CIO Insight Staff

Research from Techaisle’s SMB Managed Services report indicates that small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. will be spending $7 billion on managed services in 2011 and will continue to grow in double digits for the next several years, an increment of more than a billion dollars each year. The data is based on […]

It’s hard to overestimate the effect that the late Steve Jobs had on the technology industry as a whole, and enterprise technology in particular. The Apple co-founder and former CEO sparked innovations in tablets and smartphones that kicked off the current rush toward mobility that will almost certainly define the space for years to come. […]

Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, according to a new Bloomberg report. Bloomberg drew its news from two people familiar with the matter, who refuted an earlier report from Reuters that the software giant was seriously considering a bid for the Web-portal company. That Reuters report suggested that Yahoo’s market value stands at $18 […]

ExploitHub, which operates a penetration-testing site and is run by NSS Labs, announced a bug-bounty program for researchers to develop exploits for 12 high-value vulnerabilities in Microsoft and Adobe products. The penetration-testing site identified a "dirty dozen" of client-side vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash Player and offered a total of $4,400 for […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system commanded 43.7 percent of U.S. market share through August, gaining almost 2 percentage points from comScore’s last count of 41.8 percent in July, according to the researcher. Android sales could get a boost in the U.S. from sales of the new Samsung Galaxy S II Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" smartphones on […]

In this week’s roundup of the hottest tech projects, we highlight IT activity across 19 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies, including the rollout at Lowe’s of 42,000 iPhones to store employees that will be equipped to process credit and debit card transactions on the retail floor. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight […]

In this week’s installment of CIOs on the Move, we cover executive changes at nine organizations including Bank of America, and Caterpillar. The executive shuffles this week lead to senior IT position openings at Adidas America and mall operator Westfield. This feature covers CIOs changing jobs — and alerts you to job opportunities at organizations […]

According to research from Web-based IT hiring specialist Dice.com, there’s a shortage of talent for a particular skill in every geographic section of the United States and if novices are looking to break into the tech industry, it’s also an accessible entry point. It’s the technology that the site s Managing Director Alice Hill said […]

IBM announced it will acquire Q1 Labs, a data analytics software company, to expand its security and events management capabilities. With advanced analytics from Q1 Labs, IBM can provide customers with correlation capabilities to automatically detect and flag suspicious or abnormal events, IBM said Oct. 4. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and is […]

Apple co-founder and two-time CEO Steve Jobs, recognized around the world as one of the most successful innovators in the history of American business, died Oct. 5 as the result of an eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Jobs and partner Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1977 and in the course of one […]