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The 10 Fastest-Trending IT Skills: Spring 2015 Maja Mataric is a robotics pioneer who has been named as one of the 25 most influential women engineers by Business Insider. As prestigious as that accomplishment is, I can assure you that in her capacity as Vice Dean for Research at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi […]

Top 10 Tech Hubs and Geekiest Cities in the U.S. I never realized it, but apparently there’s some sort of huge tech rivalry between New York City and the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area. In fact, the rivalry last month compelled New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to announce a plan to bolster the tech community […]

Top Seven Priorities for IT in 2015 The top-down management structure that’s prevalent in corporate America today is an anachronistic holdover from a bygone era, when mass manufacturing was what drove the economy and created powerful enterprises. Today’s companies demand a far more open, inclusive, participative structure—not unlike the structure of the open source software […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about Kromtech Alliance Corp. and the tarnished reputation of its flagship product, MacKeeper, a utility software suite for the Mac. The MacKeeper saga appears to be a somewhat convoluted one,  and as I previously noted, there’s more to the story […]

Six Tools to Help You Gain Control of Your Inbox We have become not only acculturated to interruptions, but addicted to them. We have the mistaken belief that interruptions are a perfectly normal way of life, despite knowing deep down that “time is a precious commodity that we cannot afford to waste.” Therein lies the […]

Six Mistakes that Lead to Poor Enterprise Software Adoption If you’re a parent, you almost certainly know that one of the most effective ways to get kids to do what you want them to do is to make a game out of it. I was a pro at that well before my first, let alone […]

How to Avoid Downtime with a Proper Disaster Recovery Plan There’s been a lot in the news recently about the vulnerability of the electric power grid in the United States. Last month’s incident in which a severed transmission line in Maryland cut power to much of Washington came on the heels of a March USA […]

AV-TEST Identifies the 10 Best Security Products of 2014 A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about having made the rookie mistake of downloading Mozilla’s Firefox browser from a shady download site, because I wasn’t paying close enough attention to the results of my Google search to realize where I was. That was […]

Survey Highlights Workplace Productivity Drains I wrote a post last week about a study commissioned by Dell and Intel that provided some enlightening information about employees’ technology adoption and expectations. Beyond what was covered in that post, Steve Lalla, a Dell vice president and general manager who contributed the commentary, was also able to address […]

Are women in IT more prone to stress and anxiety than their male counterparts? Yes. But that’s not because they’re in IT. It’s because they’re women. That was my key takeaway from a recent email interview with Dr. Megan Jones, chief science officer at Lantern, a provider of professional coaching and emotional wellbeing programs in […]

If you’re shopping around for a cloud hosting provider, it’s probably because you drew the short straw. Let’s face it: Nobody wants that onus. If the company goes with your recommendation, and something bad happens during the implementation or anytime thereafter, guess where the fingers are going to point. So what’s your best chance of […]

The Nine Best Tech Jobs for 2015 Name a couple of things you use every day that will be obsolete by the time you retire. According to the results of a recent study, two-thirds of the respondents put keyboards and mice in that category. The study, dubbed the 2014 “Global Evolving Workforce Study,” was commissioned […]