Monthly Archives: March 2013
Dell $24.4 Billion Buyout Complicated By Entrance of Investor Icahn
Michael Dell’s efforts to buy out his namesake company and keep control of it after taking it private are rapidly getting more complicated and...
AT&T Develops Emergency Response Platform to Aid Elderly Who Fall Down
AT&T is developing a mobile personal emergency response system (MPERS) to help elderly people when they fall. The platform will use GPS functionality and...
Siemens Introduces All-in-One UC Solution for SMBs
Siemens Enterprise Communications wants to make it easier and more affordable for smaller businesses to adopt and deploy unified communications technology.Siemens is unveiling OpenScape...
Samsung Buys 3 Percent Share of Ailing Sharp for $111 Million
Samsung and Sharp have reached an agreement in which the Galaxy device maker will purchase a 3 percent stake in the struggling Japanese company...
Apple’s Streaming Music Service May Be Beats’ Daisy
Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Jimmy Iovine, hip-hop producer and CEO of Beats Electronics, in late February to discuss Beats' "Project Daisy" music-subscription...
Bill Gates Is the Richest Man in Tech, Again
Bill Gates Is the Richest Man in Tech, Again
The man who helped create Microsoft in his garage (and was at one time the world's...
Demand for Training Hampers EHR Implementation: Survey
As the health care industry moves to adopt electronic health records, proper training in EHRs could hold them back, according to a survey announced...
Adobe Marketing Cloud Goes Mobile
SALT LAKE CITY—Adobe Systems has added mobile marketing capabilities to each of the five solutions in the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Adobe customers now have...
Microsoft Fined $732 Million By EU Over Browser
Microsoft's failure to offer users in Europe a choice of browsers has resulted in a fine of $732 million from the European Commission.European regulators...
Google Releases Updated Google Maps App for iPhone
Google has unveiled the first big update of its Google Maps for iPhone app, adding several new features to the stand-alone mapping app that...