CIO Insight Staff

Intel’s release of its new 22-nanometer Ivy Bridge chips and the aggressive ramp schedule the company has set for the technology illustrates the advantages Intel has in being both a processor designer and manufacturer, according to executives and analysts. Intel still spends billions to build its chip-making facilities–or fabs– at a time when more competitors […]

Forrester Research expects iPads and other tablets to become the preferred, primary device for millions of people, analyst Frank Gillett wrote in a an April 23 blog post, which also announced that the research firm will be sharing the prediction in an upcoming report, “Tablets Will Rule the Future Personal Computing Landscape.” Big screens–7 inches […]

The Mac Flashback malware continues to haunt users, with a new variant recently found in operation, according to Mac security software vendor Intego. The new variant, Flashback.S, uses the same vulnerability in Java that the previous versions had exploited, but it operates in a slightly different way, Intego researchers said in an April 23 post […]

Microsoft will deliver another pre-release version of Windows 8 in June the company announced late Monday. Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows unit made the announcement at a Windows Developer Days event in Japan and tweeted it on the Build Windows 8 Twitter feed. Sinofsky said Microsoft will deliver a Windows 8 Release Preview in […]

Microsoft server and application upgrades dominate this roundup of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop. A Microsoft OCS server installation, a Sharepoint 2010 rollout, a transition to Office 365 cloud services are all among the recent efforts undertaken by the 15 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies highlighted here. Information for this feature is provided exclusively to CIO […]

Adobe Systems has launched Adobe Creative Cloud, a new way of providing tools and services for creative professionals. The Adobe Creative Cloud is a subscription-based offering that is a hub for making, sharing and delivering creative work. The technology is focused on the new release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 software, which features new design, […]

Supercomputing and big data have taken yet another step forward in leading to new treatment for cancer. Schr dinger, a company that offers molecular-modeling and drug-design software, and Nimbus Discovery are using Cycle Computing’s 50,000-core supercomputer to run a virtual screen to find a protein target responsible for cancer. Schr dinger helps fund the work […]

Information and communication technology specialist Fujitsu announced the development of software offerings that help customers utilize big data, which consist of two product families: a line of parallel distributed processing and complex event processing products, standard technologies in big data applications, and a line of products to employ big data in a range of uses. […]

In this installment of CIOs on the Move, we cover executive changes at 18 organizations, including new IT leaders for Citigroup, Experian, and Kaiser Permanente. In addition, two of the organizations in this week’s roundup are actively seeking IT leaders and one – JC Penney – has eliminated the CIO position altogether. Information is provided […]

As part of National Stress Awareness Month, which kicked off on April 1, GFI Software announced the results of its IT Admin Stress Survey, which found that 67 percent of IT administrators have considered switching careers due to job stress. Managers, users (employees), and tight deadlines were cited as the biggest job stressors. Survey results […]

Hewlett-Packard officials are saying that the number of vulnerabilities in commercial applications is continuing to fall, dropping almost 20 percent between 2010 and 2011. However, while the downward trend in vulnerabilities is good news, the risks involved in those vulnerabilities is growing, and cyber-attacks themselves more than doubled in the second half of the year, […]

For the first time in its four days, the Oracle v. Google software copyright court case in San Francisco did not feature testimony by a CEO. But a key player from Google did speak to the judge and jury April 19 about a crucial email he wrote. Oracle attorney David Boies showed several Google emails […]