CIO Insight Staff

Dell customers are cutting back further on technology spending, the company said on Tuesday, sending the computer maker’s shares down more than 7 percent. Dell, the second largest computer maker after Hewlett-Packard, has already been hurt as buyers hold back on purchasing decisions. It posted a steep drop in second quarter profit in August, saying […]

Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a Web guru. Bill Tancer, a self-described “data geek”, has analyzed information for over 10 million Web users to conclude that we are, in fact, what we click, with Internet searches giving […]

Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 7.5 percent of its work force, or 24,600 jobs, seeking to realize savings from its recent acquisition of Electronic Data Systems, the company said on Monday. HP said it would carry out the cutbacks over the next three years, while replacing about half the jobs in new areas of its services […]

Google has bought Korean blogging software developer Tatter and Company, the two companies said on Friday. The companies did not disclose how much Google paid for the acquisition. Tatter co-chief executive Chang-Won Kim announced the deal on his personal blog in an entry titled "We’ve been Googled!," saying that the acquisition would help Google increase […]

Written references could become old hat for hiring managers with one in five saying they use social networking sites to research job candidates–and a third of them dismissing the candidate after what they discover. A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com of 3,169 hiring managers found 22 percent of them screened potential staff via social […]

Sweden and The Netherlands have the best performing broadband Internet connections in Europe, helped by investments in high-speed fiber-optic links and upgrades to cable TV networks, a study found. Japan was the global leader by a large margin in the study, released on Friday, carried out by the Universities of Oxford and Oviedo and sponsored […]

U.S. mobile phone companies have begun to see substantial returns from delivering data and not just voice, fueled by greater openness on their networks, industry leaders said on Wednesday. But top executives of three of the nation’s four largest mobile carriers also said they are still worried by consumer demands for unfettered freedom to use […]

A federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over backdating of stock options against current and former Apple executives, court documents showed. The current and former executives and directors, including Chief Executive Steve Jobs, agreed to the settlement. As part of the deal, Apple’s liability […]

Google has halved the amount of time it stores personal data gathered from its users’ Web surfing habits, a move aimed at improving its privacy policies, a company official said. Google used to store such data for 18 months, but has now trimmed that duration to nine months. Nicole Wong, Google’s deputy general counsel, told […]

Blackberry maker RIM was the biggest winner in a slowing smartphone market in the second quarter, roughly doubling its market share from a year ago to 17.4 percent, research firm Gartner said on Monday. The market was still dominated by Finland’s Nokia, which sold 15.3 million phones with capabilities like e-mail and navigation, giving it […]

IBM is making a major push on Monday to upgrade computer storage products and services it offers customers struggling to manage mountainous piles of data being created inside their organizations. The company is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment over the last three […]

Jerry Seinfeld, a huge marketing budget, and well-respected agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky would seem a recipe for success. Unfortunately for Microsoft, which kicked off a $300 million advertising campaign last night, the first commercial debuted to lukewarm reviews. Microsoft is hoping to improve the image of its Windows Vista operating system and take some […]