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New Device to Test Mislabeled Seafood
Feb 9, 2015Scientists at the University of South Florida’s (USF) College of Marine Science have developed a device to detect mislabeled seafood. The handheld sensor uses real-time nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (RT-NASBA) to ...
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Software AG Is Building out Its Portfolio of CEP Software with The Acquisition of Apama
Jun 16, 2013Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were ...
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Experiences Is No Justification for Using Consumer Information in Big Data Projects
Apr 12, 2013Improving users' experiences is no justification for using consumer information in big data projects, according to Europe's top data protection officials. The Article 29 Working Group, which includes the data protection supervisors from ...
Tags: Data, software, Computer Products
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Esri Signed a Teaming Agreement with Motion Computing
Mar 22, 2013Esri, a US-based location analytics and GIS software provider, has signed a teaming agreement with Motion Computing to help insurance agencies enhance their claims workflow. The companies will provide access to Esri's ArcGIS platform on ...
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IBM Is Looking for Ways to Bring Mobile and Social Workloads Onto Mainframes
Feb 26, 2013IBM is looking for ways to bring mobile and social workloads onto mainframes as a way of keeping the expensive machines competitive in today's changing IT landscape. This isn't the first time the company has tried to find new uses for ...
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Medical Treatments Could Cut Healthcare Costs and Improve Patient Outcomes by Almost 50%
Feb 17, 2013Applying the same technologies used for voice recognition and credit card fraud detection to medical treatments could cut healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes by almost 50%, according to new research. The research by Indiana ...
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IBM Is Looking to Bring Mobile and Social Workloads Into The Platform in Another Move
Feb 17, 2013The head of IBM's mainframe group is looking to bring mobile and social workloads into the platform in another move that would help the mainframe stay relevant and fend off competition from lower-cost systems. The mainframe has confounded ...
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There's No Question, We're at an Inflection Point in The Digitization of Our World
Dec 31, 2012CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
Tags: digitization, digital, transforming manufacturing, IT, big data
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Congress Put The Idea of a "Skills Shortage" and a Need for More H-1b Visas in a Closet
Dec 20, 2012When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
Tags: H 1B visas, Microsoft, jobs, U.S.
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The Dead Can't Speak for Themselves But Can Apparently File U.S. Tax Returns
Dec 20, 2012The dead can't speak for themselves. But they can apparently file U.S. tax returns. A new audit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has found the agency paid refunds to criminals who filed false tax returns, in some cases on behalf of ...
Tags: IRS, U.S.tax returns, TIGTA, ID theft
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EMC Has Agreed to Buy Privately-Held Start-up Silver Tail Systems
Dec 19, 2012EMC said today it has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioural analysis. EMC plans to use the purchase to beef up its RSA security division in the rapidly ...
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IBM Has Expanded Its PureSystems Line of Pre-Integrated Systems
Dec 19, 2012IBM has expanded its PureSystems line of pre-integrated systems to include new models to handle business analysis and online transaction processing. The PureData systems have been assembled to excel at three common tasks within enterprise ...
Tags: analytics, big data, business, IBM, PureSystems
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Project Blitzkrieg Is a Real and Credible Threat
Dec 19, 2012IDG News Service - Project Blitzkrieg, a coordinated attack against U.S. banking customers allegedly planned for the spring of 2013, is a real and credible threat, security researchers at McAfee have said. A cybercriminal using the ...
Tags: Computer Products, Credible Threat, Mcafee, Blitzkrieg E Banking Heist
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The Global Market for Business Analytics Software Grew Roughly 14% in 2011
Dec 18, 2012The global market for business analytics software grew roughly 14% in 2011, fueled by pervasive hype about "big data" as well as new technological innovations, according to a report unveiled by analyst firm IDC on Wednesday. Between now ...
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Big Data Analytics to Reduce Number of Cyber Security Risks and Increase Business Agility
Dec 17, 2012Big data analytics has the potential to reduce the growing number of cyber security risks and increase business agility, says a report by the Information Security Forum (ISF). According to the Data Analytics for Information Security ...
Tags: ISF, big data analytics, cyber security risks, business agility