CIO Insight Staff

LinkedIn is the target of a $5 million class-action suit that claims the social networking site s data security measures were ineffective, resulting in about 6.5 million user passwords being stolen by a hacker. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California on behalf of Illinois resident Katie Szpyrka, claims that while LinkedIn […]

IBM is busy these days taking its celebrated Watson knowledge base and user application to the markets. The first three verticals it has targeted are ones that are often groundbreakers when it comes to new IT: financial services, health care and government. The company isn’t at liberty just yet to talk about how Watson may […]

Now HP and Dell know what they’re up against when they start to build tablet computers to run the new Windows 8 operating system, and it s not just the tablet king Apple iPad, but their own software partner Microsoft and its new Surface tablet. Rather than just rely on original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such […]

Salesforce.com applications have been used by mobile workers for a long time to conduct their business on the road. But a new "mobile-first" approach by the company will now likely make it easier for developers to build Salesforce apps with a mobile focus. That’s the idea behind the company’s recently released Summer ’12 Salesforce application […]

American vacationers feel anxious when traveling without their mobile computing device and get angry when they cannot access power sources to charge these devices, according to Intel’s Tech Norms for Travelers survey, commissioned by TNS to explore American attitudes towards travel and technology. Privacy, or lack thereof, is also a major point of annoyance for […]

As the first wave of bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives gain traction in the workplace, the first generation of BYOD participants could pose a serious risk to corporate IT networks, according to a surveys from network security specialist Fortinet. The study, conducted in 15 territories during May/June 2012, asked more 3,800 active employees in […]

Roughly 9,500 new malicious sites are caught and flagged by Google every day, according to statistics released by the company on June 19. The statistics come from the company’s Safe Browsing initiative, which it started five years ago to combat malicious content on the Web. At the time, the primary goal was to safeguard Google’s […]

The PC market should expect no miracles this year, research firm IDC shared in a June 19 report. Pointing to global economic uncertainty and increasing competition from alternate devices such as tablets, the research firm is expecting only modest growth. Shipments by year s end are forecast to near 383 million units. While PC shipments […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that for the third consecutive year, IDC has ranked Big Blue No. 1 in worldwide market share for enterprise social software. According to IDC’s analysis of 2011 revenue, IBM grew faster than its competitors and nearly two times faster than the overall market which grew approximately 40 percent, IBM said. The […]

Here at eWEEK, we knew it would happen. Microsoft was going to announce a new tablet June 18, and it would be something that Apple couldn’t really compete against. But the Microsoft Surface is much more than just a tablet, and it s much more than just another iPad clone. Microsoft, in what had to […]

Sandia National Laboratories, a multi-program laboratory operated by Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sandia Corp., opened the Cybersecurity Technologies Research Laboratory (CTRL), a center for cybersecurity professionals from the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country to meet and discuss critical cyber research issues. The lab is on the grounds of the Livermore Valley Open Campus, […]

Organizations need to shield themselves from the rising threat of cyber-attacks and sophisticated sabotage directed at IT infrastructure, according to a report issued by security specialist McAfee and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a federal contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy. The report examines the challenges facing infrastructure and resources as well as identifying […]