CIO Insight Staff

Microsoft will ask Apple to approve a version of Office for the iPad, according to a Feb. 21 report in The Daily. The online publication claimed a “brief hands-on” with a working prototype of the software. “The app’s user interface is similar to the current OneNote app, it suggested, but it has hints of Metro, […]

As expected, Research In Motion began pushing out its long-awaited PlayBook software upgrade Feb. 21. PlayBook OS 2.0 includes a number of features demanded by users ever since the 7-inch tablet made its debut in April 2011. These include built-in email, calendar and contacts; a variety of new apps; and social-networking integration with calendar and […]

Since the April 2010 introduction of the iPad, Apple has sold 55 million of the tablets, said Apple CEO Tim Cook during a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco Feb. 14. Put in context, it took Apple three years to sell as many iPhones, five years to sell as […]

Dell and Siemens are coming together to provide a massive amount of cloud storage space for medical images. The companies will create the Siemens Image Sharing and Archiving (ISA) service, which will provide a cloud platform for vendor-neutral image archiving and sharing. ISA will incorporate Dell’s Unified Clinical Archive. The Dell archive will also provide […]

Concerned that employees are not taking IT security policies seriously, McAfee and Xerox are teaming up to protect sensitive data stored on office printers. According to a survey jointly commissioned by Xerox and McAfee and released Feb. 14, more than half of employees didn’t always follow their organization’s IT security policies, and 21 percent weren’t […]

LG has an agenda for 2012 and is wasting no time. On Feb. 20 it launched the Optimus LTE Tag, a new LTE-enabled smartphone with which it’s looking to help drive the near field communications (NFC) market. The announcement comes just a day after the release of the LG Optimus Vu, a 5-inch "phablet" with […]

Apple iPad owners tend to be older and have more money than non-tablet owners, but as a variety of tablets make their way into the mainstream, those high-end demographics are shifting, according to a study from market research company The NPD Group. The company’s “Tablet Adoption and Insights Report” reveals that more than 40 percent […]

Government agencies at the federal and state levels talk a good game about wanting to refresh legacy data center systems by moving as many of them to cloud services as possible. Instantly realized cost-savings, ease of use and increased data safety and workload effectiveness are all factors that can’t be denied anymore. But the reality […]

Microsoft and Apple are ramping up new versions of their respective operating systems for release within months of each other. Although Windows continues to dominate the market for traditional operating systems, the rise of mobility — driven in large part by Apple’s success with the iPad and iPhone — has threatened to replace the PC […]

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services business has launched an open cloud platform to allow developers to create and host health care applications. The cloud offers a developer toolkit with modules that allow doctors to maintain compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It also includes a toolkit for CIOs to enable deployment […]

Malware that specifically targeted mobile operating systems increased in 2011 as smartphones became more popular with enterprise users, as well as consumers. These cyber-criminals also developed affection for the Google Android OS, which saw the biggest jump in malware during the past 12 months, according to a new report from Juniper Networks. Malware targeting the […]

BM announced plans to introduce a new family of computing systems that feature “integrated expertise” inside the machine. At the IBM Smarter Computing Executive Forum in New York City on Feb. 15, Rod Adkins, senior vice president of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group (STG), said IBM will introduce a new era of computing — a […]