Computerworld-WASHINGTON--There's a new television show,"Revolution,"which looks at what happens to society after every piece of complex technology,including power generation,stops working.The reasons for this outage aren't explained. ...
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Energy group Royal Dutch Shell aims to cut the training time for young engineers by rolling out technology to automatically identify and deliver the information they need,from databases,blogs and social media. The project,which is ...
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US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council is a firm believer in making changes to the business gradually. He is overseeing an IT change that is supporting a major transformation in the role of the council – from a provider of ...
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With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
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ASOS plc announces that the after twelve years with the company, Lord Waheed Alli is stepping down as Chairman and will be succeeded by Brian McBride with effect from 1 November 2012. Brian has a long and successful background in technology ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs to help meet what's expected to be rapidly rising demand among employers for specialists who can manage and analyze big data. The schools are likely aware of ...
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HP's shares have plummeted to a nine-year low after its CEO Meg Whitman stated that revenue for 2013 would decline and that it would take five years to revive the firm financially. Whitman – the third HP CEO in as many years – ...
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Taipei,Sept.28,2012(CENS)--Taiwan's Ministry of Economy Affairs(MOEA)recently organized two business alliance conferences,namely"Taiwanese Business Homebound Investment Summit Conference 2012"and"Taiwan Business Alliance Conference 2012,"to ...
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STMicroelectronics has taped out a dozen SOCs on Samsung's 32/28nm HKMG process.The chips are for mobile,consumer and network applications. "We have successfully started production of STMicroelectronics'new-generation 32/28nm SoC ...
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Switzerland's largest retailer is working with IBM to use business analytics to turn its refrigerated warehouses into part of a future smart electricity grid in the country. Migros, the Swiss supermarket, is part of a project involving ...
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The process technology gap between the top foundries and the others is a enormousa,says IC Insights. Only four companies out of 18 pure-play foundries can make leading edge ICs and only four others have a 90nm capability. a In 2012,TSMC ...
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IBM has launched a new set of incentives and aids to help its service partners make better use of the company's cloud services and products. IBM's managed service provider(MSP)partners can now get financing,marketing assistance and ...
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched an entry-level enterprise storage subsystem that features block, file and object storage access, with an all-flash array variant planned for later this year. The Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) ...
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IBM announced on Tuesday that its president and CEO,Virginia Rometty,would become chairman starting Oct.1. Rometty was voted into the post by the board of directors.As chairman,she will succeed the company's former CEO,Sam Palmisano,who ...
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