By IDG Enterprise
May 24, 2013 9:54 AM

IT must act like a fast-moving startup

Brandon Porco, the chief technologist for defense contractor Northrop Grumman, says that IT will have to try lots of different things and move quickly to keep abreast of evolving employee needs. "Google has it very well-patterned: Launch and iterate."

May 23, 2013 2:16 PM

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 24, 2013 4:14 PM

Excel: Microsoft's best weapon against Tableau and competitors

New data visualization apps for Excel 2013 could help Microsoft hang on to customers looking for better data visualization tools.

May 24, 2013 8:41 AM

Enough with the silly myth about Apple hating the enterprise

Although Apple is often accused of not being an enterprise company, it's only in the last few years that Apple has abandoned its enterprise-oriented products. The real story may be that Apple's discovered that making enterprise-focused efforts simply don't deliver a huge return on investment.

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May 23, 2013 12:58 PM

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 12:42 PM

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 11:34 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.

May 23, 2013 10:04 AM

Here's what Steve Jobs thought of CIOs

IDGNS

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.

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May 22, 2013 5:12 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 11:53 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 11:36 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.

May 22, 2013 11:00 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 8:54 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 8:07 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