Monthly Archives: September 2013
Blue Jeans Gets $50M for Cloud-Based Video Conferencing
Blue Jeans Network, the four-year-old company that offers cloud-based video conferencing technology, has raised another $50 million in financing, essentially doubling the funding it...
iOS 7 Launch Offers At Least 10 Reasons to Upgrade
iOS 7 Launch Offers At Least 10 Reasons to Upgrade
by Don Reisinger
You Can't Beat the Price
Who can argue with the iOS 7 price? To...
IBM’s Linux Investment: A Look at Years of Commitment
IBM's Linux Investment: A Look at Years of Commitment
By Darryl K. Taft
1993
Two years after it was developed and its source code released, Linux has...
Patients Willing to Switch Doctors to Access EHRs: Accenture Report
A lack of access to their own electronic health records (EHRs) could lead many patients to switch doctors, IT consulting firm Accenture has revealed.In...
Data Scientists Warn Consumers of Data Privacy Concerns
Nine out of 10 statisticians (88 percent) believe that consumers should worry about privacy issues related to the data that is being collected on...
HP Exstream 8.6 Personalizes Customer Communications
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced the release of its customer communication management solution Exstream 8.6, which is designed to unify companies’ design environments, allowing...
Google Android Is Open Source: LinuxCon
NEW ORLEANS—Google Director of Open Source Chris DiBona took the keynote stage at the LinuxCon conference here on Sept. 16 with a key message:...
Google Fiber Plans Placed On Hold in Overland Park, Kan.
Plans for eventual Google Fiber high-speed Internet and cable television service in Overland Park, Kansas, were halted Sept. 16 by the city's leaders as...
Apple iPad Owners Use Tablets More Often Than Most: Gartner
Half of mobile device screen time is spent on entertainment, such as playing games, reading books, watching live TV or listening to music or...
Apple iPhone 5C Preorders? Apple Isn’t Commenting
The Apple iPhone 5C, the company's first colored-plastic iPhone and its first to debut at $99, became available to preorder Sept. 13. How many...