French government agencies could become more active participants in free software projects, under an action plan sent by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in a letter to ministers, while software giants Microsoft and Oracle might lose out as ...
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As storage spending consumes an ever-increasing proportion of IT budgets across the public sector against a backdrop of severe spending cuts, the case for using open-source storage software in government is gathering momentum. The public ...
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A Russian start-up company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data centre owners to migrate software designed for x86 platforms to ARM-powered servers without the need to recompile it. Because of their ...
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Compact Flash (CF) cards have been around for almost two decades, yet demands remain strong from industries such as gaming, medical, and financial. When a CF needs to be cloned, nobody comes close to U-Reach's efficiency to get the job ...
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Anticipating greater usage of Ubuntu within the enterprise, Canonical has released a significant update to its Landscape Ubuntu system management tool. “We have really been cranking up the level of effort with Landscape over the ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(K) approval to Cytomedix to use its Angel Concentrated Platelet Rich Plasma (cPRP) system to process a small sample of blood or a mixture of blood and bone marrow aspirate. ...
A turnkey Laserdyne 795XL system, equipped with BD3Y BeamDirector and an IPG fiber laser, has been delivered to Metal Spinners, Inc. of Malden, MA. Prima Power Laserdyne, manufacturer of multi-axis laser machining systems, made the ...
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EvaluatePharma has unveiled a new service enhancement, Tracking Drugs@FDA, which provides clients access to the entire approved FDA drugs, related FDA document library and FDA Orange Book patent data. Tracking Drugs@FDA and Orange Book ...
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UK security services have begun bridging the gap that has stopped open source software getting security clearance for use in government systems. The initiative has come too late to stop the first big contract wins delivered under the ...
For the 26 weeks ending 29 September 2012, UK-headquartered The 600 Group plc has announced revenues increased by 9.5% to £19.91 million and net profit before taxation from continuing operations as £1.34 million, a six-fold ...
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In developing Bloomberg's next-generation mobile video app, general manager and global head of mobile and connected devices Oke Okaro (pictured) and his team of mobile experts studied how people use the news service. As Computer Weekly ...
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Parliament's ICT office is concluding a two-year review of whether its democratic responsibilities and technical ambitions will force it to purge Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia technology from its computer systems. As part of a root ...
After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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Dries Buytaert started open source content management system Drupal as a part-time hobby in Belgium while he was completing his PhD in 2000. He founded Acquia in 2007 to make a profit from Drupal products. "For the first seven years, ...
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