InfoWorld
Encyclopedia
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). 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.
in late 1979. Early the next year the name was changed to InfoWorld and in 1986 the Robert X. Cringely
column began.
Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe was CEO and publisher from 1991 to 1996, and contributed a weekly column until 2000. As the magazine transitioned to be exclusively Web-based, a final print edition was dated April 2, 2007 (Volume 29, Issue 14). In its Web incarnation, InfoWorld has refocused away from widely available news stories to a focus on how-to, expert testing, and thought leadership. InfoWorld also offers its content for mobile devices.
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG
IDG
International Data Group is a technology media, research, event management, and venture capital organization.IDG evolved from International Data Corporation which was formed in 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by Patrick Joseph McGovern and a friend, Fred Kirch...
(International Data Group). 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
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
, but utilizes newsgathering assets worldwide.
History
The magazine was founded in 1978 as Intelligent Machines Journal by Jim Warren and sold to IDGIDG
International Data Group is a technology media, research, event management, and venture capital organization.IDG evolved from International Data Corporation which was formed in 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by Patrick Joseph McGovern and a friend, Fred Kirch...
in late 1979. Early the next year the name was changed to InfoWorld and in 1986 the Robert X. Cringely
Robert X. Cringely
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 weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG.- Biography :...
column began.
Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe was CEO and publisher from 1991 to 1996, and contributed a weekly column until 2000. As the magazine transitioned to be exclusively Web-based, a final print edition was dated April 2, 2007 (Volume 29, Issue 14). In its Web incarnation, InfoWorld has refocused away from widely available news stories to a focus on how-to, expert testing, and thought leadership. InfoWorld also offers its content for mobile devices.