CIO Insight Staff

While the unemployment rate in the United States remains stubbornly high and the population becomes increasingly frustrated with the lack of job opportunities–the month of August saw no gains in the job market and there was a rise in "discouraged workers"–professionals in the IT space fared better, with 13,700 more jobs added in the technical […]

Hewlett-Packard will divide its webOS arm into two separate units that will report to different areas of the company, according to two leaked memos that have made their way onto the Web. HP acquired webOS as part of its takeover of Palm in 2010. The manufacturer originally had big plans for loading the operating system […]

Verizon has announced enhancements to its Universal Identity Services-Healthcare platform to allow for easy but secure access to electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges (HIEs) on mobile devices. Launched in November 2010, UIS is a managed service from Verizon’s Terremark IT services subsidiary. UIS is a software as a service (SaaS) utility that […]

By many accounts, the improvements in technology use by the U.S. government following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have been few, expensive and mostly ineffective. Critics point to airport scanners that travelers hate and that have so far failed to uncover or foil new attacks. “Most of the innovation that has occurred is in protecting […]

In the 10 years since hijackers flew two passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon, federal, state and local governments have struggled to secure transportation systems and physical infrastructure of all kinds from terrorist attacks. However, the damage was done. The attacks ended — […]

Ten years ago, when the 9/11 terrorist attacks hit the eastern United States, storage and security concerns about business data weren’t that different from what we have today. Large enterprises housed their data in mainframes and array clusters, and they had archive tapes carted away to mysterious locations. Midrange businesses also did this but on […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security warned the security community about potential attacks from hacking collective Anonymous over the next few months. The Sept. 2 security bulletin from the DHS National Cyber-Security and Communications Integration Center warned financial services companies to be on the lookout for attackers operating under the Anonymous umbrella to "solicit […]

California has updated its data breach notification law to further define what organizations have to do in case customer data is stolen. The bill, SB-24, updates California’s current data breach notification law by requiring organizations to include in the breach notification letters the specifics of the security incident and advice on steps customers should take. […]

An eight-person jury, supervised by Oakland-based federal Judge Phyllis Hamilton in November 2010, had its wishes overturned Sept. 1 when, upon appeal, Hamilton threw out the jury’s $1.3 billion punishment determination against German software maker SAP for admitted copyright infringement against longtime rival Oracle. Oracle would have banked the largest U.S. copyright infringement award on […]

Microsoft and its manufacturing partners continue to gear up for the release of “Mango,” a wide-ranging update to Windows Phone. As part of that, HTC plans on releasing a pair of Windows Phone devices in October. The first, the Titan, includes a 4.7-inch screen and a front-facing camera. The second, the HTC Radar, encloses its […]

Ahead of September s BUILD conference, Microsoft is taking steps to position its upcoming Windows 8 as a platform meant equally for tablets and traditional PCs. Even before it began offering sanctioned glimpses of Windows 8 earlier this summer, Microsoft touted the operating system s interoperability with tablets. During this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show […]

IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Algorithmics, a financial risk analytics firm, for $387 million. IBM’s move to acquire Algorithmics comes one day after IBM signed an agreement to acquire i2, a provider of intelligence analytics. For its part, Algorithmics is a risk analytics firm with operations in Toronto. Algorithmics’ risk analytics software, […]