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Twenty Innovative New Health Gadgets Pierre-Jean Cobut is co-founder of Echo Labs, a Palo Alto-based developer of wearable technology that provides real-time insight into the human body by acquiring and analyzing physiological signals. According to Business Insider, he’s one of 17 Stanford University business school graduates who are going to change the world. In a […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose We all know that when it comes to hiring, retaining and motivating employees, money only goes so far. A strong employee recognition program, and perks like flexible work schedules, no doubt help. But if you really want employee buy-in and loyalty, give them something that will enable […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud It occurs to me that as the Internet of Things emerges as a topic of increasing relevance to CIOs, one of the things they’re going to need to be concerned about is standards. As the cloud-to-cloud integration that is necessarily associated with IoT becomes […]

Eight Critical Factors for Business Success Let’s say you founded a tech startup, it was wildly successful, and you sold it to Salesforce for $175 million. What would you do with your share of the proceeds? For Jim Fowler, it was a no-brainer: He took $1 million of it and started a new company. The […]

Salary Negotiation: Five Rules to Follow Ok, here’s one for you: What are the 10 geekiest cities in the United States? Based on the results of an analysis performed by Mintigo, a predictive marketing firm in San Mateo, Calif., the Top 10 list includes what I found to be some unlikely places. I had the […]

Five Ways Smartwatches Will Change E-Commerce Here’s an Apple Watch factoid for you: A recent poll of 1,000 engineers found that zero percent—that’s right, zero—think the watch is worth the $349 price tag, and zero percent plan to buy one. The poll was conducted on March 19 by Owler, a San Mateo-based startup that provides […]

Five Tips for Closing the Enterprise Mobility Gap If your day has gotten off to a bad start, this probably isn’t going to help. But just so you know, all that money you invested in mobile device management products, antivirus software, data encryption, and virtual private networks isn’t going to buy you mobile data security. […]

Five Ways to Stay Productive While Working Remotely Do you have a sneaking suspicion that your remote workers are goofing off way too much? According to the findings of a recent survey, you can relax—remote workers tend to be more productive than they typically get credit for being. In fact, the survey found that 77 […]

Top 10 Career Resolutions for 2015 Of all the officers in the C-suite, guess which one tends to have the shortest tenure. You nailed it: the CIO. To lengthen that tenure, the CIO needs to position himself as the “architect of innovation.” That was one of the key findings in the new report, “Go Live […]

The Evolution of the CIO Cloud computing will either cause the CIO role to morph into a CTO role, or will leave the CIO to “bow down to the CTO” by becoming a manager of cloud providers and of what’s left of in-house operations. That’s the view of Marc Malizia, co-founder and CTO at RKON […]

Let’s say you’re the chief security officer in your company, and you have a trusted network administrator who comes to you and says she had left her purse in a secure area of the data center when she went to attend a meeting with a couple of managers, and when she returned, $50 was missing […]

Third-Quarter IT Reality Check — Budgets, Hiring, Trends If you’re trying to use money to motivate your employees, you’re fighting an uphill battle. What you need from your employees is engagement, and money isn’t going to buy that. It’s very easy to give an employee a $25 gift card, but that’s not going to create […]