CIO Insight Staff

Microsoft is investigating reports that the latest Windows Phone 7 update is causing problems for an unknown subset of users. Microsoft first made the update available Feb. 21, describing it to media as a “smaller infrastructure update that will help future updates.” The company’s roadmap suggests a much-anticipated update, introducing cut-and-paste and faster mobile-application loading, […]

WOODSIDE, Calif.–President Barack Obama, his entourage fighting through a driving rain and wind storm, visited the tiny hamlet of Woodside Feb. 17 for a dinner with the captains of the IT industry to talk mostly about job creation and education. It was Obama’s eighth visit to the Bay Area and the first that didn’t involve […]

IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb. 17, Nuance will feed its CLU (Clinical Language Understanding) applications into IBM’s Watson hardware. Nuance makes the Dragon speech-recognition software. Meanwhile, IBM will incorporate […]

What exactly is a cyber-war, and are we in the middle of it? Here at the RSA Conference, it depends whom you ask. A panel — featuring former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, security guru Bruce Schneier, former National Security Agency Director John Michael McConnell, and James Lewis, director and senior fellow of […]

While major electronics vendors from Samsung to Hewlett-Packard and Motorola are making giant “to-dos” over their iPad-competing tablet efforts, these devices actually rank lowest on Americans’ shopping lists this year, Gartner revealed in a Feb. 17 study. When polled about the devices they planned to purchase in 2011, the majority of Americans said they had […]

The humans redeemed themselves in the second game of the man vs. machine "Jeopardy" tournament, after the previous game’s debacle, but it wasn’t enough. The best "Jeopardy" player is now a computer named Watson. Watson didn’t dominate the Feb. 16 game as thoroughly as it had on the previous night, with Ken Jennings and Brad […]

Spam levels may have dropped, but botnets are still busy. In fact, security researchers at this year’s RSA Conference highlighted a mix of botnets both famous and unheard of that are growing on the strength of do-it-yourself kits and pay-per-install (PPI) systems. Joe Stewart, director of malware research for Dell SecureWorks, reported that the most […]

In a recent interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said that even though the company is rapidly intensifying its push to become less of a box maker and more of a solutions provider, servers will still be a key piece of the equation. “We still see […]

Nvidia and Qualcomm are looking to bring quad-core processors to the mobile world. Nvidia officials at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona not only demonstrated its upcoming “Kal-El” chip, which couples the four computing cores with a new 12-core GeForce GPU, but also laid out a roadmap through 2014 that will offer almost 100 […]

Although Watson routed the humans in the first “Jeopardy” match, its Final Jeopardy question left everyone scratching their heads. The Final Jeopardy category was “U.S. Cities.” Watson said, “What is Toronto?” with multiple question marks denoting its lack of confidence. The clue was: “Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero, its […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apparently, security involving former IT employees of enterprises has more holes in it than most people think. According to a new survey released Feb. 16 that canvassed more than 1,000 employees and 500 IT decision-makers in the U.S., 10 percent of IT professionals admit they have retained secure access to corporate systems […]

Apple’s next generation of MacBook pro notebooks may receive an introduction in as soon as two weeks’ time, Apple Insider is reporting, following tips from a number of unnamed sources. This March time frame would reportedly put Apple just a few weeks behind its planned schedule, according to the site, following delays caused by flaws […]