by Ron Miller

Help Wanted: US CTO

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The US Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra is stepping down. Do you have what it takes to be the country's next chief technology executive. Well, do ya?

Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.

Privacy Clashes with Data Collection Capability in the Cloud

As Google proposed a controversial new privacy policy, the EU proposed radical new data protection rules of its own and both illustrated the growing clash between data collection and privacy in the cloud.

Read my full commentary on the TechTarget View from Above blog.

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 1/27/12

This week we look at how to hire a security genius, the advantages of using HTML5 and how Agile adds more discipline to the development process.

Read my full post including links and commentary on the Ness SPL blog.

Apple's Tainted Profits

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Apple is clearly a great and successful company with products people love, but it needs to use some of its vast profits to ensure workers in other countries, particularly China, work in safe, healthy environments for a living wage.

Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.

Making Programming Fun and Games

Microsoft recently introduced a plug-in for Visual Studio that makes a game of programming by creating a leader board for programmers who generate the most code, but is this sending a message that quantity is better than quality?

Read my full post on the Ness SPL blog.

Mobile Drives Apple's Monster Quarter

As Apple made inroads into China and the enterprise, its mobile devices sold in astonishing numbers, driving it to the most profitable quarter ever for a technology company and challenging my ability to come up with superlatives to describe it.

Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above blog.

IT Needs to be the Company Innovation Engine

IT needs to be the company innovation engine instead of the department where ideas go to die.

Read my full commentary on the Real User Monitoring blog.

As Workers Go Mobile, IT Must Follow

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As your workforce grows increasingly mobile, it's imperative you have a plan in place to bring enterprise content and services to them in a secure way wherever they are.

Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.

If ECMs are where content goes to die, why are we here?

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If as one industry pundit suggested, legacy content management systems are where content goes to die, it begs the question, why aren't content management systems doing a better job at their primary purpose -- making content accessible for reuse, sharing or business process.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

Imagine 9000 Hackers Aimed At Your Web Site

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If you wait until you under a Distributed Denial of Service attack, chances are it's too late, but with groups like Anonymous out there looking to pick fights with big business, you might want to look at ways to stop them before they shut you down.

Read my full post on the Real User Monitoring blog.