CIO Insight Staff

A recent Gartner study finds that corporate monitoring of employee behavior on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn will rise to 60 percent by 2015, as businesses look to crack down on potential security breaches and other incidents. The report notes that the old way of monitoring employee activity, mainly through internal […]

South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, Mass., has agreed to a $750,000 settlement for a 2010 data breach involving lost backup files containing personal idenifying information such as names and social security numbers, as well as health records, for 800,000 individuals. The hospital informed the Massachusetts attorney general’s office of a breach in July 2010 […]

Dell has introduced three new all-in-one (AiO) PCs featuring the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors, minimized footprints with one-cord designs and what it’s calling "timeless" aesthetics that it hopes will continue to appeal to users over the long term in office and home computing environments. The XPS One 27 is the highest-end and largest AiO […]

Over the long term, iPads cannibalizing Macs will significantly benefit Apple’s bottom line, according to a May 30 research note from Piper Jaffray analysts. Over the next 10 years, the analysts expect sales of tablets, to surpass those of PCs, with the Apple iPad continuing to dominate. "We believe Apple maintaining its majority (60 percent […]

The United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union is warning member nations to be on guard for the newly identified Flame malware, according to a report. Also known as Skywiper and Flamer, the malware has been discovered on systems in the Middle East, and has hit Iran the hardest. The discovery prompted Iran’s National Computer Emergency Response […]

Smartphones accounted for 71 percent of overall mobile handset sales in May 2012, with basic feature phones representing only 28 percent of sales, according to a survey from iGR, a market strategy consultancy focused on the wireless and mobile communications industry. The survey, which polled more than 1,000 U.S. consumers, also finds that smartphone purchasers […]

Hewlett-Packard is 73 years old. Until 1999, most of its top leaders had been people brought up through the ranks, like at IBM. During the past 13 years, however, its last four CEOs have not been trained and nurtured in "The HP Way."  This is no longer the company of David Packard, Bill Hewlett, John […]

Felix Roque, mayor of the Hudson County town of West New York, NJ, and his son Joseph Roque were arrested May 24, 2012, for gaining unauthorized access to computers in furtherance of causing damage to protected computers, causing damage to protected computers, and conspiracy to commit those crimes. The city of West New York, NJ, […]

Dell reportedly is considering buying Quest Software, whose offerings are designed to help businesses in a number of key areas, including database, server and user workspace management as well as data protection and backup, performance monitoring, and identity and access management. An acquisition of Quest would be the latest step by Dell in its efforts […]

Rumors and reports are circulating that he Microsoft Office software suite will be available in November 2012 on the Apple iPad as well as the multiple tablet brands running the Google Android mobile OS. The latest report about versions of Microsoft Office for tablets was posted by the blog Boy Genius Report. However, we’ve seen […]

This installment of CIOs on the Move is marked by 10 IT executive departures among the 18 organizations featured, including 3M, Lowe’s and the U.S. Department of State. Eight of these companies are actively seeking new IT leaders. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO Insight by the researchers at DiscoverOrg, which provides […]

Hewlett-Packard, fresh off a tough day May 23 in which it announced a whopping 27,000 job cuts over the next two years, continues to revisit its overall mission, evaluate all its businesses, and stabilize its leadership. Can’t argue with those best executive-type practices. Looking closer at the job cut details, it looks very much like […]