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• Most collaboration apps will be equally available across multiple devices by 2016: Gartner

  Analyst firm notes challenges can arise from piecemeal, poorly-architected implementations.
  

• The department of transformers

  The game has changed and IT has a pivotal role to play in enabling business transformation.

• Only an outsider CEO can help Microsoft

  Microsoft's board of directors must hire a new CEO from outside the company's ranks to follow through on retiring chief executive Steve Ballmer's promise to reinvent the tech giant, analysts said.

• Getting on board

  Only 16 percent of board directors have any IT experience, according to the National Association of Corporate Directors in the US. This is where the CIO must step in to help.

• Deep cyberattacks cause millions in losses for US banks

  At least three U.S. banks have lost millions of dollars after fraudsters gained control of payment applications that control wire transfers.

• Smartphones outsell feature phones for first time in Q2, Gartner says

  Worldwide smartphone sales to end users accounted for nearly 52 per cent of mobile phone sales in the second quarter, surpassing feature phones sales for the first time as a result of growth in Asian countries like China, Gartner said.

• Consumers still reluctant to spend on mobile security, says Gartner

  Consumers are reluctant to buy mobile antivirus software and this could leave security vendors unable to generate revenues from the BYOD trend with an economic headache, Gartner has predicted.

• Government tech budgets stabilise

  Government technology budgets appear to be stabilising or even increasing, according to research firm Gartner.
  

• Nearly 75 percent of government IT budgets flat or increasing, Gartner says

  Almost 75 percent of government IT budgets globally were reported as flat or increasing in 2013, according to a Gartner CIO survey.

• McKinsey beats Google, Facebook for having the toughest interviews

  Job candidates seeking employment at consulting firm McKinsey & Company better prepare themselves -- it ranked as the toughest company to interview at in a recent report, well ahead of big-name technology players like Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

• Are businesses rushing to BYOD too quickly?

  A survey of IT executives and IT pros paints a disturbing picture of BYOD. That picture includes a lack of confidence in compliance with federally mandated regulations, a fear that sensitive data is at risk and uncertainty about the overall effectiveness of BYOD.

• The CIO's next hire: Digital anthropologist

  The digital environment is turning anthropology -- a field associated with the study of remote or ancient tribes, often with scant contact with the outside world -- as the ticket to one of the hottest roles today.

• Gartner to businesses: Get ready for broad deployment of Windows 8.1

  Gartner is giving the thumbs up to Windows 8.1, crediting the operating system refresh with overcoming the major downsides of Windows 8.

• Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012

  The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after "a few historic banner years" of spending growth, due to difficult economic conditions and even confusion over industry buzzwords such as "big data," according to a report from analyst firm Gartner.

• Gartner: 2013 is the year of Big Data

  This year will be the year of larger scale adoption of big data technologies, according to analyst Gartner.