An Arizona school district is mulling over whether to continue working on a major software project, upgrade its legacy system or restart from scratch with a different product. The Tucson Unified School District began working on the Lawson ...
Automated self-checkout is appearing in more and more retail stores, with Walmart this year installing 10,000 self-service kiosks in hundreds of stores. But self-checkout is a technology direction with risks -- and even as Walmart moves ...
Two major IT brands, Lenovo and EMC, have collaborated on storage products in the SMB market by creating joint venture LenovoEMC. LenovoEMC was originally announced last August as a part of a larger strategic partnership between the two ...
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General Motors CIO Randy Mott Thursday said the automaker plans to have the"best jobs in the IT industry"at its four"IT Innovation Centers"in the U.S.At the same time,Mott criticized Hewlett-Packard's move to contest GM's hiring of some HP ...
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Software engineers working for the US military will have to follow new testing procedures to reduce the risk of security flaws in their code. That is one of a number of computer security-related measures contained in the 2013 National ...
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Auto-Owners Life Insurance has selected a new end-to-end system, MphasiS-Wyde Wynsure software, for its life policy issuance and administration, billing, claims and reinsurance. Selected against several other competing vendors, the ...
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CIO-Regardless of the security expertise and resources you apply to securing your assets,you are unlikely to achieve much unless you focus on the most vulnerable element of your organization:your employees. "Computers have become much ...
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IDG News Service - Preparing quick service pizza chain Domino's (ASX:DMP) for a digital future is top priority for Group CIO, Wayne McMahon. Based in Brisbane, McMahon has been in charge of IT at the company for the past 19 months and ...
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Computerworld Hong Kong-General Electric(GE),founded 125 years ago,is one of the USA's iconic corporations.The firm has 300,000 employees working in areas ranging from aviation,healthcare,transportation,financials,and energy.The firm ...
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People in the Sunshine State stood in line for hours to exercise their franchise, in some cases six hours or more after the polls had officially closed. Numerous causes have been cited, from a shortened early voting period to a 10-page-long ...
IDG News Service - Bucking the corporate practice of buying instead of building internally, Google's corporate IT department will typically build management software itself, or adopt an open source software package, before investigating the ...
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For Jagdeep Singh,head of software development at the Financial Times,agile programming is less about formal development techniques and more a way of modern business life. In the fast-moving world of the media,development teams have to ...
As the new chief information officer (CIO) at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) – the world's largest business travel management company – Kevin O'Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company's IT strategy to support ...
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Slough Borough Council has outsourced its datacentre for a monthly cost of£30,000. The council co-located its datacentre to hosting company Savvis following the decision to sell the previous site as part of its cost-cutting agenda. ...
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Law firm Sackers and Partners is using automated storage tiering to reduce costs and time taken to manage systems storing an ever increasing amount of data. Using a Dell Compellent system, Sackers is automatically storing data on low cost ...
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