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Indian state goes for open source
News Citing cost and security issues, Tamil Nadu rejects Microsoft's Windows XP offer and chooses Novell's Suse Linux.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open source
Ballmer era: Easy does it
News Five years ago, Bill Gates handed over the reins. So how is Microsoft weathering the 21st century?
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Spending Google's money on conscientious causes
Insight Dr. Larry Brilliant heads the company's efforts to fight global warming and poverty, and aid public health.
Tags: Web 2.0
Commentary: The death of killer apps
News You know it's going to be a long, tough dry spell for technological innovation when the search for coffee beans becomes touted as the next great "killer app." Does anyone really know what will be the "killer app" in Web services?
Tech companies gear up for seniors
News With the world's population getting older, technology is being positioned to help the elderly stay independent.
Tags: Hardware, Software, Business development/management
Chipping away at privacy
Insight What do school kids in Japan, amusement parks in Denmark and poodles in Portugal have in common? The answer, RFID.
Tags: RFID
Toxic tech threatening developing world
News Manufacturers have been savaged for dumping used PCs in the developing world; some say governments must take action.
What are you teaching your software developers?
Techguide If your software developers are learning how to be software developers through their experience at your organization, perhaps you should ask what you are teaching them.
Analyst: Have Cisco's glory days come and gone?
News Shares of former highflier Cisco Systems hit some turbulence Wednesday after an analyst issued a pessimistic report and the company's chief executive described the current quarter as "challenging."
Is IT hiring picking up?
Insight A number of signs point to increasing demand for tech workers, but not all the clouds have been driven away.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Recruiting
IBM: Computing rivaling human brain may be ready by 2019
News Leading scientist, working with colleagues from several top universities, has pioneered computational analysis that rivals that of a cat's cortex. Human brain could be just a decade away.
Tags: Supercomputing, Multiprocessor servers, Brain, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Computing, Computer, DARPA, financial system, financial
Templates published for mass fatality incidents
Blogs Many hospitals are unprepared to deal with large numbers of dead bodies--a mass fatality incident, or MFI--that would re...
Verizon's fiber-optic push pays off
News Investors squawked a few years ago when Verizon said it would spend billions to take fiber to the doorstep. Now they're cheering.
Tags: Networking technology, Video, Next-generation technology/networks
Google announces Project 10^100 themes
News More than 150,000 ideas were submitted following Google's call for world-changing ideas, and the company has finally identified 16 categories of ideas for further voting.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Business Strategies & Functions, Idea, public sector, strategy, sustainability, spokesman, RFP, analysis
Emergency response the weakest link in organizational resilience
Blogs I think of organizational resilience as a chain that links security, emergency management (EM), disaster recovery, busin...
