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Ed Hansberry

Copy And Paste, And A New Green Charger
Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft's decision to leave clipboard functionality out of Windows Phone 7. That isn't the end of the story though. AT&T also announced a new green charger that uses no electricity when your phone is not plugged into it. Let's hit the news about Microsoft first.

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Bob Evans

IBM Ruins Lives, Impoverishes America, Says eWeek
eWeek's hallucination appears to go like this: IBM has become "a model company for killing good U.S. jobs," it has "ruined" an untold number of lives, and it has made "the United States a poorer part of the planet." My oh my--and just what terrible acts did mean old IBM perpetrate to deserve such condemnation from eWeek?

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George Crump

Advantages Of PCI-Based SSDs
The typical path to SSD is by either buying a SAN attached SSD specific storage system or leveraging SSD drives in an alternate drive type in a storage system. For a few years however another form factor has been establishing itself, the PCIe based SSD and there may be some areas where it has a few advantages.

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John Foley

Federal CIO Seeks Out Apple, Facebook, Google
Vivek Kundra was on the West Coast last week, where his schedule included meetings with Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and other tech innovators. The federal CIO says that U.S. government employees are at a disadvantage when it comes to the technology they use, and he's looking for better ways of working.

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Charles Babcock

Appistry Extends File Management In Private Cloud
Appistry is expanding its Cloud IQ platform, a basis for building a private cloud inside the enterprise, to include a file storage system. Cloud IQ Storage is aimed at extremely large storage loads-- up to a petabyte -- that would enable next generation, high scalable applications dealing with masses of data.

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Enterprise Efficiency

Who Really Benefits From Enterprise Efficiency?
Efficiency is always a good thing. But many IT leaders worry about where the benefits will actually end up

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Nicole Ferraro

Twitter Bores Texas
Twitter's @anywhere platform release was not enough to keep attendees' attention at South by Southwest Interactive

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James Reinders

Think Parallel 2010, Five Years of Multicore
The first multicore x86 processors arrived nearly 5 years ago.





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Why Oracle's Earnings Will Improve With Sun

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised Sun's profitability would start last month, and here's an analysis showing why CIOs should believe him.

IBM Revamps Intel Server Lineup

Big Blue adds new rack, tower, and blade systems to its portfolio of Xeon-based servers.

10 Things SAP Chiefs Should Focus On

Annual maintenance fees, the 80/20 trap, rebuilding customer trust, raising employee morale, the truth about Oracle, the truth about SAP, and much more.

FCC: Broadband Key To Healthcare IT Initiatives

Expanding the nation's broadband infrastructure will improve electronic medical record delivery and lower healthcare IT costs, report says.

Microsoft Reiterates Cloud Commitment

Microsoft executives at the Cloud Connect event echo CEO Steve Ballmer's vow that cloud computing is a key priority.

Full Nelson: The iPad Speaks

Apple's maverick tablet device gives Full Nelson a rare interview. Its candor will surprise you.


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Bob Evans

Global CIO: Why Oracle's Earnings Will Improve With Sun
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised Sun's profitability would start last month, and here's an analysis showing why CIOs should believe him.

Dr. Robert D. Atkinson
Dr. Robert D. Atkinson

Dot-Com Turns 25: Commercial Blockbuster Just Gets Started
The bubble burst wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, and the new business models, services, innovations, and economic growth it spawned are unprecedented.

Craig Mathias
Craig Mathias

Mathias On Mobility: Skype & Verizon Are Path To 4G
The landline/Internet communications services we so depend upon will be available in the mobile world sooner rather than later.

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Anthony Guerra

Guerra On Healthcare: Will Future Clinical Systems Be Modules Or Monoliths?
With lives at stake, the choice between a one-stop shop and open source supermarket isn't so simple.

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Rob Preston

Down To Business: Electronic Healthcare Won't Be Denied
Obstacles abound, no doubt. But three huge constituents will demand it: government, large providers -- and the customers who will benefit.

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Art Wittmann

Practical Analysis: How To Lead In Cloud Adoption
Cloud Connect event shows companies taking very practical approaches to implementing cloud computing.

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Alexander Wolfe

Server Den: Juniper Fires Back At Cisco CRS-3
As the networking behemoths battle over router speed claims, both are attempting to cement public personas, and clue in non-technical consumers on who they are.

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Fritz Nelson

Full Nelson: The iPad Speaks
Apple's maverick tablet device gives Full Nelson a rare interview. Its candor will surprise you.

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Chris Murphy

Global CIO: Patni Latest Outsourcer To Buy U.S. Capacity
The recession offered a good chance to buy up capacity for business processing, software development, data centers.

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