CIO Insight Staff

Hewlett-Packard may have abandoned its webOS-powered TouchPad, but it remains committed to Windows tablets. The HP Slate 2 Tablet PC, a 1.5-pound touch-screen device running Windows 7, will make its debut later in November for a starting price of $699. The HP Slate 2 Tablet PC uses a 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 processor to power […]

In this edition of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop, we highlight IT activity across 42 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies spanning the final weeks of October. Virtualization, data center openings and closings, major application migrations and even a few Hadoop clusters make their way into the roundup. Alcoa, Department of Homeland Security, Macy’s and TJX Companies […]

IBM is bringing Watson to school. IBM on Oct. 31 conducted a Watson symposium with Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management to highlight the innovation IBM has put into its Watson question-answer computer system and to look at the future of technology in business. The event […]

IT staff and compliance officials don’t see eye-to-eye on cloud security issues and on their organization’s policies, according to a recent report from Ponemon Institute. In a survey of more than 1,000 professionals in the areas of IT, information security, compliance and privacy, there was some disagreement over who was responsible for defining, implementing and […]

Apple will lose its overwhelming dominance of the consumer tablet space within the next three years, according to a prediction from analyst Jack Gold. His research note also predicts that Microsoft will own roughly 10 percent of the consumer tablet market by that 2014-2015 timeframe, beating out Research In Motion’s QNX operating system with less […]

In recent weeks, our roundup of hot tech projects has yielded two notable trends: multiple instances of organizations activating bring-your-own-device policies; and a growing number of companies piloting or deploying iPad, iPhone and even iPod. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg, which provides a constantly updated […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is cutting 800 jobs and closing facilities, a downsizing that will cost the phone maker a total of $31 million as it prepares to be acquired by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). Motorola agreed to be acquired Aug. 15 for $12.5 billion by the search giant, which plans to use the Android OEM’s patents to […]

Numerous case studies and anecdotal evidence tell the tale of Apple’s iPad as a boon for e-commerce and even in some select business markets. Law firm Prosskauer Rose, for example, issued 500 iPad 2s to its attorneys, who use them to send and receive email messages and share contracts with clients. Now evidence of the […]

The Linux Foundation has announced that several leaders in the financial services industry have joined forces to announce OpenMAMA, a new open-source project to deliver a high-performance messaging interface that can speed time to market for new applications. The foundation said Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, EMC, Exegy, Fixnetix, J.P. Morgan and NYSE Technologies will […]

Cyber-attacks have already come close several times to shutting down parts of the country’s critical infrastructure, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary. The number of cyber-attacks on financial systems, transportation and other networks is growing, Secretary Janet Napolitano said at an Oct. 28 event on cyber-security in Washington, D.C. hosted by The […]

IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology have launched a program called One Million Healthy Children to use data modeling to analyze the health information of children suffering from asthma, autism and diabetes.  The goal of 1MHC is to analyze the health data of 1 million children in the state of Georgia, according to IBM. […]

Data use is increasing at a rapid pace as tablets, smartphones and applications saturate wireless space, according to the results of Oracle s  "Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications – Take Two" report, which surveyed more than 3,000 mobile phone consumers worldwide to examine their mobile phone use habits, interest in new mobile technologies […]