CIO Insight Staff

In an annual report called IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks 2011/2012, Computer Economics, an IT research and advisory firm, reveals that 61 percent of health care organizations are increasing IT staff head counts in 2011. Computer Economics conducts the study to give key metrics to IT managers to help them with organizing finance and strategy. […]

Hewlett-Packard’s shocking one-two punch — that it would discontinue making its webOS mobile devices, and look to shed its PC business — is the sort of thing that business schools will be analyzing for years to come. Certainly HP’s decision to embrace software and services, and abandon a sizable but relatively low-margin PC business, is […]

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry-branded Playbook has won the tablet wars. Actually, no, that statement probably deserves a little bit of adjustment: RIM s 7-inch tablet hasn’t exactly put a dent in the iPad’s blockbuster sales run, but nonetheless it s one of the few touch-screen devices on the market to actually survive the Apple juggernaut […]

Amid all of Hewlett-Packard’s talk Aug. 18 of spinning off the PC business and getting rid of the webOS-based smartphones and tablets, company executives also mentioned another issue they’re trying to address: the negative impact Oracle’s decision to no longer support Intel’s Itanium platform is having on HP’s high-end server sales. According to HP officials, […]

IBM researchers have created prototype computing chips that mirror the human brain, enabling them to not only collect and analyze information, but essentially learn from their mistakes, understand the data they’re seeing and react accordingly. The "cognitive computing" chips are able to recognize patterns and make predictions based on data, learn through experiences, find correlations […]

Aug. 18, 2011 may well turn out to be a pivotal day in the 72-year history of Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest IT provider. The day boiled down to simple subtraction and addition and not just in reference to the 2011 third-quarter financial report it delivered, which was the most dire one in recent years. […]

Another defense contractor s network and data has apparently fallen to the combined skills of hackers attacking Websites under the "AntiSec" banner. Members of hacktivist collective Anonymous have reportedly breached servers belonging to defense contractor Vanguard Defense Industries as part of the movement to steal and publicize documents from government agencies, according to a report […]

When Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors selected former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as its new leader to replace Mark Hurd in September 2010, they knew exactly what they were doing; they hand-picked a career software veteran to transform their longtime hardware maker into a software and services company for the 21st century. They have moved aggressively […]

T-Mobile’s 4G-capable BlackBerry Bold 9900 will make its store-shelf debut Aug. 31, with the carrier offering preorders for its business customers Aug. 17. T-Mobile recently expanded its 4G network to Atlantic City, N.J., and Florence, Ala., for a total of 194 markets across the United States. In theory, the network is capable of 21M bps […]

Security researchers are buzzing about the flaws in the Secure Sockets Layer system and the fact that a significant portion of the Internet is vulnerable to attack. At the recent Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, there were several reports and panels addressing various issues. Based on the PKI (public key infrastructure), the SSL […]

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 and Google’d Android OS will emerge as the only real alternatives to Apple’s dominant iPad in the tablet market, according to Dell CEO Michael Dell. Speaking to analysts and journalists Aug. 16 in a conference call to announce the company’s second-quarter financial numbers, Dell said that Google’s Android platform will benefit […]