CIO Insight Staff

SAP introduced new features to its business analytics software products that it says give users richer insights into how to make smarter business decisions based on an analysis of the mountain of big data their business operations generate. The company unveiled new capabilities in feature pack 3 of the SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence 4.0 […]

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the next version of the company’s ubiquitous business application suite, Microsoft Office 2013, you wouldn’t know that a stand-alone version of Microsoft Office would even exist. The whole presentation was about the glories of the cloud-centric products, and how they could be used in concert on multiple devices. The […]

Apple’s iPhone 5 will be launching this fall, according to most reports. And when that happens, the company is expected to offer up everything from a fresh design to a bigger display. Better yet, the device could include 4G LTE service, near-field communication and a host of other improvements that the rumor mill says will […]

Hopefully, Yahoo gets it right this time. The struggling search and Web services provider July 16 named longtime Google engineer and executive Marissa Mayer to be its eighth CEO. Mayer replaces interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, who had subbed eight weeks for Scott Thompson, who served as CEO for four months–January to May 2012–before he was […]

IBM technology is helping fight the common cold. Researchers in Melbourne, Australia, are now simulating in 3D the motion of the complete human rhinovirus (HRV), the most frequent cause of the common cold, using Australia’s fastest supercomputer, an IBM Blue Gene/Q. A new antiviral drug to treat rhinovirus infections is being developed by Melbourne company […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Microsoft introduced the customer preview release of its Office 2013 productivity suite that introduces the concept of Office as a service, noting that all of its features can be accessed via SkyDrive, its cloud storage service. “This is the first round of Office that was designed from the get-go for Office to be a […]

Digg, one of the first successful Internet social news-sharing sites, died a humiliating death earlier this week at the tender age of 8 by being slowly cut into pieces and sold off like a cow. We can’t be reminded of this basic tenet of business too often: If you don’t listen to your customers, you’re […]

Yahoo officials say the vulnerability exploited by hackers that compromised about 450,000 emails and passwords has been fixed. The company confirmed July 12 that hackers had accessed an old file containing the sensitive information belonging to users of the Yahoo Contributor Network. The information was linked to writers who joined Associated Content — now known […]

The environmental group Greenpeace has issued a report raising questions about Apple’s commitment to using 100 percent renewable energy sources to power its facilities, particularly a new data center Apple opened in Maiden, N.C. Greenpeace rescored Apple’s performance, updating an April analysis of the clean energy performance of Apple and several other companies, all of […]

Scores of companies have been promoting themselves as players in the enterprise social networking space of late, but they are not all created equal, with varying business models, approaches to the market and in some cases, a bit of a me-too eagerness. But amid the pretenders are serious contenders that bring a well-thought-out approach to […]