CIO Insight Staff

Verizon said on Friday it would use the airwaves it acquired in a government auction last month to help launch more advanced wireless broadband services, which it said would debut around 2010.   In a telephone conference with analysts and investors, the chief executives of Verizon and Verizon Wireless said the $9.36 billion worth of new 700 […]

News Corp’s MySpace, the world’s largest social network Web site, said it has formed an online music venture with three major recording companies in a challenge to Apple’s dominant iTunes Music Store. Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group have minority stakes in the new MySpace Music venture announced on […]

Google confirmed on Thursday it had been an active bidder in recent U.S. auctions for licenses to create a national wireless network and that it will weigh in as regulators set new rules.   In a statement, the Internet services leader said it planned to remain active in rule-making by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that […]

Red Hat and Novell will soon face more competition from a small rival, Ubuntu Linux, in the market for open-source software programs that run server computers. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, said on Wednesday that Sun Microsystems would soon certify that his software is compatible with some Sun products. Sun is the first of […]

Comcast the largest U.S. cable television operator, said on Wednesday it has started offering a super-fast Internet service that allows customers to download a high-definition movie in 10 minutes. The new premium service was launched in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and marks a leap in connection speeds for Comcast. The new service […]

IBM said on Wednesday it would become the first company to host private regions of the virtual world Second Life on its own computer servers. The project is in testing and will go live within several weeks. It marks a new focus by Second Life’s parent company, Linden Lab, on providing software and services to […]

Google has lost another member of its executive team as CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving to join music company EMI. EMI said in a statement on Wednesday that as president of its digital music business, Merrill will head a new global function including digital strategy, technology and business development. "I have two passions. One is […]

Intel is rolling out five new Atom microprocessors and a collection of chips designed for portable gadgets that access the Internet and for other uses, as the world’s largest chipmaker uses its marketing muscle to help create a new market. The low-power, tiny Atom chips will come in speeds of up to 1.86 gigahertz and […]

The founder of virtual world Second Life sought to reassure U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that the online community is able to police itself. Second Life founder Philip Rosedale and a handful of other virtual reality experts, testified at a House of Representatives hearing that was also attended by on-line personas, or avatars, portrayed on a […]

If you rushed to the Internet to book one of airline Virgin Blue’s "no chair fares" for half price as advertised in Australian newspapers on Tuesday there was one message on their Web site — April Fools! Various companies and media organizations got into the swing of April 1 when pranks are allowed until noon […]

Making sense of Web culture–and finding ways to capitalize on it–is the focus of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, a new book written by Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. In this excerpt, the authors discuss ways of evaluating new generations of social technology as they emerge. First, [keep in […]