CIO Insight Staff

In its January 2012 Human Capital Management Trends report, Aberdeen Group found that Best-in-Class companies are using recruitment technologies to stimulate employee engagement, boost employee productivity, and improve customer satisfaction. The report outlines how efficient talent management processes drive measurable business improvements. iCIMS, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions for the small to […]

Recent reports painted a bleak picture of the security issues plaguing industrial control systems, but the situation is exacerbated by the fact that administrators are na ve about the dangers, researchers said. Researchers presented alarming findings about the state of security for supervisory control and data acquisition systems at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in […]

Some major organizations still have not removed the DNSChanger Trojan from infected computers, despite the fact that the botnet’s command-and-control infrastructure has been under the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s control for the past few months. Half of Fortune 500 companies and 27 out of 55 government entities still have at least one computer or router […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android smartphone market share topped 47.3 percent, closing 2011 nearly 18 percentage points higher than No. 2 Apple’s iOS in the United States, according to comScore. While Android’s market share rose from 46.9 percent in November, it is iOS that finished the year on a strong note. The platform topped 29.6 percent through […]

Windows Phone 8 will support multicore processors and native BitLocker encryption, and integrate in many ways with the upcoming Microsoft Windows 8 operating system. Those are just a few of the features mentioned in a Pocketnow.com report Feb. 2, many of which were subsequently confirmed by Paul Thurrott in a posting on his Supersite for […]

VeriSign, the company responsible for the .com, .net and .gov domain spaces, acknowledged in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was hacked several times in 2010. The company had not disclosed the incidents at the time they occurred. While VeriSign admitted to the breaches in its quarterly filing with the […]

Although doctors believe the Apple iPad will play a beneficial role in health care, many say the popular Apple tablet lacks the software innovation needed in the medical profession, according to a new study by Spyglass Consulting Group. In the report "Point of Care Computing for Physicians 2012," 80 percent of physicians surveyed believed that […]

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according to IT research firm Gartner. PaaS is a common reference to the layer of cloud technology architecture that contains all application infrastructure services, which […]

Researchers discovered malware that has been used in targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations since early 2009, according to IT security companies Seculert and Zscaler. The email messages containing the malicious attachments masqueraded as fake conference invitations and targeted executives and government officials, Mike Geide, a senior security researcher at Zscaler […]

Facebook, which is barely eight years old but will record its 1 billionth registered user sometime this spring, filed an application Feb. 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of stock potentially worth $10 billion or more. When the stock is issued at some point in the near future, Facebook–with […]

Cyber-security experts are concerned about the prospect of cyber-war and the growing number of cyber-threats, according to a recent report released by McAfee. Over half, or 57 percent, of cyber-security specialists surveyed in the "Cyber-security: The Vexed Question of Global Rules" report said a global arms race is taking place in cyberspace, McAfee said Jan. […]

IBM announced its plans to acquire Worklight, a move the company says will boost the mobile capabilities of its enterprise clients. IBM signed a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight a privately held Israel-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. IBM officials said with this acquisition, […]