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    Whole New Ball Game

    Ten years ago, as netscape’s IPO kicked off the dot-com boom and Amazon.com and eBay brought E-tailing to Main Street, Major League Baseball (MLB) was doing some innovating of its own. The league introduced a new round of play-offs, dubbed the Division Series, to great acclaim. It also scrapped a...

    By Russ Banham • Sept. 28, 2005
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    The Meaning of Free Speech

    Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, which distributes software that lets people make free calls from their computers to other Skype users anywhere in the world, don’t usually travel to America. Legally, they probably could. But they prefer to avoid that jurisdiction, since th...

    By Economist Staff • Sept. 21, 2005
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    The CFO Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

    Artificial intelligence’s impact on the office of the CFO continues to evolve, and finance chiefs must be aware of the opportunities it will create for growth. 

    By CFO.com staff
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    Autodesk: Bubbling Over

    It’s not every software company that can point to the dot-com bust as a good thing, especially when a good portion of its senior management went down in flames. But that’s the case at Autodesk Inc., the $1.2 billion maker of computer-aided design, modeling, and collaborative software products. Lu...

    By CFO Editorial Staff • Sept. 15, 2005
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    Spreadsheet Heaven

    There’s a certain irony to one of the trends sweeping across the market for business performance management (BPM) tools. The humble spreadsheet — heavily criticized by makers of specialist BPM software — is making a comeback. And intriguingly, it is the BPM vendors themselves who are pushing spre...

    By Justin Wood • Aug. 24, 2005
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    What, Where, and How Much?

    A Chinese proverb holds that to do good work one must first have good tools. Madeleine Fackler readily agrees. “Our whole job in IT is enabling the automation of the business,” says the CIO of LifeScan, a unit of Johnson & Johnson that makes glucose-monitoring systems. “I am responsible for a...

    By John Verity • Aug. 17, 2005
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    Wi-Fi in the Sky

    Modern air travel is a wonderful thing, especially if you like pretzels, endless reruns of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” and thimble-sized bottles of Scotch. Of course, many executives eschew such in-flight fineries, preferring instead to work. But with cell phones banned, Internet access all but im...

    By Esther Shein • Aug. 10, 2005
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    Sensors Working Overtime

    Is that warehouse about to collapse? Is that turbine about to throw a blade? Is that oil well going to explode?All good questions, particularly if you happen to be standing nearby. But for managers at asset-intensive businesses, keeping tabs on heavy machinery and vital infrastructure goes beyond...

    By John Edwards • Aug. 3, 2005
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    Somebody’s Watching You

    In two years, spyware has gone from mere nuisance to serious concern, catching companies so off guard that many executives today still don’t know what exactly spyware is. Think of it as a computer virus that has found a purpose in life. Viruses and worms have long posed a risk to corporate securi...

    By John McPartlin • July 27, 2005
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    Software as a Service

    In what has become a time-honored tradition, IT upstarts delight in branding their more-established competitors as dinosaurs. If you’re a new hardware company, your machines are faster. Networking? Your gear pushes through vastly more data. Software? You don’t even sell software, you sell “soluti...

    By Norm Alster • July 19, 2005
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    Accenture Leads Continuing Offshore Boom

    Consulting and outsourcing company Accenture announced that it plans to hire between 30,000 and 50,000 new employees in China, India, and the Philippines during the next three years so it can increase the amount of software development and other work done offshore, according to published reports....

    By Stephen Taub • July 8, 2005
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    Help Yourself

    Ask engineers to name the great scientific innovations of the past 20 years, and you’ll probably end up with a list like this: 1. Packet switching2. Nanotechnology3. Robots4. 64-bit microprocessors5. Computer-aided design/manufacturingAsk consumers the same question, and the list would probably l...

    By John Edwards • July 6, 2005
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    Brain Gain

    While it’s often asserted that these are quiet times in technology, don’t tell that to your CIO. Particularly at larger companies, the list of initiatives is as long as it is complex. Projects can range from overhauling IT infrastructures to bolstering information security to launching a supply-c...

