ComputerworldMore from ComputerworldGlobal Supply Chain ManagementSolution Promised to Problem of Keeping Personal, Business Data on Employees' SmartphonesLate next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native "hypervisor" software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work.November 28, 2012Global Supply Chain ManagementIt's Taken a Full Year, But Hard-Disk Production Back to Full Strength in ThailandA year after a flooding disaster in Thailand took out a large portion of hard-disk drive production, the industry has fully recovered with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year.October 3, 2012Global Supply Chain ManagementNow, Samsung Accused of Labor Violations in Its Chinese FactoriesA labor rights group has accused Samsung of "illegal and inhumane violations" at its factories in China, reporting cases of excessive overtime and exhausting working conditions, with employees being made to stand for up to 12 hours for a single shift.September 7, 2012Business Strategy AlignmentThe Benefits and Drawbacks of Permitting Employees to Use Their Own Devices at WorkAnthony Perkins wants employees at BNY Mellon to bring their personal smartphones to work and use those instead of company-issued BlackBerries to access business email, applications and data. But not all employees are comfortable with having their personal phones locked down and controlled as tightly as the BlackBerries that Perkins would like to phase out. That's where the notion of containerization comes in.August 31, 2012Business Strategy AlignmentTechnology Enables Mobile Payment to Take OffMobile payment technologies are finally vaulting forward in the U.S. after years of slow advances. The biggest move ahead could occur in September, when Apple is widely expected to embrace a mobile payment scheme with its next-generation iPhone.August 28, 2012All TechnologyDilemma for CIOs: To Adopt Promising Software or Take a Pass on ItA few years ago, when Bill Weeks was CIO at a leasing company, a vendor pitched some software intended to manage leasing throughout Europe. Weeks was skeptical. "We noticed that half the stuff they were showing us was PowerPoint slides and not actual functionality. We decided it wasn't strong enough to run a business on." He and his team decided to pass.August 15, 2012All TechnologySome Nations Not Happy that U.S. Poised to Become Leader in Cloud Computing TechnologyThe U.S. has been shipping application development work offshore for years, but cloud computing may help make America a data center services exporter. Some countries may not like that.August 2, 2012All TechnologyBenefits of Predictive Analytics Being Discovered by More BusinessesThe use of predictive analytics is common in industries such as telecommunications, financial services and retail, says Gareth Herschel, an analyst at Gartner Inc. "But overall it's still a relatively small percentage of organizations that use it - maybe 5 percent." That's changing.June 29, 2012All TechnologyHealth Insurer Benefits from Transformation in Business Intelligence, AnalyticsAbout two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company.May 21, 2012Business Strategy AlignmentBill Would Compel American Companies to Disclose How Many People They Employ Outside U.S.February 6, 2012Previous PagePage 7 of 16Next Page