CIO Insight Staff

A group going by the name “Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective” – a play on the name of the Microsoft Security Response Center – published information last week about a vulnerability affecting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that can be used to crash vulnerable machines. “Due to hostility toward security researchers, the most recent example being […]

In response to a July 6 query on the blog Mini-Microsoft, where Microsoft employees – or those posing as employees – often post about the latest internal machinations and gossip, a number of commenters suggested there would be layoffs in the marketing and sales groups. "I can confirm that an entire team in CMG (Central […]

First came the appearance of an old enemy: in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, Salesforce.com has retained David Boies, who represented the Justice Department in its historic antitrust lawsuit against the software giant, as counsel. That lawsuit can be seen as a response to Microsoft’s own intellectual-property suit filed in May against the cloud-computing company. […]

Apple officials say reception problems customers have been reporting when using the iPhone 4 have nothing to do with the smartphone’s antenna design, but rather are because its signal strength wasn’t so good to begin with. In a statement on Apple’s Website July 2, Apple spokespeople said company officials were "surprised when we read reports […]

The HP TippingPoint Secure Virtualization Framework (SVF) is a suite of products designed to help prevent network threats from impacting virtualized environments. The TippingPoint Virtual Controller (vController), the first product introduced under the SVF, extends TippingPoint security protection from physical to virtual networks by routing it through a TippingPoint N-Platform Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) appliance. […]

Cisco Systems aims to prepare potential customers before they commit to building a cloud computing system. Cisco is providing a menu of cloud system components, including products of its own and from partners such as EMC, NetApp, VMware, Microsoft and BMC. On June 30, that’s what the company did, launching a set of what it […]

HP announced that its acquisition of Palm is now complete, and that the companies are looking forward to developing Palm’s webOS platform, embracing the smartphone market and getting to work on a roadmap that includes slates and netbooks. HP, the world’s top-selling PC maker, with access to Palm’s webOS mobile platform and Pre and Pixi […]

Gartner analysts trimmed their worldwide IT spending forecast for 2010, saying they now expect spending increases to reach 3.9 percent, not the 5.3 percent predicted earlier this year. The European debt crisis is the primary culprit. Gartner analysts in a report July 1 said they expect global IT spending in 2010 to hit $3.35 trillion. […]

Verizon Wireless will begin selling an Apple iPhone in January 2011, according to Bloomberg Television. Analysts, confirming the deal, expect it to be a win for Verizon and its pending LTE network – though believe the iPhone may bring to Verizon many of the challenges AT&T still struggles with. Verizon’s offering could exponentially broaden the […]

Google June 29 said it is adding links that appear in Google Buzz to its Google Social Search service, a potential precursor to the Google Me social service the company is reported to be planning. Those who have connected Websites such as Twitter to Buzz see their tweets in Buzz and in their Google profiles, […]

Only a few weeks ago, Seagate was touting its 2TB GoFlex drives. At this rate, 4TB storage devices are only another few months away, a veteran storage analyst told eWEEK. It had to happen sooner or later, and in this case it happened sooner than the industry expected. Only a few weeks ago, Seagate was […]

Facebook has poached Matt Papakipos, the lead engineer behind Google’s important Chrome Operating System initiative. Could Facebook have cloud operating system designs of its own? Less clear is how this loss will impact Chrome OS, which is still on track to roll out on netbooks from HP, Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Dell beginning this fall. […]