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Acquisition of the system monitoring firm is a move toward growing CA's customer base in the cloud and managed service provider space.


Given that Congress shot down an earlier proposal for free spectrum, what will it do with a new proposal?


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.



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.


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


The multi-year, $243 million project is part of a larger IT transformation effort, and could spark military-wide e-mail consolidation.


New data shows Microsoft making significant inroads against Google and Yahoo in the U.S. search engine market.


Charles P. Thacker, veteran hardware developer at the Xerox Corp.'s PARC and Microsoft, picks up the prestigious $250,000 prize.



The FTC complaint alleged that the firm's identity theft protection and data security claims were false.


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The Spotfire Statistics Services option exposes S+ and R models within a layman's data analysis and data visualization environment.


Sony has selected the the open source PostgreSQL system to support Free Realm, a data-intense multiplayer online game.


An Amazon job posting for a browser developer may signal changes to the top-selling e-reader's Web browser.


U.S. developers authorized to offer Internet communication apps to Iran, Sudan, and Cuba.



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.


Telehealth services enabled via American Well's Online Care system are coming to BlueCross Blue Shield in upstate New York.


The Google Apps Marketplace will let third-party developers sell their Web apps to Google Apps customers.


The government plans to release a Web-based platform for federal agencies to use prizes and challenges to crowdsource innovative approaches to government problems.


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.


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.


The $90,000 CSR-3 switch is positioned as a flagship enterprise product capable of handling high demand for video on 100G networks.


CEO Bob Beauchamp talks trends in data centers and IT management.


Revamped home page features a more prominent Bing search engine and direct integration with Facebook.



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.


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.


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.



Nearly half of those surveyed in an international poll said they did not think they could cope without the Internet.


SourceOne Email Supervisor is designed to help companies meet legal compliance requirements for electronic documents.


Apple won't have the tablet computer market to itself for long as Hewlett-Packard and others plan Windows 7-based slates.


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.


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.


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.


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.


The chip maker is investigating reports of potentially counterfeit i7 920 packages in the marketplace.



The Government Accountability Office says the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative is poorly coordinated and unmeasured and recommends changes.


Big Blue's newest facility in the People's Republic will focus on solutions for utility companies and related industries.


The decision to cease making WiMax base stations gives a boost to Cisco's Long-Term Evolution portfolio.


The company broke privacy and data protection laws, the complaint alleges.


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.