This spring Microsoft Technical Evangelist Randy Guthrie and a colleague helped the 900-odd students in Matthew McCarthy’s Computer Information Systems 105 class build apps and load them into the Windows 8 store.

Marketers are starting to harness location-based mobile technology to send text messages to customers who are nearby their clients’ businesses. These promos are usually designed to spur impulse buys, but businesses that use the one-day coupon could be missing out.

There’s a cloudy forecast ahead for corporate IT shops, and it’s getting cloudier fast. Analysts at Gartner predict that Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or cloud-based computing, will reach a compound annual growth rate of 41 percent through 2016.

Take a quick look at T.J. Wey’s schedule and the first question that comes to mind is “how does she do it?” Top students at ASU are fully engaged, but even by Barrett Honors College standards, T.J. is busy. This spring, T.J.

Graduation season opens up opportunities to spotlight some of the accomplishments of Department of Information Systems faculty and students. Our feature photo, right, is a group of students, with faculty advisor Daniel Mazzola, at the Spring Avnet Tech Games.

Among the many differences between college and career is the simple matter of neatness. In class the questions and answers are usually straight forward, but on the job it’s a different situation.

In another month, graduates will leave campus to try their new skills and knowledge in a changed business environment. W. P.

Opportunism in business relationships, such as those between consultants and clients, goes beyond harmlessly stretching the truth.

People who choose the strenuous route of doctoral studies dig deep into a subject, then often move into the world of academe, where they continue to pursue a line of research and then impart their knowledge to students.

Companies are increasingly looking for the depth of expertise that students acquire in specialty masters programs like the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM). In Part 2 of KnowIT’s tour of the MSIM curriculum we interviewed professors Robert St.