CIO Insight Staff

Fans of Apple’s iPad tablet can look forward to a version of the device with a smaller screen size 7.85 inches, to be exact in the fourth quarter of 2012, along with a new version of the popular tablet in the first quarter of the year, according to a report in Taiwanese tech site DigiTimes. […]

Amazon is selling Kindle devices at a rate of 1 million per week, according to the company. The online retailer revealed those sales numbers just as its Kindle Fire, a full-color tablet, joins the battle against Apple’s iPad for holiday shopping dollars. “We’ve already sold millions of units, and we’re building millions more to meet […]

Microsoft says its Office 365 cloud office-productivity platform now has added compliance to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA) and European Union data privacy regulations. Under the HIPAA provisions in the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, companies must report data breaches within 30 days, and the cloud […]

Intel is creating a new business unit focusing on mobile computing as part of a larger push into a booming segment of the tech market that currently is dominated by chips based on architectures from ARM Holdings. Intel on Dec. 14 sent around an internal memo outlining how the company is combining four divisions to […]

Criminals shifted away from building up botnet armies in favor of launching targeted attacks on specific corporate networks in 2011, according to security researchers. The overall number of networks and computers hijacked by criminals globally and commandeered into a botnet army has declined each year since 2009, Cisco said in its 2011 state of security […]

The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have reissued their warning from last year that industrial control systems that operate critical infrastructure and complicated machinery are still not properly protected. Thousands of industrial control systems that are connected to the Internet lack proper firewalls or aren’t using strong authentication methods, making […]

With Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad selling close to 40 million units since its April 2010 launch, ostensibly birthing the tablet form factor, you can forgive high-tech punditry for reveling in tablet talk and prognostication. Fortunately, some analysts are given to skate to where the puck will be, not where it is, a common refrain in the […]

Thanks in part to sales of its popular Galaxy S and Galaxy S II Android smartphones, Samsung has broken its own record by selling 300 million handsets–and counting–in 2011. Samsung also said sales of smartphones powered by its own bada operating system are picking up steam worldwide, thanks in part to its refreshed bada 2.0 […]

Intel’s announcement that it is reducing its fourth-quarter revenue forecast due to hard disk drive shortages caused by the flooding in Thailand could have a ripple effect on other tech companies, in particular smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices. Analysts are expecting AMD to make a similar announcement within the next week or two, as more […]

Many companies still fail to adequately manage user privileges and protect sensitive data, exposing them to the risks of data breaches, according to a study from Hewlett-Packard and the Ponemon Institute. A survey of 5,500 IT professionals around the world found that more than half the organizations were still giving employees access to sensitive, confidential […]

Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI), a provider of communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, introduced the MC2100 industrial mobile computing series, a smaller, rugged mobile computer that is designed to expand the range of field solutions available for larger enterprises and small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). Motorola’s MC2100 mobile computing series is expected […]

The increased adoption of cloud computing will shift how companies implement solutions, and cloud integration will become a way to boost efficiency and get closer to customers, according to the findings of a new report from Hubspan. The provider of cloud-based business integration solutions made its top predictions for 2012 in cloud computing, business integration […]