Kachina Shaw

Ten Cool Office Spaces That Go Beyond Tradition Based on input from those in the know, the employees, Glassdoor has released its seventh annual Employees’ Choice Awards, which name the Best Places to Work in the U.S. and UK. For the 2015 list, Google takes the number-one spot, with an overall ranking of 4.5 out […]

Traveling for business or pleasure is easier than ever with access to real-time information; apps to help schedule your itinerary and explore new locales; and ever-smaller gadgets to help you connect, organize, work and play. These gadgets will delight the travelers on your gift list this month and throughout the year. Gadgets for Travelers Click […]

Six Data Breach Predictions for 2015 All year, Sue Marquette Poremba has been writing on IT Business Edge about the increasing fallibility of password-based security systems, most recently finding cause for alarm in malware known as Citadel, which is believed to specifically target password management systems that collect multiple passwords for users. Security researchers estimate […]

Eight Tips for IT Career Longevity While much IT career advice covers the long trek toward the CIO’s office, or as close to it as one can get, CIOs have dreams, too. Seventy-nine percent of the CIOs, deemed “elite,” at last week’s Forbes CIO Summit in Naples, Florida, want to progress into another role. COO […]

IT Industry Shellshocked in Q3: How to Plan for What’s Next By 2025, we should expect to have experienced a “significant” cyberattack, according to a canvas of technology experts and researchers conducted by the Pew Research Internet Project and reported upon today. To this group of experts, Pew posed the following question: By 2025, will […]

IT and HR managers charged with retention of technology professionals would do well to pay attention to the results of a recent Robert Half Technology survey. A fairly large respondent group of over 2,300 North American people working in IT indicated their career frustrations. According to a release from Robert Half, when asked, “In general, […]

Reduce Risk: Six Vulnerable Points Enterprises Need to Consider This October 28, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will hold its third annual Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. With support from American Express, Dell and Splunk, the one-day summit will “bring together experts from the business community, federal agencies, and the executive and legislative branches, to […]

Ten Free Android Apps to Organize Your Life Does an unfilled niche exist in the workplace between voicemail, instant messaging, videoconferencing and video chat, and social messaging in its various forms? The creators of Movy believe they can fill that niche with their mobile video voicemail/messaging app, currently available on Google Play for Android and […]

Ten Hot Tech Skills Gaining Speed A new report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation claims for the area the title of highest number of high-tech jobs, beating out all other metro regions around the U.S. As reported in “High Tech in L.A.: Its Employment and Economic Contribution in 2013,” the county had […]

Eight Tips for IT Career Longevity At Evernote’s EC4 Conference today, Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and chairman, discussed with Evernote CEO Phil Libin the ongoing value that ex-employees have to companies. ZDNet’s Rachel King writes that a company’s former employees, or alumni, said Hoffman, become ambassadors for that company, if the experience was positive. And […]

Pay attention to polls like the one that HyTrust announced today if you are still wondering how your customers would react if your company were to suffer a breach of personal information. Most coverage of breaches describes the event and the missteps or malfeasance that led up to it. What really happens after that can […]

Wearable Computing: Creativity from Head to Toe Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos plans to further invest in his company’s dedicated hardware and purchasing systems, with an eye toward the home Internet of Things, according to Reuters. The site used “a little-known government document” and other sources to determine that Amazon’s Lab126 will receive $1.2 million in […]