CIO Insight Staff

As large corporations wrestle with social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to sell their goods and services to an online, socially-interconnected audience, the temptation to write paid or fake reviews of products will grow, according to IT research firm Gartner. The company’s report predicts enterprise spending on paid social media ratings and reviews would […]

Apple is expected to sell quite a few iPhone 5 handsets this year. Investment firm Jefferies has calculated that 170 million global smartphone subscribers will come out of their contracts in the second half of 2012, and 450 million more will do so in 2013. Contracts aside, Topeka Capital analyst Brian White expects the iPhone […]

Apple sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in the first 24 hours that it was available for preorder. This was more than double the record set by the iPhone 4S nearly a year ago, Apple said in a Sept. 17 statement.  AT&T announced the same morning that customers had ordered record numbers of […]

Hewlett-Packard, a year out from its failed attempts at webOS-based mobile devices, is looking to make a move back into the booming smartphone space, according to CEO Meg Whitman. In an interview with Fox Business News, Whitman said that given the trend toward consumers and businesses worldwide embracing smartphones as key computing devices–including in emerging […]

Electronic health records data is often "inaccurate" or "missing," Columbia University researchers have found, according to an article published in the Journal of the Medical Informatics Association. "Significant bias" could result from use of EHRs if they’re used "naively," according to the report, which was published online Sept. 6. The authors include Dr. George Hripcsak, […]

Apple fresh off of its launch of the iPhone 5 and Google continue to grow their dominance in the mobile marketplace, having positioned themselves to capture as much as 98 percent of mobile device sales by the end of 2012. That bold prediction comes from financial research firm Global Equities Research, just a day after […]

Security is expected to remain an IT budget priority in the coming years, according to a survey from technology analytics firm Gartner, with worldwide spending on security infrastructure to rise 8.4 percent to $60 billion in 2012. Despite a continuing economic slowdown that has been putting pressure on IT budgets around the world, the Gartner […]

Intel officials are pushing forward with a concept they call transparent computing, the idea that developers should be able to create applications that can run across multiple mobile platforms and operating systems. Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Software Services Group, outlined the idea during her keynote address Sept. 12 at […]

Apple’s iPhone 5 was unveiled in San Francisco on Sept. 12 to a crowd filled with special guests and journalists. The device, as expected by the rumor mill, came with a host of improvements, including a larger Retina display, a new design, and 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) service. In many ways, it’s the device that […]

Small and midsize businesses are finding value in adoption and use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+, but are also experiencing frustration as they try to overcome the challenges inherent in getting the most from their investment, according to a recent survey of 400 SMB decision makers by Vocus, a provider […]

Apple officially introduced an LTE-equipped iPhone 5 Sept. 12, as analysts have long expected. The smartphone is nearly all that the rumors have led the world to anticipate–aside from the absence of near-field communication technology–and again proved Apple’s mastery at marketing its products. The most notable change is the increase to the iPhone’s display size–it […]

There is a strong correlation between successful businesses and a well-defined data strategy, according to a survey sponsored by business intelligence and analytics solutions provider SAS. The global survey, Big Data: Lessons From the Leaders, was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and looks at where the more than 700 companies surveyed stand in their […]