CIO Insight Staff

Hewlett-Packard officials are halting production of PCs containing a flawed chipset from Intel and offering replacements or refunds to consumers who already have bought such systems. HP’s decision follows Intel’s announcement Jan. 31 that a design flaw in a supporting chipset tied to its "Sandy Bridge" Core-i processors can cause the PCs not to function […]

A pair of researchers from the Indiana University uncovered a vulnerability in Facebook that allowed attackers to get their hands on user data. Students Rui Wang and Zhou Li found a flaw in the Facebook platform code that enables a malicious site to impersonate other Websites and obtain the same access permissions those sites receive. […]

The big WebOS event that Hewlett-Packard has planned for Feb. 9 is expected to include the introduction of its long-awaited WebOS-based answers to the Apple iPad. However, beyond introducing a few devices, the event reportedly will represent the unveiling of a new HP, and one that Leo Apotheker — now four months into his role […]

Apple and News Corp launched The Daily, an iPad-only newspaper, Feb. 2 in New York City. Priced at 99 cents per week (and $39.99 per year), the publication enters a complicated and dynamic media environment that seems to take special pleasure in crushing upstarts. The question is whether the iPad’s popularity and News Corp’s production […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Move over Facebook, you might know consumers, but IBM knows business. And Big Blue has made a big push to define and capitalize on the market for "social business." Indeed, not only has IBM made social business the thrust of its new strategy to help its customers and partners leverage social networking […]

Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 26 times by 2015, driven primarily by smartphone and tablet use, as well as consumers’ increasing interest in watching videos on mobile devices, Cisco Systems reported in a Feb. 1 study. Traffic will reach 6.3 exabytes — the equivalent of 1 quintillion, or 10 to the 18th […]

Microsoft and Google executives engaged in some contentious back-and-forth during a Feb. 1 roundtable discussion at the Farsight Summit, suggesting emotions are high in the wake of Google accusing Bing of copying its Web-search results. "Our testing has concluded that Bing is copying Google Web-search results, and Microsoft doesn’t deny this," Amit Singhal, a Google […]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab isn’t selling quite as well as the company and media have initially portrayed, a company official acknowledged. Moreover, there is some evidence that the 7-inch tablets based on Google’s Android operating system are making a round trip from retailers to consumers and back. Lee Young-hee said that the 2 million Tabs the […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — IBM is delivering its vision for the social business of the future today in the form of its new "Social Business" initiative. At its Lotusphere 2011 conference here, IBM will give attendees a look at the "perfect storm" of factors working to bring the social business a reality. Social networking has had […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously (or infamously, depending on your point of view) lashed out against Google Android tablets during his company’s October earnings call, denouncing them as incapable of competing with the iPad. The "painful lesson," Jobs told analysts and media listening to that call, would come when competing tablet makers realized their tablets […]

The 20th annual RSA Conference is lumbering into San Francisco next week. It’s huge, face-to-face, dominated by educational tracks, led by old guys, and run under the auspices of a vendor. How did the RSA Conference get to be 20 in such good shape? The RSA Conference is in some ways the opposite of trendy. […]

Verizon Communications is acquiring Terremark Worldwide for $1.4 billion to enhance its cloud-computing capabilities, the companies said Jan. 27. The acquisition of the Miami-based cloud services and data-center-hosting provider will expand Verizon’s ability to provide IT services to corporate customers. Terremark currently has 13 data centers scattered throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America, […]