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Philips to Acquire VISICU
Royal Philips Electronics announced Dec. 20 it will acquire VISICU, a provider of patient monitoring systems in a deal worth $430 million. The sale...
Feeling the Heat
When disaster strikes, the role of a company's top IT manager becomes extraordinarily complex. For Sony Electronics CIO Drew Martin, the October wildfires that...
Big Iron Remains Career Option
As an industry, IT is not exactly famed for finding uses for older technologies. Typically, it opts to replace them with newer and seemingly...
Five Desktop Linux Highlights of 2007
Sometimes putting together a best-of-the-year list is like pulling teeth. There simply isn't enough big news to fill the list out. That was not...
Giuliani Invokes the Technology Panacea
If nothing else, Rudy Giuliani is a savvy politician who knows how to play to the technology crowd.Whether from the stump or in the...
IBM Buys Database Software Firm
HELSINKI (Reuters)—International Business Machines Corp said on Friday it has agreed to buy in-memory database software provider Solid Information Technology from private owners for...
Apple Rumor Site to Shut Down
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)—Apple Inc and a popular Web site that published company secrets about the maker of the Mac computer, the iPhone and the...
Samsung, Hitachi Sign License Deal on Hard Drives
SEOUL (Reuters)—Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday it had agreed with Hitachi Ltds data storage business unit to a license deal over hard...
Sun Finally Appoints European Chief
After five months of the position being vacant, Sun Microsystems has finally filled the role of senior vice president of Europe Middle East and...
Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System
SecureWorks anti-malware guru Joe Stewart is not one to be intimidated by advances in online crime activity.But, when he reversed the backend code associated...