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How to hinder, not help, social networks
Insight The United States needs to fully embrace technology as the way to better address potential problems, rather than laws targeting innocent Web users and companies.
Tags: Web 2.0
IBM splashes out on cloud-computing center
News The company announced the building of the US$360 million center shortly after Intel, HP and Yahoo also revealed plans to cooperate on cloud computing.
Tags: Utility computing, Web sites, Web services, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Cloud Computing, software, energy efficiency, Beijing
Lenovo preps PC incubator
News The ThinkCenter heir targets build-to-suit customers with its new facility at IBM's Innovation Center in North Carolina.
Tags: R&D
IBM's North Carolina smart-grid trial shaves power
News Electricity use drops by an average of 15 percent in a pilot test of a smart-grid system among 100 commercial and business customers.
Tags: Green IT, Verizon Communications Inc., IBM Corp., Conference, Wireless, HVAC, 3G, adjustment, Washington D.C., PC
Apple's new data center foreshadows a cloudy future
Techguide Apple's new data center project is so big that it begs the question of whether Apple is simply planning for the growth of its current services or if it has more ambitious plans in the works.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Apple Inc., Tablet, Video, Storage, Apple Macintosh, Cloud computing, Apple iPhone, data center
Why Obama can't ignore education tech
News Not only is it a proven way to generate significant economic benefits, the cost would be only a few drops in the bucket of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
Tags: Web sites, Personal broadband, Technology, Investment, Workforce, Tool, Education, Broadband, Britain, Internet Connection
Yahoo sets up Bangalore software lab
News Yahoo has chosen India's Bangalore as the location for its first software development center outside the U.S..
IBM shifts desktop quality control to Japan
News IBM will move its desktop PC quality control operations from North Carolina to Japan, joining the notebook inspection center there, reports Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun .
Expert allegedly reveals security breach in Windows
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IBM to help employees become teachers
News Big Blue pledges financial assistance for employees who want to leave the company to start a teaching career.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Corporate communications
New VoIP standard for videoconferencing
News A United Nations-affiliated telecommunications group ratifies a new standard for videoconferencing using voice over IP, a technology that routes calls over the Net.
EMC wins injunction in copyright case
News The storage maker receives a court injunction against a support services company that allegedly used its copyrighted software without authorization.
Dell planning to ditch factories
News CFO Brian Gladden has said the company has "more work to be done" to improve profitability. Now The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell is planning to lower costs by selling off its factories.
Tags: Servers, Storage, Hewlett-Packard Co., Factory, Contract Manufacturer, tax incentive, operating margin, financial, knowledge, North Carolina
India's NIIT buys 35% fn Classteacher.com to boost sales
News NIIT Ltd, one of India's biggest software developers and its largest computer training company, said it bought a stake in Classteacher.com, an Internet company, to top into the country's burgeoning online market.
Last week in legal tech news
News Two of the most closely watched court cases in the tech world were left undecided as the U.S. Supreme Court chose to delay its rulings.
