CIO Insight Staff

Apple has introduced new iMac all-in-one desktops, months ahead of their predecessors reaching their first birthdays. The newest iMacs feature next-generation quad-core processors from Intel, discrete graphics from Advanced Micro Devices, the high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology Apple debuted in February on its newest MacBook Pro notebooks, and a new FaceTime HD camera. According to Apple, […]

Cyber-criminals have seized on the killing of Osama bin Laden as a fresh opportunity to push out rogue antivirus products, fake video codecs and Facebook scams using poisoned search links. President Barack Obama announced the success of a Navy Seals operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in a $1 million mansion hideout located 60 miles […]

Microsoft’s quarterly numbers may rival the GDP of a small nation, but some numbers for the most recent quarter have analysts suggesting the company needs to expand beyond the traditional lines of business that fuel so much of its bottom line. Microsoft’s third-quarter revenue hit $16.43 billion, a year-over-year increase of 13 percent. Net income […]

Microsoft may be experiencing some additional issues with its Windows Phone 7 updates. “We’ve temporarily stopped sending updates to [Samsung] Omnia7s,” Michael Stroh, a writer for Microsoft’s Windows team, wrote April 28 in the comments section of The Windows Blog. “The team discovered a technical issue with the update package for this model. The work […]

A list of data breaches by the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reveals that more than 10 million patients have been affected by security lapses in about 260 health care-related incidents reported since 2009. The department began compiling the list on Feb. 22, 2010, when the HITECH […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — IBM teamed up with the Yale School of Management to deliver a new initiative for preparing students with analytics skills for the next generation of jobs. At an April 28 event dubbed a Smarter Education Forum here at the Yale School of Management, IBM and the Yale School of Management Center […]

Will the white iPhone 4 boost Apple’s share of the smartphone market? According to new research by NPD Group, Apple is managing to hold its own against the growing army of Google Android smartphones without the help of a new device–or at least, a new device color–on the market. On the basis of first-quarter smartphone […]

New fake antivirus scareware pop up with amazing regularity, but some researchers encountered an intriguing variant that indicates scammers may begin targeting mobile platforms. A rogue antivirus masquerading as a Kaspersky Lab antivirus scanner has been spotted on mobile devices, Dinesh Venkatesan, an anti-malware researcher, posted on the CA Security Advisor Research Blog on April […]

Led by the Apple iPad, worldwide PC shipments increased 7 percent during the first quarter, according to research firm Canalys, which includes tablets in its counts of PC sales, rather than listing them separately. PC shipments during the quarter totaled 88.6 million units, up from 82.8 million a year ago, while tablet shipments reach 6.4 […]

After months of delays and speculation, Apple officially announced the white iPhone 4 will arrive on store shelves April 28. Both Verizon and AT&T will offer the smartphone in the United States. “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, wrote in an […]

Cisco Systems, which has seen its networking business come under increasing pressure in recent months from rivals, such as Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks, is hitting back with a marketing campaign that touts its broad product portfolio as significantly better than “good enough.” Cisco kicked off the campaign April 25 with the release of a press […]