CIO Insight Staff

Avaya officials are pushing a cloud strategy for communications that will let enterprises, service providers and others build and use Avaya-based collaboration solutions in public, private and hybrid clouds. The Avaya Collaborative Cloud framework was a central part of the keynote speech at the Enterprise Connect 2012 show in Orlando, Fla., given March 27 by […]

Microsoft announced that the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update is now available for download. The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 update was made available on March 26. The tools are the final version of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) Microsoft released last month, and they enable Windows Phone developers to build apps that work well on […]

Smart cards, which are used for everything from health insurance to national identification cards, are poised for big growth, according to a new report by ABI Research. The March 22 report, "Smart Cards in Government and Healthcare Citizen ID," concludes that the smart card market will peak in 2014 and then level off at close […]

The recent practice of employers and would-be employers requesting Facebook and other social network log-in information is probably a violation of equal employment laws, say two Senators. U.S. Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the practice […]

Positive spend growth, large cash balances, and a predisposition to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) driven by innovation, strategic objectives, and anticipated synergies are likely to keep the technology industry in the top spot for M&A activity in 2012, according to the latest report released by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The company’s 2012 US Technology M&A […]

Sprint, with partner Cisco Systems, is launching its first major cloud initiative–and the first of several cloud-based services the carrier says it has planned for this year. Powered by Cisco’s Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) platform, Sprint Complete Collaboration is a hosted, fully managed unified communications (UC) bundle that allows IT departments to deploy a communications […]

IBM Watson, the physician’s assistant, has another gig in cancer care. Big Blue and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the world’s oldest and largest cancer center, have announced plans to use the Watson supercomputer to develop a decision-support application for cancer treatment. The arrangement will combine Watson’s computational and natural-language processing abilities with the clinical knowledge […]

Computer maker Lenovo announced its first enterprise app shop — the Lenovo Enterprise App Shop — to bring end-to-end mobile app services to large businesses, enabling custom management, deployment and publication as well as volume pricing. The Lenovo Enterprise App Shop makes it possible for corporate users to access and use productivity apps on their […]

The Federal Trade Commission is putting pressure on both Congress and tech companies to take actions to protect user privacy and give them more information on how their personal data is collected and used. In its final report, released March 26, the FTC takes aim at vendors whose mobile devices, apps and services collect the […]

Research In Motion will debut a prototype of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone in May, with the intention of giving applications developers a crucial first look at the operating system.  That news comes from The Wall Street Journal, which quoted Alec Saunders, RIM’s vice president for developer relations and ecosystem development, as saying the device […]

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit and a handful of financial-services partners undertook a coordinated action against Zeus botnets March 23, shutting down command-and-control servers in Pennsylvania and Illinois. Microsoft’s partners in the operation included the Financial Services-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and NACHA-The Electronic Payments Association, along with Kyrus Tech Inc. U.S. Marshals escorted Microsoft […]

Verizon’s annual "Data Breach Investigations Report" includes some sobering findings that show just how pervasive social and political hacking has become. So-called hacktivism was responsible for 58 percent of all data stolen in 2011. Nearly 80 percent of attacks were opportunistic, and most significant of all, 96 percent were avoidable. The primary motive for external […]