Insurers can expect fierce battles to attract new policyholders and retain their own best customers in 2011.

Regulatory compliance is next in line for Congress. Until Congress acts, insurers watch, wait, and envision what change will mean.

It's difficult to throw away a comfortable pair of jeans or a favorite sweatshirt. We grow attached to things and they become part of our identity. But sometimes we have to move on.

It's always a pleasure when you ask someone a question and you get a direct answer instead of hemming and hawing.

IDG recently released its Top Tech Quotes of 2010. A video of the quotes includes words from such deep thinkers as Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, and Lady Gaga.

With all the great minds in corporate IT departments, you would think innovation would be driven from the business world to consumers, but that hardly seems the case these days.

Ease of doing business has become almost a clich? in the insurance world, but in the case of property/casualty carrier Fremont Insurance, it proved to be an important factor in the carrier's unprecedented success.

With all the great minds in corporate IT departments, you would think innovation would be driven from the business world to consumers, but that hardly seems the case these days.