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- News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro' Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- How medical device makers can improve U.S. health care
- Up to date equipment is key to productivity in any business and it's clear that the device industry's policies are holding down that productivity here. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- SAP Trimming Head Count, "Can't Rule Out" Layoffs
- Since the world's economic crisis began in September, SAP AG has adopted a "we do not hire, we do not replace" employment policy. The early results are in. And when you exclude acquisitions (see Business Objects, January 2008), there is one area of the world where...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Central Desktop launches Enterprise SaaS suite
- When it comes to online collaboration, Central Desktop has been serving small and medium-sized businesses for some time with the tools they need to manage versions of files, emails related to a project and calendaring tools designed to keep team members in sync. Now, as rocky economic...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Oh Mamma.com: SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading; Cuban responds
- Updated: The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it has charged Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of Mamma.com. Specifically, the SEC says that search engine Mamma.com, known today as Copernic, invited Cuban--owner of the Dallas Mavericks and former Yahoo and Broadcast.com exec--to...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Can Microsoft Surface scare patients to health?
- So what if your own condition, all your current medical readings, and your current food intake, were placed in front of you, on Microsoft Surface, by your doctor? With family and friends and your boss by your side? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Merrill Lynch downgrades SAP and Oracle
- It should come as no surprise that investment research at Merrill Lynch sees downgraded assessments of both SAP and Oracle's near terms results. In the last month, Merrill has conducted research among European CIO's and finds that a full 40% are less bullish on IT spending than they were three...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who's buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Net neutrality battle will restart in January
- The battle over net neutrality is back on. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) will introduce a bill in January to preserve neutrality, Reuters reports. Dorgan feels legislation is "definitely necessary," said Frannie Wellings, telecom counsel to Dorgan. But others think the matter could be effectively handled by the FCC. The...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- DSPs changing medical practice
- DSPs are letting TI help its customers create medical imaging devices that are mobile, less expensive and thanks to software more flexible than ever before by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Analyst: 'Worst economic environment in our collective lifetimes'
- Analyst Mark Mahaney of Citigroup recently issued a report in which he dropped his price target for Google to $450, from a target of $590 just a month ago, according to TechCrunch. Back then, Mahaney noted that Google was the market leader in "the most dynamic part...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- AMD unveils 'Shanghai'; Aims to better compete with Intel
- AMD on Thursday will launch its "Shanghai" platform, its latest batch of Opteron server chips. With Shanghai, AMD gets a do-over from its ill-fated Barcelona launch. At a high-level, Shanghai gives a 400 MHz speed gain in the same thermal band as Barcelona. Shanghai also triples the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Cadillacs recalled over software bug
- General Motors issued a recall for almost 13,000 Cadillac CTS vehicles, due to a software bug in the airbag sensor. Transportation-related software problems happen all the time. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration NHTSA lists details: GM is...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- How your Personal Health Record might save your life
- You can look at both these efforts as very public medical trials, just like the JUPITER study we reported on the other day. Hard evidence is need to prove that PHRs work at extending life and lowering costs. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fears
- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fearsAnd better yet[i]But, as Jack Ryan teaches in Tom Clancy’s spy novels, it is much wiser in the long run to face these threats down and counter than to give in to blackmail.[/i]And better still to have no secrets worth blackmailing.Anyone who commits...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fears
- It's not just medical records outfits which knuckle under. Most companies whose virtual offices are hacked by blackmailers hush the incidents up, afraid of a customer backlash and lawsuits. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Nortel's Loss, Good News for the Enterprise
- As I was reading about Nortel's rerun today, I was thinking that there might be a silver-lining in all of this for enterprise folk. Â The bad news, of course, was Nortel's $3.4 billion loss reported for the third quarter, its worst loss since 2001....
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- The Business Resource Planning Farm League
- The enterprise juggernauts in the Enterprise resource planning ERP space are duking it out in rapidly changing business conditions - SAP are offering packages of applications with zero percent financing, Oracle are on the acquisition trail, buying regulatory compliance rules company Haley, their tenth buy this...
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- How to scale to 256 processors and beyond
- How to scale to 256 processors and beyondSo in other words expecting MS to get this right is...basically a pie in the sky.Still chasing what Linux can already do...Learn from the lessons and heartache of BeOSOne of the biggest problems for BeOS as a development environment was lock and race...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- China and the e-waste industry it doesn't want you to see
- 60 Minutes this Sunday will air an interesting project--tracking e-waste from Denver to China to a refining center that's one "of the most toxic places on earth." Correspondent Scott Pelley and crew was jumped as they were recording a black market that was dismantling e-waste. Technically, these...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
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