CIO Insight Staff

Google is hosting an event Dec. 7 where it will likely demonstrate a netbook based on its long-awaited Chrome operating system. Chrome OS is Google’s support platform for its increasingly popular Chrome Web browser, which accounts for 9.27 percent of browser use, according to Net Applications. Google intends the platform to run on netbooks and […]

There is no clearer picture that the U.S. economy is a see-saw than in the job numbers. After months of steady gains in job opportunities and hiring, November reminds us all there are bumps on the asphalt playground. On the plus side, job vacancies rose modestly by 47,000 in November for technical and health-care-related occupations, […]

The good financial news continues for the solid-as-a-rock data storage industry. Global sales of disk-based storage arrays, which had grown only slightly during 2008 and 2009, posted another double-digit gain in the third quarter of 2010 following a 21 percent rise in the second quarter, industry researcher IDC reported Dec. 3. Worldwide external disk storage […]

The FBI has linked a 23-year-old Russian man to the notorious Mega-D botnet, which once was responsible for one-third of the world’s spam. According to federal authorities, Oleg Nikolaenko was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to use Mega-D to spam out e-mails for a crew of criminals specializing in the sale of fake goods. […]

Google Dec. 2 said it plans to improve its copyright and piracy protection procedures, including processing copyright takedown requests for content within 24 hours. The search engine said it is building tools to improve the submission process to make it easier for rights-holders to submit Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests for Google products, beginning […]

Google has announced a new version of the Software Development Kit for its App Engine cloud platform, Google App Engine 1.4.SDK. Google officials said this is the largest release of the year for the App Engine SDK, which includes new features such as the Channel API. The Channel API is a bi-directional channel for communicating […]

Based on continued strong sell-through trends for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, Canaccord Genuity technology analyst Michael Walkley said he believed Apple will maintain both market and value share leadership in the fast-growing mobile device market. Walkley’s report maintained the firm’s “buy” rating for the company, and noted strong sell-through indication trends for iPads with growing […]

In a developer-focused event known as a Silverlight Firestarter, Microsoft laid out the roadmap for Silverlight 5, the next version of the company’s rich Internet application technology. At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in October, the company indicated that it might be changing the focus of Silverlight. However, in a move to help set its […]

At the center of the WikiLeaks controversy is U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, the man suspected of having passed the whistle-blower Website a massive collection of U.S. embassy cables. Manning has been in military custody for the past several months with charges of transferring classified information to his personal computer and passing it […]

Amazon.com’s Kindle e-reader faces a growing threat from the Apple iPad, according to a new survey by ChangeWave Research. After polling 2,800 consumers, the analysis firm concluded that the iPad’s share of the e-reader market had expanded from 16 percent to 32 percent between August and November, while the Kindle’s dipped from 62 percent to […]

The worldwide server market saw revenues grow 13.2 and shipments jump 13.1 percent in the third quarter as demand for systems continued to increase worldwide, according to market research firm IDC. Hewlett-Packard took over the lead in the server revenue space as businesses push for x86-based systems, IDC said in a report released Dec. 1. […]

The evidence continues to grow that enterprises are convinced that cloud computing is a viable way forward for IT in the future. IDG Research Services surveyed chief technology officers, chief information officers and IT managers on a global basis and reported that 75 percent of companies either currently employ enterprise-grade cloud computing solutions or plan […]