CIO Insight Staff

Lenovo is using this week’s Consumer Electronics Show to unveil its new line of IdeaPad laptops, emphasizing refreshed designs and new features, such as ultra-fast boot times. For media and consumers interested in the tech industry’s tablet craze though, the company’s most interesting item on display could be the IdeaPad U1 with LePad Slate, which […]

Two foreign exchange students from Vietnam are accused of being mules for an international identity theft ring believed to have stolen millions of dollars from online merchants, according to an affidavit filed by federal investigators in Minnesota district court. The Dec. 29 affidavit sought a search warrant to raid the home of two Vietnamese exchange […]

Research In Motion continues to position its upcoming PlayBook as more capable than the Apple iPad of providing users with a full Web-browsing experience. A new RIM blog post and video hints at how the BlackBerry maker will eventually market its tablet. The PlayBook will almost certainly be on display during this week’s Consumer Electronics […]

As the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show approaches on Jan. 6 in Las Vegas, word is leaking out that dozens of new tablets will be shown at the trade show. Some of them are simply new versions of existing tablets; some are new versions of existing platforms (there will be a lot of new […]

Dell confirmed on Jan. 4 that it will acquire SecureWorks, an information-security services company. The acquisition will expand Dell’s enterprise IT-as-a-service portfolio, the company said. The acquisition is expected to close sometime in February, or “in approximately 40 days,” Peter Altabef, president of Dell Services, said during a conference call with reporters. Although financial terms […]

The former Motorola is now officially two companies. On Jan. 4, the Illinois-based business completed its planned separation into two publicly traded companies. Motorola Solutions, trading under ticker symbol MSI, now offers solutions for enterprise mobility and vertical markets, including public safety and government, with data-capture products, WLAN solutions and integrated command and control communications. […]

Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone has shipped some 10 million units since its June 2010 release date, according to the company. That meets Samsung’s sales target for the device, which faces stiff competition not only from the Apple iPhone but other Android offerings. “Based on their brand power and their relationship with telecommunication companies, their numbers […]

Fortune said 2011 will be the year Google’s Android operating system “explodes” across the technosphere on smartphones, tablet computers and other devices hardware manufacturers cook up. Time for a level set: “Explodes,” or some variation thereof, is the dramatic euphemism people in the technology industry employ to proclaim that a product is set for some […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg regularly downplays talk of an IPO, but his social network company has achieved the scale, and now the funding, of a company to warrant it. Facebook has reportedly banked $500 million from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, valuing the company at $50 billion, according to The New York Times. Goldman […]

Google’s Chrome Web browser finished 2010 just shy of the 10 percent mark, notching 9.98 percent of browser market share through December in a year where it started at 5.2 percent. It’s also a big hike from November, when Google grabbed 9.27 percent share, up from 8.5 percent in October, according to the latest statistics […]

Intel on Dec. 29 launched a new set of mini-sized solid-state drives for dual-drive notebooks, tablet PCs and enbedded applications that the company claims provide performance as high as its larger SSDs. The 310 Series drives are sized at a mere 51mm-by-30mm and 5mm thick, about one-eighth the size of a current Intel 2.5-inch X25 […]

It was truly the year of the social network, as Facebook topped the list of most-searched terms on the Internet for the second year in a row, according to Experian Hitwise, a part of Experian Marketing Services. The company, which analyzed the top 1000 search terms for 2010, said the word “facebook” accounted for 2.11 […]