CIO Insight Staff

The U.S. government’s new technology czar said on Thursday that new mobile phone applications could spur private investment in high-speed Internet connections, but Washington would also play a leadership role. Aneesh Chopra, recently appointed the country’s chief technology officer by U.S. President Barack Obama, said growing mobile Internet access, underscored by the popularity of Apple […]

A political coup in New York’s statehouse can be traced back to an incident in which a top lawmaker so enraged a wealthy backer by peering at e-mails on his BlackBerry that his patron engineered his ouster. One of the newer forms of poor office etiquette — paying more attention to a hand-held device than […]

Dealing with vendors has never been a cakewalk for CIOs. Farming out projects to these providers forces IT leaders to manage burdensome issues such as cost, timing and scale–any of which, when done wrong, can lead to failure. In his new book, Management Rewired, consultant Charles S. Jacobs writes about how a then-new leader at […]

1. IT Spend Flat Over next two years, Hackett found that companies expect to grow IT budgets by only about 1 % annually, down from 5.3 % over the last three years.

NetSuite has developed programs targeted at large corporations, a person familiar with the strategy said, in an effort to move the software maker beyond the small- to mid-sized business market. The person, who requested anonymity since the products have not been announced, said NetSuite wants to sell the software to divisions of large corporations that […]

The chief executives of Microsoft and Yahoo met last week to discuss potential partnerships between the companies’ Internet search and advertising operations, the technology blog All Things Digital reported on Friday. Wide-ranging talks have taken place between executives at the companies, the blog reported, including discussion of the potential for Microsoft to handle Yahoo’s search […]

IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems, sources with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could bolster the technology giant against rivals in the high-end computer server market. IBM is offering to pay at least $6.5 billion, or double Sun’s Tuesday closing price of $4.97, The Wall Street Journal reported online earlier. […]

An online privacy group called on Tuesday for government regulators to investigate the adequacy of Google’s security safeguards after the company inadvertently released consumers’ private information this month. In a complaint filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center faults Google’s practices relating to its so-called cloud computing services, […]