Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 (Network World)

Which technologies must any good IT executive examine in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualization, mashups and social software, Gartner says.

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Fewer CIOs Are Reporting to CEOs, Survey Finds (Baseline)

Far fewer chief information officers are reporting to their chief executives, according to a survey.

Last year, 45% of those responding to a survey by the Society of Information Management said the CIO in their organization reported to their CEO. This year, that number is 31%.

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Social Networks at Work Promise Bottom-Line Results (CIO Insight)

Some companies discourage their employees from using social networks at work, fearing lost productivity and wasted time. But the nation's fourth largest bank is getting ready to roll out one of its own. Wachovia plans to introduce its social networking service to its 110,000 workers by early 2008.

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RIAA Juror: 'We Wanted to Send a Message' (Wired Threat Level)

It took the jury in Capitol Records v. Thomas only five minutes to find that 30-year-old Jammie Thomas had infringed recording industry copyrights on 24 music tracks, according to the first juror to speak out on the verdict.

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Web 2.0 Tops 'Emerging Cyber Threats' (Campus Technology)

The ever-nebulous "Web 2.0" is emerging as one of the five top security risks to watch for both consumers and the enterprise--this according to the inaugural edition of the "GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2008" out of Georgia Tech's Information Security Center. The report, released at the GTISC Security Summit on Emerging Cyber Security Threats and Countermeasures, identifies the key data security threats that are likely to expand and evolve in the coming year.

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Physics of the iPod awarded Nobel Prize (International Herald Tribune)

Two European scientists were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for a discovery that lets computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard disks.

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