CIO Insight Staff

As mind-boggling as it seems, it’s only a matter of several years before enterprises will be dealing with exabyte-level data stores. That’s correct: storage of billions of billions of bytes in on-site disks and in the cloud. High-definition video and data cargo from scientific research projects, health care imaging, and oil and gas exploration data […]

Skype, the world’s leading voice over IP service in the process of being acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) for $8.5 billion, has expanded its integration with Facebook. Skype 5.5 Beta version for Windows will now let users send instant messages to their Facebook Chat friends directly from Skype. Skype users will be able to check the […]

While the U.S. Justice Department cleared Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to bid for Nortel Networks’ (NYSE:NT) $6,000-plus patents, last week, no one believed Google would get a shot at that wireless networking treasure trove uncontested. The problem was, the rival bidders had yet to be revealed… until now. Google’s top mobile rival Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), chipmaker Intel […]

When Scott Farnum of McDonald s saw the opportunity to move the fast-food chain s application-development tooling environment to the cloud, he did not hesitate. Farnum, who is global infrastructure lab manager for McDonald s Corp. and is responsible for the company s application-development strategy, saw the cloud as a way to cut costs and […]

Cloud computing will continue to reshape the IT landscape over the next five years as spending on public IT cloud services expands at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.6 percent from $21.5 billion in 2010 to $72.9 billion in 2015. But the impact of cloud services will extend well beyond IT spending, according […]

Adobe Systems announced a new version of its Flash Builder and Flex technology for developers of smartphone and tablet applications. The company’s new Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software enables developers to build applications for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook, as well as Android devices. Support for Android devices was released in April […]

Tablet shipments will outpace those of e-readers by 2012, according to a new analyst report. Research firm In-Stat s survey of 1,000 U.S. respondents found that some 38 percent owned a tablet, versus 26 percent who packed an e-reader. Moreover, it estimated global e-reader shipments at 40 million by 2015, a significant number that will […]

Research in Motion’s (TSE:RIM) Blackberry PlayBook is going to get some competition later this year from an unlikely source. Panasonic Solutions Company, whose focus is on building rugged IT solutions for government and commercial enterprises, said it is building its Android-based Toughbook tablet to sell to enterprises in the fourth quarter of this year. Apple’s […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) June 15 added new features to its Google Sync application geared toward improving the work experiences for corporate iPhone and iPad users. Google released Google Sync in February 2009 to let users synchronize their Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar with their iPhone, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 devices. The tool leverages the Microsoft […]

Two United States senators have introduced a bill that would require companies to explicitly get permission from mobile users before sharing location data with other third-parties. The Location Privacy Protection Act would close loopholes in existing law, Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumental (D-Conn.) said as they introduced the bill on June 15. The […]

The news that U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra is leaving the federal government in mid-August to accept a fellowship at Harvard University leaves many unanswered questions. For starters, where does this leave his initiatives? Kundra, who was named the nation’s first CIO by President Barack Obama in March 2009, had just released a 25-point plan for […]

Rumors of a high-resolution Retina Display for Apple s next iPad, never far from the surface, came roaring back after the blog TechUnwrapped posted screenshots of some extra-large images in iOS 5, the upcoming mobile operating system for Apple mobile devices. “As I was going through the iOS SDK I came across some images in […]