CIO Insight Staff

A U.S. government auction of wireless airwaves ended on Tuesday raising a record $19.59 billion, but winners of the valuable spectrum were not immediately identified. Analysts view Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, as the most likely winner of a nationwide piece of the airwaves called the "C" block that attracted a […]

Intel and Microsoft committed $20 million over the next five years to create research centers focused on parallel computing at two U.S. universities. The two companies will work with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Berkeley. Together, the two schools will contribute $15 million toward the research centers. Parallel computing allows computers to […]

Google, the world’s leading search engine, said on Monday it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo. Last month, Microsoft proposed buying Yahoo in a deal originally worth $44.6 billion, but Yahoo’s board has rejected the offer, saying it was too low. "We […]

Microsoft and Yahoo met on Monday to discuss Microsoft’s takeover offer for the Internet company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The meeting was said to be the first since Microsoft made its unsolicited offer for Yahoo, worth nearly $42 billion, on January 31. Yahoo rejected the offer as inadequate […]

Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, is sure he has a good handle on where technology is going. When is another story. Mundie, who took over as Microsoft’s lead visionary from co-founder Bill Gates in 2006, is preparing the company for a technology shift that he expects will be as big as the […]

Time Warner’s AOL Internet division said on Thursday it will buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash, bolstering its consumer Internet offerings even as the media conglomerate mulls splitting off the business. Bebo, which claims a global membership of about 40 million users, is the top social network in Britain, Ireland and New […]

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates urged U.S. communications regulators on Thursday to free up more vacant television airwaves to be used for wireless services such as broadband Internet access. During an appearance before a Northern Virginia technology group, Gates said the so-called "white space" spectrum between analog broadcast channels could be used to expand access of wireless […]

A U.S. recession has already started and the downturn is likely to last longer than in the recent past, with the economy recovering only late next year, according to a quarterly survey of corporate finance chiefs released on Wednesday. Fifty-four percent of the CFOs said the United States is in recession, and another 24 percent […]

YouTube, Google’s popular video sharing site, is giving away tools that let Web developers tap the underlying database functions of YouTube, in effect allowing users to build their own YouTubes.  The Silicon Valley-based video-sharing site said on Wednesday that it is providing wholesale access to YouTube’s extensive video library, global audience, and the underlying video […]

The number of Internet TV subscribers more than doubled in 2007 to 12.3 million worldwide, driven by western Europe where some broadband suppliers offered the service for free, according to a report. Western Europe, led by France, accounted for 57 percent of global IPTV subscribers, research firm Informa Telecoms & Media said in a report […]

Rupert Murdoch said on Monday his News Corp would not get into a fight with Microsoft over Yahoo, confirming what most industry and Wall Street observers suspected.   Murdoch’s company has been in talks with Yahoo over a transaction to combine News Corp’s MySpace social network and other Internet assets with Yahoo, a source familiar with […]