    By Bob Violino • June 29, 2005
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    Sarbox Surprises

    It wasn’t supposed to be like this, but IT has emerged as an unexpectedly vexing aspect of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. According to a recent CFO IT survey, almost all companies reporting weaknesses or deficiencies under Sarbox have found IT to be at least part of the problem, if not the sole sourc...

    By CFO Editorial Staff • June 22, 2005
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    Old Dogs, New Clicks

    Executives who think that the dot-com collapse, channel conflict, and consumer fears of identity theft have combined to make E-commerce strategy a low priority should think again. Ten years after Amazon.com and eBay made “E-tail” a household word, companies in many industries are taking a second ...

    By Russ Banham • June 22, 2005
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    Red Light/Green Light for Tech Spending

    When Libbie Bock weighs the costs and benefits of technology projects at The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., she gets closer to the process than most of her peers. Bock is chief financial officer of The Hartford’s 2,000 strong information-technology unit — literally a CFO of IT. In that a...

    By Russ Banham • June 8, 2005
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    Version Therapy

    Finance chiefs know the drill well. A salesman for a software vendor, eager to convince a CFO to OK an upgrade to the vendor’s latest release, puts on a full-court press. The calls are endless, the promises grandiose. But the salesman’s arguments are well honed, persuasive. The new software addre...

    By John Edwards • June 7, 2005
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    India Still No. 1 Outsourcing Haven

    Even as more and more countries ramp up as prime outsourcing posts, the current total value of outsourcing to India is estimated at $17.2 billion, or 44 percent of the worldwide total, according to a report from India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom).About 80 per...

    By Stephen Taub • June 3, 2005
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    Power Steering

    A balance of powers, clear accountability, a framework for decision-making: these are some of the fundamental building blocks of good governance. They apply just as much to the boardroom as they do to the halls of Congress, and thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley, companies have spent plenty of time address...

    By Bob Violino • June 1, 2005
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    Offshoring: The VC Made Me Do It

    “What’s your offshoring strategy?”Many early-stage companies are hearing this not from angry constituents bemoaning the loss of jobs overseas, but from venture capitalists whose feeling may be quite the contrary. In fact, it’s one of the first questions that VCs may ask certain companies before t...

    By John P. Mello Jr. • May 25, 2005
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    Bank Data Stolen

    Two new reports of stolen customer and employees data were released this morning, following last week’s reports of an intensifying federal investigation of a hacker break-in at LexisNexis.In one case, former bank employees from Bank of America Corp. and Wachovia Corp. allegedly sold customer acco...

    By Stephen Taub • May 23, 2005
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    VoIP to Go

    As Wi-Fi hotspots blossom around the world, a growing number of people have discovered that they can use their laptops not only to browse the web and read email, but also to make cut-rate phone calls. Perhaps you’ve seen them, poised over their machines in coffee bars, airport lounges, hotel lobb...

    By John Edwards • May 18, 2005
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    New Holes for Hackers

    February 18, 2005, CNET News.com: A version of the Cabir virus has turned up in two Nokia 6600s on display in a California cell phone store, in what is believed to be the first “on-the-ground” sighting of the virus in the United States.In a month filled with front-page stories about breached data...

    By John Goff • May 4, 2005
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    A Passage of Dell Jobs to India

    Underscoring its long-term commitment to offshore outsourcing, computer giant Dell said it would hire 2,000 people in India within a year to perform software development and back-office work, according to the Associated Press. “It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer supp...

    By Stephen Taub • May 2, 2005
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    Most Companies Happy with HR Outsourcing

    Most large companies have embraced human-resources outsourcing, according to a survey by Hewitt Associates of 129 large businesses representing nearly two million employees.Hewitt, which provides outsourcing and consulting services, found that 94 percent of respondents outsource at least one HR f...

    By Stephen Taub • April 20, 2005
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    A Touchy Subject

    With issues of security, identity, and privacy preoccupying government officials, corporate executives, employees, and consumers, it’s hard to imagine a technology more in tune with its times than biometrics. Because it can confirm an individual’s identity through such unique biological features ...

    By Norm Alster • April 20, 2005