CIO Insight Staff

In the brave new world of data theft, Visa USA is sitting on the Fort Knox of personal information. Though he won’t say just how much information the 21,000-member association is hording in its top-secret data centers around the world, Mike Dreyer, the executive vice president for technology solutions at Inovant LLC, Visa’s IT subsidiary, […]

These are exciting times for Microsoft Haters. Google is growing in strength, serving up online ads by the bucket, even making headway in the corporate software market. And Apple is back from near oblivion, dominating the online music business and dotting the planet with lily-white iPods. Microsoft’s two fiercest rivals are stronger than ever. And […]

When it comes to medicine, technology always seems to lag behind. Misalignment, mismanagement and other stumbling blocks have made it difficult for healthcare firms to truly realize the benefits technology can bring to the industry. This special industry focus highlights recent advancements in telemedicine, the development of new treatments and, of course, the ongoing push […]

It’s time for Microsoft to put its software where its mouth has been. Late last year, an individual with connections to the open-source community submitted one of Microsoft’s Shared Source licenses to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) for approval as an OSI-sanctioned open-source license. The license submitter, John Cowan, was not a Microsoft employee. At […]

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After nearly a decade’s worth of breathless predictions, futuristic fairy tales and the distant promise of super-streamlined global supply chains, the world has finally grown weary of the relentlessly hyped technology known as RFID. Perhaps the fatigue was inevitable. RFID holds great potential, but the road to adoption is a long and costly one. And […]

Procter & Gamble Co. is a pretty big company. But even with revenues of more than $56 billion last year, and a portfolio of products that includes some of the most successful brands in the consumer-products industry—Pampers, Tide and Crest, to name but a few—P&G’s $57 billion acquisition of Gillette last year turned some heads. […]

IBM on Thursday said it plans to acquire FileNet, a document management and business process management software vendor, in an all-cash deal valued at $1.6 billion–IBM’s 20th acquisition since February around its “information on demand” strategy. FileNet, based in Costa Mesa, Calif., had $421.8 million in revenues for 2005, up 6% compared with the prior […]

Several years ago, while working on a book about changes in media and journalism, I posted the book’s outline on the Web before I began my in-depth reporting and writing. I also posted chapter drafts online. In both cases, my editor and I were looking for ideas, and much more. We wondered what trends or […]

Search is about more than search-engine algorithms. It also must take into account user click-through and browsing behaviors, if search-result accuracy is to be improved. That’s according to Microsoft researchers, who are set to present details regarding some of the analysis techniques that Microsoft Research is developing to help improve search-result quality. The Microsoft researchers […]

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Over nearly two decades of observing technology markets, Pip Coburn has developed a style of analysis that is part philosophy, part psychology. From 1999 to 2005, Coburn headed up UBS’s technology research division, before embarking on his own consulting career. He wrote The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn […]