IBM is leveraging the social impact of tablet computers, mobile devices and the cloud in moving enterprises to become social businesses. – ORLANDO,
Fla. – As part of its new Social Business initiative, IBM is making big moves
to leverage the social impact of mobile devices and the cloud.
Indeed,
by bringing social business to the broadest range of mobile devices, IBM is
expanding a mobile worker’s ability to collaborate beyond e-m…
Toshiba has introduced three new high performance 1.8-inch hard disk drives with large capacities for use in embedded applications such as tablets and camcorders. – Toshiba announced three new 1.8-inch hard disk drives aimed
for embedded applications. The three MKxx39GS series drives are available in
capacities of 160 GB, 200 GB, and 220 GB, Toshiba said.
All three drives, introduced on Jan. 24, feature
low-insertion-force (LIF) SATA connectors instead of m…
Sony’s Bloggie Touch and the Flip Ultra HD suggest that dedicated cameras can fend off challenges from smartphones and portable media players with cameras. – Sonys Bloggie
Touch, billed as a “mobile HD snap camera,” arrived on store shelves in
November 2010. By January, the electronics giant had announced a
three-dimensional version of the handheld device. The latter uses two lenses
for recording high-definition 3-D video and still images, and it can…
AMD is rolling out its G-Series APUs aimed at the highly competitive embedded market. The new APUs, which offer CPU and graphics on the same die, are similar to ones launched at CES for notebooks. – Advanced Micro Devices is taking the wrapping off its first Fusion accelerate processing units for the embedded market.
AMD launched the G-Series Jan. 19, just weeks
after unveiling its first Fusion processors for consumer PCs at the
2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Like those processors, the G-Se…
IBM and ARM, which have been working together on chip designs since 2008, are extending the partnership to include work on 14-nm processors. – IBM and ARM Holdings are expanding their partnership to include the
14-nanometer processor manufacturing process, a move to help create
increasingly smaller, more energy-efficient chips for makers of mobile
devices.
The extended partnership, announced Jan. 18, will
help both companies in the hi…
In a day and age where new devices are being introduced into the market every day, IT enterprises are struggling to centralize desktops and also increase the productivity of the enterprise at the same time.
Smaller companies are spending more on mobile services and devices, according to a new survey, with potential to stall their IT adoption. – Given the rise of mobile devices in both the consumer and
business spheres, its perhaps no surprise that small and midsize businesses are spending an increasing
amount on tablets and smartphones.
A newly completed study by the research firm SMB Group
suggests that SMBs (which it defines as comp…
While smartphones, computers and cameras took most of the headlines at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9, the latest data storage technology was also big news. All these new devices serve huge volumes of data that have to be stored somewhere. That "somewhere" comes in the form of hard drives; solid-state drives; thumb drives; and SAN, NAS and direct-attached rack-mounted storage servers. And while there are not quite as many new storage machines as there are phones and PCs, there are a significant number of new devices from such well-known vendors as NEC, SanDisk, Maxell, Iomega, Seagate, WD, Intel, Buffalo and many others. There also are newer companies coming onto the scene, such as Azio, Corsair, Lexar and OCZ, demanding attention with new-generation products. The latest drives have diverse designs, including highly capacious NAND flash and spinning disk hard drives with stronger even high-end government-grade encryption for consumer-level storage. They also deliver faster data movement due to dual-core processors with business-grade features trickling down into consumer devices. – …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 5 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to highlight products such as Kinect, Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7 on a variety of new laptops. However, he largely stayed away from commenting on Microsofts tablet initiatives likely to the surprise of some pundits who expected him to make a big announcement about Windows-powered tablets.
