CIO Insight Staff

With Apple’s iPad-related event March 7, the rumor mill has kicked into its highest gear. The popular assumption is that Apple will use the event to unveil its next iPad, which the media has dubbed "iPad 3" but could arrive under another name altogether. Because Apple typically refuses to part with details of its upcoming […]

With health care as the first major vertical market IBM has taken its Watson question-answering technology to, Big Blue has now entered into an agreement with Citigroup to explore the use of Watson in financial services, particularly the banking industry. On March 5, Citigroup announced it had entered into an agreement with IBM to explore […]

LAS VEGAS–IBM announced that it is working with the Louvre Museum to deliver an intelligent management system based on Big Blue’s Maximo technology. The new systems at the Louvre Museum in Paris will preserve and protect the landmark institution’s artwork and facilities, which cover more than 650,000 square feet, making it one of the largest […]

Several top members of the hacking group LulzSec, which during a 50-day spree last year targeted various U.S and British government sites and companies such as Sony with cyber-attacks, are now under arrest or have been charged following a sweep by law enforcement agencies March 6 in the United States and Europe. The five suspects […]

Yahoo employees are bracing for a corporate restructuring and a serious round of layoffs, if one believes a report issued March 5 from the Dow Jones IT news site AllThingsD. Of course, even casual industry observers don’t need that report to know that the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has been struggling for more than a decade […]

Law-enforcement officials, IT security providers and executives at the RSA 2012 Conference in San Francisco last week were concerned about the kind of damage hacktivists can cause on networks and on a company’s reputation. Still, while some see chaos, others see potential, and a panel of experts worried about all this technical knowledge going to […]

Apple’s next iPad could arrive with the moniker "iPad HD." That information comes from the blog Gizmodo, which cited a reader-supplied parts listing from accessories manufacturers Griffin and Belkin. For months, media and tech pundits have used "iPad 3" to describe Apple’s next-generation tablet. Apple is hosting a March 7 event in San Francisco where […]

Email spam continues to be a major problem for many U.S. businesses, with almost half of those responding to a recent survey saying that they’ve experienced data breaches due to employees clicking on malicious links. In addition, 70 percent said that their anti-spam solutions are marginally effective at best, according to the survey, released March […]

Compuware has released a study that shows that many CIOS are ill-prepared to address the mainframe developer shortage. On March 1, Compuware released the results of a second independent research study conducted by the Vanson Bourne research firm into mainframe use in the enterprise. Key findings reveal that a stagnant mainframe development environment impacts developer […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that according to a new Gartner report, Big Blue took the No. 1 position as the leading server vendor in the fourth quarter of 2011, with 33.7 percent revenue market share. For the full year of 2011, IBM had 30.5 percent revenue share, 1.5 percent ahead of its nearest rival, HP, […]

Information security professionals are faced with two difficult questions when trying to secure the network. They can either lock down the network, or free up the technology, according to Cisco’s newly appointed head of security. The Bring Your Own Device trend and the consumerization of IT pose significant challenges to the enterprise. While many security […]

Research In Motion and its BlackBerry franchise face softening interest in its current handsets, according to a new analyst report. That puts more pressure on BlackBerry 10, its next-generation mobile platform, to succeed in the marketplace. “We believe RIM’s low-end handset sales trends have continued to deteriorate in North America, Latin America and Europe,” Peter […]