CIO Insight Staff

Apple hasn’t yet launched its iPhone 5, despite hopes that it would do so last year before it offered up the iPhone 4S. But that doesn t mean the company won’t do it this year. In fact, rumors abound, suggesting Apple will launch the iPhone 5 this year. The stage is set, according to the […]

IBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced a major step forward in a new, simpler era of computing with the introduction of a new category of "expert integrated systems" that some say represents as big a move for the company as when IBM introduced the mainframe 50 years ago. Ambuj Goyal, general manager of development in IBM’s Systems […]

Moving an enterprise to the cloud is all about hybrid approaches. It has to be, because very few companies are willing to ditch their current onsite IT for a complete offload to a subscription system or systems run by someone else. Hewlett-Packard is as aware of these "take-one-bite-at-a-time" corporate initiatives as anybody. On April 10, […]

The way Facebook and Instagram tell it, it s unclear who did the proposing and who said “I do.” What is clear is that the social-networking site is purchasing the photo-sharing app for $1 billion. “We couldn t be happier to announce that Instagram has agreed to be acquired by Facebook,” Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom […]

Anonymous hackers reportedly are putting the Chinese and British governments back into their crosshairs. A person claiming to be part of the Anonymous China group that attacked hundreds of Chinese government and commercial sites and defaced many of them last week said the hackers are gearing up for similar efforts in the country in hopes […]

For the admittedly limited number of Microsoft Vista fans out there, your time is running out. Microsoft plans to retire mainstream support for the much-maligned operating system this week as well as for Office 2007. Microsoft said it would offer extended support for both systems until 2017, but is making the effort to get users […]

Although Apple’s latest version of the iPad is continuing to sell like hotcakes and draw headlines, attention has now shifted, in part, to the probable release date of the iPhone 5. Apple has historically released an updated version of the handset in June–that is, until the release of the iPhone 4S in October 2011. If […]

Google CEO Larry Page posted a 2012 Update on the company’s Investor Relations page, talking up the decisions he’s made over the last year, what Google is and isn’t doing, and the excitement that he says underscores the work Googlers do. Google, he suggested, is a big company with the soul of a startup. “Since […]

Apple is continuing to fight back against a Trojan that has infected more than 600,000 Mac computers, reportedly issuing a second patch this week. The latest update, issued April 6 and called Java for OS X 2012-002, is substantially the same as the first one issued for the Flashback Trojan, though it appears to apply […]

For IT managers at organizations large and small, the new iPad comes with new IT management challenges along with the added features. While the 2,048- by 1,536-pixel resolution Retina display was the most visible enhancement to the newest Apple iPad, the device’s underlying iOS 5 operating system, optional iCloud service, and optional hotspot capabilities should be […]

The hacker collaborative Anonymous reportedly is now turning its sights on Chinese government agencies and enterprises, apparently hoping to foment unrest among Chinese citizens. The group, which now apparently has a presence in China, claims to have hacked into and defaced hundreds of national and local government and business Websites, carrying messages decrying what the […]

With news of the Flashback Trojan impacting more than 600,000 Macs around the world, security related to Apple’s Mac OS X platform has stepped back into the spotlight. Security researchers and software vendors are licking their lips over the potential business opportunity this situation presents. Meanwhile, the situation has put Apple in a bad light […]