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  Successful companies embrace shadow IT

  Businesses move quickly, and those that make missteps along the way or fail to adapt to the times rarely go unscathed. Consider the fate of the original 12 companies listed in the Dow. While General Electric is still an independent company, most of the others have been acquired by larger companies or have vanished altogether.

  By Quinton Wall, director, technical platform marketing, Salesforce.com | 20 May, 2013 20:33

  Tags: SaaS, rogue IT, Networking, infrastructure management, wall street journal, IT management, cloud computing, Software as a service, internet, cloud apps, consumerization of IT, management, cloud app platforms, cloud app security, Cloud, general electric, shadow IT

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  Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers

  Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier.

  By Matt Hamblen | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Tags: Mobile/Wireless, consumer electronics, Networking, wireless, smartphones, mobile, IT management, consumerization of IT, Blackberry

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  Half of world's companies to embrace BYOD by 2017

  About half of the world's companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Tags: consumerization of IT, Gartner, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), IT careers, IT management

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  Software developer wages fall 2% as workforce expands

  The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers' pay checks declined by nearly 2%.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 16 May, 2013 20:38

  Tags: App Development, IT industry, IT careers, TechAmerica Foundation, careers, IT management, TechAmerica

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  Google CEO on innovation: 'We're at one per cent of what's possible'

  Google CEO Larry Page took the stage today to wrap up a nearly four-hour long keynote that kicked off the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 May, 2013 20:08

  Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Google, Networking, wireless, CIO role, IT Leadership, mobile, IT management, internet

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  The Grill: NFL CIO uses analytics to improve player safety

  Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Tags: National Football League, Networking, CIO role, IT Leadership, IT management, intel, CIO, IT transformation, Blackberry, management

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  IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

  As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Tags: consumerization of IT, dropbox, private cloud, IT management, cloud computing, internet, VMware

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  Immigration reform may spur software robotics

  The Senate immigration bill's H-1B restrictions have clearly upset Indian firms. But sometimes being in a tough spot can prompt new ways of approaching problems. One firm is implementing software robots.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  Tags: Gov't Legislation/Regulation, infosys, Emerging Technologies, regulation, hardware systems, government, IT management, Gov't Legislation, staff management, Yahoo

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  There's an app for that: Avoiding the ugliest business problems

  Kindergarten rules for living well can get you in trouble in the corporate world. Now, there is an app for business complications of the worst type.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 09 May, 2013 10:17

  Tags: LightSquared, Networking, education, training, IT management, industry verticals, mobile apps, Education/Training, management

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  BMC going private could be the right move at the right time

  BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 May, 2013 19:57

  Tags: Bain Capital, CA Technologies, business issues, bmc, IBM, Golden Gate Capital, software, IT management, Hewlett-Packard, Mergers and acquisitions, system management

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