CIO Insight Staff

Click here to download eWEEK’s Daily News Podcast for July 14 In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: HP develops a tiny chip that could become a stickable data dot on paper documents and retail products; Intel prepares dual-core Itanium to coincide with “Conroe” version of Core 2 notebook chips; AMD is ready with its “4×4” […]

In spite of the vague public wording around its Windows Vista and Office 2007 release plans, Microsoft is continuing to tell its hardware and software partners that its goal is to release the two products simultaneously in January. In March, Microsoft announced publicly that it would not meet internal deadlines that would allow it to […]

Microsoft will show off some of its Windows Live search projects at the annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit next week. On July 17 and 18, Microsoft researchers, product group engineers and architects and invited academic researchers from around the world will convene in Redmond, Wash., to discuss everything from bioinformatics and e-science to nomadic computing […]

Drugstore.com, the $263 million, Bellevue, Wash.-based online pharmacy “has a lot of the same problems every other company has,” says Don Allan, senior director of IT operations. “We’re trying to manage the most equipment with the smallest staff, for example.” And because the company is public, it must adhere to a bevy of federal regulations, […]

In the latest in a string of high-profile data disclosures, the brokerage services group of ADP (Automatic Data Processing) last week said “an unauthorized party impersonated officers” at an undisclosed number of public companies to obtain investor information between November 2005 and February 2006. The company, based in Roseland, N.J., did not say how many […]

Will Microsoft soon be charged $2.5 million a day for allegedly flouting the European Union’s demand to provide documentation about Windows’ inner workings? Microsoft officials are preparing for that scenario, according to an e-mail update from a member of Microsoft’s legal department. The Microsoft-EU case will heat up during the next few weeks, starting on […]

If its $2.1 billion bid for RSA Security goes through, EMC officially can’t be called a “data storage” vendor anymore. The Hopkinton, Mass., company adds RSA as part of steadily rounding out its offerings, staking out a broad area of information management and security infrastructure. The companies, which announced the deal late on Thursday afternoon, […]

Disruption in business is the focus of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who has carried out groundbreaking research into how small, underestimated companies can disrupt and unseat established and seemingly invincible firms. Christensen has raised flags of both warning and hope for big companies with books titled “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” “The Innovator’s Solution” and […]

Limitations with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology have delayed a nationwide rollout at supermarket giant Tesco by several years. Tesco had planned to install RFID tags and readers in 1,400 shops and 30 distribution centers by the middle of this year, but has so far completed just 40 stores and one depot.Instead of tagging individual […]

Following a series of seemingly nonstop theft-of-data problems from quite a few government agencies recently (Veterans Affairs, IRS, Agriculture, Federal Trade Commission and the Navy), the White House has given agencies 45 days to implement new safety procedures. The new security guidelines were issued June 28 by the White House Office of Management and Budget. […]

Chances are, someone in your company thinks the information-technology department isn’t nimble enough. One-third of business executives believe their I.T. departments have “significant difficulties” or “can’t keep up at all” with the pace of change in the business, according to a survey released this month by the Business Performance Management Forum, a marketing group backed […]

A rash of security breaches has hit the headlines recently, chief among them the theft of a Department of Veterans Affairs’ laptop with data on 26.5 million vets. Perhaps the best advice on how to respond if your company is caught in the line of fire comes from one that has been there itself: consumer […]