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01/06/2009 05:00 PM
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IBM`s Palmisano: Government Investment Could Lead to 900,000 IT Jobs
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has told members of the Barrack Obama transition team that a $30 billion government investment in the IT industry could lead to the creation of more than 900,000 jobs in areas such as broadband access, healthcare IT and upgrading the electrical grid.
- The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has advised the Obama team that a government investment of $30 billion could create more than 900,000 jobs for U.S. workers.
Palmisano addressed Obama's transition team in December in response to a request from the president elect's adviso...
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01/06/2009 04:51 PM
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Sun Updates JRuby
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Sun Microsystems and the JRuby community have released JRuby 1.1.6, a new release of the JRuby Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter.
- Sun Microsystems and the JRuby community have updated JRuby, a Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, with the release of JRuby 1.1.6.
Thomas Enebo, a software developer at Sun Microsystems and one of the core developers of JRuby, said JRuby 1.1.6 is the sixth point release of JRuby 1.1. ...
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01/06/2009 04:31 PM
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How to Build Online Banking for Generation Y
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Growing up in a world immersed in digital technologies, Generation Y holds the highest of expectations about how they think their online banking experience should be. Knowledge Center contributor Shelby Hutcherson explains how regional and community banks can develop online financial services that attract and retain members of Generation Y, their toughest new customers yet.
- Born at the dawn of the digital age in the early 1980s, the oldest among Generation Y have never known a world without personal computers and video games. The youngest of these so-called Millennials are still in their early teens, using their cell phones for texting more than talking, counting their...
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01/06/2009 04:28 PM
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Best Buy Offers Used Apple iPhones at Lower Price
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Retailer Best Buy says it is selling refurbished versions of the Apple iPhone 3G at its stores that are priced about $50 less than new iPhones. The electronics chain says the used iPhones, which were returned within 30 days of purchase, are priced at $149 for the model with 8GB of storage, while the 16GB version is $249. A two-year service contract with AT T is required.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) Retailer Best Buy Co, seeking new ways to appeal to
cost-conscious shoppers, said on Tuesday it is selling refurbished versions of
Apple Inc's iPhone 3G at its stores that are priced about $50 less than new
iPhones.
The electronics chain said the used iPhones,
which were ret...
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01/06/2009 04:14 PM
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Mouse-maker Logitech to Lay Off 15 Percent of Staff
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CEO blames a deteriorating retail environment for its sales woes. Company also withdraws its fiscal year 2009 growth targets for sales and operating income and also will lay off about 1,400 of its 9,400 full-time employees.
- PC peripheral maker Logitech said Jan. 6 that due to quot;a deteriorating retail environment quot; it has withdrawn its fiscal year 2009 growth targets for sales and operating income and will lay off 15 percent of its global salaried workforce of about 9,400.
The Switzerland-based company, whic...
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01/06/2009 03:43 PM
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Apple Harvests Light Crop at Macworld
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Joe Wilcox reports from Macworld.
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01/06/2009 03:14 PM
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Cisco WebEx Now Lets You Collaborate from the Apple iPhone 3G
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Cisco and Apple together release a Cisco WebEx Meeting Center application for the Apple iPhone 3G. The move could be a springboard for greater Web conferencing collaboration using the world's most popular smart phone and a boon for corporate road warriors craving mobile enterprise applications. This will be crucial to cementing the iPhone as a reliable alternative to RIM Blackberrys and Nokia Symbian devices in the enterprise mobile and wireless space.
- Apple continues to answer the question of whether its iPhone is
enterprise-ready. At Macworld on Jan. 6, Apple and Cisco Systems said they have enabled the Cisco
WebEx Meeting Center collaboration application to run on Apple's iPhone 3G
smart phone and the iPod Touch.
Available for free in App...
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01/06/2009 01:42 PM
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Laptops, Mininotebooks to Grab the Spotlight at CES
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While the U.S. economy remains in a recession and the CES expo has been scaled back, PC vendors such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard are using the show to highlight new laptops and mininotebooks for consumers that are thinner, lighter and much cheaper. At the same time, AMD and Freescale Semiconductor are launching platforms that look to challenge the market that Intel has created with its Atom processor.
- At the CES expo, it's all about laptops, ultraportables and mininotebooks.
When this year's CES officially kicks off Jan. 7 in Las Vegas with Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer delivering the
opening keynote address, PC makers such as Lenovo
and Hewlett-Packard along with companies such as Intel, Advan...
