CIO Insight Staff

Buyers are going to have to wait until next year for smartphones and most tablets running the MeeGo operating system from Intel and Nokia. Despite comments from Nokia officials throughout the year that smartphones running the open source OS would be on the market this year, an Intel official now is saying that those devices […]

Cyber-criminals were recently seen targeting BlackBerry and Symbian devices to steal authentication data from online banking customers – another example of mobile devices being on attackers’ radars. Still, security experts agree most of the threats to mobile devices come in the form of people losing their devices or having them stolen. Rather than dealing with […]

Apple plans to manufacture an iPhone capable of running on Verizon’s CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. A late-2010 production start would pave the road for Verizon to offer the iPhone in early 2011. The Oct. 6 Journal report quotes unnamed people "briefed by Apple." […]

Verizon President Lowell McAdam revealed the details of the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE roll out for 2010 at a CTIA press conference in San Francisco on Oct. 6. McAdam noted that the initial deployment of LTE would take place in 38 cities, which is an increase from the previously announced 30 cities. He also said […]

The Android 2.2-running LG Electronics Optimus smartphone will arrive on Sprint and T-Mobile networks in time for the holiday season–sort of. T-Mobile brands the phone the Optimus T, while Sprint calls it the Optimus S, but in both cases users get the newest version of Android, a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen and a user-friendly, highly […]

The National Domestic Violence Hotline is teaming with the Enterprise Mobility Foundation and Nextfone on a year-long partnership that enables companies to recycle unused smartphones and mobile phones for a good cause. The campaign invites enterprises to send unwanted devices to NextFone cost-free. NextFone will remove proprietary data from the devices and donate the current […]

Citrix Receiver will be supported on Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphones and Galaxy Tab tablet PCs in a partnership between the two vendors, potentially opening those devices to increased use by the enterprise. Citrix Receiver offers access to virtual desktops and business apps, including resource-hungry database programs. Since the apps themselves are ported from a corporate […]

An invitation sent to media announcing the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 launch event on Oct. 11 confirms AT&T’s involvement as a premier carrier for the upcoming smartphone platform. In addition, separate Microsoft Webpage suggests that representatives from T-Mobile will also be present. Microsoft had previously confirmed that Windows Phone 7 will appear first on GSM-based […]

Google is replacing Microsoft in a bid to provide collaboration software for more than 3.1 million students in New York state. The NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) has agreed to use the Google Apps for Education for all K-12 schools through the state, Stanley Silverman, director of Technology Based Learning Systems and professor in […]

In what has become a familiar pattern, Google’s Chrome Web browser gained more market share through September and now sits at 7.98 percent, according to Net Applications’ new data. This time, Chrome took share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which had risen back above 60 percent. IE closed out September at 59.65 percent market share, down […]

Cisco Systems is losing another executive to a competitor, with Tony Bates leaving to become CEO of video conferencing vendor Skype. Skype announced Oct. 4 that Bates, who most recently was senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business Division, will take on his new position starting in late October. […]

Hewlett-Packard named former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker as its new chief executive, effective Nov. 1, 2010. Now that speculation about HP’s choice for its next CEO has concluded, the chattering can begin in earnest about Apotheker’s suitability for the job, and whether his presence will be a positive one for HP. "I bring to HP […]