CIO Insight Staff

Should Research In Motion kill its PlayBook tablet? Last quarter, RIM took a substantial charge against its PlayBook inventory, totaling some $485 million before taxes (or $360 million, once those taxes are taken into account). During a Dec. 15 earnings call, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis suggested the company remains committed to the device, which he […]

Nexsan, an independent provider of disk-based storage systems, announced a downloadable paper titled, “6 Tips for Selecting HDD and SSD Drives,” a free educational resource that provides guidance on selecting the most appropriate hard disk drive or solid state disk drive technology when configuring a storage system for business applications. There are a number of […]

IBM has released its sixth annual "IBM 5 in 5" list of five innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years. The next "IBM 5 in 5" is based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s research labs around […]

Like a pit bull with a porterhouse steak, U.S. senators have latched on to the notion of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) as a company whose search business is having a deleterious impact on fair competition in search and Internet commerce. Senators Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, […]

AT&T has decided to end its $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, the company announced in a statement Dec. 19. “AT&T will continue to be aggressive in leading the mobile Internet revolution,” AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson wrote in that statement. “Over the past four years, we have invested more in our networks than any other […]

Enterprises and companies of all sizes are always on the lookout for ways to decrease their energy consumption, whether it s to save money during budget-crunch time, to streamline and create a more efficient infrastructure, or simply a desire to operate a green environment. The question then for IT managers who are considering these types […]

Healthcare organizations and government agencies dominate the technology upgrades featured in this roundup of IT Projects: The Inside Scoop. This roundup highlights IT activity among 23 Fortune-ranked and mid-market companies. The Department of Homeland Security’s division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Henry Ford Health Systems, the National Institute of Health’s National Cancer Institute and the […]

Employees aged 18-30 tend to have lax attitudes about computer security and are more likely than their older ounterparts to ignore IT policies, according to a recent Cisco report. About 61 percent of young employees surveyed by Cisco researchers feel corporate IT security isn’t their responsibility and should be handled by their employer or the […]

Cyber-attackers have a growing body of information and automated password cracking tools to breach systems and networks, Imperva said in a report. For example, they have have access to various tools to launch their campaigns, such as scanning Websites and applications for vulnerabilities, crafting malicious emails and launching drive-by-download Web portals. Cyber-attackers have access to […]

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) continued its acquisition spree Dec. 15, agreeing to purchase Rypple, a startup that makes Web-based software for human resource professionals. Rypple’s software is a goal-setting application that helps human resource managers give employees feedback about how they’re performing in their positions. The software is used by Facebook, Gilt Groupe, Mozilla, Rackspace and […]

Cloud storage company Box.net unveiled a new set of tools and access controls to secure the data being stored on its servers. The tools include the ability to limit who can view a file or folder, and tracks log-ins from multiple devices and various authentication options, Box.net said Dec. 15. These security options are intended […]

Research In Motion reported revenue of $5.2 billion for the third quarter of its fiscal 2012, up 24 percent from the previous quarter but down 6 percent from the same quarter last year. Net income fell 71 percent year-over-year, to $265 million. BlackBerry subscribers increased 35 percent year-over-year, to 75 million, and RIM reported shipments […]