CIO Insight Staff

The University of Toronto and IBM are building Canada’s most powerful supercomputer, a mammoth machine that will need its own building for storage and will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second. It’s expected the system will be among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the world and the largest outside the United […]

Liberty Media would be open to discussing a deal to swap its stake in Time Warner for the media conglomerate’s AOL dial-up Internet business, Liberty Chairman John Malone said on Monday. Although the opportunity for such discussions has yet to arise, Malone said Liberty Capital, which holds passive stakes in companies including Time Warner and […]

Google said on Monday it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online e-mail. The problems began at about 5 p.m. EDT and an announcement on the company’s Gmail "Help Center" site said the issue is now resolved. Google said an […]

Google’s 5 percent stake in Time Warner’s AOL unit may be worth less than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google warned in a regulatory filing on Thursday. “We believe our investment in AOL may be impaired,” Google said in its latest quarterly financial filing with the U.S. Securities and […]

Nissan previewed on Wednesday new safety technology that goes beyond a warning beep if drivers veer into the path of danger, and actively tries to pull the car in the direction of safety. A car installed with the brake-resistance device would try to deter the driver from changing lanes, for example, if it detected a car […]

Google said on Tuesday it is an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its sells to companies and government organizations for Google-style Web search of office documents. The Web search leader said the latest version of the Google Search Appliance, a pizza-sized box that holds a self-contained search system for managing an organization’s […]

Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it was taking action to shut down the fraudsters, but the move came too late to help the victims find replacement […]

U.S. technology giants Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, in talks with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China and other restrictive countries, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. In separate letters sent to Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, and Republican Senator Tom Coburn, […]

A lawsuit against the executives who sold MySpace parent Intermix to News Corp in 2005 will go to trial after a U.S. federal judge ruled against a motion to dismiss it. The suit accused ex-senior executives and directors of Intermix, and its venture capital backer VantagePoint Venture Partners, of defrauding shareholders of billions of dollars […]

U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday. Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, such seizures may be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing, the newspaper said, quoting policies issued […]

What in the world has gotten into Motorola? For more than a year, Wall Street has lamented its fate. Just this week, industry forecasters predicted the handset maker would have nothing to show for the second quarter other than a hefty net loss and a drop to fourth place in the global phone market after […]

Intel, the world’s biggest microchip producer, expects no slowdown in global demand for personal computers despite economic problems in the United States and in other countries, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said on Wednesday. He also told reporters in Lisbon, where he was to sign a draft deal with the Portuguese government to make 500,000 cheap […]