CIO Insight Staff

New York is suing Sprint Nextel for $300 million, claiming the wireless network giant has underpaid and under-collected sales and local sales taxes on its calling plans for more than seven years as part of a larger effort to gain an edge over such competitors as AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. By not collecting sales taxes […]

Customer, student, employee and patient information is most at risk for cyber-attacks today, and defending that data is a top concern for IT professionals this year, according to the Data Loss Straw Poll, a national survey published by CDW, a provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and health care. Concern about data loss […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to give communications service providers and businesses the tools to better deal with the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend by enabling employees to safely access corporate data. HP officials on April 18 said they are launching a mobile apps store that enables service providers and enterprises to create, distribute and manage mobile versions of […]

After treating it as a footnote in a post on the upcoming Windows 8 editions earlier this week, Microsoft has shed more light on Windows 8 Enterprise. In an April 18 blog post, Erwin Visser, senior director of Windows at Microsoft, said Windows 8 Enterprise features include all the capabilities that customers get with Windows […]

Verizon Wireless is planning to auction off its 700MHz A and B licenses, the mobile communications company announced on April 18. The company currently operates its Long-Term Evolution (LTE) data service on 700MHz block C spectrum. According to Philip Junker, executive director of business development for Verizon Wireless, the sale of the 700MHz spectrum will […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced first-quarter 2012 profits of $3.1 billion, spurred by increases in software, services and growth markets. IBM’s first-quarter net income of $3.1 billion when compared with $2.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011 represents an increase of 7 percent. Meanwhile, total revenue for the first quarter of 2012 of $24.7 billion […]

Day two of the Oracle versus Google intellectual property argument over who owns which part of the open-source Java programming language featured testimony by a couple of key Larrys and Google’s first defense against Oracle’s opening-day barrage of charges in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison appeared to be […]

The number of Apple Mac systems infected with the Flashback malware has dropped to about 140,000 worldwide, though officials with security software vendor Symantec said that number seems to be tapering off. At its height earlier this month, the Flashback exploit had infected more than 600,000 Macs–more than 1 percent of the systems in use […]

At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2012 conference, Microsoft announced new media services and guidance to better enable content providers and customers better tap into the power of cloud computing. Microsoft’s new cloud-based Windows Azure Media Services makes creating, managing and delivering media to any device easier by providing a comprehensive set of ready-to-use […]

A new security tool developed by Department of Energy engineers is designed to give security and IT administrators the ability to more quickly identify and respond to an issue on the network. Hone is the brainchild of Glenn Fink, a senior research scientist with the Secure Cyber Systems Group at the DOE s Pacific Northwest […]

Microsoft announced the three official versions for the upcoming release of Windows: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. In an April 16 post on the Windows Team Blog, Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows communications manager at Microsoft, laid out details on the three versions of Windows 8, which actually turn out to be four […]

Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs came out swinging hard at Google on April 16 in his opening argument as the company began its $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against the Web services giant in federal district court in San Francisco. Jacobs, a partner in the Palo Alto, Calif.-based (APIs) Morrison & Foerster law firm, attempted to convince […]