CIO Insight Staff

Although the vast majority of enterprise executives (87 percent) believe in the value of a formal information retention plan, only 46 percent of organizations actually have one, according to the 2010 Information Management Health Check Survey. More than 1,680 senior IT and legal executives in 26 countries responded to the survey, which was conducted in […]

More than a quarter of employees (26%) admit that they spend more than one hour per day on social networking sites during work hours, according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. and U.K. residents conducted by news navigation site One News Page. Nearly four in 10 respondents (39%) say they use social networking sites such […]

Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, has launched a new open-source project for enterprise social networking called Eureka Streams. Lockheed Martin is making the technology available to developers and inviting their feedback on Eureka Streams. Developers can learn more about the technology at www.eurekastreams.org. The Eureka Streams technology, which looks and behaves much like […]

The Droid X is becoming tougher to get than was anticipated by its maker Motorola or its carrier Verizon Wireless; availability isn’t expected until Aug. 4. Gleacher and Co. analyst Mark McKechnie said calls to Verizon stores last week – the first full week since the Android 2.1-based smartphone became available July 15 – revealed […]

According to Sophos blog July 23, two other pieces of malware have been observed targeting the bug. One is a keylogging Trojan the company is calling Chymin-A that is “designed to steal information from infected computers.” The other is Dulkis-A, a “worm written in obfuscated Visual Basic” that contains several subcomponents. To read the original […]

According to some security researchers, Microsoft’s recent security advisory regarding a vulnerability in Windows is misleading. The security researchers say that, contrary to what Microsoft claims, users do not need to click on malicious icons in order to trigger malware exploiting the flaw. One thing upon which all sides agree: the security vulnerability already has […]

The move by Motorola, announced July 19, 2010, to sells its wireless network equipment business to Nokia Siemens sense. Until now, Motorola has been fighting an uphill battle against Nokia Siemens and Huawei, both of which are large global players. The sale will significantly improve Nokia Siemens’ position in the United States and Japan, while […]

Sandboxing limits the privileges a program can run under, isolating that program from other programs on a computer. With ‘Protected Mode’, Adobe is following down the same path as Microsoft and Google, which were both involved in developing the technology with Adobe and have made sandboxing centerpieces of recent security moves. Microsoft for example added […]

Consumer Reports engineers have found that Apple’s iPhone 4, when used with a rubber “bumper” that Apple sells for $29, do not have reception problems related to the smartphone’s antenna. “Due to this problem, we can’t recommend the iPhone 4,” Consumer Reports’ Mike Gikas blogged July 12. To read the original eWeek article, click here: […]

Oracle has had five months since its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems to integrate itself with Sun’s storage division. Now, Oracle, like a lot of other IT systems companies, wants to be the CIO’s full-service storage provider — in addition to selling you parallel databases, middleware, virtual machines and lots of business applications. Not […]

Microsoft’s Bing continued its pattern of incremental gains, according to research firm Experian Hitwise, which reported the search engine grew to occupy 9.85 percent of the U.S. search engine market in June. Bing has also been experiencing strong growth in a number of vertical industry categories. Hitwise previously reported that the percentage of U.S. upstream […]

NTP is now the latest smartphone-arena company to file a patent-related lawsuit. “Use of NTP’s intellectual property without a license is just plain unfair to NTP and its licensees,” Donald E. Stout, NTP’s co-founder, said in the statement. “Unfortunately, litigation is our only means of ensuring the inventor of the fundamental technology on which wireless […]