Stories by: Kim S. Nash

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H&R Block shifts from PCs to virtualized thin clients 30 July, 2011 03:55:00

H&R Block's (HRB) virtualization project -- a CIO 100 Award winner this year -- is putting thin clients in the tax preparer's thousands of retail stores in an effort to simplify its operating environment and cut expenses. The change should also help it to better compete with chains such as Jackson Hewitt, as well as with independent tax preparers and software-only rivals such as TurboTax and Intuit (INTU).
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How social networking creates a collaboration culture 03 February, 2011 10:14:00

Remember knowledge management? In the 1990s, KM emerged as a way to collect and share expertise across a company. Employees would fill out profiles for a database about their skills and knowledge. Colleagues could query the system to find the best person to help with a project.
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Zappos tries video sharing to boost sales 25 February, 2010 07:15:00

Sometimes you take a chance on technology even when you can't predict hard returns, hoping that an educated experiment will create business opportunities.
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Green IT: CIOs Can Demand Sustainability from Vendors 25 February, 2010 07:00:00

Pamela Rucker doesn't want to spend money with IT vendors that waste water or energy, or that have large carbon footprints. After all, she says, as vice president of IT for environmental services firm PSC, it would be hypocritical to not hold vendors to high standards.
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Sharing Data Securely to Foster Product Development 24 November, 2009 06:49:00

Boston Scientific wants to tear down barriers that prevent product developers from accessing the research that went into its successful medical devices so that they can create new products faster. But making data too easily accessible could open the way to theft of information potentially worth millions or billions of dollars. It's a classic corporate data privacy problem.
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Online shopping: How to get the impulse purchase 22 November, 2007 11:15:06

You see it. You want it. You buy it. That's what e-commerce sites are banking on this holiday shopping season.
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New worm targets unprotected Linux systems 06 April, 2001 10:51:35

Security analysts warned this week that another worm is hunting the Internet for Linux systems left unprotected against several well-publicised vulnerabilities, including one commonly found in Version 7.0 of Red Hat's Linux release.
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Millions of obsolete PCs enter waste stream 10 April, 2000 12:49:10

People make a beeline for websites that offer free computers, but Paul Kirk couldn't give away 800 Pentium PCs late last year.
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Microsoft plans e-commerce bid 23 February, 1999 13:20:22

Microsoft is expected to make a splashy, tie-it-all-together electronic-commerce announcement this week, orchestrated to show big corporate users that its products can handle high-traffic Web sites.