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Alcatel-Lucent, Toyota Drive LTE Connected Car into Concept Spotlight
Toyota, Alcatel-Lucent and other companies banded together to create the LTE Connected Car, a concept vehicle that went on display in New York on Nov. 3. The vehicle combines a Long Term Evolution (LTE) broadband radio link with in-car Wi-Fi to bring the power of cloud computing to driver and passengers, giving them access to online content such as music, YouTube and games through four individual touch screens. It's not all about multimedia, however. The concept car also supplies the driver with real-time GPS updates and information on nearby points of interest. The vehicle also offers continuous status updates about the car, using sensors to feed data to the driver about tire pressure and other maintenance issues. Although the concept car's creators were reluctant to name specific automotive companies, apparently they are in talks to extend some of the technology seen here to real-life vehicles at some point in the future.
How SMBs Can Benefit from the Democratization of IT Outsourcing
IT outsourcing has been known for high-ticket consulting jobs where IT bodies from overseas are used for projects. Once the Fortune 500's playground, IT outsourcing is now being used by small and midsize businesses to build e-commerce sites, use mobile applications to lure customers or integrate open-source tools into tech support. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Srinivas Balasubramanian explains how small and midsize businesses can benefit from the democratization of IT outsourcing.
Nokia Siemens to Lay Off 7% to 9% of Employees
Economic pressures force Nokia Siemens to eliminate close to 6,000 jobs from its work force. The company plans to shrink its departments from five to three organizations in 2010, and plans on acquiring companies in its market in the coming year.
BetOnSports Founder Sentenced to 4 Years
The founder of a once high-flying online sports gambling company faces 51 months in prison and forfeitures of more than $50 million.
IBM, Intel Executives Involved in Ongoing Insider Trading Case
The $25 million insider trading scandal that touched such IT heavyweights as AMD, IBM and Intel has now led to charges against six people from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. The case continues to roil both coasts. Federal prosecutors say executives from IBM, Intel and McKinsey Co. gave nonpublic information on such companies as AMD, Sun Microsystems, Google, PolyCom and Akamai to two directors at two hedge funds, Galleon Management and New Castle Funds, which used the information to make their trades. Most of the companies are cooperating with investigators, and some - including Intel, McKinsey and Akamai - reportedly are conducting their own internal probes. Intel also put Rajiv Goel, an executive with its treasury department, on administrative leave after the charges were brought against him and five others. Here, eWEEK offers a look at who is involved with the case.
Ex-AMD CEO Ruiz Leaves Globalfoundries, Moffat Out at IBM
The insider trading scandal that investigators said generated $25 million in illegal profits has continued to roil at the high-tech firms involved. Robert Moffat, a high-ranking IBM executive who had been seen as a possible future CEO at the company, has left IBM, and former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is stepping down as chairman of Globalfoundries. In addition, Intel has hired a law firm to conduct an internal investigation connected to the case, which has led to charges against Rajiv Goel, an executive with Intel’s treasury department.
Business Architecture Focus Helps CIOs Set, Meet IT Objectives
CIOs struggling with issues related to IT strategy and governance are taking a new tack these days, focusing on business architecture rather than IT infrastructure to inform their decisions, according to Forrester Research Vice President and Research Director Alex Cullen. Cullen, a specialist in IT planning and strategy, tells Baseline in this exclusive video interview that aligning IT objectives with a company’s business architecture is the key to improving IT governance effectiveness, maximizing enterprise architecture value, and establishing best practices for enterprise IT architecture.
Federated Collaboration for Employees, Contractors, Partners
Ten years ago most organizations were driven solely by their own employees and staff. External & partners& were treated with an arm's length approach. That is no longer true. Organizations must work with partners, suppliers, resellers, contractors, strategic partners, and any number of other parties. And this means that collaboration systems need to support this demand, while not compromising security and data integrity.
CDW Study Finds IT Spending to Expand, Hiring Is Flat
CDW sees a significant rise in hardware and software purchasing in the next six months for corporate and government sectors. The hardware and software reseller's study showed most companies are keeping their staffing at the same levels. A recent Gartner study on technology spending was not as optimistic.
