CIO Insight Staff

Critics and supporters of H-1B visas alike are finding the latest measure to increase fees to be wholly inadequate and ineffective. The measure passed both houses of Congress and was signed in to law by the President on Aug. 13. What proponents and advocates on all sides of the debate have to ask themselves is […]

Hewlett-Packard announced strong results for its fiscal 3Q 2010 in a conference call May 19, even as the company wrestled with the sudden departure of former CEO Mark Hurd. Those results included net revenues of $30.7 billion, up 11.4 percent from the same quarter in 2009. Its Services, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP Software, Personal […]

Oracle used Aug. 19 online event to demonstrate the differences its virtualization products and VMWare’s. It’s primary argument was that Oracle products work in conjunction with a corporation’s entire IT stack – “from the desktop to the datacenter,” in the company’s parlance – to efficiently deliver applications and other software to users. Oracle’s offensive, paired […]

Intel Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire security giant McAfee for approximately $7.68 billion. If completed, McAfee would become a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel and will report to Intel’s Software and Services Group. For Intel, bringing McAfee into the fold continues with the company’s plans around software, explained René James, Intel senior […]

In announcing Intel’s plans to acquire security vendor McAfee for $7.6 billion on August 19, executives at both companies touted how the integration could allow them to integrate security more deeply into Intel’s portfolio. However, analysts question whether the deal is a good fit. “If Intel wants to grow the franchise for protecting PC platforms, […]

SAP and Sybase today unveiled strategic product directions and planned co-innovations in three key areas: enterprise mobility, business analytics and enterprise information management (EIM). These are the first product details to emerge since the close of the acquisition, which has Sybase continuing to run as a separate, independent business unit. Enterprise Mobility On the enterprise […]

More than a third (35 percent) of nearly 4,500 workers surveyed by Careerbuilder want social media efforts by companies to include more useful information, such as job listings. Roughly one-quarter of those polled in the 2Q 2010 survey, which was published Aug. 18, would like more facts and history about companies and actual information about […]

The harsh reality is smartphone software and the applications built to run on them are progressing at such a frenetic clip that what looked great nine months ago seems passé. Case in point: Last November, Android 2.0 on the Droid was the belle of the ball, with Google Maps Navigation luring users with free turn-by-turn […]

Spending on technology products and services is forecasted to reach $629.3 billion by 2014, according to London-based researchers Business Monitor International, which covers 22 vertical industries. In a July 26 report, BMI forecasted IT spending for 2010 to reach $511.4 billion and to grow at a compound rate of 6.5 percent in five years. This […]

There’s no question that Oracle just hates the very idea of open-source software. The company’s intellectual property lawsuit against Google, filed August 12 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Calif., alleges that the open-source Android mobile operating system infringes on Java copyrights and patents. But a closer look at the case reveals that this […]

Zenprise is offering a new version of its MobileManager software that adds selective wipe, remote lifeline and profile features to enhance security in Apple iPhones and iPads used in the enterprise. The offerings are primarily targeted at corporations that have embraced the “employee-liable” model for mobility. This means that employees purchase and pay for their […]