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01/06/2009 01:03 PM
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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 for Apple Mac OS X Supports Google, Yahoo Calendars
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IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 is now available for Mac OS X computers, boasting a user interface that lets users access Notes' full messaging and collaboration features from one screen. The new release also interoperates with Web calendar applications from Google, Yahoo and other public Web calendars, allowing users to display their Lotus Notes work calendar and their personal Internet calendar on the same screen. IBM claims this is its attempt to make Notes more social -- integrating work and play -- as it seeks to compete with Microsoft.
- IBM's
Lotus Notes 8.5 enterprise e-mail application is now available for
Apple computers running the Mac OS X Leopard operating system, months
after rolling out to Windows and Linux users.
Key to Lotus Notes 8.5 for Macs is an integrated user interface that
lets users access and manage e-mail...
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01/06/2009 12:58 PM
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Samsung Unveils New High-Capacity, 'Green' Enterprise SSD
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The new SSD can process IOPS (input/output per second) more than 10 times faster than the fastest 15K-rpm SAS disk drive available for transactional data workloads, Samsung said. It features a random read speed of 25K and a random write speed of 6K.
- Solid-state semiconductor maker Samsung revealed Jan. 6 that it has developed a new enterprise-level 2.5-inch, 100GB solid-state drive that can handle heavy-duty applications such as video on demand, streaming media content delivery and on-line transaction processing while consuming substantially le...
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01/06/2009 11:41 AM
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Google Named No. 3 Spam Provider
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New forms of spam and similar abuse find a welcome home at Google, and the company doesn't yet seem up to the security task of fighting them. Perhaps it's a responsiveness issue.
- Much has been made of the recent
revelation that Google had reached No. 4 on Spamhaus' list of quot;The 10
Worst Spam Service ISPs. quot; In fact, as I check now, Google is No. 3.
It's no secret why Gmail is such a big spamming source now: Spammers have
had success cracking the CAPTCHA tests an...
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01/06/2009 11:08 AM
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Clearwire Debuts Portland WiMax
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It's the first WiMax rollout since Clearwire and Sprint Nextel combined operations debuts in Portland. The open all-IP network provides mobile and wireless customers with average download speeds initially of 2M to 4M bps and peak rates that are considerably faster. Clearwire plans to provide WiMax service in most of the top 100 markets by no later than 2010, although the current economic conditions could put a crimp in those plans.
- If not quite coast-to-coast, WiMax is now at least on each coast. Three
months after Sprint Nextel carried out the nation's first WiMax rollout in
Baltimore, Clearwire the newly combined WiMax operations of Sprint and
Clearwire flipped the switch Jan. 6 on a WiMax deployment in Portland,
Ore.
W...
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01/06/2009 10:05 AM
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Feds Tapped Out of DTV Coupons
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A December surge in demand for converter box coupons sends lawmakers and public officials scrambling after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration reports funding for the $1.34 billion digital converter box program is exhausted.
- The Feb. 17 digital television transition took another
stumbling turn this week when the NTIA (National Telecommunications and
Information Administration) announced that funding for the $1.34 billion
digital converter box coupon program has been exhausted, at least for now. The
NTIA said consume...
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01/06/2009 09:02 AM
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HP to Launch New Laptops, Mini Notebook, Gaming PC at CES
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Hewlett-Packard is launching a series of new consumer laptops at CES Jan. 8 to 11. The HP Pavilion dv2 is the first notebook computer to use Advanced Micro Devices' new platform for ultraportable, lightweight laptops, code-named Yukon. HP is also launching another AMD-based notebook, the HP Pavilion dv3. In addition to these AMD-based PCs, HP is planning to unveil its Mini 2140 Notebook, which uses the Intel Atom N270 processor, as well as a massive gaming desktop, the Voodoo DNA 802 PC.
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01/06/2009 09:00 AM
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SAAS E-Mail from Google, Microsoft Proves Cost Effective for Up to 15K Seats
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Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo and others have plenty of pie to chow down on in the market for messaging and collaboration SAAS. Forrester Research sees value in cloud-based e-mail, finding it less expensive than on-premise solutions up to 15,000 seats. What side of the fence is your business on, or does it use a hybrid on-premise/cloud approach?
- Long relegated as a parlor trick for small businesses, hosted or SAAS (software as a service) e-mail systems from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Zimbra, Cisco PostPath and others have become more viable in the low-end of large enterprises.
SAAS or cloud-based e-mail systems are cost effective for compa...
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