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CIO Straight Talk launched in 2010 is an ITSMA Diamond award winning ‘For CIOs, From CIOs’ magazine that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of practical ideas amongst senior IT practitioners on a wide variety of business and technology topics. It is sponsored by HCL Technologies.Special Issue: Hi-Tech
Straight Talk launched in 2010 is an ITSMA Diamond award winning ‘For CIOs, From CIOs’ magazine that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of practical ideas amongst senior IT practitioners on a wide variety of business and technology topics. It is sponsored by HCL Technologies.

Issue 12
Experience-based insights from CIOs and other technology executives at AbbVie, Google Cloud, NXP Semiconductors, WaterNSW, Zoom Video Communications and other forward looking companies.

Mega Businesses
Straight Talk launched in 2010 is an ITSMA Diamond award winning ‘For CIOs, From CIOs’ magazine that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of practical ideas amongst senior IT practitioners on a wide variety of business and technology topics. It is sponsored by HCL Technologies.

Women in Technology - Special issue
Straight Talk launched in 2010 is an ITSMA Diamond award winning ‘For CIOs, From CIOs’ magazine that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of practical ideas amongst senior IT practitioners on a wide variety of business and technology topics. It is sponsored by HCL Technologies.

Issue 11
Experience-based insights from CIOs and other technology executives at BBC, Brinker, UN, Allscripts and other forward looking companies.

Issue 10
Experience-based insights from CISOs, CIOs and other technology executives at Cisco, the Volvo Ocean Race, Adobe, Philips Lighting.

Issue 9
Experience-based insights from CIOs and other technology executives at AT&T, Maersk Group, Estée Lauder Companies, International Monetary Fund and Thomson Reuters.

Issue 8
Strategic Partnerships in the Digital Age: An Experts' Guide to Relationship Management

Issue 07
The Enterprise Digitalized

Anatomy of a Transformation

Enabling a Culture of “Ideapreneurship”

From Culture to Customer

How to Become Agile, Without Making a Mess

Transformation at the Core of Your Business

A History of Digitalization and more....

Issue 6
Cover story on ‘Women, Leadership & IT. Features: Women CXOs of Biogen Idec, AT&T, Southern Companies and Old Mutual Wealth. Also read interviews with CIOs from Boeing, Wolters Kluwer, on topics like business analytics, big data, IT leadership and going digital. A special feature on “A CIO’s First 90 Days,” by expert leaders, Peter High and Michael Watkins.

Issue 5, 2014: “MAKING ENTERPRISE MOBILITY A REALITY”
Cover story on ‘Making Enterprise Mobility a Reality. Features: the CIOs of AARP, UPM, Merck MSD, Chemtura etc. Interviews with CIOs on topics like business/IT collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Innovation etc. CEO of Shhmooze and Cofounder of MIT Sloan in big thinking Section. Spotlight Section on “Tackling Two Big IT Challenges”.

Issue 04 : “7 Things CIOs are doing to Get Ahead
Cover story on ‘7 things CIO are doing to get ahead in the Digital Economy’. Features: the CIOs of DuPont, Norsk Hydro, Fossil, McGraw- Hill etc. Interviews with CIOs and outsourcing advisors on topics like biz/IT collaboration, SAP, cost control, new-age sourcing. Top tech bloggers like Scoble and Halamka, and finally a section dedicated to CMOs and Chief Marketing Technologists.

Issue 03: Big Data A Rare Business
The cover article offers a very different take on Big Data: ‘The unusual business leadership opportunity it presents to CIOs.’ Also features interview with the Bill Inmon, the “Father of Data Warehousing”. Showcases the CIOs of EMI, Xcel Energy, Land O’ Lakes, Lafarge, Avago Tech, and State of New Hampshire. Topics: Big data, cost control, biz transformation, data center consolidation etc.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to install a shortcut in Launcher.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.