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	Top iPad Alternatives for Business The iPad is the gold standard when it comes to tablet computers, but there are alternatives. We tested 8 products to determine if they had what it takes to give the iPad a run for its money as a business device. Read More WHITE PAPER: Microsoft & HP HP Transformation Workshop for Microsoft Private Cloud HP and Microsoft have developed solutions in cloud and connectivity, along with services designed to enable you to successfully select, plan and implement your IT transformation to a service model—with less risk along the way. Read More! In this Issue IT Consultant Resume Makeover: How to Land IT Management Jobs U.S. CIO: Changing the Culture of Federal IT Paycheck Payoff for IT Certs Still Declining LinkedIn Tip: New Tool Taps into Your Alumni Network Four Virtual Assistants Tackle Real-World Business Tasks Turn Your iPad Into a PowerPoint Presenter Offshoring and Security: IT Managers, Network Admins Divided on Risk Weaving BI Into the Corporate Fabric Gartner's Top 10 IT Challenges Include Exiting Baby Boomers, Big Data WEBCAST: Microsoft Transforming operations to simplify knowledge access Discover how one of the largest privately-held commercial real estate firms in the United States enhanced collaboration and modernized communication by migrating to a flexible, data-driven system built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Learn More! IT Consultant Resume Makeover: How to Land IT Management Jobs IT consultants looking to transition into steady IT management positions face some challenges. They must be able to prove to prospective employers that they've got what it takes to be an IT executive and can adapt to a corporate environment. CIO.com's latest resume makeover shows IT consultants how to write resumes to get corporate IT leadership jobs. Read More U.S. CIO: Changing the Culture of Federal IT U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel hopes cloud computing, Web services and a new IT culture of sharing can reap huge savings and prop up Uncle Sam. Read More WHITE PAPER: inContact Ensuring Business Continuity in the Contact Center This white paper examines the challenges of implementing and managing a disaster recovery program in the contact center environment. It reviews the direct and indirect impacts of different disasters as well as short and long term effects. Learn More! Paycheck Payoff for IT Certs Still Declining Wondering whether you'll get a raise or bonus if you earn another IT industry certification? Odds are you won't, according to the latest IT salary data from Foote Partners. Read More LinkedIn Tip: New Tool Taps into Your Alumni Network What's the most valuable outcome of your college years? According to LinkedIn, it's your alumni network. Here's how you can use the newest feature to build your network and connect with college contacts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Taking the Enterprise Data Center into the Cloud Get a detailed overview of cloud computing technology— common types of architectures and services and perceived risks impacting widespread adoption. Learn best practices for optimizing critical systems for cloud deployment in existing facilities and see how next-generation technologies forge a path toward an integrated DCIM approach. Learn More Four Virtual Assistants Tackle Real-World Business Tasks Low-priced offshore labor is widely available online, but is it worthwhile? Read More Turn Your iPad Into a PowerPoint Presenter Free app/service SlideShark converts presentations to an iPad-friendly format and lets you show them on your tablet or a projector. Read More WHITE PAPER: KPMG Can Cloud Pricing Bring a Shower of Savings? With promoted savings estimates of up to 40 percent, cloud is earning a lot of buzz beyond IT. But does it have the silver lining we've all heard about? Here, we discuss the variety of cloud offerings with standard delivery and pricing models. But more importantly, you'll learn what to look for in the fine print of cloud pricing. Learn More! Offshoring and Security: IT Managers, Network Admins Divided on Risk A recent survey reveals that more than one-third of respondents whose companies offshore IT said the practice makes their organization less secure, while the same proportion said the opposite. Overall satisfaction with offshore results overall may explain the discrepancy. Read More Weaving BI Into the Corporate Fabric At the organizations interviewed for this story, a top-down commitment helps business intelligence efforts spread throughout the enterprise. Read More Gartner's Top 10 IT Challenges Include Exiting Baby Boomers, Big Data Virtualization tops the list of IT infrastructure and operations trends because of continuing data center expansion. Read More
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Strategy Analytics: Samsung Overtakes Apple in Q3 in Smartphones

	Sony to Buy Sony Ericsson, Turn Into 100 Percent Subsidiary | Nintendo 3DS 2Q Sales Rebound As Price Cuts Kick in
