CIO Insight Staff

Apple became a victim of its own success June 15, when an unexpected 600,000 pre-orders for its iPhone 4 managed to crash both its and AT&T’s ordering systems. AT&T continues to be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in the United States. Apple posted an apology on its Website for what it described as “many […]

Nielsen said Internet users all over the world spent 22 percent of their time on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other such Websites in April. The research firm found social network or blog sites are visited by three-quarters of consumers who visit the Web. This bodes well for advertisers and the free […]

Could net neutrality prove too costly to the U.S. economy to implement? A report on how FCC regulation of the Internet warns such measures could be a huge drain for the industry, one of the nation’s healthiest. Charles Davidson, director of Institute, and Bret Swanson, president of Entropy Economics, were the authors of the report, […]

News Analysis: Google is an extremely powerful company. But so far, it’s being overshadowed by Apple. As time goes on, that will likely change because Google is the only company capable of overcoming Apple’s power. For its part, Google is being careful to give users the option of finding apps within search without pushing them […]

Verizon, Motorola and Google will introduce a new Motorola Droid smartphone at an event in New York City June 23. What isn’t clear is whether the device will be the Droid X or the Droid 2 or both that Engadget, Droid Life and several other gadget blogs have been chronicling over the last several weeks. […]

AT&T is investigating reports that some customers were shown other people’s data when they logged into their AT&T account to order a new Apple iPhone 4. The issue came as AT&T was dealing with a huge amount of interest in the device, with preorders totaling 600,000 in a single day. According to Gizmodo, the issue […]

Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Office 2010, more than a month after releasing the software to business consumers. In a bid to bolster its hardware partners, Microsoft is touting the versions of Office 2010 pre-installed on new PCs. Although Office 2010 is expected to sell well, it enters a changing landscape marked by the […]

Verizon’s business services arm is utilizing the well-established Nirvanex core system to provide the basic Verizon Cloud Storage service and is adding a suite of data-retention IT consulting services to go with it. READ MORE >>

RIM’s BlackBerry smartphone lineup may soon be joined by a large-screen tablet device, as well as a touchscreen-based smartphone with a slide-out keypad, according the Journal. Reportedly, a RIM tablet could arrive by year’s end. The Ontario-based company is said to be at work on a tablet that would serve as a companion device to […]

SAAS applications are becoming a more substantial part of many companies’ IT infrastructure, according to a new research note by Gartner, but a number of companies are taking their “bad practices” from on-premises software into the cloud with them. Top among those is “shelfware,” or paying for unused software. Gartner also suggests that SaaS remains […]

Google confirmed it is experimenting with human-curated content with Editors Picks, a new section on Google News that features favorite stories culled from editors at Reuters, The Washington Post, Newsday, and several other publications. That approach is a critical departure from Google’s usual math-based methodology. This sort of human-crafted curation is proving increasingly popular in […]

Businesses looking for greater security during the application development cycle might consider HP’s Comprehensive Applications Threat Analysis service, part of the company’s Secure Advantage portfolio. The service includes the Security Requirements Gap Analysis, which provides clients with access to security expertise and the tools to fix and avoid security issues. This capability examines applications to […]