CIO Insight Staff

Nortel Networks April 4 has agreed to sell its remaining 6,000 wireless, networking, and other patents to patent-poor Google for $900 million in cash. Google craves the patents, which Nortel said spans "nearly every aspect of telecommunications and additional markets as well, including Internet search and social networking," to stave off increasingly rampant patent litigation. […]

Consumer Reports may have longstanding issues with the iPhone 4, but its editors have decided to give a big thumbs-up to the new iPad 2. The publication tested 10 tablets, including the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab, before deciding that the 32GB iPad 2 with WiFi and 3G ranked highest across 17 criteria ranging […]

Cyber-criminals shifted focus in 2010 to launch more sophisticated targeted attacks, IBM said in a new report. In short, 2010 was the year cyber-attacks became more about quality rather than quantity. While there was an increase in new vulnerabilities, exploits and types of attacks in 2010, more vulnerabilities were being identified before they could be […]

Tablets powered by Intel’s upcoming “Oak Trail” Atom processor reportedly should start hitting the market in May. In an interview with PC Advisor, an Intel spokesperson said the Atom-powered tablets will start becoming available around the time of the Computex trade show in Taiwan, which runs May 31 through June 4. "Oak Trail tablets are […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser garnered 11.5 percent market share through March, gaining at the expense of Microsoft Internet Explorer. IE, far and away the market leader with 15 years of legacy use behind it, commands 55.9 percent share but fell from last month’s tally of 56.77 percent, according to researcher Net Applications. Mozilla Firefox share […]

Rumors that circulated recently about EMC buying another data security-related company turned out to be true after all. The storage and data security giant announced April 4 that it has acquired Virginia-based NetWitness, a provider of network security monitoring and analysis software, and had closed the deal on April 1. Terms of the transaction were […]

Microsoft’s next version of Windows could include a version of the ribbon interface already present in later versions of Office, according to an early build of the operating system, which two prominent bloggers supposedly previewed. Their postings also include images from that build, including a lock screen whose elements suggest Microsoft is taking a page […]

Google’s Android operating system will rise to command 45 percent of smartphone market share worldwide by 2016, ABI Research said March 31. The market researcher, which said Android accounted for 69 million of the 302 million smartphones shipped in 2010, said the phasing out of Nokia’s Symbian OS over the next two years would leave […]

IBM announced that the Gartner research firm has once again named IBM the worldwide market share leader in the application infrastructure and middleware software segment based on total worldwide revenue for 2010. According to Gartner’s latest middleware report, IBM was the leading software vendor in 2010 with a 32.6 percent market share, extending its lead […]

Hewlett-Packard is opening a facility that will act as a testing ground for efficient and sustainable data center technologies. Unveiled March 30, the site in Fort Collins, Colo., will serve multiple purposes, including being used as a data center for internal applications run by HP as well as a test-bed for green data center operations. […]

HP has released its new webOS 3.0 software development kit, which takes advantage of new features on the recently released HP TouchPad tablet and supports the next generation of devices. In a March 30 blog post, Sean Lindo, marketing manager for developer communications in HP’s Palm business unit, said the Feb. 9 release of the […]

Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission, insisting that arch-rival Google’s competitive practices unfairly dominate the European search market. “We’re concerned by a broadening pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s senior vice president and general counsel, wrote in a March 30 statement […]