Nonetheless, Microsofts presence on the CES show floor is marked by a handful of tablets running Windows 7. Most of them are devices for the Asian market, and feature large 10- and 12-inch screens in contrast to the 7-inch Android tablets currently flooding the U.S. market. In addition, Microsoft has several laptops that leverage touch-screen capabilities. With regard to mobility, Windows Phone 7 also has a substantial presence here at the show, with large numbers of devices on display. With its unique user interface consolidated around a set of six subject-specific “Hubs,” Microsoft hopes its latest smartphone platform stands out enough from such rivals as the iPhone and Google Android to attract consumers and businesses. – …
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 owners, like those with an Apple iPad or iPhone or Android and BlackBerry devices, now have their own Kindle app for reading e-books. – Amazon just made e-book reading a little more egalitarian, with the
introduction of Kindle for Windows Phone 7. The first major e-book app
for Microsofts new mobile OS, it enables owners of Windows Phone 7
smartphones to take advantage of Amazons Buy Once, Read Everywhere
Kindle applications.
…
News Analysis: The Linux developer community is poised for a number of changes in 2011 that will revamp the open source operating system with new versions and interface changes for the latest mobile devices and set-top boxes. – With all the excitement surrounding Android and other open
source projects like the MeeGo Linux-based mobile operating system project, the
Linux open source operating system seems to be getting less attention these
days.
Advocates have been predicting the “year of desktop Linux”
almost ten y…
IBM believes its development will provide a quantum boost in read/write performance over conventional memory and add up to 100 times storage capacity as a side benefit. – Just when one starts believing that processors can’t possibly get much
smaller and more powerful, storage can’t get much more capacious and networks
can’t move data much faster, somebody always comes up with an IT breakthrough
that reboots all that thinking.
IBM Almaden Labs in San
Jose, Cali…
In 2011, we’ll see EHRs reach the adoption phase, data centers get virtualized, stand-alone medical devices connect to EHRs and m-health take off, according to industry experts. – As we move into 2011, the
Obama administration’s meaningful-use requirements governing health care IT and
EHRs (electronic health records) will continue to influence how health care
companies adopt technology to improve patient care.
In 2010, companies began to purchase EHR applications, but …
Apple’s iPad, iPhone 4 and the Samsung Galaxy S topped Walt Mossberg’s 2010 gadget list, while last-place nods went to the Dell Streak, Google TV and TiVo Premiere. – When it comes to the best and worst tech products of
2010, top billing goes to Apple, according to the Wall Street Journals
venerable tech tester, Walter S. Mossberg. In a list ranking the years
highlights and disappointments, Mossberg named the Apple iPad as the best item
on offer particularly …
This week, Apple for the first time approved a BitTorrent based application with the name of IS Drive. The price tag of the App is kept to be $4.99 and it basically allows the users to check and manage downloads in their ImageShack drive Account.
The best smartphone is in the hand of the beholder. During 2010, however, the 11 pictured here were all notable competitors for the title, highlighting emerging technologies and managing to stand out during a year that saw a flood of devices, all competing for consumer and enterprise attention. This year also saw smartphone adoption blaze upward even as the economy continued to keep many down. Subsidies from carriers were partly to thank, but so were features such as 4G compatibility, dual cameras, gorgeous displays, high-end cameras, super-fast processors, HDMI support, the ability to act as a hotspot to a handful of other devices, NFC (near-field communications) technology, and the arrival of new mobile operating systems that finally got people as excited as theyve been about Apples iOS namely, Googles Android, Microsofts Windows Phone 7 and even Samsungs Bada. – …
If you want a simply stand for your iPhone that will hold the smartphone in portrait or landscape modes without breaking your budget the Smartphone Coaster may be perfect. The little stand is made from stainless steel and is only about $4 each. Verizon Wireless is expected to get the iPhone next year and according [...]
After its acquisition by Thoma Bravo, LANDesk will be focusing on expanding its new automation management platform and expanding its endpoint security and mobile device management services. – With the distractions of the past year finally over,
LANDesk Software is looking ahead to expand its desktop and security management
offerings on top of its automation platform, according to CEO Steve Daly.
The past year has been an uncertain one, with the company
focusing on business as usual …
Health care provider OptumHealth has launched OptumizeMe, one of the first fitness applications for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile platform. – Health care plan provider OptumHealth has released
a new wellness application for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile platform.
OptumizeMe, available in the Windows Phone
Marketplace, allows people to present a health challenge to friends in Facebook
and other social media applications. Users rec…
