CIO Insight Staff

Hateful text messages, abusive e-mails and cyber-gossip are giving bullies new power over their victims — even in the supposed safety of their own homes, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. And most of the victims are themselves new, with two-thirds of children who report such harassment saying they had not been bullied before in other […]

Dell said on Tuesday it will sell Google search devices to help companies find information on their networks. Dell said it would sell Google Search Appliance starting at $30,000 and the Google Mini starting at $1,995 to U.S. corporate customers and small businesses. Dell already offers personal computers with Google’s desktop search software. The Google-made […]

Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it will open its network to any phone or software application by the end of 2008, becoming the first major U.S. mobile service to cave in to demands by Google Inc. Google had pushed for U.S. wireless operators to open up access to their networks by successfully lobbying the U.S. […]

Tired of traffic jams, late trains, packed buses? Telecommuting can be a big plus for workers and employers because it boosts morale and job satisfaction and cuts stress, researchers said on Monday. In an analysis of 46 studies on telecommuting, researchers found that working away from the office by using computers, cell phones or other […]

IBM is staking out a major new source of business helping clients like banks or retailers manage data centers on a par with Internet players such as Google or Microsoft, a top official said on Wednesday. Bill Zeitler, the executive in charge of IBM’s hardware business, said the initiative to set up customers with the […]

What does the survey measure? CIO Insight’s 2007 Vendor Value Survey measures how U.S.-based IT executives generally perceive the value of their vendors’ product and service offerings, and those executives’ overall satisfaction with the support these vendors provide. How were the vendors selected? The published results include only vendors which received 45 or more qualified […]

Additional quick peeks at the biggest winners and losers in the Vendor Value survey: Most Frequently Voted Excellent or Poor Although our ratings report the percentages who rate a vendor as either “excellent” or “good,” the respondents are given four choices: “excellent,” “good,” “fair” and “poor”. This is the one set of charts in our […]

Successful projects are managed differently from really successful projects, says Jane C. Linder in her new book, Spiral Up ( … And Other Management Secrets Behind Wildly Successful Initiatives) (Amacom, 2007). Linder, a former Harvard Business School professor and technology industry executive, interviewed scores of managers to distill the essence of initiatives with a transformative […]

Microsoft fired CIO Stuart Scott earlier this month for violating corporate policies. “We can confirm that Stuart Scott was terminated after an investigation for violation of company policies, and have no further information to share,” a Microsoft spokesman e-mailed blogger Mary Jo Foley, who first reported the firing. Microsoft posted a note Monday on its […]

Second Life experimentation aside, major retail chain Tweeter is wondering if 3-D e-commerce might prove to be practical and a major advance for shoppers. When discussing the possible future intersection for e-commerce and 3-D interactive environments with realistic avatars, the line between Web transactions and science fiction gets blurry. But consider this scenario. A consumer […]

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