CIO Insight Staff

Lenovo’s ThinkPad Edge, an 11-inch laptop, is the smallest and lightest member of the ThinkPad Edge family. Created for small-to-medium-size businesses (SMB), the laptop offers ultraportable-like performance and features into a small form factor PC starting at $449. The Lenovo USB Power Hub, a 65W laptop AC power adapter with a 4-port powered USB hub, […]

Over the past 12 years since its inception, Google has become a trusted solution for people around the globe. It has been the average person’s search tool, it has delivered its mobile software to a growing number of consumers, and, along the way, it has offered an advertising platform that has helped it generate billions […]

The overwhelming majority of CIOs are standing pat on staffing levels and not hiring at all, according to Robert Half Technology’s quarterly index report on hiring, published Sept. 8. Despite 84 percent of CIOs being at least somewhat confident of growth in the fourth quarter of 2010, only 9 percent expect to increase hiring Network […]

With Windows Phone 7 devices expected to roll out in the October-November timeframe, preceded by a high-energy launch event, the rumor-mill has kicked into predictably high gear. Microsoft will launch its first Windows Phone 7 devices Oct. 21, according to reports circulating online. Last week, an unnamed source told Venture Beat that Nokia planned on […]

The Obama administration is working on a proposal that would make it easier for law enforcement and security officials to eavesdrop on online chatter, including email, instant messaging, and social networks, reported The New York Times on Sept. 27. The proposed legislation will likely come before Congress next year. The White House-sponsored bill would require […]

Here’s what the new BlackBerry PlayBook offers that the Apple iPad does not: multitasking capabilities, support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and the ability to pair it with your BlackBerry smartphone. The device was announced Sept. 27 at Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Developer Forum in San Francisco. At the event, RIM also previewed BlackBerry Enterprise […]

Thanks to a decade of shrinking IT budgets, the global IT debt will total approximately $500 billion in 2010, said a Gartner analyst on Sept. 23. The gap can potentially widen to $1 trillion by 2015, according to the market research firm. Corporations have a list of maintenance tasks that need to be completed to […]

Dell plans on releasing a 7-inch tablet PC, powered by Google Android, as a follow-up to the recently released Streak. CEO Michael Dell offered a sneak peek of the new device during a Sept. 22 presentation at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, but remained tight-lipped about specs or a possible release date. Dell’s other tablet […]

IBM opened three new analytics center in Europe on Sept. 23, strengthening its offerings in the growing business analytics market. The company predicts that it will report $16 billion in business analytics and optimization revenue by 2015. The new centers are in Zurich, Switzerland; Budapest, Hungary; and Vienna, Austria. They will focus on a variety […]

Research In Motion expects to build 2.5 million BlackPad tablets for the fourth quarter, said a financial analyst. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sept. 22 that RIM will unveil the BlackPad at its 2010 BlackBerry Developer Conference, which runs Sept. 27 – Sept. 30, 2010, in San Francisco. The 7-inch-screen BlackPad, reportedly will feature […]

Salesforce.com has unveiled Chatter 2, the next version of its Chatter collaboration platform, which allows employees to post comments and share files in a Facebook-style environment. The rise of Chatter and similar applications has mirrored businesses’ increased interest in social networking as a productivity and communications tool. Originally created as an add-on application for sales […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking to move to the cloud computing model as part of the federal government’s plan to modernize its technology infrastructure. Google, Microsoft and IBM have an important deadline coming up in their heated war for these cloud computing contracts. On July 30, the GSA invited software makers to submit […]