CIO Insight Staff

The burgeoning mobile market — and its overall impact on available wireless spectrum — took a back seat to talk of wireless carrier consolidation on the first day of the CTIA 2011 exhibition in Orlando, FL. AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile was the dominant issue among attendees, despite the best efforts of […]

It could take as long as a year for U.S. federal regulators to sort through the proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T. The deal — which would unite AT&T, the country’s second-largest carrier, with T-Mobile, its fourth-largest — must get the approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice […]

And then there were three. Three carriers that is: AT&T, Verizon and – in the rearview mirror – Sprint Nextel. If the worry among the upcoming CTIA show organizers and PR community was that all the news had already been delivered at the Mobile World Congress, AT&T erased that worry March 20 by announcing a […]

Microsoft announced today that Target Corp. is using Microsoft’s Hyper-V and Systems Center technology to virtualize the machines running its core business-critical applications. At the Microsoft Management Summit 2011 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that Target is running business-critical workloads for all its retail stores on 15,000 virtual machines using Microsoft virtualization and management technologies, […]

Within a day of AT&T’s announcement that it would acquire T-Mobile for $39 billion in cash and stock, the carrier moved preemptively to position the deal as good for competition and the United States’ telecommunications network. Should the acquisition meet approval, it would make AT&T by far the largest carrier in the United States. In […]

The Japanese earthquake has apparently suspended 25 percent of the global production of silicon wafers, according to a new report from research firm IHS iSuppli. Those wafers are used to craft semiconductors, which has far-reaching implications for high-end enterprise hardware such as PC, server and IT storage systems, as well as consumer products like smartphones […]

The New York Times plans on slamming down a paywall on its digital content, following other publications, in an attempt to profit from its online material. Starting March 28, Times readers in the United States will have free access to 20 articles per month. Anything beyond that will involve a series of payments: $15 per […]

Research In Motion is planning to partner with Microsoft on the latter’s cloud offerings, which will be integrated into BlackBerry devices as well as the upcoming Playbook tablet. “Cloud has always been core to our business,” Alec Taylor, vice president of Software, Services and Enterprise Marketing for RIM, told analysts and reporters listening to a […]

EMC’s RSA Security acknowledged it had been hit by an "extremely sophisticated" attack and that information related to the SecurID two-factor authentication products have been stolen. Intruders succeeded in breaching RSA networks "recently" as part of an Advanced Persistent Threat attack, Art Coviello, executive chairman of RSA Security, wrote in an open letter to customers […]

New Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker revealed a bit more about his plans for the U.S. PC giant at a Strategy Summit in San Francisco March 14. Over the next two years, Apotheker told the 350-plus gathered analysts, these will include starting a cloud-computing service enabling developers to create applications for consumers and enterprises; a new, […]

David Heit talks a lot about the need for balance when discussing Research In Motion’s upcoming PlayBook device, the company’s challenge to the Apple iPad’s dominance in the burgeoning tablet market. Holding a PlayBook during an interview with eWEEK at a recent SAP event in Boston, Heit, RIM’s vice president of strategy, said company executives […]

Network operator Verizon and SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG, are jointly delivering the SAP CRM rapid-deployment platform to enterprise workers through Verizon’s cloud offering, Computing as a Service. Workers will now be able to access SAP CRM from their desktops or their mobile devices, the companies announced. As part of the SAP CRM […]