CIO Insight Staff

Tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform and other operating systems have a better shot at challenging Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad in Europe, but they’re still trailing the incumbent in terms of price and content provisions, according to Forrester Research. The iPad has sold more than 28 million units worldwide since it launched in April 2010. Forrester […]

Live in the United States? Have your eyes on a Nokia smartphone running Symbian? Tough luck. According to reports, the Finnish phone maker is planning to end sales of its Symbian-based smartphones and feature phones in North America, effectively doubling down on its bet that Microsoft’s Windows Phone will reverse its recent market-share declines. As […]

In this week’s installment of CIOs on the Move, we cover executive changes at organizations including AIG, Rogers Communications, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), among others. This feature covers CIOs changing jobs — and alerts you to job opportunities at organizations seeking IT executives — across Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies in the U.S. and […]

As a result of recent high-profile data breaches and various changes in technology, organizations are expected to revise privacy policies by the end of next year, Gartner researchers predict. As cloud computing and location-based services proliferate, organizations are grappling with the privacy implications of having data reside outside corporate control, Gartner said in its latest […]

Apple could challenge Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other PC manufacturers for the balance of 2011, according to a new analyst report. “Within the computing market, we see significant opportunity for Apple to take meaningful share in the second half as the Microsoft / PC ecosystem is relatively stagnant, lacking meaningful new offerings,” Chris Whitmore, an analyst […]

Researchers have long highlighted some of the security issues with the Secure Socket Layer system used to secure Internet communication. One of the issues happens to be one of trust as the SSL Certificate Authorities have been compromised in recent months, a researcher told Black Hat attendees. The attack on certificate authority Comodo in March […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system may be facing lawsuits on multiple fronts, but it’s still the top draw in the U.S., according to comScore. The research firm estimates that 78.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ended in June 2011, up 8 percent from the preceding three-month period. Thanks to […]

The Cloud Security Alliance announced the launch of a new initiative to encourage transparency of security practices within cloud providers. The CSA Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) is a free, publicly accessible registry that documents the security controls provided by various cloud computing offerings, thereby helping users assess the security of cloud providers they […]

Yahoo lost a key thought leader when vice president and chief cloud systems architect, Todd Papaioannou, announced his departure from the company to take a new job as entrepreneur in residence at venture capital firm Battery Ventures, GigaOm reported Aug. 5. Battery Ventures, which has offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., in […]

Multinational financial service provider Citigroup appears to be snake-bitten by security problems, and not just through Web hacking. Eight weeks after a hacker cracked its credit card database, the company’s credit card unit in Japan, Citi Card, reported in a message to its user base Aug. 5 that "certain personal information of about 92,400 customers […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will fund new cyber-security proposals under the new Cyber-Fast Track project, Peiter Zatko, currently a program manager for the agency’s information innovation office, said in his Aug. 4 keynote speech at the Black Hat security conference. The project, originally announced at ShmooCon cyber-security conference back in January, will bridge […]

Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel has been tapped to become the nation’s second Federal CIO. He will replace Vivek Kundra, who accepted a fellowship at Harvard University. VanRoekel worked at Microsoft for 15 years, eventually rising to senior director for the Windows Server and Tools Division. After leaving the company in 2009, he served as […]