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CA To Buy Nimsoft For $350 Million 10 Mar 2010
Acquisition of the system monitoring firm is a move toward growing CA's customer base in the cloud and managed service provider space.

FCC Plan May Seek Free Broadband 10 Mar 2010
Given that Congress shot down an earlier proposal for free spectrum, what will it do with a new proposal?

Acer Challenging Dell As No. 2 PC Maker 10 Mar 2010
Dell's decision not to lower prices to capture market share may have hurt, as only 0.2 of a percentage point separated it from the No. 3 spot in 2009 PC shipments.

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Kaiser Permanente Finishes EMR Rollout 10 Mar 2010
The health insurer will continue to tweak its electronic medical records system to comply with the federal government's upcoming meaningful use criteria.

Column about list of 100 questions that general managers always think about, from management consultant Patty Azzarello.

Samsung Launches 3D TVs 10 Mar 2010
The company's 3-D products -- including LED, LCD, and plasma televisions and a 3-D Blu-ray player -- will begin shipping this month.

Army Plans Massive E-mail Consolidation 10 Mar 2010
The multi-year, $243 million project is part of a larger IT transformation effort, and could spark military-wide e-mail consolidation.

Bing Search Up 37% Since Launch 10 Mar 2010
New data shows Microsoft making significant inroads against Google and Yahoo in the U.S. search engine market.

Tablet PC Pioneer Wins Turing Award 10 Mar 2010
Charles P. Thacker, veteran hardware developer at the Xerox Corp.'s PARC and Microsoft, picks up the prestigious $250,000 prize.

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LifeLock Settles FTC Charges For $12 Million 10 Mar 2010
The FTC complaint alleged that the firm's identity theft protection and data security claims were false.

Dell Revs Vostro Laptops 10 Mar 2010
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Tibco Brings Analytics To Spotfire 3.1 10 Mar 2010
The Spotfire Statistics Services option exposes S+ and R models within a layman's data analysis and data visualization environment.

EnterpriseDB Tapped For Online Gaming 10 Mar 2010
Sony has selected the the open source PostgreSQL system to support Free Realm, a data-intense multiplayer online game.

Amazon Seeking Kindle Browser Refresh? 10 Mar 2010
An Amazon job posting for a browser developer may signal changes to the top-selling e-reader's Web browser.

Feds Ease Software Export Restrictions 10 Mar 2010
U.S. developers authorized to offer Internet communication apps to Iran, Sudan, and Cuba.

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Global CIO: How CEOs See Cloud Computing 10 Mar 2010
Column about a conversation between a CEO and a CIO about the power of cloud computing to reduce IT costs, accelerate processes and product development, and create opportunities to increase revenue.

NY BlueCross To Cover Telehealth Services 10 Mar 2010
Telehealth services enabled via American Well's Online Care system are coming to BlueCross Blue Shield in upstate New York.

Google Launches Store For Web Apps 10 Mar 2010
The Google Apps Marketplace will let third-party developers sell their Web apps to Google Apps customers.

White House Plans Innovation Prize Platform 9 Mar 2010
The government plans to release a Web-based platform for federal agencies to use prizes and challenges to crowdsource innovative approaches to government problems.

Sony Sets Aggressive 3D TV Target 9 Mar 2010
If the company hits its sales goals -- 2.5 million 3-D televisions and 67% more TVs overall -- its TV business will be profitable for the first time in seven years.

VA Halts Access To EHR System 9 Mar 2010
The administration is addressing a bug that caused its VistAWeb e-health records system to return incomplete data.

A light Patch Tuesday brings word of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.

Cisco Unveils Next Gen Carrier Router 9 Mar 2010
The $90,000 CSR-3 switch is positioned as a flagship enterprise product capable of handling high demand for video on 100G networks.

Global CIO: BMC CEO On Rogue Clouds, Oracle 9 Mar 2010
CEO Bob Beauchamp talks trends in data centers and IT management.

Microsoft Unveils MSN Redesign 9 Mar 2010
Revamped home page features a more prominent Bing search engine and direct integration with Facebook.

Newegg Axes Supplier Over Fake Intel Chips 9 Mar 2010
Some Core i7 processors received from the supplier were counterfeit, online retailer says.

The phone was bought by an employee of Panda Security, who spotted the malware.

Combining data synchronization with process-support and mashup capabilities, OmniConnect addresses on-premise-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud integration.

Air Force Taking Bids For Network Services 9 Mar 2010
Vendors can submit proposals for up to $460 million in awards from the $24 billion follow-up to the Air Force's Network Centric Solutions procurement program.

Sun's Open Source Chief Quits 9 Mar 2010
Ten-year veteran Simon Phipps leaves the company on the heels of Oracle merger.

The partnership will cover the joint development and marketing of integrated video, voice, and collaboration solutions.

80% Say Internet Access A Right 9 Mar 2010
Nearly half of those surveyed in an international poll said they did not think they could cope without the Internet.

EMC Offers Email Compliance App 9 Mar 2010
SourceOne Email Supervisor is designed to help companies meet legal compliance requirements for electronic documents.

HP Offers iPad Alternative 9 Mar 2010
Apple won't have the tablet computer market to itself for long as Hewlett-Packard and others plan Windows 7-based slates.

Cloud Connect: A Convergence Of Expertise 9 Mar 2010
The Cloud Connect conference March 15-18 will feature leaders of the NoSQL movement speaking on how to handle large data sets in the cloud.

Column about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's speech at the University of Washington in which he declared his company's full and unconditional commitment to cloud computing.

IDC: 2010 PC Shipments Mostly Mobile 9 Mar 2010
Portables such as ultrathin mobiles and WiMAX-enabled machines will account for more than 60% of all PC shipments, researcher predicts.

Chief Operating Officer Sanju Bansal talks about smartphone capabilities, analytics, dashboards, and the dirty secret in business intelligence: slow query response times.

Vendors duke it out at HIMSS conference in bid to provide the healthcare platform that everyone wants.

Google Debuts Public Data Explorer 8 Mar 2010
The company's latest visualization experiment lets users create their own charts and graphs using public data.

The company also said its Long-Term Evolution network could see peak download speeds of 40 to 50 Mbps.

Navy Awards $1.75 Billion IT Contracts 8 Mar 2010
Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman will build a shipboard and onshore IP network to replace legacy and outdated software and hardware.

The company says that it is working with U.S.-CERT to determine how the software on its servers became infected.

Intel Probing Bogus Processors 8 Mar 2010
The chip maker is investigating reports of potentially counterfeit i7 920 packages in the marketplace.

GAO Knocks Federal Cybersecurity Plan 8 Mar 2010
The Government Accountability Office says the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative is poorly coordinated and unmeasured and recommends changes.

IBM Opens Beijing Energy Lab 8 Mar 2010
Big Blue's newest facility in the People's Republic will focus on solutions for utility companies and related industries.

Cisco Quits WiMax Radio Business 8 Mar 2010
The decision to cease making WiMax base stations gives a boost to Cisco's Long-Term Evolution portfolio.

Google Buzz Stung By Lawsuit 8 Mar 2010
The company broke privacy and data protection laws, the complaint alleges.

Avaya Updates UC Suite 8 Mar 2010
With the release IP Office 6.0, Avaya seeks to bring unified communications within reach for cost-conscious small businesses.

Government officials turned out in force last week to lay out federal cybersecurity policy and encourage greater public-private partnership.
