CIO Insight Staff

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) stunned the high-tech world Aug. 15 with an offer to buy Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) for $12.5 billion. The company’s largest purchase ever should give the search engine much-needed patent protection. Google agreed to pay $40.00 per share in cash, a premium of 63 percent over Motorola Mobility’s Aug. 12 closing price. Ending regulatory […]

In one of the few bits of Aug. 15 tech news that doesn’t involve the words Google or Motorola, Verizon Wireless is making the BlackBerry Bold 9930 available via its online store, to be followed by an Aug. 25 release in stores. In a bid to appeal to both consumers and the enterprise, Research In […]

IBM, already in the midst of celebrating its 100th anniversary, is about to hit another milestone: Aug. 12 marks the 30th anniversary of the company’s 5150 personal computer, which ushered in the PC era. Now one of the system’s creators is adding his voice to the chorus of people who believe the industry is quickly […]

Aruba Networks detected and contained more than 8,790 security events over the wireless networks it deployed for the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, the company said. The attacks included "670 rogues, 191 AP flood attacks, 489 instances of AP spoofing, 579 instances of IP spoofing, 1,659 ‘Hotspotter’ attacks and 1,799 ‘Block ACK’ […]

Could Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader end up harming Apple’s App Store? That seems to be a favored topic of discussion across the Web today. The Kindle Cloud Reader lets users read Kindle e-books via their Web browser without the need to download and install an application. Amazon launched the HTML5-based platform Aug. 10 for Safari […]

AT&T customers will soon be able to take advantage of a mobile security platform designed to protect the data on their devices in case it ever gets lost or stolen, as well as from malware threats. AT&T has partnered with Juniper Networks to help customers protect their mobile devices against security threats, the telecommunications company […]

The painful and company-wide restructuring and job cuts at Cisco Systems, brought on by several disappointing financial quarters, will prove to be a competitive advantage for the networking giant going forward, according to CEO John Chambers. Speaking to analysts and journalists Aug. 10 while announcing the company s fiscal fourth-quarter financial numbers, Chambers noted that […]

The health care industry will need its IT specialists to support multiple platforms of mobile computing despite the apparent popularity of specific devices such as Apple’s iPad, according to a new report by research firm Frost & Sullivan. The white paper "Mobile Devices and Healthcare: What’s New, What Fits and How Do You Decide?" details […]

In a project to classify more than 60 custom malware families used in advanced persistent threat attacks, a security researcher discovered several of them originated from command and control servers based in "a few networks" in China, namely in Beijing and Shanghai. The attack on RSA Security earlier this yea, when attackers stole information relating […]

According to a recent Evans Data survey, Mac operating systems have surpassed Linux in popularity as a development environment in North America. The recently released Evans Data North American Development survey showed that although Windows remains overwhelmingly the most popular operating system for development with more than 80 percent of developers using it, Linux has […]

Dell and software vendor NextGen Healthcare Information Systems have announced an agreement in which the IT giant will host NextGen’s health care software in the cloud. A division of EHR (electronic health record) vendor Quality Systems, NextGen is a provider of integrated clinical, financial and connectivity software for physician practices, hospitals and dental offices. "Dell […]