CIO Insight Staff

Buzz that Facebook will file for an initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1 has marketing and advertising experts expecting the social network to challenge Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) at a time when the search giant is trying to ramp up its own ad targeting efforts.    While Google has commanded the market for search advertising for a […]

The recent uproar about the conditions in Chinese factories where Apple’s iPhones, iPads and iPods are manufactured is getting a lot of attention, partly because of an article in the New York Times. A great deal more attention is likely due to the lead story that appeared on CBS Sunday Morning on Jan. 29, in […]

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and other major email providers are committed to stomping out phishing attacks and other email-based Web scams. Major brands, such as Bank of America and Facebook, joined large email providers to announce Jan. 30 the new Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance framework along with an associated working group, DMARC.org. DMARC is […]

McAfee introduced a new version of Mobile Security to protect smartphones and tablets from malicious applications and Web malware. Mobile Security 2.0 offers antivirus, anti-theft services and protection from malicious Websites and applications, McAfee said Jan. 30. The security software also includes online device management where users can remotely wipe data on the device and […]

As the need for more IT workers becomes more and more dire, major vendors are making efforts to seed the industry with trained technology staff by reaching out to potential candidates in high school. Lenovo recently announced an effort with the National Academy Foundation to launch a program to help high schoolers learn mobile app […]

Apple has overtaken Samsung again during the last quarter of 2011, according to data from mobile analyst firm Juniper Research. Almost 25 percent of the 149 million smartphones shipped worldwide in Q4 were iPhones. While Apple overtook Samsung to reach the pole position, the Korean giant has increased its market share four-fold since Q1 2010, […]

The Wall Street Journal, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the situation, reported Jan. 27 that Facebook will file for its long-awaited initial public offering of stock on Wednesday, Feb. 1. If this event, which had been projected by several financial analysts to happen later this spring, does indeed take place, it will easily […]

Several U.S. senators Jan. 26 fired off a bipartisan letter to Google CEO Larry Page, asking for more information about the search engine provider’s revised privacy policy. Google Jan. 24 announced that it will aggregate 60 of its Web services under one single privacy policy. Under this new policy, a user with a Google account […]

Health plan Kaiser Permanente has launched an Android version of its electronic health record platform to allow patients to access their medical data on the popular Google-powered devices. KP is a health insurer with member facilities in nine states and the District of Columbia, although it is concentrated in the western states of California, Colorado, […]

The idea that IT professionals and business leaders are resisting the consumerization of IT and the trend of bringing your own device (BYOD) to work is myth. On the contrary, more and more people are embracing these notions and trying to incorporate them into the workday, according to a recent study. Several recent reports have […]

Hewlett-Packard plans on making the webOS source code available under an open-source license by September, according to the company. As part of that ramp-up, HP is releasing version 2.0 of Enyo, the webOS developer tool. Developers using the tool will have the ability to write webOS applications supported across a broad range of mobile devise […]

Tablet use is on the rise, and a recent Cisco survey sought to gauge the effect of these devices as they make their way into the enterprise, by both sanctioned means and otherwise. Requests for tablets within the enterprise are significant–on average, one tablet is requested for every three smartphones–according to the Cisco poll of […]