wo monolithic buildings in lower Manhattan that serve as major network hubs for the U.S. are operating on generator power, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. The buildings, known as carrier hotels, are a 2.9 million square foot structure at 111 ...
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The executive shuffle Apple announced late Monday is the kind of drama that we in the tech press usually only get from watching Game of Thrones. But as interesting as it is from an inside-baseball perspective, it's worth remembering that ...
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The second quarter of 2012 saw the biggest increase in malware samples detected in the past four years, says security firm McAfee. Researchers detected a 1.5 million sample increase in malware since Q1 2012, according to the firm’s ...
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Halozyme Therapeutics has entered into collaboration and license agreement with Pfizer for the development and commercialization of subcutaneous biologics. The collaboration will focus on developing Pfizer biologics, leveraging Halozyme's ...
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Information technology professionals say companies can gain a competitive advantage by buying products and services from startup tech vendors, but they stress that doing business with a young company involves risks. If CIOs choose to ...
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Apple's executive shake-up earlier this week is a sign that design is the "tip of the spear" for the company, but the reorganization won't disrupt the firm's product delivery and may produce some groundbreaking moves, analysts predicted ...
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People will spend more than £1,200 to buy their own devices, which questions the need for IT departments to continue purchasing and supporting desktop and laptop PCs. In a recent study by analyst Forrester, 33% of respondents ...
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In an IT industry obsessed with the "next big thing", questions about how IT leaders are changing their strategies to cope with global economic turbulence are common. But if you ask something along those lines to the CIO of oil services ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has appointed Georges Antoun chief operating officer. Antoun will initially have responsibility for manufacturing, R&D, ...
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A year after Google+ was launched, it seems Google is saying it's not really a social network after all. Now this might be confusing to the 150 million people who actively use Google+ every month. They catch up with colleagues and friends ...
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The overarching trend for glass in the kitchen: "more is more." Designers and homeowners are increasingly looking to glass for more applications within the kitchen, and they are demanding more from those products in terms of aesthetics and ...
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HP has unveiled new networking software to help with moving data in cloud environments. The Ethernet Virtual Interconnect [EVI] solution is designed to enable up to eight datacentres to have more reliable connections between one another ...
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Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized. Avaya has teamed with VMware to ensure that Aura - the company's UC platform for managing voice, video ...
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Bible Publisher Thomas Nelson and digital Bible maker Immersion Digital announced today that they are coming together to launch three new apps for iPhone and iPad that will pair the trusted New King James Version (NKJV) Bible translation ...
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Tech watchers have had plenty to buzz about following Sandy, the superstorm that walloped the East Coast. From cell site outages to Wi-Fi network issues to a story on how to spot a fake storm photo, here's a roundup of what's been ...
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