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Lenovo's Fiscal Q4 Profit Up 59 Percent

Lenovo's revenue in the quarter reached US$7.5 billion, up 54 percent year-over-year Full Story »

Study: Patriot Act Gives US Government No Special Acess to Cloud Data

Other countries also can obtain personal data stored in the cloud, an international law firm found

Facebook to Settle Class-action Suit Over Sponsored Stories

The parties say they have agreed 'in principle' to settle

Steve Jobs Biopic will be Filmed in the Garage Where Apple Began

jOBS, the Steve Jobs biopic, will be filmed in actual locations such as Jobs' childhood home and the garage where Apple began, it has been revealed.

The Best Phones From Every Carrier

Whether you're on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon, terrific handsets abound. Here are the best bets to replace your old clunker.

"Liberating" Your Data from Google, and What that Really Means

Google Takeout, which lets you download a copy of your Google presence, turns one year old next month.

Facebook Vs Google: By the Numbers

With the world's largest social networking website, Facebook, going public it is quite obvious that comparisons with Google will crop up. We have collated some figures and here is a list of numbers comparing the two giants.

Amazon's Android Appstore Allows Users to Test Apps on Phones

Amazon has more than 5,000 Android apps ready to use the Test Drive feature, and it aims to make the entire Appstore catalog available.

Youtube Appeals German Content Filtering Verdict

Both YouTube and the music royalty collecting agency GEMA are appealing the verdict

Google Seals the Deal on $12.5B Motorola Acquisition

Google has officially closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, putting the search giant in charge of a major smartphone, tablet and set-top box maker.

Google Becomes Hardware Company with $12.5B Motorola Buy

Company pushes Android and aims for enterprise with the Motorola Mobility acquisition.

Via Announces $49 PC with Android OS

The new PC is a mini-motherboard designed to run basic Internet tasks.

10 Years Later, Alcatel-lucent Revisits Cisco and Juniper in the Core

Alcatel-Lucent is set to give Cisco and Juniper another run for the money in core routing 10 years after its initial attempt failed.

Windows 8 Touchscreen Devices to Be Priced Higher, Dell Says

Windows 8 PCs and laptops with touchscreens will cost a bit more to buy, Michael Dell says

Facebook Stock Slumps for Third Day

In its third day of trading, Facebook's stock is still in a slump, taking the shine off the frenzy that led up to the company's initial public offering (IPO) last week.

Facebook Tests Timeline Redesign

Facebook's Timeline profiles may be getting a redesign, but this one probably won't trigger a backlash.

5 Things to Look Forward to in Linux Mint 13 "Maya"

There's been much attention focused lately on Canonical's recently released Ubuntu Linux 12.04 "Precise Pangolin," but it's by no means the only popular Linux distribution out there with a major update in the offing.

Ballmer: Windows 8 Will Bring "Rebirth" of Microsoft OS

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks that Windows 8 is the most important piece of work the Redmond-based company has ever done.

Updated SDK From Soti Allows Businesses to Remotely Control Apple Mobile Devices

IPads, iPod Touches and iPhones will gain a feature that has been available in PCs for years, Soti's CEO says

SAP buying e-commerce vendor Ariba for $4.3 billion

The move expands SAP's presence in cloud software

Verizon Looks to Alcatel's New Core Router for Capacity, Efficiency

The carrier is first to say it will use the 7950 XRS platform announced on Tuesday

Dell's Profit Shrinks in the First Quarter

Dell's overall revenue falls by 4 percent and consumer revenue falls by 12 percent.

CIOs Mull How to Innovate and Tighten Belts Simultaneously

Run IT like a business, says one panelist at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

NFC Use Growing Outside Smartphones

NFC antennas and stickers are making their way to cases, multimedia gateways, ultrabooks and stickers

Microsoft Beats Data-sorting Record with New Approach

A new approach, called Flat Datacenter Storage, pushes computational sorting to each data server

 
This research assesses the impact of the growth in media tablets and other "off desktop" form factors entering IT deployments and makes recommendations on building an enterprise management plan based on industry best practices.
This BYOD implementation guide from Absolute Software provides three simple steps to legally secure and manage employee-owned devices within a corporate environment.
The promise of enterprise mobility means that employees are more productive and address business issues in a timely, untethered manner.
Read this new eBook to learn the top five scenarios and essential best practices for preventing database attacks and insider threats.
This high level, business problem focused eBook uses 5 customer scenarios to show how people and organizations are tackling real issues using IBM solutions.
The options for securing increasingly valuable databases are very broad and deep, and can be confusing. This research provides an overview of three categories of controls that should be implemented to ensure that enterprise data is protected in the most efficient and effective manner.
Ben Snyder, Desktop Support Analyst at Under Armour, discusses how this fast-growing company with thousands of mobile employees uses an automated process to manage its mix of PC and Apple devices from a single console.
View this demo and learn how IBM InfoSphere Guardium database activity monitoring can help protect your sensitive data in distributed DBMS environments with a holistic approach to data security and compliance.
These flash modules make warehousing more tangible and relevant to business users through detailed explanations of the InfoSphere Warehouse Packs.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
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