CIO Insight Staff

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Friday he would not serve as technology czar in Barack Obama’s administration if he was asked. "I love working at Google and I’m very happy to stay at Google, so the answer is no," Schmidt said in response to a question from CNBC host Jim Cramer in an appearance […]

Computer chip maker Intel is introducing a technology to help homebound hospital patients with chronic medical problems, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The Silicon Valley company will announce a series of trials with health-care organizations of specialized hardware and software it has developed. The Journal said the tests are designed to show whether […]

Aimed at members of Generation Y who are preparing to enter the workforce, Tamara Erickson’s new book also tells the employers of these young people a lot worth knowing. In this excerpt from Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work, consultant and author Erickson speaks directly to the next-gen workforce about what […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday approved a plan sought by tech companies like Google and Microsoft to open soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves to new wireless devices. The five-member FCC voted to open unlicensed pockets of the spectrum known as white space that will become available when U.S. broadcasters are required to move to digital […]

Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday said he was worried the global financial crisis he says could last two to three years might drive rich countries to cut back spending on health aid for the developing world. Echoing comments made last week by U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon, the billionaire philanthropist said the world’s poorest people […]

Yahoo and Google have drastically scaled back the scope of their search advertising deal, a person close to the discussions said on Monday, in a last-ditch effort to win U.S. antitrust approval. The move comes after Google appeared to be on the verge of walking away from the partnership, which was announced in June to […]

FBR Capital Markets said on Monday that production of Apple‘s iconic iPhone might plunge more than 40 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous period.  "Previous checks indicated that iPhone production would fall about 10 percent sequentially in calendar 4Q," said FBR’s note by Craig Berger, "(but) our new checks indicate that iPhone production […]

Google and Yahoo could announce a decision to walk away from their search deal by the middle of next week, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The two Internet companies have so far failed to reach an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on implementing their search […]

LinkedIn, the career-oriented social networking website, on Wednesday will unveil an assortment of applications from big names like Google and Amazon.com in a push to integrate LinkedIn’s platform into the daily workings of corporate life. Social networking sites have been hard hit by the economic downturn, as companies with venture capitalist funding but no proven […]

Good news for workers addicted to Facebook, Bebo and MySpace–a British think-tank says bosses should not stop their staff using social networking sites because they could actually benefit their firms. The report by Demos said encouraging employees to use networking technologies to build relationships and closer links with colleagues and customers could help businesses rather […]

The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order. Gary Small, a neuroscientist at UCLA in California who specializes in brain function, has found through […]

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are expected to announce on Tuesday that they have agreed to a common set of principles on how to do business in nations that restrict free speech and expression, the Wall Street Journal reported. The move by the Internet media and technology giants comes in the wake of criticism that they […]