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CIO Insight is pleased to introduce the first installment of our new weekly feature highlighting IT project activities across Fortune 5000 companies in the U.S. This feature will cover such news as technology deployments, software implementations, and IT department changes across Fortune 5000 companies in the U.S. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to […]

Seventy-one percent of small to medium-size businesses are "mobile businesses" adopting wireless technology to allow their employees to work effectively outside of the office, according to a study conducted by The Business Journals, which also revealed the business habits of the rising number of SMB mobile professionals — those who work outside of the office […]

Apple reported significant growth in iPad and iPhone sales for the fiscal 2011 third quarter, on its way to quarterly revenues of $28.57 billion and net profit of $7.31 billion. In all, Apple sold 20.34 million iPhones during the quarter, a year-over-year increase of 142 percent. It also sold 9.25 million iPads, good for a […]

The FBI has apparently searched several homes across the country as part of a broader investigation into the hacker group Anonymous and arrested several suspected members. According to The Wall Street Journal, the FBI was seeking out individuals in their late teens and early 20s. Fox News reported that 30 to 40 search warrants had […]

Apple scored a victory in its intellectual-property battle against manufacturer HTC, with the U.S. International Trade Commission ruling the latter violated two of Apple s patents. The ITC’s July 15 ruling is preliminary, and could still be reversed by the full commission. Nonetheless, HTC’s statements following the decision suggest the company is digging in for […]

Microsoft already owns a minority stake in Facebook. That’s paid some dividends for Redmond, mostly in the form of new social-networking features for Bing and a new channel for its recently acquired Skype. But investment in Facebook aside, will Microsoft consider building a social network of its very own? That was an idea floating around […]

IBM continued on its growth course, with hardware and software gains pushing revenue up 12 percent and net income up 8 percent for the second quarter of 2011. IBM reported revenue of $26.7 billion for the quarter, up from $23.7 billion in the same quarter last year. Net income in the latest period rose to […]

Cisco Systems executives will cut 6,500 jobs starting in August as part of their efforts to reorganize and streamline the company after several quarters of disappointing financial numbers. The networking giant announced July 18 that about 9 percent of the company’s 73,000 employees will lose their jobs, with about 2,100 leaving via a voluntary early […]

For quite some time now, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his executives have been touting an "all in" strategy regarding the cloud. That strategy predicts a gradual transition from desktop-based software to online subscription services, with businesses eventually paying a set amount per month to store their data and launch applications from Microsoft’s servers. In […]

Cloud technology can be harnessed to make it less profitable — or at least less lucrative — to develop and distribute run-of-the-mill malware, Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, told eWEEK. If developers are forced to add sophisticated features to develop malware that can’t be easily thwarted, it also raises the bar on […]

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has a bone to pick with AT&T’s proposed T-Mobile acquisition. "This is just a bridge too far," Hesse told eWEEK after a June 16 speech at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business as part of a CTO Forum. "A takeover of T-Mobile by AT&T would be absolutely disastrous for consumers and […]

We’re pleased to introduce the first installment of our new weekly feature highlighting CIOs on the move. This feature will cover CIOs changing jobs across Fortune 5000 companies in the U.S. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg. DiscoverOrg provides a constantly updated database of IT org […]