Hylelites 

We’re three days into the new business year and like many of you I’m still trying to dig my way out of the stack of work I let pile up during my time off for the holidays....

It’s difficult to throw away a comfortable pair of jeans or a favorite sweatshirt. We grow attached to things and they become part of our identity. But sometimes we have to move on....

It’s always a pleasure when you ask someone a question and you get a direct answer instead of hemming and hawing....

IDG recently released its Top Tech Quotes of 2010. A video of the quotes includes words from such deep thinkers as Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, and Lady Gaga....

If ever there was a career in the insurance industry that you thought would never disappear it had to be that of an underwriter. ...

Insurers are like a lot of businesses in this crazy, information-rich world of the 21st century. They are competing for a spot in the hearts and minds of customers and potential customers. ...

Facebook is all the rage, so it shouldn’t come as much of a shock that the company suffered a security breach earlier this week....

Is the cloud phasing out IT departments and, in turn, the CIO? For some of you that is truly a scary tale, but it’s not necessarily a Halloween trick....

With all the great minds in corporate IT departments, you would think that innovation would be driven from the business world to consumers, but that’s hardly the case. ...

A few tough years can make us all wish for a return to normal, or, as President Warren G. Harding called it 90 years ago, a “return to normalcy.” ...

If ever there was a business/technology that companies needed to reclaim some control over it’s social media....

I hate to cherry-pick another guy’s blog (OK, that’s not exactly true, low-hanging fruit is often delicious), but I was intrigued by Celent's Mike Fitzgerald’s blog post on a new service called Social Intelligence, which monitors social networking sites. ...

Is your company getting the most out of the technology tools that are available in the enterprise?...

I spoke on a Web seminar earlier this week for ACORD and LOMA. The other panelists and I discussed matters such as social networking, cloud computing, and predictive analytics. ...

There was an interesting tidbit for technology people hidden in Accenture’s recent insurance consumer fraud survey....