CIO Insight Staff

The worldwide server market ended 2011 with mixed results, as worldwide server revenue declined 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 and server shipments increased 4.5 percent, according to Gartner. For the year, worldwide server revenue grew 7.9 percent, and server shipments increased 7 percent, with IBM taking the revenue crown and HP leading […]

Apple will host an iPad-related event March 7. “We have something you really have to see. And touch,” reads the invitation sent to the media, which includes an image of a finger touching the calendar app (conveniently set to Wednesday, March 7) on an iPad screen. For some weeks, the rumor mill has buzzed over […]

Microsoft Windows Phone devices will soon include Good Technology’s Good for Enterprise security solution, which includes Federal Information Processing Standard-certified (FIPS-certified) 192-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption for end-to-end mobile messaging. In theory, that will allow Windows Phone to capitalize on the trend of workers using their personal smartphones within work environments. That bring-your-own-device (BYOD) […]

With telehealth growing as an option to connect doctors and patients when in-person consultations aren’t feasible, Samsung Mobile will offer Honeywell HomeMed’s new remote-care platform on its 7-inch Samsung Galaxy tablet. Telehealth provider Honeywell HomeMed, a division of Honeywell International, has announced that by using its Genesis Touch software, patients and caregivers will be able […]

Avaya, a developer of networking and unified communications tools, unveiled a future health care iOS messaging tool along with other new products at the HIMSS12 health care IT conference in Las Vegas. The company showed its Mobile Activity Assistant, an app that provides secure communication for nurses and hospital staff through text messaging. It will […]

Nokia has become the world’s largest Windows Phone vendor, according to new data from Strategy Analytics. According to the research firm, Nokia shipped some 0.9 million Windows Phone units in Q4 2011, accounting for 33 percent of that market, and surpassing the individual efforts of HTC and other manufacturers. “Global smartphone shipments using the Microsoft […]

In an aggressive move against its key competition, IBM announced new resources to help customers migrate from competing hardware platforms while also claiming Big Blue recorded nearly 2,400 competitive displacements in 2011 for its servers and storage systems. IBM said nearly 40 percent of the 2,400 displacements came from HP and more than 25 percent […]

Dell, continuing to forge ahead with its strategy of morphing into a cloud infrastructure and services company, on Feb. 24 acquired Reston, Va.-based backup and replication software maker AppAssure Software. Terms of the transaction were not released by Dell. The deal marks the company’s 12th acquisition in the past two years and the first under […]

Social media and mobile devices may be putting consumers at greater risk for identity fraud, according to a Feb. 22 report on identity fraud. More than 11.6 million adults were a victim of identity fraud in the United States in 2011, an increase of 13 percent since 2010, according to the Javelin Strategy and Research […]

Personal mobile devices are becoming a fixture in health care as 85 percent of hospital IT departments surveyed allow doctors and staff to use personal devices at work, according to a new survey of health care IT professionals by Aruba Networks, a manufacturer of mobile networking infrastructure. Aruba announced the results of its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) […]

Verizon Wireless customers began reporting outages to 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services early Feb. 22. The issue doesn’t appear to be regional; subscribers in Michigan, Arizona and Virginia have posted messages to Verizon forums, Cnet reported. Additionally, Engadget heard from unhappy Verizon customers in Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio. "VZW is investigating customer issues in […]

U.S. and U.K. businesses are embracing mobile technology at an unprecedented rate, with average current investments of $422,000 rising to $926,000 in the next year and a half, and a third of companies planning to launch four or more mobile projects in the next 12 to 18 months. But frustrations around the cost, complexity, management […]