CIO Insight Staff

From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America’s classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves. Just ask 11-year-old Jemella Chambers. She is one of 650 students who receive an Apple laptop each day at a state-funded school in Boston. From […]

India’s telecoms ministry does not see any security risk from Research In Motion’s popular BlackBerry e-mail service and has no plans to shut the service, a top government official said on Wednesday. Indian security agencies have said the BlackBerry e-mail device could be used by militants to send e-mails that could not be traced or […]

U.S. consumers who want the new iPhone but cannot or do not want to sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T will eventually be able to buy it for an extra $400. Apple has said the new iPhone will go on sale July 11 at $199 for the model with 8 gigabytes of storage and $299 […]

Microsoft is preparing a new bid for Yahoo’s search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo’s breakup, the Wall Street Journal said. Microsoft has already held talks with Time Warner and News Corp, among others, the newspaper quoted people familiar with the discussions as […]

Steve Ballmer has been CEO at Microsoft for eight years, but he will finally get to move into the corner office vacated by Bill Gates, the college friend who brought him to the company nearly three decades ago. The pressure of leading the world’s largest software maker will only escalate in the wake of a […]

A major consumer group, insurers together with Google and Microsoft said on Wednesday they have agreed to standards intended to speed adoption of personal electronic health records. The electronic medical record field remains in its infancy. While U.S. privacy laws govern actions by medical providers such as doctors, there is little in the way of […]

Sensing the start of a personal computer revolution, Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to start Microsoft and pursue a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. Three decades later, Gates is set to step down on Friday from what is now the world’s largest software company to […]

Radio frequency identification chips (RFID) used to track and trace products could cause critical care medical devices such as pacemakers and ventilators to fail, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday. Electromagnetic interference from the chips caused 22 problems that could endanger patients, ranging from completely stopping syringe pumps to switching off ventilators, said Erik Jan van […]

Should an employee get paid for reading a BlackBerry at the dinner table, sending an office e-mail or posting a job-related blog at home? A spat at ABC News over paying writers to check their BlackBerries on their own time recently raised the issue, and such a dispute marks the leading edge of a deluge […]

Rabble-rousing investors are an increasingly familiar, if unwelcome, sight for the boards of Internet and media companies like Yahoo and CNET. But these activist shareholders may next set their sights on IT hardware companies, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said in a research note Monday. Sacconaghi specifically identified three companies–storage equipment maker EMC, printer maker Lexmark […]

Google was named on Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company’s business software unit copied a tiny start-up’s tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google’s. LimitNone LLC filed a complaint in an Illinois circuit court alleging that Google at first began promoting the smaller firm’s tool for migrating Microsoft […]

The Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it wants to auction a section of wireless airwaves to buyers willing to provide free broadband Internet service without pornography. The agency asked for public comment on its plan to auction an unused portion of the wireless spectrum with the condition that the winning bidder offer free Internet […]