IDG Contributor Network: Girl Scout move shows Visa at its craftiest
When Visa and Dell this month agreed to invest $3 million in a program to upgrade the e-commerce capabilities of…
Q&A: Why Syncsort introduced the mainframe to Hadoop
When you think of leaders in big data and analytics, you’d be forgiven for not listing Syncsort among them. But…
IT careers: How to get a fair performance review
Ian Raloff still remembers the sting of bad timing that sabotaged one of his performance reviews earlier in his career,…
Xiaomi Redmi 3 astounds for around $100 (but you can’t buy it)
The Xiaomi Redmi 3 release date is tomorrow, but only in China. It’s an incredible Android smartphone for not very…
Finally: Smart glasses that don't look dumb
Smart glasses are coming to a face near you. Negative Nancy naysayers in the tech press thoroughly stigmatized Google Glass…
Because why would we want users to trust IT?
IT pilot fish gets an email from a user who’s getting a “disk quota exceeded” error message from the network-attached…
Taxpayer demand for human help soars, despite IRS automation
In the past decade, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has invested heavily in online self-service technology, including programs such as…
Sample password protection policy
This password policy from a large financial services institution with more than 5,000 employees covers standards for creation of strong…
Malware wasn't sole cause of Ukraine power station outage
A new study of a cyberattack last month against Ukrainian power companies suggests malware didn’t directly cause the outages that…
Lenovo open to making a HoloLens competitor
Microsoft’s HoloLens hasn’t even hit the market yet, but the idea of Lenovo bringing out a virtual-reality headset competitor is…