CIO Insight Staff

LinkedIn, which opened pricing for its initial public offering at $45 per share May 19, watched its shares more than double on the New York Stock Exchange May 19. As of 3:30 p.m. EST, LinkedIn’ s stock traded at $98.34 a share under the ticker symbol "LNKD." For the IPO, A total of 7.84 million […]

San Francisco has signed a contract to port 23,000 municipal employees’ email to Microsoft’s cloud. The transition to Microsoft Exchange Online will continue over the next year, and involve employees from around 60 departments and agencies. City executives on a May 18 conference call suggested that the initiative would cost $1.2 million per year, which […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Intel, which makes processors for basically anything electronic, is looking at the data center with a new perspective: It’s not just focusing on chips for servers anymore; it’s also making them for every other piece of equipment inside those data centers. This also includes processors for everything from motion-sensor chips and […]

The proliferation of collaboration and social tools designed to increase productivity is actually costing businesses millions of dollars per year in lost productivity, according to a survey of more than 500 employees in U.S. businesses of all sizes conducted by online market research firm uSamp (United Sample) and commissioned by social email software provider harmon.ie. […]

Cyber-criminals may have used malware to steal personal information from the Massachusetts unemployment offices, according to the state agency. As many as 1,500 computers in the Departments of Unemployment Assistance and Career Services were infected with a virus beginning April 20, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development said on May 17. Computers […]

Sophos has enhanced its security portfolio to provide “complete protection” for all endpoints, including mobile devices, desktops and laptops, regardless of where the user is. Sophos unveiled the Sophos Mobile Control, a new mobile-device-management platform that will allow IT departments to securely protect all employee devices, on May 17. The company also updated its SafeGuard […]

Amazon Web Services and SAP AG have partnered to deliver SAP’s enterprise solutions in the cloud. Under the agreement, announced at SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW, being held in Orlando, Fla., May 15-18, AWS and SAP have teamed to certify that a suite of SAP’s enterprise software-other than the ERP suite-will run in production on the AWS […]

It’s an increasingly mobile world. The rise of smartphones and tablets has ushered in an era of “the PC in your pocket,” and each succeeding device seems to cram more and more memory and processing power into a smaller and smaller form-factor. Within this context, what use is the traditional desktop? Placed side-by-side with the […]

Late in 2010, Microsoft sought to position Windows Phone 7 as a consumer device–a smartphone sleek as the Apple iPhone or Google Android. Advertisements emphasized the baked-in Xbox Live and Zune services. Windows Phone 7 had the “Office” Hub, with easy access to the mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint. But that consumer […]

Executives from Facebook, Apple and Google are headed to Washington for a second Senate hearing in as many weeks on the issues of consumer privacy and mobility. The hearing May 19 at 10 a.m. ET, called by Sen. John Rockefeller, D-WV, chairman of the Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance Subcommittee, follows a similar one […]

Customers of Microsoft’s BPOS service last week found themselves cut off from email. On May 10, malformed email traffic sparked a growing message backlog that impacted some customers for up to six to nine hours. The issue occurred again May 12, compounded by a separate but related problem that led to customer delays as long […]