CIO Insight Staff

Microsoft clearly copied its secrecy-in-product-launch approach from Apple, but the new Windows tablet PC it launched June 18 to compete with the iPad appears to be quite an original piece of work. At an invitation-only media event held at the obscure Milk Studios on Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood, Microsoft unveiled the Surface, a long-awaited competitor […]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has named Maryland’s chief innovation officer, Bryan Sivak, as its HHS chief technology officer. Sivak assumes his new role following the appointment of Todd Park as the federal U.S. chief technology officer by President Obama on March 9. Park succeeded Aneesh Chopra, who is now a senior […]

Apple’s iPad will grow its share of the booming tablet market over its Android-based rivals this year, thanks in large part to new features introduced with the iPad 3 and the company’s decision to reduce the prices further on the iPad 2, according to market research firm IDC. The prediction comes as IDC analysts, citing […]

The seemingly unquenchable thirst for unsubstantiated news concerning Apple products rasps on today with two separate reports predicting Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pros would soon be getting high-definition Retina displays. Mac-centric blog AppleInsider received a note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo saying that Apple would have a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina display on […]

Dell reportedly is making a $2.15 billion bid for Quest Software, two weeks after talks between the two companies had broken off. The $2.15 billion offer would be more than the $2 billion put forth by venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners two months ago, an offer that Quest officials initially agreed to in March. […]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — There’s a lot that businesses still have to ask their cloud service providers before signing up for service, especially about how secure their cloud environment is, the chief operations officer of the Cloud Security Alliance said at a cloud conference here. John Howie explained the security risks associated with cloud computing […]

Microsoft and Symantec are developing a disaster recovery service that leverages Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and Symantec’s storage software to enable businesses to protect critical data in the event of a disaster or failure at a primary data site. The idea behind the "disaster recovery as a service" platform is to give businesses of all […]

Organizations in the U.S. could realize more than $800 million daily savings in wage costs alone with the help of Siri-like search applications, according to a research report from language technology specialist EasyAsk, titled "Improving Performance in the Workplace with Voice-Enabled Natural Language Solutions". Apple’s Siri application works as a virtual, intelligent concierge that responds […]

Nokia will cut 10,000 jobs, or 19 percent of its workforce, by the end of 2013, as part of efforts to improve its operating model and return the company to growth, the phone maker s executives told investors June 14. The plan calls for the closing of a manufacturing facility in Salo, Finland–Nokia’s largest in […]

Cisco Systems, the networking industry leader that others are looking to for guidance on its software-defined networking strategy, introduced a development platform for creating software applications that control networking hardware to run more efficiently. The Cisco Open Network Environment Platform Kit, which the company dubbed onePK, is delivered through a rich set of platform APIs, […]

Apple’s updates to Siri include an in-car solution called Eyes Free, the iPhone maker announced June 11, during the opening day of its Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple already has several high-end carmakers lined up to offer this Siri in the dashboard. Land Rover/Jaguar, BMW, GM, Mercedes, Audi, Toyota, Chrysler and Honda are all on board […]

Juniper Networks is bringing its QFabric networking fabric to midsize businesses, a move that will grow its competition against the likes of Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. Juniper’s QFabric technology is designed to help flatten the data center network, creating a single networking layer that offers high performance, greater scalability and simpler manageability while saving on […]