CIO Insight Staff

Attacks exploiting an Adobe Reader zero-day vulnerability appear to have targeted defense contractors and other organizations, according to security researchers. Adobe issued a security advisory on Dec. 6 warning Adobe Reader and Acrobat users of a critical vulnerability in how the programs accessed PDF files. The flaw was also being exploited in the wild against […]

Demand for tech professionals will remain a bright spot as 2012 begins, according to nearly 1,200 IT-focused hiring managers and recruiters surveyed by IT jobs portal Dice. Some 65 percent of these hiring professionals said their companies or clients would look to add technology pros in the first half of 2012, with about a quarter […]

Cisco Systems, which earlier this year said it was refocusing on its core businesses, saw its share of the competitive Ethernet switch market jump almost 3 percentage points in the third quarter, according to numbers from market research firm IDC. In their review of the networking space in the third quarter, the IDC analysts on […]

With its newly unveiled Windows Store, Microsoft is aiming for a market long dominated by Apple, and coveted by other rivals such as Google. The long-anticipated online storefront, integrated into Windows 8, will give consumers and business users access to a wide variety of apps and games. For third-party developers, the chance to port their […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke on Monday, Dec. 5, to an audience that had assembled to witness the swearing in of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, of which he is the chairman. In his speech, Genachowski related the horrific struggles of his ancestors as they escaped Nazi oppression in Europe at the […]

Apple has failed to have Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones and tablets banned in the United States, in a legal ruling that could have broad implications on the two companies worldwide battle. Apple’s filing earlier this year with the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California argued that Samsung’s mobile devices closely copied the iPhone […]

Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard continue to push their cloud computing agendas with new offerings and services. Cisco executives, including Lew Tucker, CTO of cloud computing at the vendor, and Padmasree Warrior, senior vice president of engineering and CTO of Cisco, are expected to discuss the company’s cloud strategy and unveil a host of new technologies […]

EMC announced its findings from a global survey of the data science community, which showed that only one third of the companies polled are making effective use of data. The EMC survey covers the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and China, and it reveals and quantifies a rampant scarcity across the globe […]

Dell is discontinuing its Streak 7 tablet, a few months after killing the smaller Streak 5. Together, that means the end of the manufacturer s first foray into Android-based tablets. Streak 7 is no longer available online, read a new note on Dell’s Website, but you can browse our other mobile devices for similar products. […]

Certifications can still lead to higher salaries, but for IT professionals, business skills are becoming just as valuable, according to the third-quarter IT Skills and Certification Pay Index report from Foote Partners. In the report, released Nov. 29, Foote Partners found that only 5 percent of the certified skills in its index saw a pay […]

As we head into 2012, enterprise developers will need to focus on some major themes, including the emergence of HTML5, big data and analytics, and Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). They should also continue to concentrate on Web, mobile and cloud development, and take advantage of advances in languages and integrated development environments (IDEs). HTML5 […]

Oracle announced a new version of its Java application server, Oracle WebLogic Server, 12c, which enables enterprises to better integrate cloud computing into their IT mix. As the center piece of Oracle’s Cloud Application Foundation, and a core part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, Oracle WebLogic Server continues to deliver innovative capabilities for […]