, former VP of enterprise architecture at BP, argues that BYOC is the only way for enterprises to go ...Read more

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Should employees be allowed to buy their own PC? Part 1

Posted by Alain Fontaine | Thu 6 May 2010

Increasingly, IT leaders are having to respond to demands to support end-users' own devices in the workplace. But how far should organisations travel down this road? Alain Fontaine, head of IT at online portal atHome International Group, shares his own experience in this area ...Read more

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"Cloud liberates you from a dead paradigm," says Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Thu 22 Apr 2010

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, corporate maverick and software-as-a-service pioneer, speaks exclusively to i-cio.com about the new world order of cloud computing, the creation of "a Facebook for the enterprise" - and how he tied a ribbon around the App Store for his hero, Steve Jobs ...Read more

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The consumerisation of IT

Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 22 Apr 2010

As technology in the home increases in sophistication, CIOs are under growing pressure to ensure the enterprise keeps pace. In this series of downloads, we examine the significant impact this major trend is having on corporate IT strategy and how IT chiefs are responding to it ...Read more

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Free data for all?

Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 22 Apr 2010

The US and UK governments have been leading the world in the field of open data - but should private enterprise now follow suit? Tim Berners-Lee certainly believes so ...Read more

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Gallium nitride chips

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 19 Apr 2010

Gallium may be an element from the far reaches of the periodic table, but in the view of researchers at Fujitsu Laboratories its application in power conversion will have a radical impact on server costs ...Read more

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CIOs who tweet

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 12 Apr 2010

Our list of 50 leading CIOs who regularly use Twitter and are worth following ...Read more

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The IT of people

Posted by Dr Kazuo Murano | Mon 29 Mar 2010

Dr Kazuo Murano of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd foresees a shift from technology-centric to human-centric computing ...Read more

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PC-over-IP time

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 8 Mar 2010

After the huge success of server virtualisation, many organisations have been eyeing the desktop as the next target for a virtual makeover. Now PC-over-IP aims to remove the performance barrier ...Read more

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Enterprise joins the Google Apps club

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 15 Feb 2010

Attracted by increasing functionality, cost savings and the ability to access data from any location, some of the world's largest firms are making huge commitments to cloud-based office applications ...Read more

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Telepresence for all

Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 11 Feb 2010

Driven by greatly improved technology and falling prices, mid-market demand for videoconferencing is growing - and triggering a period of rapid consolidation ...Read more

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Governments buy into apps stores

Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 8 Feb 2010

State CIOs around the world are following Apple and Salesforce.com and becoming increasingly sold on the idea of cloud portals ...Read more

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How should CIOs support the business use of social media? Part 1

Posted by Toby Redshaw | Mon 25 Jan 2010

With over 50% of CIOs banning the use of social networking in the workplace, the debate rages over whether Web 2.0 platforms are a vital component of the connected enterprise. Toby Redshaw, global CIO of Aviva, believes Web 2.0 can make the insurance giant "big and agile" ...Read more

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21st Century Free

Posted by Chris Anderson | Mon 30 Nov 2009

Chris Anderson, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Long Tail, predicts a time when, thanks to the digital economy, the default price of everything will be zero ...Read more

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Wolfram at the door

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 23 Nov 2009

Although hailed as a "Google killer" when it was launched in May, Wolfram Alpha is more of a hybrid of Wikipedia and the search engine market leader ...Read more

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The US government's IT dashboard

Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Oct 2009

Vivek Kundra, appointed by Barack Obama as the US government's first CIO, has launched an online dashboard that candidly exposes the current spending and schedule metrics of the 800 major projects that make up the bulk of the federal government’s $76 billion annual IT spend. ...Read more

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Quantum computing: The future is in the past

Posted by James Bellini | Mon 7 Sep 2009

Futurologist Dr James Bellini explains the “50-year rule” and predicts the rise of quantum computing ...Read more

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Lean lessons from Japan

Posted by Jeffrey Liker | Mon 31 Aug 2009

You think lean and IT make uncomfortable bedfellows? Not at Toyota, argues Dr Jeffrey Liker, a world authority on the creator of lean - although it's only seen as one of many means of driving efficiency ...Read more

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European software patent law: another fine mess

Posted by Arnoud Engelfriet | Mon 24 Aug 2009

The 30-year row over controversial European software patent law is due to rear its ugly head again later this year. But, argues legal expert Arnoud Engelfriet, don’t expect any magical resolution ...Read more

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Moving with the times: the rise of the netbook

Posted by Andrew Donoghue | Mon 17 Aug 2009

With sales up 80% year-on-year, netbooks are the form factor to watch - although their business uses remain unclear ...Read more

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Unified communications: All the right connections

Posted by James Bambrough | Mon 3 Aug 2009

Switching to a unified communications system could mean 11 fewer days on the red-eye this year, says James Bambrough, senior solution architect at Fujitsu ...Read more

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Thin client: We can't all be skinny

Posted by John Rule | Mon 13 Jul 2009

Migrating to thin client machines isn’t right for every business, says John Rule, principal customer solution architect at Fujitsu ...Read more

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This Way Up: P&G's Filippo Passerini

Posted by Kevin White | Mon 6 Jul 2009

Innovation and agility have been decisive factors in the successful career path of Filippo Passerini, P&G's president of global business services and CIO ...Read more

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"Control can mean money. Quite a lot of money," says leading open source expert

Posted by Andrew Donoghue | Wed 1 Jul 2009

The French government's experiment in open source has led to huge public sector cost savings and unprecedented levels of control over its software. Professor Roberto Di Cosmo, one of Europe's leading open source experts, explains why the rest of the world should sit up and take notice ...Read more

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Personal space invaders

Posted by Ray Kurzweil | Mon 15 Jun 2009

Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts when artificial intelligence will enter our bodies – and could make us immortal ...Read more

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The business of micro-blogging

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 26 May 2009

The growth of micro-blogging sites, such as Jaiku, Plurk and Twitter, has been startling. Now businesses are beginning to work out how they can benefit from them ...Read more

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Book review: What Would Google Do?

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 18 May 2009

For a company only born a decade ago that has changed the face of the internet and has a market cap of $96.5 billion, it’s not unreasonable to ask: “What would Google do?” Jeff Jarvis tries to answer the question ...Read more

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Creative destruction

Posted by Richard Foster | Mon 11 May 2009

The recession will spell the end for some corporate dinosaurs but, as US history shows us, this natural selection can pave the way for a new breed of innovators, argues Richard Foster ...Read more

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Windows 7, Vista or XP?

Posted by Rachel Ebrey | Tue 5 May 2009

When it comes to operating systems, should it be out with the old and in with the new? Fujitsu's CTO Marc Silvester offers his expert advice ...Read more

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Special Report: Cloud computing

Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 30 Mar 2009

An in-depth investigation into the benefits of cloud computing: should your company be adopting it? What are the merits? And what are the pitfalls you should be aware of? ...Read more

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