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A roundup of news, reviews and trends for business technology leaders.

Big corporations need to work more closely with start-ups in Tech City and the rest of the UK in order to be innovative and successful, according to a group of experts speaking at a KPMG event this week.

This was supposed to be the year of the iPad's crowning triumph in education--its adoption by and distribution throughout the nation's second-largest school district, Los Angeles. Events haven't quite turned out as planned.

CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data.

Megastorm's ground zero in central Philippines – Tacloban – is launching pad of a new large directory harvest attack.

If you posted selfies on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter this past year, you helped make "selfie" the Oxford Dictionaries' international Word of the Year for 2013

Signs up with Fujitsu for one of the largest ICT contracts in NZ retail

I am constantly astounded at the number of people who cannot answer this question or can only answer it with generalities or anecdotes. They have no or very little objective data, writes Owen McCall.

“Enterprises can’t afford to be slow,” Amazon Web Services leader Andy Jassy told this year's AWS re:Invent conference.

IT, mobile and security experts offer advice on how to minimise the risks associated with third-party apps and services as well as with employees using their mobile devices in the workplace.

At a recent roundtable discussion sponsored by Veeam, CIOs talk about how ICT works across the organisation and with partner agencies to meet the growing demands and expectations of a 24x7, always changing, business environment.

A roundup of news, reviews and trends for business technology leaders.

CIOs are taking a fresh look at impact of wearable electronics on the enterprise.

Martin Catterall returns to New Zealand after 20 years, assumes post in early 2014.

Teleworking is now mainstream, but organisations do not necessarily have structures and policies around it, according to a new trans-Tasman survey.

For years, CIOs raged against stealth technology that could put their company's security - and maybe their authority - at risk. Today, though, IT executives see the world differently and are quick to explain that they should be ambassadors between tech vendors and business users.

The research firm predicts the convergence of IT and marketing as businesses increasingly look to digital promotional strategies.

In a recent CIO Leaders' Luncheon sponsored by Fronde, Rob Fyfe shares pointers for making the leap from CIO to CEO.

Former Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe talks about ways to foster a customer-centric culture - from answering the most difficult customer complaints, to working the night shift to get first-hand account of what is happening in the organisation.

This results in every budget being an IT budget; every company being a technology company; every business becoming a digital leader; and every person becoming a technology company, says Gartner senior vice president Peter Sondergaard.