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By Toni Bowers Nucleus Research, Inc. has released its top ten tech trends for 2012. We’re seeing a lot of the same predictions from the Gartner Symposium so IT pros would be wise to check these out for possible career enhancement. 1. The Productive Enterprise Nudged by the ready adoption of Facebook, many enterprise software

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: Gartner analyst Ken McGee has a radical assessment of IT and what CIOs need to do about. Read his principles of the “new CIO manifesto.”  The traditional IT department has entered a period of massive transformation and CIOs are having to completely rethink the way they lead, strategize, and manage their

By:  Chee Sing Chan Polish-born and Australia-bred, Cathay Pacific‘s CIO Tomasz Smaczny has a clear sense of where IT is heading –having written papers on IT’s changing relationship with the business plus over 25 years of experience in retail and finance. He talks to Computerworld Hong Kong on the CIO’s path to transformation and possibly

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: At its annual Symposium, Gartner unveiled its list of the 10 most strategic tech trends of 2012, including a controversial demotion of the cloud. Gartner analyst David Cearly peppered his audience of change-weary IT leaders with a new list of the tech trends that are going to rock their world next

By Justin James Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s October 2011 patches in your organization. I think this may be the most pleasant Patch Tuesday of 2011. The out-of-band patches were minimal (just an update to root certificates to handle another Iranian-hacked root server).

Steve Jobs (1955-2011) Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday, Oct. 5 at age 56. Fortune looks back at how he changed the way we think about and use technology forever, putting his own stamp on everything from the personal computer to the music industry.   Design For Jobs, how a product looked, felt and responded trumped

By Toni Bowers Nearly 29 percent of the 353 IT executives who were polled in Computerworld’s annual Forecast survey said they plan to increase IT staffing through next summer. (That’s up from 23% in the 2010 survey and 20% in the 2009 survey.) Here are the skills that the IT executives say they will be

BY: Leah McLaren One night last week I awoke to the sound of shattering glass. It was 2 a.m. and I was alone in my apartment, a ground-floor flat in a quiet London neighbourhood. Without stopping to think, I found myself charging out of bed to meet my intruder in a T-shirt. “No, no, no,

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM-T22.34—-%) is heavily discounting its PlayBook tablet, joining a growing number of companies trying to compete with Apple’s (AAPL-Q403.17—-%) ultra-popular iPad by slashing prices on their own mobile devices. Retailers from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Best Buy Co. Inc. have begun offering steep discounts on RIM’s tablet computer, which has suffered

By Jason Hiner Takeaway: For innovation, IBM has been the undisputed leader according to one important metric for 18 years straight. Learn how the company does it. For 18 years in a row, IBM has been granted more patents than any other company. The company was way ahead of the curve in embracing diversity in