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	Strategy Analytics: Samsung Overtakes Apple in Q3 in Smartphones Apple was partly hit as consumers and operators awaited the Q4 launch of the iPhone 4S Read More WHITE PAPER: KPMG Global Pulse Survey: IT Services & Outsourcing What's happening now, and what can you look forward to? Leading providers have weighed in on current and forecasted economics, benefits, governance, globalization and cloud. Learn the latest thinking and trends in shared services, outsourcing and third-party services among industry and functional areas. Learn More! In this Issue Sony to Buy Sony Ericsson, Turn Into 100 Percent Subsidiary Nintendo 3DS 2Q Sales Rebound As Price Cuts Kick in TSMC's Q3 Profits Sink 35 Percent on Weak Demand Sony to Buy Sony Ericsson, Turn Into Subsidiary Google Maps Provides Street View-Look At Store Interiors Turn Your IPad Into a PowerPoint Presenter Riverbed Rolls Out Stingray Products FCC Votes to End Telephone Subsidies, Shift to Broadband IBM Anoints Q1 Labs Technology As Centerpiece of Security Portfolio Facebook-Led Foundation Pushes for Open Data Center Tech RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Taking Business Relationships to the Next Level Want to make your IT department a business influencer and game changer? Here directly from a panel of Houston CIOs how to transcend your "service provider" relationship with stakeholders and become a trusted business peer and partner at CIO Perspectives Houston! Register today! Sony to Buy Sony Ericsson, Turn Into 100 Percent Subsidiary The Japanese electronics maker says it will pay Ericsson €1.05 billion for its share of the business and related patents. Read More Nintendo 3DS 2Q Sales Rebound As Price Cuts Kick in Japanese game maker says sales of its flagship handheld are on the rebound, but it now predicts an overall annual net loss. Read More TSMC's Q3 Profits Sink 35 Percent on Weak Demand Economics conditions have reduced demand for TSMC's chips Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix and IBM Transforming Financial Workplaces from the Desktop This white paper provides a view into transformation activities within large organizations, based on an exclusive survey by IDG Research, and examines motivations and experiences of financial services organizations to transform the delivery of IT services through desktop virtualization. Read Now Sony to Buy Sony Ericsson, Turn Into Subsidiary The Japanese electronics maker says it will pay Ericsson €1.05 billion for its share of the business and related patents. Read More Google Maps Provides Street View-Look At Store Interiors One drawback to the service is that it's part of Google Place Pages, so images are not fully integrated with standard Street View. Read More Turn Your IPad Into a PowerPoint Presenter If you're in the business of making presentations, you know what a time-suck it can be to work with PowerPoint on a laptop. You have to connect a projector, wait an eternity for the PC to boot, run PowerPoint, load your slide deck, switch the laptop's video output to projector mode, and on and on. It's easy to blow 10-20 minutes just getting set up for your presentation--not a productive use of your time. Read More WHITE PAPER: inContact The SaaS Advantage for Contact Centers Do you stick with your premises based system or move your call center to the cloud? This paper examines the two technologies side by side, providing insight into their total cost of ownership and offers guidance to contact centers looking for an alternative to on-premises contact handling solutions. Learn More! Riverbed Rolls Out Stingray Products Riverbed Technology is launching Stingray, a new product line of devices that brings together products the company acquired last summer when it bought Zeus Technology and Aptimize Limited. Read More FCC Votes to End Telephone Subsidies, Shift to Broadband The commission's vote will transition a $4.5-billion-a-year fund to broadband deployment Read More IBM Anoints Q1 Labs Technology As Centerpiece of Security Portfolio IBM intends to make the security information and event management (SIEM) technology gained through the acquisition of Q1 Labs, which was officially closed yesterday, the centerpiece of IBM's broad security product portfolio. Read More Facebook-Led Foundation Pushes for Open Data Center Tech Facebook and several of its high-tech partners are rethinking how companies can handle big data with low-cost computing centers. Read More
	Hot Picks for the Week 16 Essential Android Apps for IT Pros Up-and-coming IT leaders who have yet to head an IT organization can gain recognition through our Ones to Watch Award. Nominations accepted through October 31. IT Resume Makeover: Before and After Editions What Do Top CIOs Make? Join CIO on Facebook! Images, Stories, RSS, Twitter and more!
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Do Enough IT Professionals Want to Be CIO?

