CEO Guide to Technology

November 30, 2008

Open-Source Software

As the recession puts pressure on tech spending, many companies are turning to open-source software to handle more IT tasks

November 3, 2008

Refurbished Tech

With credit tight in a rough economy, businesses are offloading equipment while bargain hunters are picking up retooled hardware on the cheap

October 5, 2008

3D Computing

Diverse fields such as medicine, fashion, combat and architecture are adopting 3D computing applications

September 6, 2008

Microblogging

Microblogging lets an airline, for instance, monitor customers' gripes—and tweet back. Is this a creepy trend?

September 5, 2008

Cloud Computing

A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications

August 4, 2008

Disaster Readiness

Many companies are realizing that they can play a crucial role in helping communities recover from natural catastrophes

June 2, 2008

Innovation Prizes

Competitions from the likes of Microsoft and Virgin are sparking innovation and drawing thousands of contestants from around the world

May 5, 2008

Virtual Worlds

Moving beyond Second Life marketing, many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, and recruiting

April 7, 2008

Emerging Outsourcing Hubs

Efforts to send IT work anywhere but Bangalore are taking on added urgency as costs of doing work in India rise and the dollar sinks

March 3, 2008

Widgets

The customizable bits of software on Facebook and other social networking sites are the latest trend in viral marketing. But are widgets here to stay?

July 16, 2007

Consumer Tech at Work

Companies large and small are seeing their proprietary information compromised by employees' personal devices, and they're taking action

May 14, 2007

Green Computing

As a threat to operations and the bottom line, corporate computing's fast-growing power consumption is forcing companies to adopt green energy

November 5, 2007

The Web of the Future

A rising tide of companies are tapping Semantic Web technologies to unearth hard-to-find connections between disparate pieces of online data

March 12, 2007

Wikis

The online tools for building collective info banks are making deeper inroads in corporations and rewriting the rules of collaboration

February 12, 2007

The Virtual Workplace

The benefits include lower costs and greater productivity, but figuring out how to communicate with off-site employees is crucial

January 16, 2007

Viral Video

A growing number of companies turn to online video, and the word of mouth that accompanies it, for everything from advertising to recruiting

December 11, 2006

Outsourcing

Companies are increasingly sending IT work to hubs outside India. They're saving money but facing a whole new raft of challenges

November 5, 2007

Mashups

Corporations from IBM to Google to E*Trade are jumping onboard the trend of mixing and matching software from different sources

November 5, 2007

Location-Aware Technologies

Radio frequency identification, or RFID, has been slow to reshape retailing, but it's finding unexpected uses in health care and beyond

November 5, 2007

Social Networking

Networking technology gives companies a new set of tools for recruiting and customer service—but privacy questions remain

November 5, 2007

Prediction Markets

More corporations are setting up their own markets for economic forecasts, hoping to tap into the wisdom of employees

November 5, 2007

VoIP

Companies are upgrading old phone networks to reduce bills and add features. But cost savings can take time, and IP systems aren't risk-free

November 5, 2007

Web 2.0

What every CEO needs to know about the array of new tools that foster online collaboration—and could revolutionize business