http://www.cioinsight.com Features - RSS Feeds en-us Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:42:04 -0400 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:42:04 -0400 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:13:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/The-Connected-CIO/?kc=rss - Move over, college kids and awkward adolescents: About half of CIOs and other IT executives use social networking Web sites too. LinkedIn, a site geared to adults seeking to build a network of professional contacts, is the clear first choice. But MySpace and Facebook also are used by about 20 p...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/The-Connected-CIO/?kc=rss Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:58:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Google-Stays-in-the-Social-Networking-Game/?kc=rss - Almost everything Google touches turns to gold, but its social networking efforts have lacked that magic touch. As business interest in social nets grows, that leaves a sizable gap in Google's offerings. In early October, Microsoft dealt a blow to the search giant's efforts, winning a stake in f...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Google-Stays-in-the-Social-Networking-Game/?kc=rss Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:39:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Three-Experts-Tips-for-Hiring-Retaining-IT-Staffs/?kc=rss - When it comes to hiring and retaining IT staffs, the future doesn't look so bright. The Baby Boomers are getting ready to retire, the number of college students entering computer science has dropped 50 percent in the last five years, according to the Computer Research Association, and the need for...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Three-Experts-Tips-for-Hiring-Retaining-IT-Staffs/?kc=rss Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:21:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Citing-Business-Growth-CIOs-to-Hire-in-Q4/?kc=rss - Thirteen percent of CIOs plan to increase their IT staff in the fourth quarter of 2006, according to a survey released Sept. 20 by Robert Half Technology, a provider of IT professional services. Three percent of CIOs anticipate cutbacks, giving a net 10 percent hiring increase in Q4, as forecast ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Citing-Business-Growth-CIOs-to-Hire-in-Q4/?kc=rss Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:59:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Field-Report-Security-in-the-World-of-Web-20/?kc=rss - If you haven't heard the hype around Web 2.0, you've been living under a rock. Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web. There are more than 52 million blogs. And the research firm Gartner Inc. recently added Web 2.0 to its ubiquitous emerging technologies hype cycle, predicting widesp...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Field-Report-Security-in-the-World-of-Web-20/?kc=rss Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:52:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/10-Programming-Languages-IT-Pros-Should-Learn-Right-Now/?kc=rss - Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable as long as the languages are. Yet, there is beauty in numbers. While there may be developers who have had riches heaped on them by knowing the right programming langu...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/10-Programming-Languages-IT-Pros-Should-Learn-Right-Now/?kc=rss Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:41:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Security-The-Trouble-With-WiFi/?kc=rss - Bob Egan worries about WiFi. And he wonders why no one is listening to him. Egan, the author of a WiFi security report and director of emerging technologies at Boston-based analyst firm TowerGroup, says that WiFi security is a problem that just won't seem to go away, despite years of media coverag...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/Security-The-Trouble-With-WiFi/?kc=rss Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:28:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/IT-Wrestles-with-Microsoft-Monoculture-Myopia/?kc=rss - When Microsoft announced in March 2006 that it would add code-scrambling diversity to make Windows Vista more resilient to virus and worm attacks, you could almost visualize a wry smile from Dan Geer. Geer, a computer security guru with a doctorate in biostatistics from Harvard University, lost...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Features/IT-Wrestles-with-Microsoft-Monoculture-Myopia/?kc=rss