CIO Insight Staff

Advanced Micro Devices will have a growing presence at the San Francisco Giant s ball field over the next three years. Officials with AMD and the Giants announced a multi-year partnership June 26 that will include the baseball team standardizing its customer-facing and corporate computing systems on AMD’s processors, starting with 66 TouchSmart 320m all-in-one […]

While major cloud service providers–such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, Google and soon Microsoft–get all the attention, CloudSigma approaches the market by giving customers more choice on how they can configure their cloud is service. CloudSigma, which was founded in 2009 and launched its service in 2010, lets customers control their own software configurations, network […]

Social media sites are changing the way businesses look for talent, according to a survey of more than 150 HR and recruiting executives, directors and managers conducted in March 2012 by Research Now on behalf of social enterprise talent management specialist Jobscience. Thirty-six percent of survey respondents said they plan to use social media behemoth […]

Businesses are putting themselves at serious risk of data loss or data breach because senior management doesn’t know where company data is stored, a worrying survey from data governance software specialist Varonis Systems indicated. In the survey of more than 400 companies, 67 percent of respondents said that senior management in their organizations either don’t […]

IBM and the All England Club recently launched an all-new interactive digital experience for tennis fans, featuring an enhanced Wimbledon Website powered by IBM analytics and cloud computing technology to help fans better track Wimbledon 2012 results, including Venus Williams’ first first-round defeat in 15 years. The redesigned Wimbledon site enables sports fans on the […]

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion is considering separating its services business from its handset business, either of which it could then potentially sell, The Sunday Times of London reported June 24, though it didn’t cite a source. However, RIM and its supporters are dismissing the report. Amazon and Facebook are said to be potential buyers, with […]

Five years ago, at the end of June 2007, the world of mobile IT changed forever, although few realized it at the time. Who could have guessed that the sales of the first iPhone would ultimately lead to significant productivity gains, new lines of business and new headaches for IT? At first all that the […]

Worried about the loss and theft of classified information on mobile devices, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $21.4 million contract to create a locked-down version of the Android operating system for use in the field, says security firm Invincea, which won the contract. Under the project, dubbed Mobile Armor, the […]

Nokia and Microsoft, since announcing their partnership in February 2011, have been working to convince consumers and professionals that with their smartphone collaboration they re swinging for the highest fence. The partners maintain that these are phones of the most notable craftsmanship and cutting-edge technology–phones that will compete against the Apple iPhone and high-end Android […]

Small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are looking to attract new customers but struggle with implementing a technology infrastructure to manage online stores, which could expose them to a wider audience, according to a survey from business automation and order management solutions specialist Dydacomp, conducted at its annual user conference in Chicago. The survey found more […]

eBay will leverage environmentally friendly fuel cells to power an extension of its data center in Utah and using the electrical grid only as backup. eBay officials said June 21 that they plan to use 30 biogas fuel cells as the only power source for the new facility, which is expected to go online in […]

Microblogging social network Twitter suffered a debilitating denial-of-service attack June 21, beginning at 9:09 a.m. PST and rendering the site inaccessible for intermittent periods for several hours. The site came back up at around 10:06 a.m. PST and then went down for various spans of time after that. An administrator posted the following message and […]