CIO Insight Staff

Acer, which over the past couple of years has competed with Dell for the position of the world’s second-largest maker of PCs, is looking for a new president and CEO after Gianfranco Lanci resigned March 31 following a disagreement with the board of directors over the direction of the company. Lanci’s resignation came after a […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– NASA has a simple, one-word answer for those who have ever asked any of the following questions: Does the U.S. government use open-source software in research, testing and production? Does it develop its own software and work within a community in an open-source manner? And does it distribute open-source software back to […]

Google March 29 officially launched Android Market In-app Billing to let developers publish applications that incorporate ways for consumers to purchase goods from within the apps. Previously, developers who submitted apps to the Android Market would take their 70 percent cut of the app sale and perhaps make money from mobile advertising. In-application billing lets […]

Gulf Coast residents who’d filed claims against oil giant British Petroleum in the wake of last year’s oil spill have another thing to worry about: their private information has been lost and possibly exposed. A BP employee on a business trip misplaced a laptop containing private information of about 13,000 individuals, the oil company said […]

A Dell executive is attracting a massive amount of attention for suggesting the Apple iPad will eventually bomb in the enterprise. “Apple is great if you’ve got a lot of money and live on an island,” Andy Lark, who leads the global marketing efforts for Dell’s Large Enterprise Group, told CIO Australia in a March […]

Sprint has come out publically against AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. Verizon Wireless is the nation’s largest carrier, followed by AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. If AT&T gets regulatory clearance to purchase the number-four player, it "would reverse nearly three decades of actions by the U.S. government and the courts that modernized and opened […]

Cisco Systems is looking to bolster its cloud computing services offering by acquiring privately held newScale, a company that offers software that enables businesses to more efficiently provision resources across their IT environments. Cisco announced the deal March 29. No financial details were disclosed. NewScale, which company officials said has about 2 million users worldwide, […]

Cyber-criminals are increasingly targeting intellectual property and trade secrets, according to a new research report from McAfee. Cyber-criminals are making money stealing trade secrets, marketing plans, research and development findings, and even source code, according to a report released March 28 by McAfee. As attacks on intellectual property increase, organizations are also less willing to […]

Apple may delay the release of the next iPhone, according to online rumors, but developers and media could nonetheless have their first glimpse of the next iOS at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, set for June 6-10 in San Francisco. “At this year’s conference, we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac […]

What makes a company attractive to potential employees? Universum, a research firm focused on employer branding, recently asked some 10,000 respondents to rate U.S. companies on their attractiveness as places to work. Tech ended up dominating much of the list: Google and Apple took the first two spots, respectively, followed at No. 5 by Amazon.com […]

Java founder James Gosling has been snatched up by Google. “Through some odd twists in the road over the past year, and a tardis encountered along the way, I find myself starting employment at Google today,” Gosling wrote in a March 28 posting on his blog. “I find it odd that this time I’m taking […]

Three recent data breaches at third-party Web service providers highlight the importance of organizations making sure customer data outside of the company is protected. Unlike the recent RSA breach or the malware-based attack on the European Commission, cyber-criminals stole information from tourists visiting Maine state parks and shoppers buying from Play.com by hitting third-party marketing […]