Is the Man Keeping You Down?
The Justice Department is investigating alleged collusion between big tech companies to manipulate the labor market and keep worker salaries down. Dignan pooh-poohs the entire thing, before acknowledging ....
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:06 AM
Monday, June 01, 2009 10:06 AM
Google Plays Offense, Microsoft Defense
by Tony Kontzer If there was any remaining doubt that Google had established itself as Microsoft's Public Enemy No. 1, it's officially gone. The companies' dueling announcements last week -- Microsoft w....
Monday, June 01, 2009 10:06 AM
Editing Is Not Censorship
A reader says our decision to remove several anonymous comments violates the First Amendment and amounts to "censorship." Makes you wonder what they teach in school these days. The First Amendment protec....
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 19:05 PM
A New Way of Reporting on BearingPoint
Two former BearingPoint IT pros have come forward to put their names on comments about the bankrupt consulting firm. So we're off into a new kind of reporting -- done iteratively, and in public. Lyle Bro....
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:05 AM
Readers Support Moderated Comment Policy
Our decision to remove anonymous comments pot-shotting BearingPoint CIO Eric Goldfarb drew praise from some readers. "Everyone has the right to say whatever they want, but they also bear the responsibili....
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:05 AM
Problems and Promise of Staffing in a Recession
by Tony Kontzer One thing CIOs can agree on today: IT recruitment bears no resemblance to any hiring market that's existed in recent years. With so many IT professionals looking for work, IT staffs runnin....
Thursday, May 21, 2009 16:05 PM
Scary Internet Sex Much Worse Than Paper Variety
Craigslist is having a little spat with the State of South Carolina. SC attorney general Henry McMaster singled out the online service for ads pertaining to what some call "adult-oriented" fare. Craigsl....
Thursday, May 21, 2009 15:05 PM
Why We Edited Comments on BearingPoint
We're big fans of free expression here at CIO Insight, and we also thrive in the wide-open culture of the Internet. So why did we take down several comments from this article on BearingPoint CIO Eric Goldf....
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:05 AM
Why the Preceding Blog Post is Wrong About Twitter
Tony Kontzer posts an entertaining and insightful rant about Twitter. The micromessaging service is overexposed, and people do use it for all kinds of silly things. But the Twitter backlash is very sim....
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:05 AM
IT Spending: More Pain Ahead?
"Breaking from other technology chiefs who have recently expressed optimism, Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Mark Hurd warned he hasn't seen the tech industry emerge from its painful slump." So says th....
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:05 AM
Twitter Fatigue
Twitter, shmitter. Yes, I'm a journalist, so I'm on Twitter. Which makes me a Twitterer, or a Tweeter, or a twit--I'm not sure which. I don't use it much, mostly for communicating random thoughts and obser....
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 18:05 PM
What's Cloud Computing's Future?
A heads-up to all the cloud computing enthusiasts out there: I'll be moderating a panel at the May 20 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge. The panel, "Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground," will look ....
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:05 AM
A CIO's Strategy for Recession-Era Staffing
by Tony Kontzer Amid the gloomy reports we all read daily about the state of the economy, it's easy to forget that a big part of a CIO's job is making sure the IT organization is ready to pounce on any op....
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:05 AM
OMG! Madonna Got Swine Flu?
by Ericka Chickowski Symantec released its monthly State of Spam report late last week, and one list within the report particularly caught my eye. Industrious spammers are taking advantage of recent news ....
Monday, May 11, 2009 10:05 AM
Smarter Search with WolframAlpha
UPDATE: How Google will respond to WolframAlpha Coincidental with the release of the new Star Trek movie is the appearance of WolframAlpha, a search engine capable of delivering the sort of answers to com....