CIO Insight Staff

A report from iSuppli shows Asian computer makers displaying impressive sales growth, while U.S. competitors such as Dell and HP underperforming slightly. Asus, Acer, Toshiba and Lenovo all experienced strong year-over-year growth, the report shows. Asian OEMs Asus, Samsung, Lenovo and Acer posted the strongest year-over-year growth among the Top 10 OEMs. Though placing sixth […]

IT market research firm AMI-Partners says 2009 was the turning point in which medium-size businesses moved fully into the virtualization space. Melissa Chong, manager of managed services at AMI, said 2009 was the turning point for server virtualization usage among U.S. medium businesses, accelerated by the affects of the economic downturn as midmarket CIOs and […]

Google Goggles is a mobile application that lets users take a picture of a location or objects such as a product or painting from their smartphone and do a Google search that pulls up information associated with the image. The image a user snaps with his or her camera is a query that gets sent […]

Cost-conscious businesses are feeling the credit crunch on all levels, but particularly in regard to credit card rates, which remain higher for businesses than consumers. BillShrink surveyed more than 300 small businesses, finding many business card issuers have raised rates upward of 15 percent and some cardholders saw rates increase 27 percent in the last […]

ARM, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have together created Linaro, a not-for-profit company focused on supporting the development of open-source products for devices powered by ARM’s chip designs. Along with Android, other open-source ventures, including LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS, stand to profit from the project, which will help unify a fragmented Linux mobile […]

Former Facebook exec Chris Kelly, now a candidate for attorney general in California, challenged Facebook to reiterate its commitment to privacy. Kelly, who is running for attorney general for California, called for his former employer to reiterate its commitment to sharing user information only with their prior approval. READ MORE >>

Although companies such as HP may be slashing their workforce, a survey finds the majority of HR heads are planning on making IT hires in the next six months. Among the key findings, 76 percent of respondents have confidence that their company’s performance will improve in the next six months, while 78 percent of respondents […]

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said a push to improve mobile broadband connectivity in the United States would benefit business’ ability to compete and innovate. During the D8 tech conference, Genachowski told WSJ tech reporter Walt Mossberg that deploying 4G wireless networks would help allow the United States to catch up with other industrialized nations that […]

HP is crossing its t’s and dotting its i’s on its way to fully acquiring Palm. On June 1, the FTC granted HP early termination of a waiting period, moving the process on to a June 25 vote by Palm shareholders. “The proposed merger remains subject to other customary closing conditions,” states a document filed […]

Microsoft responded June 1 to Google’s alleged transitioning of its employees away from Windows-based systems, via a blog post defending the security of Windows 7. Although Google has not officially confirmed that its executives are trying to shift employees away from Windows PCs, online reports suggest that Google is doing so out of concerns for […]

Microsoft’s Windows XP should be eliminated from businesses’ PCs by the end of 2012, according to a new report from research firm Gartner, as both ISVs and application builders begin to cut off support for the operating system. At the same time, Gartner advises that businesses upgrading to Windows 7 begin planning and testing for […]

Linux-based smartphones, such as those running Google’s Android, will outstrip the growth of the rest of the market and account for more than a third of worldwide market share by 2015, ABI is predicting. Android won’t, however, be without competition. Citing Google’s figure of 60,000 Android smartphones currently shipping each day (though in a May […]