CIO Insight Staff

Apple will unveil two iPad models at a conference in January, according to Taiwanese publication DigiTimes. “Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad–which will come in two versions–at the MacWorld/iWorld expo scheduled for January 26, 2012,” read the Dec. 29 report, citing unnamed supply-chain sources. “The new models will join the existing iPad 2 […]

Verizon Wireless has issued an explanation for the service outages that affected users across the United States earlier this week. “Being a pioneer comes with growing pains,” read a Dec. 29 statement issued by the carrier. “The recent issues that affected our customers’ 4G LTE service were unforeseen despite careful, diligent planning, deployment and ongoing […]

Employers expect to add new jobs in the New Year, but are waiting to see how the economy shapes up before turning up the volume on hiring, according to CareerBuilder’s annual job forecast. Nearly 25 percent of hiring managers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees in 2012, similar to 2011. Employment trends among small businesses, […]

In the aftermath of high-profile security incidents and breaches in 2011, corporate boards and senior executives are thinking about security more than ever as they hammer out budget details and resource allocations for 2012. As part of these discussions, many boards of directors, often for the first time, are asking CSOs and chief information security […]

Analytics firm Flurry has estimated some 6.8 million iOS and Android device activations on Christmas day. In a Dec. 27 posting on its corporate blog, Flurry described that activation number as “a 353 percent increase over the baseline” of the average for the first 20 days of December. For Christmas 2010, the firm noted some […]

Nearly three quarters of U.S. small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with fewer than 1,000 employees have plans to purchase tablets over the next 12 months, with the Apple iPad being the most considered tablet among those firms planning an upcoming purchase, according to IT research firm The NPD Group’s 3Q 2011 SMB Technology Monitor. Among […]

Online retailer Amazon.com announced that 2011 was the best holiday season ever for sales of the Kindle family of devices, as customers purchased millions of Kindle Fire tablets and millions of Kindle e-readers. The company also noted the No. 1 and No. 4 best-selling Kindle books released in 2011 were both published independently by their […]

With all of the unstructured data in medical journals, doctors’ notes, radiology images and faxes, IT vendors have been developing technology to help the health care industry make sense of all the loose data. In 2012, vendors will continue to develop cloud databases and supercomputers such as IBM Watson to store and process large volumes […]

Verizon Wireless is reportedly experiencing its third widespread outage of December. The outage has been widely reported in the media, including AllThingsD, even as customers head to Verizon Wireless online community forums to vent their frustrations. Those customers cited parts of Florida, Ohio, and Washington D.C. among the nationwide trouble spots, with many citing both […]

Strategic Forecasting, an organization that focuses on intenerational security issues, is downplaying the severity of the cyber-attack it suffered over the weekend, claiming its client list had not been stolen. A group of hackers claiming to be part of the hacktivist collective Anonymous attacked the global intelligence think tank on Dec. 24 and stole approximately […]

The past year was a momentous one in many aspects for the security industry, with high profile cyber-attacks and data breaches, but also a year in which many of the incidents evoked a sense of d j vu amongst industry observers. "2011 was the Year of the Hack," Harry Sverdlove, CTO of Bit9, told CIO […]

In a Dec. 28 tweet, Andy Rubin, senior vice president of mobile at Google, said, “There were 3.7M Android devices activated on 12/24 and 12/25.” Just over a week earlier, Rubin took to Twitter on Dec. 20 to say: “There are now over 700,000 Android devices activated every day.” That being the case, the Android […]