Monthly Archives: September 2011
SAP to Pony Up $20M Fine in Oracle Copyright Case
Off the top, $20 million doesn't sound like a relatively light penalty for losing a major international copyright infringement case, but rest assured, German...
NaviNet Gives Doctors New Collaboration Tools on iPhone, Android
AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies is offering health-management mobile applications to its member physicians using NaviNet's Mobile Connect platform.NaviNet is a provider of real-time...
Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting Focuses on Momentum, Cloud
Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting 2011 offered executives the chance to tout what they termed the company's "momentum" over the past year.Xbox Kinect, Office 365...
AMD Readies Fusion, Opteron Platforms for Windows 8
Advanced Micro Devices is not about to let rivals Intel and ARM Holdings get all the chip attention around Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8.With Microsoft's...
Intel Puts Ultrabooks Front and Center at IDF
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel executives are aggressively pushing their ultrabook concept as the next big transformation in a PC industry that has experienced slowing...
Yahoo Investors Now Want to Fire Board Chairman
A growing number of Yahoo's shareholders-many of whom have been restless for about five years as they have watched their company struggle with competitors...
Samsung, Apple Take Next Steps in World Patent War
Samsung filed a legal complaint in France against Apple, extending a worldwide courtroom battle in which both companies accuse the other of intellectual-property violations."The...
From Microsoft Windows 7 to Hurricanes: Dealing With IT Disasters
During the course of the last month, those of us in the Washington, D.C., area have dealt with our share of natural disasters. We...
Intel Unveils McAfee DeepSafe for Chip-Based Security
Intel and McAfee have unwrapped details about a new hardware-based security product that offers protection for systems at the chip level. This new technology...
Cloud Application Adoption Continues to Rise
Cloud Application Adoption Continues to Rise
In the past two years, 64 percent of companies in a recent survey have implemented at least one software-as-a-service...