"Just as parks have benches and trees, community wireless is a community benefit," according to a nonprofit Wi-Fi provider in New York City. "Wi-Fi has become an amenity that's almost a necessity for the business traveler," says one ASU professor. Another professor at the W. P.

Cultural compatibility, along with quality software engineering and support, made India-based Tata Consultancy Services a $2.24 billion software outsourcing company with a tight grip on the Western market.

There may actually be a useful purpose for those annoying song lyrics that get stuck in your head. Easy-to-remember phrases could be the basis of a much more secure method of protecting computer information and accounts. They can be used as pass phrases.

Businesses large and small are becoming familiar with SaaS (software as a service) -- most easily defined as software bought and maintained by an outside party which charges business customers to access their applications via the Internet.

 Despite summer session classes, the pace at the university slows a bit between May graduation and the start of the fall semester. But research activity among faculty never really loses momentum. Uday Kulkarni is one example.

Increasingly companies are viewing technology not just as a way to get things done but also as a way to move forward.

Software as a Service is reshaping corporate computing and eventually will become the means by which many small and medium-sized companies acquire and use most of their applications, say Information Systems Professors Julie Smith David and Michael Lee.

A cynic might say that information systems consultants shortchange their clients. They can, for example, promise more than they deliver. Or they can tarry and delay. Or they might ask, on the back end, to bill for "unanticipated" work.

The team from the Department of Information Systems that created decision-support software to help distribute crucial H1N1 vaccine knew that for this project, speed trumped all other protocols.

In this podcast, faculty talk about the distinguishing characteristics of the W. P. Carey School's information systems doctoral program. Unlike many schools, the Department of Information Systems plunges its doctoral students into research right away.