InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG (International Data Group). Information technology ( IT) as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA is "the study design development implementation support International Data Group ( IDG) is a technology media research and event management organization The InfoWorld web site and executive events provide IT solution information resources in the enterprise IT marketplace as well as opportunities for the enterprise IT community to coalesce and interact to solve business problems, exchange information, and network with other IT professionals.
Among the resources available at the InfoWorld. com web site are the InfoWorld IT Exec-Connect professional networking community, special reports and news articles written by InfoWorld's staff of professional journalists, product reviews and analysis from the InfoWorld Test Center, a large menu of expert blogs, topical email newsletters and RSS feeds, extensive audio and video coverage, and vendor information in the form of white papers, strategy guides, webcasts, and other resources.
InfoWorld Media Group is based in San Francisco and has close ties to Silicon Valley, but utilizes newsgathering assets worldwide to stay on the leading edge of technology media.
History
The magazine was founded in 1978 as Intelligent Machines Journal by Jim Warren and sold to IDG in late 1979. Jim Warren founded and chaired the first Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference, held in 1991 which drew more than a hundred articles of press coverage internationally International Data Group ( IDG) is a technology media research and event management organization Early the next year the name was changed to InfoWorld and in 1986 the Robert X. Cringely column began. Robert X Cringely is the Pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, the one-time [1]
Ethernet inventor, Bob Metcalfe was CEO and publisher from 1991 to 1996 and contributed a weekly column until 2000. Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet As the magazine transitioned to be exclusively web-based, a final print edition was dated April 2, 2007 (Volume 29, Issue 14).
References
- ^ InfoWorld, April 2, 2007, p. 17
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