David Aponovich

After several years of healthy pay gains, average base salaries for most IT jobs in the U.S. are expected to barely budge or even drop in 2002, according to a salary survey released this month by RHI Consulting. Overall, starting salaries for IT pros are projected to rise an average of 0.1% next year, a […]

Technology has led to countless lifesaving medical advances, such as the mechanical heart, the chip-embedded pacemaker and the CAT scan. Now, technology is catching up to an age-old health care problem — medical errors caused partly by physicians’ poor handwriting. CareGroup Healthcare System Inc., a $1.6 billion, 12,000-employee operator of six hospitals in the Boston […]

The Canadian unit of Italian eyewear maker and distributor Safilo used to be a paper manufacturer’s best friend. Each quarter, its IT department would print reams of sales reports for the 30-person traveling sales team. The reports were stuffed with critical sales information — customer orders, pricing information, delivery status. They were as hefty as […]

The Canadian unit of Italian eyewear maker and distributor Safilo used to be a paper manufacturer’s best friend. Each quarter, its IT department would print reams of sales reports for the 30-person traveling sales team. The reports were stuffed with critical sales information — customer orders, pricing information, delivery status. They were as hefty as […]

The IT department in the city of Oceanside, Calif., used to get blitzed every day with calls from users who forgot their passwords and were locked out of their accounts. With 1,100 municipal employees in about a dozen departments (fire, police, economic development, finance, etc.), dealing with password problems became a costly and time-consuming pursuit. […]

As recently as 1998, Zurich U.S. Insurance, a property-casualty insurance giant based in Schaumberg, Ill., routinely engaged in tedious data gathering exercises that, by today’s Web standards, seem arcane. Every month Zurich would produce for each major corporate client a compact disc of the past month’s claims (workplace injuries, accidents, etc.), then package, stamp, and […]

A report issued this week by the Denver-based Privacy Foundation says more than one in three online workers in the United States have their Internet or e-mail use under “continuous surveillance” by their employers. The report says the monitoring targets 14 million employees in the U.S., meaning more than half of the estimated 27 million […]

Get the feeling that e-mail is tightening its grip on your life? You’re not alone. A new survey from Gartner Inc. finds that e-mail is becoming omnipresent in the lives of business users, who can’t escape from the electronic missives even while on vacation. Gartner, a Stamford, Conn., IT research firm, recently surveyed an unspecified […]

Since its founding in the 1860s, at a time when America was rapidly expanding westward, the Union Pacific Railroad has criss-crossed the country with essentially the same mission — to haul goods and supplies from Point A to B. But virtually all aspects of this old-line company have been transformed by the IT revolution. Nowhere […]

Gartner: Security Spending Will Skyrocket Security, never far from a CIO’s mind, is expected to remain among the highest of priorities over the next decade. But how much will you spend to protect your network in years to come? A lot, if a report this week from tech analyst firm Gartner is any indication. A […]