CIO Insight Staff

The train driver blamed for the worst U.S. train crash in 15 years was sending and receiving text messages seconds before his crowded commuter train skipped a red light and collided head-on with a freight train, federal investigators said on Wednesday. The Metrolink commuter train plowed into a Union Pacific freight locomotive on September 12 […]

Nokia will unveil its first touch-screen phone next week in a direct challenge to Apple‘s successful iPhone, two industry sources said Friday. LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and several smaller handset vendors have rolled out their own touch-screen phones over the last two years, while the first handset using Google’s Android platform will also have a […]

Silicon Valley billionaire Larry Ellison shed a little sunshine on “cloud computing” on Thursday at a financial analyst meeting held by Oracle, the software company that he founded and runs (when he’s not making into the headlines for his more nautical pursuits): We’ve redefined ‘cloud computing’ to include everything we currently do. So it has […]

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday he still sees a "certain buoyancy" among technology and telecommunications customers worldwide, despite recent U.S. economic woes. "Our industry is not immune to what goes on in the global economy. And yet as I travel…given the current circumstances, people still see a certain buoyancy in the market," […]

Oracle, the world’s No. 3 software maker is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard to sell powerful, specialized computers that companies use to analyze data on their business activities. The move, which Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison announced on Wednesday, will expand Oracle’s footprint in the hardware business and put pressure on smaller players Teradata and Netezza, […]

Yahoo‘s new board on Tuesday approved a new round of discussions with Time Warner over the future of its AOL unit, the Financial Times said, citing a person familiar with Yahoo’s thinking. The green light for the talks came as Yahoo’s directors met for the first time since activist investor Carl Icahn was granted access […]

Research In Motion is preparing to launch the long anticipated touch-screen version of its BlackBerry smartphone, according to an official promotion e-mail from U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless. The device will be known as the BlackBerry Storm 9530 and will feature "global capabilities," Verizon said, without providing specifics. It also did not give an exact launch […]

Comcast has provided U.S. regulators details of how it plans to change the way it manages Web traffic over its high speed Internet network without blocking any applications or content. The move comes after the Federal Communications Commission voted last month to uphold a complaint that Comcast had violated the regulator’s open-Internet principles by hindering […]

McAfee, the world’s No. 2 security software maker, said on Monday it plans to buy Internet security company Secure Computing for $465 million in cash. The move gives McAfee a suite of software, services and hardware products to protect hackers from getting past the perimeters of computer networks. McAfee is already the No. 2 provider […]

Google extended an already wide lead in the U.S. Web search to 63.0 percent share of the market in August, its biggest monthly gain in five months, a report said on Thursday. Yahoo, the No. 2 player in the U.S. Web search market saw its share of the business drop 0.9 percent to 19.6 from […]

The first mobile phone to use Google‘s Android mobile operating software will cost $199, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday. The phone, which features a slide-out keypad, is being manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC and will be sold by Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit, which plans to unveil the device at […]

Technology and information providers, already grappling with penny-pinching customers, were dealt another blow this week with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the takeover of Merrill Lynch. Losing two venerable Wall Street firms and big spenders for cutting-edge technology is troubling for the tech industry’s biggest players, which have been coping with companies scaling back […]