CIO Insight Staff

Seizing on the idea that professionals want to keep abreast of news in their businesses, LinkedIn March 10 launched a social news service that funnels relevant news users are sharing via the professional social network and Twitter. LinkedIn Today aggregates news shared by LinkedIn members’ colleagues and other connections, top stories from a certain industry […]

Within hours of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, cyber-criminals had poisoned search results based on the disaster with malicious links. Users searching on “most recent earthquake in Japan” may encounter some malicious links to fake anti-virus software, Trend Micro researchers said March 11. Malware writers used black-hat search engine manipulation techniques to push […]

In terms of PC shipments, Dell pulled ahead of neck-and-neck competitor Acer during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a March 10 report from IHS iSuppli. Helping Dell, said the firm, was the same device partly blamed for sluggish PC shipments the quarter before: the Apple iPad. The iPad and competing tablets, such as […]

The Apple iPad 2 isn’t incredibly different from its predecessor, according to a number of March 10 reviews, arriving a day before the device itself. But the changes Apple has made, they suggest, are enough to ensure that Apple will remain the flush winner in a game it created and has now upped the ante […]

BOSTON– — SAP is promising an aggressive 2011 roadmap for new applications that leverage its in-memory technology as well as a new release of its HANA system that company officials say enterprises could use instead of traditional databases from rivals such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. At a daylong event here March 9, SAP executives […]

Hewlett-Packard officials have moved quickly to stamp out rumors that the company was planning to sell its PC business. In a terse two-paragraph statement issued March 10, Bill Wohl, HP’s senior vice president and chief communications officer, said the rumors were unfounded and illogical, and took aim at the source of the rumors. "Irresponsible reporting […]

With more workers bringing their favorite smartphones to the office, CIOs are concerned about mobile data security and how employee devices are managed, according to a recent research study. CIOs from large organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom were surveyed about their mobile security concerns in a mobile security report from Mformation […]

VMware already supplies the world’s most popular virtualization layer for IT systems. Now the company wants to become your handy-dandy cloud computing operations provider. VMware on March 9 launched a new platform, VMware vCenter Operations, which centralizes and automates administrative control of dynamic virtual and cloud environments. The new package provides visibility throughout a private […]

Every PC shipped by Hewlett-Packard, beginning in 2012, will include the ability to run webOS, the mobile operating system HP acquired last year in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. However, HP is not abandoning Microsoft just yet. The company still plans to offer Microsoft’s Windows operating system as well as productivity tools such as […]

Even though its U.S. smartphone market share is shriveling, Research In Motion still commands the bulk of the enterprise mobile handset market. The problem is that while RIM has spent a decade grooming corporations to get BlackBerrys into the hands of corporate road warriors, Apple iPhone and Google Android handsets are popping up like mushrooms […]

Gartner’s IT industry research confirmed March 8 what IDC had reported a few days ago: That the data storage hardware industry had a pretty darn good year in 2010. In fact, Gartner went one up and declared 2010 the segment’s highest revenue-producing year ever, the only sector in all of IT to accomplish this in […]

What does a billion dollars buy you? If you’re Microsoft, it apparently buys you a new manufacturing partner. According to a March 7 Bloomberg report, itself quoting two unnamed sources “with knowledge of the terms,” the company plans on paying Nokia more than $1 billion over five years to manufacture handsets running Windows Phone 7. […]