	10 Tech-Centric MBA Programs | The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create
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	Do Enough IT Professionals Want to Be CIO? Are there enough IT professionals filling the pipeline of future CIOs? One IT manager says fewer IT professionals want to deal with the stress and frustration associated with the CIO role. What's your take on the question? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG BYOD, Security, Policy - Are You Prepared? Prepare at Enterprise MobileNext Enterprise MobileNext can help. Whether you are banking on mobile technology to drive enterprise growth or trying to protect your organization against risk, we'll show you how to successfully deploy, secure and manage your mobile strategy. Sign up today to secure your complimentary registration for Enterprise MobileNext, Nov 30-Dec 1, SF, CA. In this Issue 10 Tech-Centric MBA Programs The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create 5 Tech Pros Companies Want to Hire 'Big Data' Prep: 5 Things IT Should Do Now IT 2012 Predictions: For One, Social Networks Rule Transform Your I&O Organization Into An Innovation Machine What Your Cloud Consultant is Trying To Tell You Managing the Fears That Define the Information Age Steve Jobs Biographer: CEO Was Brilliant, Prickly, Eccentric WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Business Building a Disaster-Ready Infrastructure Everyday problems, such as hardware failures and power outages, are much more common than natural disasters—and can bring a business to its knees. Only companies with a disaster-ready infrastructure and solid business continuity plan can come through such events with minimal downtime and cost. Learn More 10 Tech-Centric MBA Programs See what kinds of IT classes MBA students can take to earn an IS concentration. Read More The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create Conventional wisdom maintains that cloud computing will eliminate scores of IT jobs. CIO.com's Bernard Golden explains why that argument is flawed and describes the many IT jobs that will flourish in the age of cloud computing. Read More WEBCAST: Avnet & HP Improve IT Visibility and Change Success Date/Time: November 3, 1:30 PM EST Join this webcast from CIO.com and HP as we explore recent advances in automated discovery and dependency mapping and hear from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida how they addressed their discovery challenges, the lessons they've learned and pitfalls you can avoid. Learn More 5 Tech Pros Companies Want to Hire Networking pros are among the top five tech professionals that companies want to hire, according to Robert Half Technology. Read More 'Big Data' Prep: 5 Things IT Should Do Now Got your "big data" plan in place? If not, you may want to start thinking about implementing one. Here are some suggestions. Read More WEBCAST: Interactive Intelligence Contact Center Consolidation and Centralization In this web event, industry experts will share their insight and practical hands-on experience about how to build a successful plan for consolidating and centralizing your contact center and enterprise communications. Learn more IT 2012 Predictions: For One, Social Networks Rule The evolution of social-networking capabilities in corporate systems, and technologies that dramatically boost productivity and reduce risk, are themes that dominate the "Top Ten Predictions 2012" from one IT research firm. Read More Transform Your I&O Organization Into An Innovation Machine In what Forrester calls "the age of the customer", it's more important than ever for enterprises to innovate to differentiate -- and to define and solidify I&O's role in innovation. Read More WHITE PAPER: Secunia The (In) Security State of SCADA Software Systems In this white paper, we are going to discuss the vulnerable components of SCADA software systems based on analysis performed by Secunia Research while verifying the reported vulnerabilities. Additionally, we will provide some recommendations to mitigate exploitation and reduce the attack surface. Read now What Your Cloud Consultant is Trying To Tell You Consultants have been a mainstay of IT departments forever. But in the cloud the commercial language is filled with a new set of euphemisms you need to understand. Here are some to look out for. Read More Managing the Fears That Define the Information Age One big fear is that the volume of information that must be known is growing far faster than organizations' capacity to understand it. Read More Steve Jobs Biographer: CEO Was Brilliant, Prickly, Eccentric Steve Jobs was a brilliant-but-belligerent eccentric who transformed seven different industries, his biographer said in an interview that aired Sunday night on 60 Minutes. Read More
	Hot Picks for the Week 16 Essential Android Apps for IT Pros Up-and-coming IT leaders who have yet to head an IT organization can gain recognition through our Ones to Watch Award. Nominations accepted through October 31. IT Resume Makeover: Before and After Editions What Do Top CIOs Make? Join CIO on Facebook! Images, Stories, RSS, Twitter and more!
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