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IT organizations that fail to gain traction as leaders in business innovation may soon end up as nothing more than legacy ERP system baby sitters. CIOs need to move up the food chain quickly -- or move on.

With the promise of big data (solving the unsolvable problems, informing better decision making, creating new products and services, discovering patterns and acting on them, etc.) on the horizon, what has really changed?  Does this mean that everything we know and do with not-so-big data should be tossed?

Are you are gamer? If the answer is also “yes” to playing first-person shooters, then listen up.  At NoSuchCon, ReVuln, a security firm that sells zero-day vulnerability information to government agencies and other companies, presented “Exploiting Game Engines For Fun & Profit.” Game engines for many first-person shooter video games have critical security flaws offering "thousands of potential attack vectors," that allow for “millions of potential targets” aka FPS players.

Hospital IT pilot fish gets a call from the nursing department: A user's PS/2 keyboard has a bad key, and it needs to be replaced. But when he tries to plug in the new keyboard, he can't.

Trying Google's Glass was a lot more fun than I had expected

The Obama Administration’s war on whistleblowers does not give the government leak police, the Justice Department and FBI, the right to violate the Constitution and silence the press.

When it comes to paying taxes, Apple certainly thinks different, using sketchy tax dodges and phantom offshore companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Competitors like Microsoft have used similar tactics, but not nearly to the extent that does Apple. This is one more example of the way that Apple polishes a shiny public image, but acts in private in a less-than-stellar manner.

The new Google Play Music app packs in plenty of fresh functionality and design. From the big stuff to the smaller details, here are six cool things worth checking out.

Apple remains the world's most valuable brand, but Tim Cook's people will likely be infuriated at the rise of arch-nemesis, Samsung, which has gained 51 percent in brand value across the last year while Google continues to threaten Cupertino's leadership.

When IT teams start talking Infrastructure as a Service, I expect corporate compliance officers hear virtual alarm klaxons, along with the not-so-friendly warning, “Sir, step away from the cloud.” We have been taught that data governed by PCI and the cloud do not mix, but is that really true?