CIO Insight Staff

Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corp., today announced its latest lines of network, duplex printers aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The multifunction SCX-4835FR, SCX-5639FR and wireless SCX-5739FW printers offer added security, and the ML-3312ND, ML-3712ND and ML-3712DW models feature faster output, according to a company release. The ML-3312ND, ML-3712ND, SCX-4835FR and […]

Nokia and Microsoft officials hope that by combining forces, they can become significant players in a lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market in which each has struggled while rivals Google and Apple have flourished. At a joint press conference in London Feb. 11, Nokia and Microsoft announced plans to form a strategic partnership that will […]

In an age of compliance regulations and a growing awareness of the costs of a data breach, encrypting data has become a key part of many enterprise security plans. But encrypting data has little value if an organization loses track of encryption keys. And it is that last part that a recent survey (PDF) by […]

Lancope updated its StealthWatch network behavioral analysis platform with application awareness and visualization tools to help IT managers detect and address network problems. The new StealthWatch platform can analyze up to 1.5 million flows per second, according to Lancope. It features granular application awareness, flexible grouping of network assets and relational mapping for network visualization, […]

Customers began queuing up early for the chance to get their hands on the Verizon iPhone 4. At one Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan, at least according to the clipboard-bearing employees gathered out front, the line began before the doors opened at 7 a.m., and stretched down to the Old Navy store about 75 […]

Technology giant IBM announced a slate of initiatives to extend security to the growing number of mobile and instrumented devices beyond an organization’s four walls, such as smartphones, ATMs, retail kiosks, traffic systems, meters, buildings and sensors. The company also unveiled research projects, software, and services partnerships to help organizations better manage the security of […]

In the wake of an embarrassing design flaw concerning Intel’s “Sandy Bridge,” archrival Advanced Micro Devices took the opportunity to point out that Intel’s recent chipset troubles have boosted business at AMD. Leslie Sobon, AMD vice president of product and platform marketing, told Dow Jones Newswires that PC makers had contacted AMD for their chipsets […]

The number of identity fraud victims dropped in 2010, but the average out-of-pocket losses have gone up, as thieves focus on new account fraud and stealing from people they know. Total card-related identity fraud in the United States dropped by a third from $56 billion in 2009 to $37 billion in 2010, according to the […]

Chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices, a month after seeing CEO Dirk Meyer forced out, announced Feb. 9 that two more executives were leaving the company. Robert Rivet, AMD’s chief operations and administrative officer, and Marty Seyer, senior vice president of corporate strategy and the company face for many of its product efforts, are both leaving the […]

It’s time for a “radical change” at Nokia, new company CEO, Stephen Elop emphatically insisted in an internal note to employees, posted Feb. 8 by Engadget and reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. A Jerry McGuire-style, 1,200-plus-word manifesto, the document arrives just days before Elop’s Feb. 11 date with investors in London, where he is […]

With states mandated to operate interoperable health insurance portals by 2014, Microsoft has rolled out the infrastructure for its state HIX (health insurance exchange) platform, the company announced on Feb. 8. While an HIE (health information exchange) allows health care providers to exchange EHRs (electronic medical records), an HIX is an online market for purchasing […]

Facebook bested Web giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in time spent online in the United States through 2010, with users spending 12.7 percent of their time at the social network Website. Facebook users logged 49.4 billion minutes, up 79 percent from 2009, while total page views grew 71 percent to 76.8 billion, according to comScore’s […]