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  • 02 November 2011

  • News: Toyota expects to offer health care robots in 2013

    Toyota Motor Corp. is bringing high tech to health care, as it works on a family of robots geared to lift patients and help the paralyzed walk.

  • News: Small businesses stuck in IT dark age claims Intel report

    A shortage of money, combined with a lack of technical expertise, is keeping half of small businesses in a technology “dark age”, according to a large survey.

  • News: How CIOs Build Bridges With Other C-Level Execs

    Top-notch CIOs are boosting IT's reputation and forming stronger relationships with other business leaders

  • News: Sorry, I don't hate the new Gmail

    There's always a temptation to trash companies' efforts when they try to revamp popular formats. In the case of the new Gmail, however, this approach is unwarranted.

  • News: DVD streaming service Zediva told to shut down

    This is one Hollywood story without a happy ending: DVD-streaming upstart Zediva must close its virtual doors. Launched in early 2011, Zediva offered a Netflix-like streaming service, but attempted to skirt issues like limited rental-only discs and 28-day release delays with its novel approach: The company gave customers remote access to actual DVD players playing regular, store-bought DVDs. Now, however, a federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against the company, effectively shuttering the service for good.

  • News: Public sector could derive revenue from data management improvements, says EMC

    The public sector will be investing more in improving its management of information in a bid to reduce costs and increase revenue, an EMC executive has predicted.

  • News: VMware out, Twitter in at Java oversight committee

    VMware is no longer a member of the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee, but Twitter has joined, according to election results finalized this week.

  • News: House passes freeze on new mobile taxes

    The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a five-year moratorium on new taxes targeted toward mobile services, with supporters arguing that customers pay higher taxes on their mobile plans than on most other goods and services.

  • News: Smartphones, social media tied into ELERTS emergency system

    Chris Russo, deputy fire chief in the Massachusetts coastal town of Hull, launches ELERTS, an emergency communication system that uses smartphones and social media to communicate with first responders and other emergency personnel.

  • News: Track cloud spending with Cloudability

    Imagine plopping down your credit card to turn on compute services late at night when there's no time to get permission from your boss and then getting distracted before the weekend on another work emergency. On Monday, when you remember you signed up for the services, which you intended to use for just a short time, you discover you've racked up US$5,000 in charges on your personal card.

  • News: OpenFlow vs. programmable ASICs

    Can you program a network of multivendor switches and routers, all running different operating systems, command line interfaces and configuration routines, to work in concert when it comes to managing flows?

  • News: Cisco vs. HP vs. IBM vs. Dell

    Cisco used to be a networking company, pure and simple. It built its dominance and influence on capturing a dominant market position in routers and switches, both in the enterprise and in service provider networks.

  • News: IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS

    Several different flavors have sprung up in cloud computing and each has their pros and cons. Add to these the plethora of vendor-created acronyms and it can be confusing to figure out the best option.

  • News: Facebook vs. Google+ vs. Twitter vs. LinkedIn

    Much has changed since we examined the ongoing war between Facebook and Twitter in the spring of 2010. The stakes are higher, the competition has increased, and we see LinkedIn and Google roaring into the social networking arena like never before.

  • News: Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business

    The battle between Microsoft and Google for office cloud dominance reminds me of the clash of the Titans. Microsoft and its classic on-premises business model is like Gaia, the earth goddess, and Google with its disruptive lightening bolt, is like Zeus, a sky god and a next generation kind of god.

  • News: Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Apple iCloud

    This isn't too much of a contest yet, since Apple is just getting started on its cloud storage service while Amazon Cloud Drive has been available for months.

  • News: Anonymity vs. real names on social networks

    Let's cut to the chase: This one is really about whether Facebook and the new kid on the block, Google+, should get to throw their considerable weight around by requiring that users post to their social-networking sites using real names.

  • News: Allow social media vs. ban social media at work

    The pull of social media is proving hard to resist. Even the most buttoned-down institutions are rethinking bans and relaxing access to social networks and social media sites. But just how far are enterprises willing to wade into the sea of social media?

  • News: Virtualization wars: VMware vs. Hyper-V vs. XenServer vs. KVM

    Ten years ago the argument over virtualization would have been a short one because VMware was the only game in town, but that early dominance is now being significantly challenged by Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat (KVM).

  • News: Trinity Mirror in switch to cloud with Google Apps

    Trinity Mirror is adopting cloud computing systems for email, collaboration and documents, switching to Google Apps.

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