CIO Insight Staff

A public advocacy group won another legal round Feb. 11 in its efforts to force the White House to reveal the whereabouts of millions of missing Bush administration e-mails. Rejecting the White House Office of Administration’s contention that it is not subject to Freedom of Information Act requests, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the […]

Comcast has told U.S. regulators it uses reasonable measures to manage traffic moving over its broadband service as some of its customers overwhelm the network by using file-sharing applications like BitTorrent.   In an 80-page filing with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, Comcast gave its most detailed explanation of how it manages Internet […]

Yahoo’s second-biggest investor urged Microsoft to raise its $42 billion bid for the Web pioneer and warned Yahoo it has few options left, raising the pressure on them to seal a deal. In a quarterly letter to investors released on Tuesday, Bill Miller, the star stock-picker at U.S. asset manager Legg Mason, estimated fair value […]

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is in talks to combine MySpace and other Internet properties with Yahoo to fend off Microsoft’s $42.1 billion bid, according to several reports.   One proposal under discussion would value the MySpace online social network at around $6 billion to $10 billion and would give News Corp a more than 20 percent […]

A major outage hit BlackBerry users in North America on Monday, cutting off wireless e-mail for everyone from busy executives to political campaign staff on the eve of three U.S. presidential primaries. The problem, which BlackBerry owner Research In Motion described as a "critical severity outage" affecting users in the Americas, once again raised concerns […]

Motorola and Nortel are in talks to combine their wireless infrastructure units, the Wall Street Journal reported, quoting people familiar with the situation.   The talks could create a joint venture with sales of around $10 billion, combining businesses that make network equipment for wireless phone carriers, the newspaper said. Motorola said in January it was exploring […]

Texas Instruments said on Monday it would demonstrate a prototype cell phone based on Android, the highly anticipated mobile phone operating system being built by Web search leader Google.   The U.S. chip maker said the phone it will demonstrate at the Mobile World Congress trade show has "one button access" to key applications such as […]

Yahoo is seeking to restart merger talks with AOL as a means of defending itself against an unsolicited bid approach from Microsoft, the Times newspaper said on Monday. The paper, without citing sources, said Yahoo was also considering tie-ups with groups such as Google and Disney. It said Yahoo and AOL had previously tried to […]

At a time when executives are barraged with lessons on the art and science of leadership, management expert and Harvard lecturer Barbara Kellerman points out that you can’t have leaders without followers. In her new book, Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders, Kellerman argues that the power of the rank and file […]

Line managers and staff have grown more involved in technology decision-making, and users are dabbling with plenty of software on their own. But in terms of actual IT spending, IT organizations remain the masters of their domain. Our 2008 IT Spending Survey finds that 86 cents out of every dollar companies spend on IT comes […]