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  • News: Android 4: Developers praise the new UI and APIs

    With the first 'Ice Cream Sandwich' smartphones due in mid-November, the real app testing can soon begin

  • News: DWP signs seven-year app dev contract with Accenture

    The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a seven-year application development and maintenance contract with Accenture for parts of its Universal Credit system and other customer-facing systems.

  • Opinion: Innovative Air Travel Concept Puts You On a Cloud, Not Just Among Them

    Ever since the dawn of public air travel there have been countless efforts to do it in style, and a New York architect's "Passing Cloud" concept may be the most unique so far.

  • Opinion: Google Aims to Mobilize Your Website with GoMo

    Despite explosive growth in smartphone usage, many businesses still have a website that isn't optimized to fit on a small mobile screen. If a potential customer can't navigate your store's site from a handset, there's a good chance they'll walk over to the shop of your competitor that has a mobile-ready site.

  • Opinion: Dont Let This Happen To Your iPad: 5 Fire Prevention Gadgets For Geeks

    Last month, a faulty electrical outlet in my charming turn-of-the-century studio apartment sparked a fire while I was out of the house. Many of my gadgets were singed, and what wasn't directly burnt still suffered damage from smoke and/or water from the automated sprinklers. Truly, it was a geek's worst nightmare! My trusty MacBook Pro, iPad, Xbox 360, and countless other gadgets were bricked, including my primary backup hard drive (thank goodness for data recovery). So, for my first blog back at GeekTech I thought it would be apropos to compose this short list of fire prevention gadgets I only wish I knew about before the incident.

  • News: SAP's Business Objects

    Company: SAP

  • News: Carbonite launches bare metal backups, file versioning

    Carbonite has announced upgrades to its online backup and restore service that include full OS and application backups, as well as the ability to mirror data to an external drive. The service allows users to perform a full metal restore from the external drive or a CD.

  • News: Why Today's CIO Must Foster IT Agility

    Dell CIO Robin Johnson explains how a company's lack of agility, the inability of its IT infrastructure to quickly incorporate a new business process that would give it a competitive edge, can be costly. Johnson explains why the price of this lack of agility, what he refers to as the agility tax, is too high to pay.

  • News: Supreme Court set to hear landmark GPS tracking case

    The U.S. Supreme Court next week will begin hearing arguments in a landmark case involving the government's authority to use GPS tracking devices in criminal investigations without first obtaining a court order.

  • News: HDS to release converged computing platform for SAP

    Hitachi Data Systems plans to release its latest flavor of Converged Platform data center offerings aimed at analyzing massive amounts of data in SAP environments.

  • News: Hospital electronic records adoption jumps, but still low

    Hospitals that are prepared to adopt electronic medical records and achieve the government's "meaningful use" criteria have increased significantly, from 25% to 41%, according to new research.

  • News: Siri, When Will Apple Launch its iTunes Match Music Service?

    In a rare twist, Apple missed a self-imposed deadline to launch iTunes Match, an ambitious service that mirrors your iTunes music library in the cloud. The company said on October 4, during the iPhone 4S launch event, that iTunes Match would be available by the end of October, yet two days after the deadline, the service is nowhere to be found.

  • News: Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

    Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

  • News: India Exempts Its Outsourcers from New Privacy Rules

    India's outsourcing industry breathes a sigh of relief as the government exempts it from strict new data protection rules.

  • News: GE Healthcare targets faster document processing by cutting customisation

    GE Healthcare is aiming to more than halve the time it takes to process documents by implementing a less customised version of EMC’s enterprise content management (ECM) solution Documentum.

  • 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.