Monthly Archives: January 2014
IBM Leads Patent Field for 21st Consecutive Year
IBM announced that it once again led the pack in earning U.S patents for inventions made over the last year; this marks the twenty-first...
Vocera Communications Acquires mVisum for $3.5 Million
Mobile communications company Vocera announced it has acquired alarm management company mVisum for $3.5 million in an effort to enhance the firm’s health communications...
Mobile Apps Will Struggle to Make Money for Developers: Gartner
Through 2018, less than 0.01 percent of consumer mobile apps will be considered a financial success by their developers, as consumers increasingly turn to...
IBM, OhioHealth Use Big Data to Prevent Infections in Hospitals
IBM said it has teamed up with OhioHealth to tap big data to help prevent infections in hospitals.Big Blue announced it is part of...
Microsoft to Release Windows 9 ‘Threshold’ Details at Build 2014
Developers will be getting a sneak peek at Windows "Threshold," Microsoft's stab at a unified Windows ecosystem that is expected to span its flagship...
RAM Scrapers at Heart of Massive Retail Credit Card Data Breaches
Security professionals are focusing on the tools that attackers use to steal the credit card data and account information from point-of-sale (POS) terminals and...
Open Source Storage Relaunches Itself, New Platform
Open Source Storage, which 13 years ago pioneered the idea of networked storage that uses free and open-source software to manage it, will announce...
Google Buys Nest for $3.2B: A Big Step Into Connected Home
Google took another big step Jan. 13 in its quest to become a major player in the connected home Internet of things market when...
HP May Launch Low-Cost Android Smartphone This Month: Report
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and other executives have been saying for more than a year that the tech giant needed to get back into...
Microsoft, IBM Team Up for Retail ERP
Microsoft and IBM are working on new IT products that will meld the enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities of Microsoft's Dynamics AX 2012 R3...