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Driven by $20 billion in stimulus funds for digital medical records, a research firm sees a boom for Wi-Fi RTLS hardware and software, access points, managed services, and pure Wi-Fi and dual-band handsets.
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The cost of keeping an old PC instead of upgrading to a new one is impacting businesses around the world, according to a survey by Techaisle.
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Since Apple launched the App Store in July 2008, users have downloaded more than 1 billion iPhone apps with a variety of uses (or non-uses, if you consider all the games and procrastination tools currently on the market for the device). Companies such as Google, Salesforce.com and Oracle have even introduced enterprise apps for the consumer-centric devices, aiming to solidify their hold on the ever-expanding mobile market.
One of the most vital areas of peoples' lives, of course, is health care, and to that end, several iPhone apps have rolled out that allow both patients and physicians to monitor care, keep track of treatments or even see the amount of sleep they're getting. The following apps—all available from the iTunes App Store—aspire to put health care IT in the palm of one's hand.
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HP is putting AMD’s six-core ‘Istanbul’ Opteron processor into a high-end workstation aimed at such applications as engineering, 3-D digital imaging and oil and gas. HP officials said the troubled economy is putting pressure on businesses to quickly get a solid return on their IT investments, which the new AMD Opteron chips enable, due to new virtualization, performance and efficiency features.
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Friends don’t let friends drive and text — that’s the message from a Car and Driver test that, on a closed course, included an iPhone, a fifth of Smirnoff and a Honda Pilot. At 35 and 70 mph, the reaction times of the drivers while texting were far worse than those, sans devices, after a few rounds of cocktails.
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The Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released June 23 at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Sitting atop the list--again--was IBM's Roadrunner system, which runs at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. The IBM BladeCenter system took the top spot a year ago and has held on since. Also for the second year in a row, Cray's XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, which runs at the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, came in a close second. According to the Top500 organization, which compiles the list every June and November, two new entries into the top 10 come from Germany. Those two are the only systems in the top 10 not from the United States, which is still the top consumer of HPC (high-performance computing) systems in the world, with 291 of the top 500 systems running in this country. Along with IBM and Cray, Sun Microsystems and SGI also have systems listed in the top 10.
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IBM and Cray remained in the top two spots on the list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. IBM also had five of the top 10, with Cray and Sun Microsystems following with two each. According to the Top500 list, released at the International Supercomputing Conference, HP continues to have the most systems on the list, while almost 80 percent of the supercomputers on the list run Intel processors. IBM and AMD have the second- and third-most chips in supercomputers on the list.
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At the International Supercomputing Conference, Sun Microsystems is bringing a host of new and enhanced additions to its Sun Constellation supercomputer, touching on everything from software to storage to networking. In addition, Sun is previewing its upcoming Sun Blade systems that will be powered by AMD's new Opteron processors code-named Istanbul, which will complement the servers Sun rolled out in April based on Intel's new chip microarchitecture and chips code-named Nehalem EP.
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President Obama names IBM Vice President David J. Kappos to serve as the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Kappos, IBM's assistant general counsel for intellectual property law, testified in March that he supports the controversial patent reform law before Congress.
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Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant operation about two months ago and is expected to return to work by the end of June, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. Apple has not confirmed the Journal report.
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The economic stimulus package -- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- earmarks up to $80 billion in IT spending for healthcare, government, education, infrastructure and other IT projects. But how can you get your IT project funded? Distributor Ingram Micro is partnering with The Grants Office to help.
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Long known as a maker of tools for professional designers and Web developers building more consumer-oriented applications, Adobe can now attest that it is making inroads into the enterprise and showing no signs of letting up. Adobe technology such as LiveCycle is helping the company find its way into many enterprise environments, such as health care IT and government IT. Meanwhile, Adobe has found ways to push its core technology, such as PDF and Flash, and including Adobe AIR and Flex, into the enterprise to deliver RIAs (rich Internet applications) and more. Adobe's presence in the enterprise puts it into even greater competition with Microsoft, which has a foothold in enterprise departmental systems. The two companies are locking horns on several fronts, from design tools to development tools, to RIA platforms, to productivity and collaboration software.
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Dell is concentrating on serving both the high-performance computing markets and SMBs that are cramped for data center space with its newest line of servers, which include smaller chassis in addition to power features such as Intel Xeon 5500 series processors and expanded memory.
Dell's new PowerEdge T410 and R410 servers are available starting June 17, starting at a price point of $999, while the PowerEdge T710 server "will be available in the coming weeks," according to the company. Dell is pairing its new hardware with consulting services and preconfigured architectures designed to make the process of setting up a data center simpler for both SMBs and the enterprise. The following slides highlight some of the features available with the new PowerEdge T410, T710 and R410.
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Microsoft joins with the American Medical Association to allow physician access to patients' online Microsoft HealthVault records, which contain self-reported medical history. Microsoft has previously entered into HealthVault partnerships with medical institutions such as the Mayo Clinic.
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The nation's first-ever chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, used his keynote address at the CEA Line Shows conference in New York to talk about innovations to health care IT and government IT infrastructure that would allow the United States to compete more vigorously in an increasingly interconnected digital world.
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