Monthly Archives: March 2011
Dell Exec: Apple’s iPad Too Expensive and Complex for Businesses
A Dell executive is attracting a massive amount of attention for suggesting the Apple iPad will eventually bomb in the enterprise."Apple is great if...
China’s Baidu Search Engine Cracks Down on Pirated Books
Chinese search provider Baidu has cracked down on pirated material in response to author complaints about copyright infringement. This move comes as Western countries...
Jive Taps Google, Facebook Execs for Board
In the bubbling niche of enterprise social software, the idea that Jive Software will go public soon is as poorly a kept secret as...
New GE Centricity Health Care Application Bolsters Clinical Research
GE Healthcare has introduced an application called Centricity Research to enhance the efficiency of clinical studies, improve research billing compliance, and enable better management...
Google’s Larry Page May Pull Back on Health Portal: WSJ
Even as Microsoft grows stronger on the health care IT front, rumors are circulating that Google may devote less attention to its Google Health...
IBM Launches Power Development Lab in Taiwan
Following on the success of its Power-based systems such as its Watson computer, IBM has announced the opening of its new Power Systems Development...
CSC Secures $59M Contract Option for NASA Supercomputing Support
NASA said March 30 that it has decided to enact a third one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. to provide supercomputing...
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-NASA has a simple, one-word answer for those who have ever asked any of the following questions:Does the U.S. government use open-source...
Android, Windows Phone to Pace Mobile Market By 2015: IDC
Google's Android operating system will steal Nokia's title as top smartphone operating system in 2011, grabbing a 39. 5 percent market share for the...
Microsoft Exec: Tablets Could Be Temporary Fad
At least one Microsoft executive seems unconvinced that tablets are much more than a passing fad."Mobile is something that you want to use while...