Takeover target AFTER I SUGGESTED TO Amber that we “do our own thing” on some of the days during our vacation to Hawaii, she got angry enough to bark at me “OK, let’s take separate flights back home.” Takeover target…

Since technology fails, it’s critical to have a team that can improvise on-the-spot solutions THE ROLE OF the CTO is as much business as it is technology, so I make sure to pay attention to the business press as much…

Lessons in leadership from Sept. 11th: managing in a crisis is easy, it’s the aftermath that takes work “THE SALARY OF the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the…

Knowledge management, data sharing become critical as companies strive to make information always available EFFORTS TO strengthen knowledge management and information sharing have accelerated since Sept. 11, according to Gary Bird, corporate vice president of the digitization group at Honeywell,…

RFID technology is helping track travelers, but what’s next, under-the-skin implants at birth? WHAT IF WHEN you were born, a nanosize RFID (Radio Frequency ID) tag was implanted under your skin to tell the airlines, the passport office, the hospital,…

In the year since Sept. 11, government CTOs have been put to the task — cutting red tape to reinvent fed systems and the definition of a secure enterprise IN THE YEAR SINCE Sept. 11, the federal government has launched…

iGate’s key-based approach to security works well — in theory THE CONCEPT BEHIND the NetSwift iGate is a good one: Provide an appliance with SSL acceleration and security that resides in front of your Web servers. That way, you can…

Developers say that software bugs are hard to eradicate, and it’s often difficult to say who is responsible for them anyway YOU’VE ENCOUNTERED A bug, but where does the responsibility for it lie? Software developers say that’s a question that…