CIO Insight Staff

Telecommuting may boost morale, and cut stress, but it can have the opposite effect on those left behind in the office, according to a new study. When a number of their co-workers toil away from the office by using computers, cell-phones or other electronic equipment, those who do not telecommute are more likely to be […]

In his new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, author Nicholas Carr suggests that the corporate IT organization as we know it is unlikely to survive. This isn’t the first time Carr has written about IT’s potential demise. And when the controversial Carr talks, people listen. And talk back. In […]

Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple’s iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “No, we won’t do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program,” Gates was quoted as saying in the interview published […]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took center stage at the world’s largest technology show for the last time on Sunday and predicted that his industry was on the cusp of the next “digital decade.” Gates, who plans to switch in July to a more limited role at the company he co-founded in 1975 with childhood friend […]

More than half of Americans visited a library in the past year with many of them drawn in by the computers rather than the books, according to a new survey. Of the 53 percent of U.S. adults who said they visited a library in 2007, the biggest users were young adults aged 18 to 30 […]

When disaster strikes, the role of a company’s top IT manager becomes extraordinarily complex. For Sony Electronics CIO Drew Martin, the October wildfires that threatened the company’s San Diego-area headquarters quickly escalated into a critical balancing act. Martin found himself torn between trying to attend to the welfare of the company’s massive information infrastructure while […]

The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday it approved Google’s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of advertising rival DoubleClick. The deal, which combines Google’s dominance in pay-per-click Internet advertising with DoubleClick’s market-leading position in flashier display ads, is also being scrutinized by European antitrust officials. In a 4-1 vote, the FTC decided to end its eight-month […]

A venture led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has applied to bid in an upcoming U.S. auction of coveted wireless airwaves, according to auction documents released late on Tuesday. Allen was listed with an entity called Vulcan Spectrum LLC among the applicants who filed to bid in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction of 700-megahertz […]

A British member of parliament had his Facebook account suspended this week after the popular social networking site decided he wasn’t real. Steve Webb, of the Liberal Democrats, tried to log on on Monday but received a message saying his account had been disabled following complaints he didn’t exist. The news was particularly disconcerting for […]