CIO Insight Staff

Cisco Systems is introducing networking, security and storage products to its portfolio of offerings for small and midsize companies as it continues to push for a larger share of that market. Cisco has always had a significant presence in the enterprise, but in recent years, company officials have talked about their desire to grow their […]

Mozilla is planning to take its own shot at improving user privacy controls online. The company is looking to add a new feature to its Firefox browser that would enable users to opt-out of online behavioral tracking by advertisers. The move follows a December report from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that endorsed the […]

More than 25 percent of all tablet computers will be purchased by enterprises, an incredible figure for a market that only established credibility with Apple’s successful launch of its iPad last April. Deloitte, a consultancy that released its annual predictions Jan. 18, also predicts that one-quarter figure could well rise in 2012 and beyond as […]

BlackBerry smartphones and enterprise users were for some time an undisputed duo. But just as Research In Motion has gradually made inroads into the consumer market, popular consumer devices such as the Apple iPhone and Google Android -running smartphones have even more swiftly encroached on RIM’s bread-and-butter market. RIM, however, has a new offering planned […]

Google Jan. 20 said it is streamlining operations, with co-founder Larry Page taking the role of CEO and moving current Google CEO Eric Schmidt to the role of executive chairman. Google, which also reported revenues of $8.44 billion and a profit of $2.54 billion for the fourth quarter, said Page will take over day-to-day operations […]

A week after Dirk Meyer’s resignation as CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, the company’s position going forward is essentially to stay the course in the short term, while creating expansion plans farther down the road. Executives at AMD, speaking during a conference call with analysts and journalists Jan. 20 to announce fourth-quarter and full-year financial […]

NEW YORK — Ricoh is looking to bolster its managed print services division with a three-year, $300 million investment that looks to add about 10,000 people to its U.S. operation and bolster the company’s IT infrastructure. The announcement comes as Hewlett-Packard and Xerox also look to offer more print services to their customers. Ricoh announced […]

Thousands of Twitter users are believed to have been hit with malicious links tied to a rogue antivirus scam circulating the microblog service. The scam is spreading through malicious links abusing the goo.gl URL shortening service. According to Kaspersky Lab, the malicious links redirect users to different domains with an "m28sx.html" page. That HTML page […]

Acer officials are denying that they plan to phase out the company’s netbook lines as Acer begins to also focus on the tablet market. Additionally, the officials said in a statement that, for the moment, tablets "based on [Intel’s] Sandy Bridge are not yet foreseen." Citing Taiwan sales manager Lu Bing-hsian, Computer World reported Jan. […]

If all of the usual sources are right, which sometimes happen, Hewlett-Packard will finally announce its long-awaited iPad competitor on Feb. 9. The new WebOS-based device would be about the same size as Apple’s iPad, but it would run on an updated version of Palm’s highly regarded WebOS. The new tablet would actually ship to […]

Enterprises are not the only ones interested in cloud security products. Malware authors have their eyes on them too — something exemplified by the Bohu Trojan, which blocks connections from Windows machines to cloud anti-virus technologies to disable users’ defenses. The malware was first spotted by Microsoft researchers in China targeting popular anti-virus products there. […]

In the future, mobile phones will dominate, with businesses moving to a "bring your own device" strategy and voice virtualization will take on more importance in business’ networks, according to survey results taken by business communications and collaboration software and services provider Mitel Networks. The survey found 53 percent of respondents felt that, in the […]