CIO Insight Staff

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government suffered new embarrassment over missing data on Monday when it revealed one of its contractors had lost the details of 3 million learner drivers. The revelation came weeks after the government admitted it had lost computer discs containing the names and bank account details of 25 million people, exposing […]

Companies Slip Into Slowdown Mode Spending on services, projects will be hit first; staff spending to follow at large companies. Economic worries, big budgets and suspicion about excessive IT spending will compel CIOs at many large companies to tighten their belts. Smaller companies are less concerned about IT costs and more optimistic about the economy […]

U R dumped. One in seven say they have suffered the same fate as Britney Spears’ ex-husband and been told it’s all over via text message or email, a survey said on Friday. While hiding behind technology might appear a cowardly way of splitting up, it contrasts with the four percent who simply drop all […]

Virtualization Becomes a Foundation Technology CIOs are convinced of the business value of virtualization. Half of IT organizations have implemented server virtualization; 20 percent to 30 percent have deployed storage, PC or application virtualization. Those numbers are likely to go up, given the economy and how well virtualization has met expectations for reducing costs. Virtualization […]

Identity Theft Epidemic Pressures IT Regulations and public outrage will force a clampdown on sloppy physical security practices. The problem of identity theft–the loss of millions of individuals’ personal data around the world–will get much worse. That means huge losses for consumers and companies, and tighter data privacy regulations. IT executives don’t expect technical solutions […]

No Downturn for CIO Role, Central IT The strategic CIO/central IT organization model for IT management will continue to dominate. Some question whether CIOs are strategic or will remain important as other executives grow more knowledgeable about IT. Others doubt that a strong, central corporate IT function will remain necessary as software services gain ground, […]

Top online auctioneer eBay said on Wednesday it would appeal a U.S. court ruling in a patent dispute with MercExchange. MercExchange, which holds several patents related to Internet-based auctions and markets, said earlier that a U.S. district court in Norfolk, Virginia, found on Tuesday that eBay had intentionally infringed its patents. EBay said in a […]

Business process modeling, collective intelligence and green IT are the new technologies that will have the biggest impact on the next decade. As part of this year’s top trends survey, we asked IT executives to predict the most important technological developments five to 10 years from now. Most of the technologies mentioned have started to […]

First Nicholas Carr dropped a bombshell of a book, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, which argued that corporate IT is increasingly becoming a commodity. Now he’s back with a provocative new tome, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google (W. W. Norton, 2008), wherein he makes […]

Web search site Ask.com is launching a feature that allows users to delete data on their search queries in an effort to bolster personal privacy while surfing the Internet. A link titled AskEraser will be featured on the site’s home page and all search results pages, with a clear choice to signal whether the feature […]