CIO Insight Staff

Along with the announcement of Apple’s third-generation iPad on March 7, the tablet is getting a wireless upgrade with Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Ready connectivity. Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the availability of Smart Ready technology for the new version of the Apple tablet, bringing new possibilities for remote-monitoring medical applications. Made up of 14,000 […]

Verisign researchers, looking at what happened in the world of security in 2011 to get a better feel for what to expect this year, are warning against cyber-attackers beginning to offer customers more services and leveraging the Zeus Trojan as an open-source kit. But it s not all bad. The Verisign researchers, in a report […]

Market research firm IDC has released a new forecast that shows the big data market is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015. Big data is a new frontier in IT where data sets can grow so large that they become awkward to work with using traditional database management […]

Dell apparently has its eye on crafting a business-centric Windows 8 tablet. "Having a secure Windows tablet that works with all the Windows applications–we’re hearing a lot of demand for that, and we think that will be quite attractive," Michael Dell, CEO of his eponymous company, said on the Bloomberg West television show. That’s unsurprising, […]

Extreme Networks is addressing the growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend with an initiative that includes new Ethernet switches, a new access point and identity management capabilities that touch both wired and wireless networks. Extreme s Intelligent Mobile Edge solution, introduced March 6, is designed to help IT administrators who find themselves in the position of having […]

The Vatican Website apparently is the latest victim of the hacker group Anonymous, reportedly taken down March 7 in protest of everything from the Catholic Church’s doctrine and tenets to the sexual abuse of children by priests. The Vatican’s Website, at www.vatican.va, was down for a while March 7, though appeared to be back up […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Intel’s new data center group general manager, Diane Bryant, served as the company’s CIO for four years, so she can talk the talk with customers of any size or scope. The conventional wisdom, of course, about all IT is that is only gets bigger or smaller (depending on what sector you’re talking […]

Verizon Wireless March 6 published a list of smartphones and tablets that will get the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, upgrade this year, with most of the devices designed to shuttle traffic for the carrier’s 4G LTE network. Launched in December 2010, Verizon’s (Long-Term Evolution) LTE network promises to facilitate data rates […]

Apple’s new iPad includes a high-resolution Retina Display, a new A5X processor with quad-core graphics, and a 5-megapixel rear camera capable of shooting 1080p video. In an interesting twist, company executives didn’t affix an official name to the tablet during its March 7 unveiling, instead referring to it only as the new iPad. Apple CEO […]

Results from a survey conducted by Dell Cloud Business Applications and Techaisle show adoption of cloud business applications is on the rise among small and midsize businesses. As SMBs assess which cloud applications make the most sense for their businesses, the survey indicated deployment services and application integration are critical for success. The survey, which […]

Google’s systemic revision of its services continues, with the introduction of "Google Play." "Starting today, Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore will become part of Google Play," Jamie Rosenberg, Google’s director of digital content, wrote in a March 6 posting on the search engine giant’s Official Blog. On mobile devices, the update from […]

LAS VEGAS–A recent IBM study showed that the number of enterprises turning to cloud computing is expected to double by 2015. At its IBM Pulse 2012 conference here, IBM released the findings of its study, which indicated that businesses that embrace the transformative power of the cloud will have a significant advantage in the race […]