CIO Insight Staff

Oracle, one of the few big IT companies that isn’t marketing some sort of tablet computer, nonetheless moved into the periphery of the genre with its July 6 launch of a new virtual desktop client for iPads. Now available free on the App Store, the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad provides access to […]

As part of its move to smarter computing, IBM is looking at using its breakthrough Watson technology internally to help better equip its salespeople to sell IBM hardware, software and services. At a recent luncheon in New York City to discuss IBM’s Smart Computing strategy, IBM Vice President and CIO Jeanette Horan said IBM is […]

Cyber-attackers hijacked a Fox News Twitter account and posted bogus messages claiming President Obama had been assassinated on Independence Day. A group calling itself the Script Kiddies took over the Twitter account owned by Fox News Politics and posted multiple fake messages for at least six hours on July 4. The attack appears to have […]

In a year dominated by large-scale, high-profile security breaches, computer maker Apple has now found itself a target of hackers. The group Anonymous posted a document online that it claims contains a list of usernames and passwords for one of the company’s servers, although the group also sent out a message on Twitter saying it […]

Mozilla’s Firefox 5 — which arrived a mere three months after Firefox 4 first entered the marketplace — almost immediately raised concerns from large enterprises about Mozilla’s speeded-up pace of browser releases. According to Net Applications, Firefox’s browser market share for June 2011 stood at 21.67 percent, compared to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer at 53.68 percent, […]

Cyber-criminals are turning from large spamming operations to targeted, spear-phishing attacks, according to a report from Cisco Systems. There has been a significant decline in revenues generated from mass spam and phishing campaigns, according to the report from Cisco Security Intelligence Operations. Worldwide revenues from high-volume spamming decreased from $1.1 billion in June 2010 to […]

The new Apple iPad 3 and iPhone 5 are both scheduled for a fall release, according to a new report by Taiwanese publication DigiTimes. With this latest iPad 3 rumor, DigiTimes is running counter to its own April report, which suggested it was unlikely that Apple would release an iPad 3 in 2011. That report […]

Hewlett-Packard has quite a bit riding on the marketplace success of its TouchPad tablet, slated for a July 1 release. The 9.7-inch device not only represents the manufacturer s attempt to carve off a piece of the burgeoning tablet market, but also the debut of the webOS operating system on a form-factor other than a […]

A federal agency responsible for enforcing security rules for banks enhanced its guidelines in response to recent high-profile security breaches at financial institutions and other organizations. Banks must adopt a layered approach to security in order to combat highly sophisticated cyber-attacks, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council said in a supplement released June 28. The […]

Technology giant Dell is going to turn its attention–and a lot of money–to the midmarket, according to its CEO Michael Dell. In remarks made at an analyst conference, Dell said the company would pour $1 billion into acquisitions of midmarket companies in an effort to better serve businesses with up to 5,000 employees. "Acquisitions will […]

Lawmakers are trying to balance business interests with consumer needs as they grapple with online security and privacy. Federal officials appeared to be in broad agreement over the need for data breach laws at the data security and privacy hearing held by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on June 29. The disagreements appeared […]

The proliferation of hackers, natural disasters and unstable market conditions are all significant drivers for small and midsize businesses in the United States to seek backup and storage platforms for their company’s data and email in the cloud. Pressure to reduce costs, improve flexibility and maintain privacy of sensitive data also lures SMBs to invest […]