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Retailer to ship laptops with Intel's Core i7 chips

In an unlikely union of technologies, PC retailer Eurocom has said it will ship laptops powered by Intel's Core i7 processor, which the chip maker has dubbed the "fastest processor on this planet."

By Agam Shah | 02 February, 2009 01:53

Tags: eurocom, Core i7, intel

IBM expands SaaS ecosystem

IBM on Friday detailed a new ISV partnership, a move which, on the heels of cloud-related agreements penned last week with several universities, advances the company's cloud and SaaS realm.

By Tom Sullivan | 02 February, 2009 08:24

Tags: SaaS, IBM, Cloud

Hospitals with better IT have fewer deaths, study shows

The level of technology deployed by hospitals to help doctors and nurses automate their work can mean the difference between life and death, according to a recently-reported study. The study, involving more than 167,000 patients in 41 hospitals across the US, also showed that better IT lowered costs.

By Lucas Mearian | 02 February, 2009 08:32

Tags: it strategy

Nortel exits mobile WiMax to focus on high-return tech

Nortel Networks is dropping out of the mobile WiMax business entirely and will end an agreement with Israeli-company Alvarion to resell Alvarion mobile Wimax gear.

By Matt Hamblen | 02 February, 2009 08:41

Tags: WiMax, lte, nortel

Dell could join Acer in unveiling smart phone

When Dell stopped selling the Axim PDA in 2007, several industry observers predicted that the PC and server maker would eventually move on to sell smart phones.

Google researcher targets Web's structured data

Internet search engines have focused largely on crawling text on Web pages, but Google is knee-deep in research about how to analyze and organize structured data, a company scientist said Friday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 02 February, 2009 08:39

Tags: structured data

Gartner picks eight mobile techs to watch

Mobile user interfaces and a new version of Bluetooth top Gartner Research's list of mobile technologies to watch in 2009 and 2010.

By Brad Reed | 02 February, 2009 08:26

Tags: Gartner, bluetooth

NFL's Super Bowl IT team gets ready for game day

The National Football League is fielding three teams for Sunday's Super Bowl. The first two are well known: the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The third, more anonymous one is the 17-member IT staff that the NFL has assigned to work in Tampa, Fla., the site of this year's game.

UAC fix in Windows 7 creates security hole, blogger says

A change that Microsoft made in Windows 7 to improve its controversial User Account Control security feature has left the new OS less secure, according to a blogger who follows Microsoft closely.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 02 February, 2009 08:05

Tags: user account control, Windows 7

Industry giants to weigh in on US privacy laws

A group of U.S. companies, led by technology giants Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and eBay, is set to outline recommendations for new federal data-privacy legislation that could make life easier for consumers and lead to a standard federal breach-notification law.

By Robert McMillan | 02 February, 2009 07:25

Tags: privacy

Microsoft charges employee with spying

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, charging him with taking a job at the software giant in order to steal information that would be helpful in his patent infringement case against the company.

By Nancy Gohring | 02 February, 2009 07:29

Tags: legal

Human error caused Google search bug

Human error caused a glitch that returned the message "this site may harm your computer" for all Google search results for about an hour Saturday morning, the company said, but the mistake was Google's and not StopBadware.org's.

By Nancy Weil | 02 February, 2009 08:02

Tags: Google

IBM mum on local job cuts

IBM has kept mum on whether the company's alleged 4200 staff lay-offs in the United States will hit Australia.

By Darren Pauli | 30 January, 2009 15:41

Tags: job cuts, IBM

Worm floats Obama's head on your desktop

The odds are pretty good that this will never happen to you, but should a floating head of U.S. President Barack Obama pop up on your desktop Monday morning, know this: You've been hit with the Obama worm.

By Robert McMillan | 30 January, 2009 11:44

Tags: worm, security, Barack Obama