CIO Insight Staff

A report from environmental watchdog Greenpeace found that although Apple has become increasingly transparent about the environmental footprint and operational performance of its products, especially laptops and iPhones, it has not been as forthcoming about the current or expected impacts of its online products. Its research revealed that while many IT companies have pointed to […]

An outage at an Amazon Web Services has caused service disruptions across the Internet at popular sites, such as Reddit, Quora and Hootsuite, that rely on AWS for their hosting services. According to the AWS Status Health Dashboard, an Amazon data center in Northern Virginia took a hit around 1:41 a.m. PDT on April 21, […]

A new survey of more than 6,800 online U.S. adults aged 18 or older revealed that although a vast majority of respondents (89.4 percent) incorporate some level of greenness into their daily lives, there is an undercurrent of doubt when it comes to green advertising claims and product efficacy. Burst Media, a provider of targeted […]

More than half of Web applications have some kind of serious security flaw after development, according to a research report, suggesting that software developers need to improve their security coding skills. About 58 percent of Web applications generally fail a security audit the first time around, according to Veracode’s State of Software Security report, released […]

The Ponemon Institute surveyed 275 European organizations in its latest lost laptop report to determine the economic consequences of having a laptop lost or stolen. Participating organizations lost more than 72,000 laptops during a 12-month period for a total economic impact of $1.79 billion, according to the “The Billion Euro Lost Laptop Problem” report, released […]

IBM has announced that it will provide support for blade servers running Windows on IBM zEnterprise mainframes as early as the end of 2011. In an April 12 announcement to its EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) hardware clients, IBM said it would support System x blades running Windows on zEnterprise systems in the fourth […]

Earnings reports from storage and data protection giant EMC may be getting somewhat repetitive each quarter, but they are certainly not ho-hum for EMC management, employees and shareholders. The Hopkinton, Mass.-based corporation on April 20 again reported revenue that exceeded Wall Street projections to go with healthy profit margins, as it has for a string […]

Apple reported strong sales for the fiscal 2011 second quarter ended March 26, with revenues of $24.67 billion and net profit of $5.99 billion. That represents a significant rise from the year-ago quarter, when the company logged revenues of $13.50 billion and quarterly profit of $3.07 billion. Apple reported sales of 3.76 million Macs, a […]

Apple COO Tim Cook used his company’s April 20 earnings call to shed a little light on the company’s upcoming legal battle against Samsung, and offered a brief update on CEO Steve Jobs, who is officially absent on medical leave. “We do see him on a regular basis,” he said, referring to Jobs. “He continues […]

Despite a challenging first quarter and weakening consumer demand, strong business spending and emerging markets are driving demand for Intel’s traditional businesses. Company executives are expecting the momentum to continue for the rest of 2011 as the company strengthens its presence in the mobile device segment. During an April 19 conference call with analysts and […]

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new memoir, “Idea Man,” is more than an account of the company’s early days, or even a colorful portrayal of the executives–including Bill Gates and current CEO Steve Ballmer–who turned a tiny software startup into a tech-world behemoth: It’s also full of advice for Microsoft as it battles Google and Apple […]

With Apple’s patent-infringement case against HTC underway in an International Trade Commission (ITC) court, the iPhone maker has filed a new legal claim against smartphone and tablet rival Samsung, the Wall Street Journal reported April 18. In a 38-page suit filed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, Apple alleges that the look, packaging […]