Former CIO of the United States Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com

The cloud-evangelizing former U.S. CIO takes a job running emerging markets for Salesforce.com.
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2012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin’ and Security Gets Spendy

Tech prognosticator Mark Anderson is back in New York with his annual predictions for the world of tech in 2012.
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HP Hires New EVP From Boeing, Names New CIO

After a long string of executive defections at HP, CEO Meg Whitman names her first senior hire since taking over in September, and promotes a new CIO from within.
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Steve Jobs Through the Years: Highlights and Clips From the D Conference

Since the inception of the D: All Things Digital conference in 2003, Steve Jobs was a frequent guest onstage, and his appearances make for some of our most popular videos. Here are some favorites.
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Federal CIO Kundra Decamps for Greener Pastures of Harvard

The cloud-crazy CIO of the United States says he’s leaving government to be a fellow at Harvard University. We offer an early appraisal of his two years in the nation’s service.
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Vivek Kundra On Pushing the Federal Government Cloudward

The CIO of the United States oversees the biggest IT budget on the planet. He has a plan to move 78 different government IT projects to cloud-based services and save at least $5 billion within one year. He shared his list with us, and we’re sharing it with you.
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BlackBerry PlayBook: Fail With Consumers, Fail With Enterprise

The challenges facing Research in Motion’s new PlayBook tablet in the enterprise market may not be as daunting as those facing it in the consumer market, but they’re troubling just the same. With few quality core apps, a fragmented app platform (QNX, Adobe Air, HTML5 and Android) and important features that require pairing with a BlackBerry to access, the device would seem to be a non-starter in the consumer market. Which is bad news when consumer preferences are playing an increasingly larger role in enterprise purchasing decisions.

Zynga Hires Former Cisco Exec to be Chief Information Officer

Lots of new Zynga hires recently. In addition to Kara Swisher’s BoomTown report that Zynga has hired Taylor Barada, Yahoo’s recently appointed head of M&A, for an unspecified role, Zynga has now hired former Cisco exec Debra Chrapaty as CIO.

AMD Hires Its New CIO Away From Hewlett-Packard

Intel’s not the only company trying to woo executives away from Hewlett-Packard. Rival AMD just had better luck. Michael Wolf, HP’s VP for Information Technology and former CIO at Freescale, is joining AMD amid its ongoing difficult search for a new CEO.

51 Percent of CIOs Planning Tablet Deployments in 2011

Company-subsidized tablets may outnumber their employee-owned counterparts sooner than expected.

Windows Phone 7: It’s Now or Never

Another Blowout Quarter for Apple

DOJ Rachets Up Microhoo Review

Oracle: IBM, Come Out to Play-ee-ay

VMware Gets a Lift