CIO Insight Staff

Oracle said on Tuesday it has created Web-based software designed to help salespeople win more business, its latest attempt to overtake its smaller rival that leads in the field, Salesforce.com. The new programs from the world’s No. 2 publicly held software company adds browser-based technologies and can be customized to run on Research in Motion’s […]

Nortel Networks is about to roll out new technology that lets telecom companies immediately quadruple the capacity of their networks to help them cope with a boom in Internet video, high-definition programming and the use of mobile video phones.  Nortel, North America’s biggest maker of telephone equipment, will announce on Wednesday that it will offer […]

Any takeover bid for peripherals maker Logitech by Microsoft would be "an operation without sense," Logitech’s chairman was quoted as saying in an Italian newspaper on Sunday.   Shares in Swiss-based Logitech rose in January based on speculation Microsoft would launch a takeover bid. Analysts dismissed rumors of an $8 billion takeover bid and Logitech board member […]

Microsoft would not rush to merge its technology platform with Yahoo’s after a takeover of the Internet company, according to the Financial Times, citing an interview with Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie.   Ozzie described technology companies that rush to merge things together as "reckless," according to the paper.   The paper reported that Ozzie […]

Google has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat to U.S. military bases, military and company officials said on Thursday. Gen. Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland defense, said the Pentagon had talked to Google […]

Apple said on Thursday its iPhone soon will support corporate e-mail, targeting a new market and challenging the dominance of Research In Motion’s popular Blackberry devices. Apple also said it will roll out tools for developers to create software for the iPhone, news that was accompanied by a pledge from legendary venture capital firm Kleiner […]

International databases to share information about nuclear and radioactive materials are urgently needed to help deter potential nuclear threats, a team of scientific and policy experts said on Thursday. More than 70 experts from Britain, the United States, Russia, Israel and the rest of Europe said in a report published by Britain’s Royal Society that […]

Google is expected to receive unconditional approval from European Union regulators next week for its $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick, people familiar with the situation said.   The approval has long been expected because the European Commission decided in January not to object formally to the transaction. The Commission, the EU’s top competition watchdog, […]

Savvy office workers frustrated that their on-the-job computer tools don’t function as smoothly as, say, an Apple iPod are taking matters into their own hands. No longer are they relying on company technicians, or information technology (IT) administrators, to choose the software needed to get the job done. They know how to pluck tools right […]

About 23 percent of U.S. mobile phone users have seen advertising on their cell phones in the last 30 days and about half of them responded to the ads, according to a report from Nielsen released on Tuesday.   The number of phone users who recalled seeing mobile ads rose by 38 percent to 58 million […]

Yahoo and media conglomerate Time Warner have stepped up talks to create an alternative to Microsoft’s offer to take over the Web company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.    The paper reported that the talks center on a deal that would fold Time Warner’s AOL Internet unit […]

Everyone talks about the importance of innovation to business, but actual nuts-and-bolts primers on how to innovate are not so common. That’s the turf carved out by Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates, written by Peter Skarzynski, CEO of the Strategos consulting firm, and Rowan Gibson, a business […]