Whitman: HP is "too complex and too slow"

Friday, February 24, 2012

Whitman: HP is "too complex and too slow"

Guess who's making money from big data | Mobile app stores to require, disclose privacy policies

Today's InfoWorld Headlines: Wrap Up

Whitman gives HP harsh report card, outlines recovery plan
Hewlett-Packard has underinvested in its business and become "too complex and too slow," President and CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, offering a three-part turnaround plan to get the ailing company back on track. Read More

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Guess who's making money from big data
The $5 billion big data market -- made up of products and services for processing and analyzing sets of data that are too large for traditional database tools and technologies to handle -- is dominated by a few old-school tech titans. For now. Read More

Mobile app stores to require, disclose privacy policies
A new California regulation will affect the global marketplace by making mobile app privacy policies visible to all users who download apps through platforms hosted by Apple, Google, Research In Motion, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. Read More

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White House pushes for new privacy codes of conduct
The U.S. White House will push for online businesses to adopt new privacy codes of conduct, including consumer rights to control what information websites collect about them and a right to see what data is being collected. Read More

CIOs: Your next hire might not be an IT pro
There's a new set of jobs cropping up that fall under the CIO's umbrella but are equal parts accounting, marketing, logistics, sales, etc. You can't compare them to IT pros of the past, and perhaps won't even call them "IT" -- call them what you will, you'll have to deal with them. Read More