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McDonald’s CIO on Why It’s Supporting Apple Pay on Launch Day

In an exclusive interview with CIO.com, McDonald's U.S. CIO talks about why the fast-food giant chose to support Apple's new contactless payment technology out of the gate and how it built on its experience with Google Wallet to help make A

Oct 16, 2014 7 mins

Payment Systems Small and Medium Business iPhone

Medical Device Security Benchmarks Emerging

In recent weeks, the FDA and the Center for Internet Security have released guidance documents on medical device security. While there are no hard and fast recommendations, given the diverse types of devices and environments in which they're use

Oct 15, 2014 3 mins

HIPAA Health and Fitness Software Healthcare Industry

For Advertisers, True YouTube Rivals are Few and Far Between

Online video is a valuable format for advertisers, and YouTube dominates the space. Even with so much money at stake, YouTube's would-be competitors significantly lag behind in the majority of metrics.

Oct 15, 2014 5 mins

Marketing Social Networking Apps Video

12 Tips for Responding to Rising Healthcare IT Security Threats

Healthcare faces a growing breadth and depth of security threats (both intentional and accidental). These 12 steps will help IT leaders prepare for, respond to and perhaps even stay ahead of the latest dangers.

Oct 13, 2014 8 mins

HIPAA Healthcare Industry Privacy

5 Things You Need to Know About VoLTE

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) means better sounding voice calls and the ability to use voice and data at the same time, among other things. Here are five facts you should know about the next-generation wireless network technology.

Oct 10, 2014 3 mins

Carriers Consumer Electronics Wi-Fi

Watson Shows the Power of Intelligent Computing

It was a big week for Watson, which opened a new headquarters in the Big Apple and took center stage at IBM's Think Forum. The type of intelligent computing that Watson provides (or other vendors will soon provide) can improve customer relations

Oct 10, 2014 6 mins

Big Data E-commerce Software Healthcare Industry

GE Says Industrial Internet Is Here

GE will open up its Predix operating system for the industrial Internet in an effort to help companies of any size and in any industry create applications for the industrial Internet.

Oct 9, 2014 4 mins

Cloud Computing Internet Markets

Social Media Still Has Little Marketing Impact in Hollywood

Social media has a long way to go before it's a star in Hollywood. Film studio executives say that even when the most socially savvy stars tweet regularly to promote their latest project, it makes no difference overall.

Oct 9, 2014 5 mins

Marketing Markets Media and Entertainment Industry

Ranking the World’s Least Friendly Markets for U.S. Tech Firms

A new study looks at policies hostile to multinational IT companies and calls on U.S. officials and allied nations to step up trade enforcement and prioritize the tech sector ahead of other industries. Some in the tech industry, though, want the U.S.

Oct 9, 2014 5 mins

Government Technology Industry

Why Windows 10 Isn’t the Big Leap Forward Microsoft Says It Is

Going from Windows 8 to Windows 10 implies that Microsoft has big plans for the new version of its operating system. Given what we've seen so far, this appears to be the case u2013 but is it really enough to justify skipping Windows 9?

Oct 9, 2014 7 mins

Laptops Small and Medium Business Tablet PCs

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