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President Obama's push for electronic medical records will require a radical expansion in data warehousing. And since much of those records will be doctors' notes, analyzing that information will req... More >
IBM and PDF Solutions are teaming up to develop an integrated circuit design platform to make scaling easier for design and manufacture of chips at 32-, 28-, and 22-nanometers, according to this ... More >
This week Google decided to place text ads on the pages of its news service, reports The New York Times . Complaints from newspaper publishers had prevented the company from placing ads on its news ... More >
Twitter's in a position much like YouTube was before Google bought it, writes search guru John Battelle on his Searchblog . He says the YouTube acquisition was all about search, much as Twitter is ... More >
Times are tough, but don't expect Google to close its celebrated kitchens despite its need to cut costs . Subsidized meals are “part of the magic of the place,” Google Finance Chief Patrick P... More >
The City of San Diego has fired the vendor hired to implement a new ERP system and has chosen to deal directly with the software maker, SAP, which charges higher fees. It has canned Axon Solut... More >
ComputerWorld reports that online advertising is in trouble. IDC forecasts that companies will cut back on the number of ads placed online this quarter, which is very bad news for companies who deri... More >
Apple's board on Wednesday defended their disclosures about CEO Steve Jobs' health and assured shareholders that he remains deeply involved in the company. The crowd even sang "Happy Birthday" to him... More >
A new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ranked the United States sixth among 40 countries and regions based on 16 indicators of innovation and competitiveness, reports ... More >
In a directive aimed at cutting costs in the rough economy, mobile phone company Nokia is offering its employees -- with the exception of is manufacturing workers and senior executives -- a “Voluntar... More >
Microsoft plans to launch its own search engine site where researchers can test out their ideas separately from its Live Search engine, reports TechFlash . The story quotes Robert Rounthwai... More >
Cisco has focused its business intelligence efforts on improving the customer experience, according to David Hsiao, director of corporate quality metrics and benchmarking. Hsiao, speaking at t... More >
It's a tough time to be in sales, for sure. But ChannelWeb asked resellers and vendors to name their best arguments for investing in technology now. Here's their top 5 responses: 1. Becaus... More >
Last week, the Emery, Calif.-based EastBay Express ran a lengthy story claiming that Yelp.com’s sales force was offering to remove negative reviews of businesses if they bought advertising on the... More >
The number of Silicon Valley companies developing products to be sold overseas is growing rapidly, reports The San Jose Mercury News . The number of these under-the-radar companies actually... More >
The Boston Globe compares the state's technology industry to a faded beauty queen in need of a makeover. Industry leaders met recently to organize the Information Technology Collaborative, a ... More >
Social-networking sites offer another way to tap into what customers are thinking , but businesses are still trying to figure out how to use that to their advantage, according to this piece on e-Co... More >
In a keynote at the Mobile World Congress, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe talked about how the company plans to translate its online success to mobile, reports mocoNews.net . He said just under ... More >
An eMarketer report released Thursday found users more open to advertising on their phones than other forms of digital ads, reports paidcontent.org . And the story calls them "stickier" -- ... More >
Management and IT services company BearingPoint has filed for bankruptcy protection after laboring under heavy debt, reports bizjournals.com . The company came to court Wednesday with a re... More >
New York City is near a deal with work space providers to help startups set up offices in the city's notoriously expensive market, reports Caroline McCarthy at CNET News . Under the agreeme... More >
A Sunnyvale, Calif., startup is working to connect all sorts of devices through wi-fi chips, creating a sort of "Internet of things," reports The San Jose Mercury News . You could use a lap... More >
Continental Airlines will begin using MicroStrategy's business intelligence software to gain insight into customers' buying habits, reports InformationWeek .The value of the deal has not been anno... More >
With almost $200 billion on the way to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure, some are advocating that such projects include more than just concrete and steel. The Wall Street Journal explain... More >
In the wild, untamed universe that has become Twitter, it was bound to happen. Somebody thinks there needs to be a few rules governing this microblogging medium, reports The New York Times . ... More >
For Valentine's Day, ERP vendor Agresso is focusing on the unhealthy relationships many companies have with their enterprise software and their tendency to keep going back to the same vendor for mo... More >
Gartner claims that more than 35 percent of the top 5,000 global companies will miss significant insight into their business over the next three years because they have invested too little in busine... More >
Charter Communications, the nation's fourth-largest cable provider, has agreed to seek bankruptcy protection by April 1 as part of a deal to restructure about $8 billion in debt, reports Dow Jones... More >
The idea of improving the status of IT within the business made the launch of the IT Capability Maturity Framework by a consortium of companies this week interesting, reports Ars Technica . ... More >
A federal appeals court has turned thumb's down to Verizon's “retention marketing” practices , reports CNET News . Bright House Networks, Comcast and Time Warner cried foul over Verizon's pr... More >
German DRAM maker Qimonda, which announced last week it will close its only U.S. plant , said Tuesday it will cut overall production to 25 percent of capacity while it searches for investors, repo... More >
Resellers are scrambling to find financing options for their clients since at least three channel financing programs in the past three months have announced they are closing or making their terms s... More >
It's true. Steve Wozniak, who recently signed on as chief scientist for solid-state storage vendor Fusion-io , also has signed on to follow in the footsteps of Mark Cuban, Jerry Rice and Cloris Lea... More >
Somebody finally said it: Microsoft's ads with Jerry Seinfeld blew chunks, as my 12-year-old son would say. According to research by Brand Keys, after seeing the ads , both Apple and Microsof... More >
As companies of all sizes around the globe struggle with cash flow, more are seeking more time to pay their suppliers , according to Ethicalcorp.com . Larger suppliers grant it, if they can, but sq... More >
California has more IT woes than my previous post on the prison health care system . After an analysis of projects presented by state CIO Teri Takai as evidence of the state's IT success, ... More >
An audit of the California prison health care system found $26.7 million spent on IT goods and services in 2007 and 2008 without competitive bidding , according to the Central Valley Business Tim... More >
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