CIO Insight Staff

IT executives are struggling to protect corporate data and intellectual property as more employees use their personal devices to check work email, read documents and log in to enterprise systems, according to a recent study. Of the 750 IT professionals who took part in the Dell KACE-sponsored survey, 87 percent of the respondents said their […]

At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Sept. 13-16, 2011, in San Francisco, the industry got a good look at how the chip maker plans to push its way into the mobility sector. Most significant was a new alliance with Google, which pledged to optimize future versions of its popular Android operating system for Intel s […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) cloud-based Gmail application commands only 1 percent of email market share in the enterprise, but that’s enough for research firm Gartner to declare that the application has become a credible competitor to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Exchange Online and other Web-based email services Google doesn’t reveal how many Gmail users it has, though experts estimate […]

The arrest of a rogue stock trader at UBS, one of the world s largest and most recognized banks, should serve as a wake-up call to all enterprises that many security threats actually come from inside their organization rather than from outside, according to security experts. London police arrested a rogue trader with the Swiss […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a few moments during his company’s financial analyst meeting to put a brave face on its smartphone efforts.  "It was less than a year ago that we launched the first Windows Phone," he told an audience of media and analysts gathered to hear Microsoft executives run down the company’s financials […]

Cyber-criminals continue to target United States businesses, the country’s financial institutions and government agencies in an ongoing effort to steal money and information. Still, despite the best efforts of local, state and federal law enforcement, these cyber-criminals show no signs of slowing down, according to Congressional testimony by some of the country’s leading cyber-security experts. […]

Could Windows 8 prove the long-elusive iPad killer, at least where business buyers are concerned? That’s the question on the table after Microsoft unveiled details of its next-generation operating system on the first day of its BUILD conference in Anaheim, CA, on Sept. 13. Windows 8 will enter a tablet marketplace crowded with some significant […]

The majority of buzz surrounding Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 has centered on the operating system’s support for tablets. That’s understandable, considering the white-hot tablet market–not to mention the novelty of seeing Microsoft ‘s strategy to conquer that market finally under way. It also means that Windows 8 desktop-centric aspects have taken something of a backseat […]

Led by Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad and machines based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system, the tablet market took off in Q2 2011, according to research firm IDC. Worldwide shipments of tablets totaled 13.6 million units in Q2 2011, soaring 89 percent over the previous quarter. The popular iPad 2 accounted for 9.3 million units shipped, […]

Cisco Systems, which for years owned more than 50 percent of the Internet networking gear market but has lost some 10 percent of that market share in the last few years, never had to position itself as aggressive in the marketplace because it was usually in a comfortable first-place position. Today, the company still is […]

Apple may sell as many as 4.6 million Macs in the third quarter of 2011 thanks to "pent-up demand" for the new MacBook Air and MacBook Minis, as well as the Mac OS X "Lion," which all launched in July, according to new report by Piper Jaffray. Apple could break Mac sales record for the […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Intel executives are continuing to push their mobile computing efforts on multiple fronts, including with a newly announced partnership with Google to optimize the Android operating system for the chip maker’s Atom processor platform. In his opening keynote Sept. 13 at the first day of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel President and CEO Paul […]