By IDG Enterprise
May 23, 2013 11:16 AM

Arduino Yún: A bridge between do-it-yourself and the Internet of Things

The open-source Arduino platform has helped tinkers make robots and controllers. At the Maker Faire last weekend, Arduino leader Massimo Banzi unveiled a new effort to help connect Arduino devices to the Internet.

May 23, 2013 9:58 AM

Here's how the new Kinect could make Windows better

Microsoft said its updated Kinect will be available for use with Windows some time next year.

May 23, 2013 9:42 AM

Sure, listen to your customers -- but don't expect them to have all the answers

Social channels give companies unprecedented access to customers, and they can help you build better products that meet their needs. But sometimes it's your job to innovate and come up with products your customers never imagined needing.

May 23, 2013 8:34 AM

Lenovo is becoming a serious smartphone player

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Lenovo's smartphone shipments grew more than 200 percent year-over-year in the quarter, and it aims to sell more than 50 million phones this year.

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May 23, 2013 7:04 AM

Here's what Steve Jobs thought of CIOs

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Apple's hands-off attitude toward enterprise IT stems from the thoughts of its founder, according to an anecdote told by Salesforce's JP Rangaswami.

May 22, 2013 2:12 PM

A bad mobile app is worse than no app at all

A mobile app is as much a marketing tool as it is a product or link to a service. It needs to be just as flawless and well-designed as any other piece of marketing -- website, brochures, signs, stationary, and so on.

May 22, 2013 8:53 AM

How BYOD helped a school district and its 14,000 students improve learning

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BYOD isn't just for business. That's the lesson learned by a Kentucky school district when it used a BYOD plan to help transform the education of its students.

May 22, 2013 8:36 AM

Forget BYOD: The next big concern is personal cloud services

Bring your own device is so 2012. The next big push in the consumerization of IT is bring your own cloud. And just as when consumer devices poured into the enterprise, many IT organizations have already responded with a list of do's and don'ts.

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May 22, 2013 8:00 AM

Workers use ten times more cloud apps than IT thinks

Skyhigh monitors what cloud services employees are using and said that most businesses are surprised at what it finds.

May 22, 2013 5:54 AM

You have to go "all in" on BYOD for it to really pay off

A study by Cisco Systems' Internet Business Solutions Group concludes that the value companies currently derive from BYOD is "dwarfed by the gains that would be possible if they were to implement BYOD more strategically."

May 22, 2013 5:07 AM

First look: Android Studio eclipses Eclipse

Google's new Android development environment pairs rich layout and build capabilities with IntelliJ IDEA's famous ease

May 21, 2013 5:00 AM

Jive tries out freemium model with Producteev task manager

Jive has decided to offer its task management offering for free in hopes that users will later upgrade to using Jive's broader social collaboration service.

May 20, 2013 2:13 PM

Older Android devices are sitting ducks for malware

New threats reported by F-Secure underscore Android's vulnerability and may make it even harder for enterprise professionals to embrace Google's mobile OS.

May 20, 2013 7:49 AM

The huge BYOD risk that you're probably ignoring

Do you know what information your employees are creating, and where they're storing it? Could you retrieve it if required by law? Are they destroying information that's supposed to be kept, or keeping information that's supposed to expire after a certain date? Data governance is going to become a big deal in the coming years, warns CITE Conference speaker Deborah Juhnke.