How to Increase IT's Value Proposition Within Your Organization
Today, an increasing number of CIOs are reporting directly to the CEO and are being asked to contribute to long-term strategic thinking and planning. Long gone are the days when IT was responsible for managing only IT costs and security. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Ken Vernon discusses how CIOs can use enterprise collaboration software to support its critical leadership competency and increase IT's value proposition within their organizations.
IBM Fired from $1.34 Billion Contract with State of Indiana
An IBM-implemented welfare system came under a lot of scrutiny by state lawmakers and the governor as demand for services in Indiana skyrocketed while costs on the contract rose. The task-based approach to individual case work did not deliver the expected efficiencies, though it helped cut down on fraud, admitted the state. The new system will be a hybrid of former ways, including individual case work but with the flexibility of the digital age.
eWeek Newsbreak, Oct. 21, 2009
A new report is out by Forrester Research claiming that Microsoft's Windows 7 Means the End of XP for Business. Within 18 months of the release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, & the OEM licenses bundled with every PC will no longer carry downgrade rights to Windows XP. If you’re an IT or Business decision maker—get ready to start seeing Going Google ads as about as much as you see your family. That’s because you are Google’s target market for its Going Google advertising initiative aimed at switching you over to their collaboration software, Google Apps. You can expect to see the messages at train stations, airports, and in print and online publications in the U.S., as well as in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore and the U.K. A survey sponsored by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy found that one in six servers - about 4.7 million worldwide - are doing nothing useful, costing businesses as much as $25 billion a year. The survey of global IT professionals also found that many are lacking the necessary tools and know-how to find and get rid of unused servers.
Using Business Intelligence to Find Your Economic Recovery
As the economy starts to improve, organizations are looking for quick, low-cost, and high-impact ways to improve their performance and move beyond the downturn. One of the critical sources of information on how an organization can best turnaround most quickly will come from their own information. While looking at base information, even in a mid-size company can become quickly mired in immediate information overload. An effective way to go through all this data is with a business intelligence (BI) system. Using a higher-level tool like BI provides a number of benefits that will make a great difference in your success. We will highlight these in this video.
H-1B Visa Scam Investigation Digs Up Dirt
A two-and-a-half-year investigation yields one of the most bizarre cases of alleged visa fraud in the history of California. Fictitious companies for H-1B visas? Check. Exploitation of immigrants? Check. Money laundering via cemetery plots? Oh, indeed.
BMC Buying Tideway Systems
BMC is bulking up its business service management capabilities by adding Tideway’s Foundation IT discovery software, which helps companies map their business applications to their physical and virtual infrastructure. BMC did not release details of the deal, which company officials expect to close within a week.
IT Spending Will Rebound in 2010: Gartner
Gartner analysts say the IT industry will follow up its worst year ever by seeing a 3.3 percent increase in spending in 2010. However, while there is cause for cautious optimism, corporate IT budgets will still be relatively flat, and the hardware space will still struggle. In addition, IT revenues won’t reach 2008 levels until 2012, they said during their Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 event.
France Telecom in Public Spotlight over 25 Employee Suicides
With the latest in a spate of suicides of France Telecom workers, the union calls for protests and for the CEO to resign. The company has been trying to improve its productivity and employee performance, but has met much resistance by workers over the years. Pressures have mounted, and have even included one man's stabbing of himself during a company meeting.
IT Budgets in Question for 2010
IT managers and technology professionals expect a little more coin in the IT piggy bank this year, reflecting a tad more optimism in business and job prospects for 2010, says one report. However, a different report shows IT workers can still expect the same pressures as 2009: cost reduction, return on investment and doing more with less.
IT Jobs Will Expand Globally by Nearly 6 Million in 4 Years
Despite revised projections for 2009, IT spending will grow significantly by 2013, says IDC. Emerging software and cloud computing will help increase new business growth. The effect of new companies and revenues equates to a surge in new IT jobs worldwide.