CIO Insight Staff

This week, smartphone giants Nokia, Motorola Mobility and Samsung posted fourth-quarter earnings that, each in its own way, reflected the looming presence — and successes — of Apple. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha noted that the Android-booster had made strides in the smartphone space during the quarter, but that sales were nonetheless affected by Verizon’s announcement […]

In the midst of the global recession, most businesses put a lockdown on IT spending. No upgraded hardware or software, executives insisted, until we find a way out of this mess. The problem — or the opportunity, if you’re a software or hardware provider — is that IT infrastructure continued to age in place, until […]

Intel plans to invest $100 million directly into U.S. university research over the next five years to drive innovations in computing and communications. The company says it will open Intel Science and Technology Centers across multiple universities. Research will focus on projects in select technology areas that align with the company’s research agenda, including visual […]

Investing in private clouds is a top priority for IT organizations in 2011, according to two recent online polls conducted on the Unisys Website. The first poll, in December 2010, asked visitors about their cloud computing implementation plans. The second poll, asking visitors to name their organization’s biggest investment priority in 2011, was conducted a […]

The trend of personal smartphones infiltrating the workplace is being led by Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone platforms, according to Good Technology’s second quarterly report, which details the percentage of enterprise activations for each platform that the company has seen among its customers. In 4Q 2010, the iPad "revolutionized" the enterprise mobility landscape, according […]

In the State of the Union Address on Jan. 24, 2011, President Obama spoke about budget freezes, the end of earmarks, the importance of education and the need for innovation. Wait! Aren’t those the same topics CIOs face every day? Yes, and in this week’s video on The PulseNetwork, CIO Insight regulars Tyler Pyburn, Ashley […]

When President Barack Obama said in the State of the Union address that he wanted to see broadband wireless available to 80 percent of the U.S. population within the next couple of years, he was really taking a line from the National Broadband Plan that the Federal Communication Commission has been pushing for the past […]

Developers are increasingly interested in Research In Motion’s upcoming PlayBook platform, at least according to new survey data posted by Appcelerator and research firm IDC. However, that same data suggests the iPad and Android tablets continue to dominate developers’ attention. Appcelerator and IDC surveyed some 2,235 Appcelerator Titanium developers earlier in January on "perceptions surrounding […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page appears to have been hacked Jan. 25. Though the company has not responded to inquiries about exactly what took place, reports have surfaced that the CEO’s page was compromised and the following message was posted: "Let the hacking begin: If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, […]

Amazon Web Services Jan. 25 launched a bulk e-mail service for businesses and developers, providing a messaging option for the cloud-computing provider’s arsenal of Web-based services. AWS intends Amazon SES (Amazon Simple Email Service) as an alternative to the thorny work of building a custom messaging platform or licensing an e-mail service from a third […]

Fifty-one percent of data center managers and decision makers at large organizations see technology refreshes as the top data center priority for 2011, according to a survey from IT infrastructure specialist SANpulse. This finding highlights the fact that mean time to migrate (MTTM) is critical for rapid adoption of new technologies and fast execution of […]

EMC keeps breaking earnings records — quarter after quarter after quarter. The data storage, security and cloud management software provider on Jan. 25 reported a pair of accounting trifectas: record consolidated revenue, net income and free cash flow for both the quarter and for 2010 in its entirety. In Q4 2010, EMC’s consolidated revenue — […]