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Another UK Health Project Dies

Another UK Health Project Diestoo bad for atosAtos Origins's fortunes is turning from bad to worse caused by the spiralling effect of poor 2006 performance and a stalled 2007 recovery plan that has focused on organic growth, operational efficiency and global service. This has even led to the replacement...

Tags: UK Health Project, Atos Origin

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

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News to know: Ruiz, Moffat resign; Microsoft; Psystar; Smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ruiz resigns as GlobalFoundries chairman; no mention of insider trading scandal Moffat no longer with IBM as...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Servers, Hardware, Sales

Blog posts 2009-11-03

News to know: Dell; Xerox, Android, NewEgg, Win7, Windows Mobile,

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle Gallery: Hands on with the Dell...

Tags: Xerox Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Storage, Andrew Nusca, Newegg.com, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Dell Latitude, EC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-29

News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

News to know: Windows 7; Google; Vizio; Treknology; Green tech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Windows 7 RC gets its first bug, and it's a doozy Sean Portnoy: Surprise! As HDTVs price rise, sales drop and Vizio becomes...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-05-11

News to know: Microsoft layoffs, Kindle, NetSuite, Skype, Tedx

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Microsoft starts second round of layoffs. More to come? Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer's layoff mail to the...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Dana Blankenhorn, NetSuite Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Remote Access, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-05-06

News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft ad

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel's Nehalem Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-30

News to know: Windows rot; Touch PCs; Palm Pre sales guesses; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows bit-rot - fact or fiction? Jason O'Grady: Has Apple gotten lazy? Apple quietly releases iLife '09 hardware up-to-date program ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., Software-as-a-service, PC, Palm Inc., Health Care, Apple Inc., Sales, INQ Mobile, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Is the PlayStation Doomed?

Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Today's multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-06

What's on my Thanksgiving/Holiday disks

What's on my Thanksgiving/Holiday disksI just thought it was interesting because most of the software......wasn't for troubleshooting. The previous article suggested it was primarily for troubleshooting. And I don't think I was the only one who interpreted it that way given the ensuing discussion in the talkbacks.Interesting list given the...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Thanksgiving/Holiday disk, Thanksgiving/Holiday, Microsoft Windows, Parted Magic LiveCD, GParted LiveCD, disk, Acronis, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

News to know: Jobs speaks; Microsoft; Healthline; Enterprise 2.0; HTC

Notable headlines: WWDC kick-off: Larry Dignan: Jobs' Apple as a platform mantra to accelerate PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac Matthew Miller: SlingPlayer Mobile on the iPhone will be demoed at Apple's WWDC this week News.com live...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Sales Strategy, Digital Video, Desktops, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...

Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

UK Health Program: a Very Sick Patient

UK Health Program: a Very Sick PatientYou wait ages for a failed IT project and then four come along at onceThe failure of an IT project in the National Health Service is one of a number of failures in information technology recently. Other disasters are to be found at the...

Tags: Other Disasters, patient, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

Our urine shows where we live

It's almost logical that our urine contains traces of what we eat and drink. But an international team of researchers decided to learn more and has analyzed frozen urine samples from 4,630 people. These samples have been collected between 1997 and 1999 in China, Japan, the UK and the...

Tags: China, Researcher, Japan, Bacteria, U.S. Here, Healthcare, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?

Is IT abuse a threat to democracy?Mind ControlWith my X-files inspired name, and a subject line like that, I probably deserver to be dismissed as a loon, but...A read of Derren Brown's book "Mind Control" should make even the the most ardent sceptic ponder on just how controllable people are....

Tags: Biometrics, Government, Authentication/Encryption, Mind Control, Google Inc., information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

How green could make Europe a tech power

How green could make Europe a tech powerEU IntegrationIt's funny that you think that a federal Europe is the same as a "single set of rules". American (and German, and Spanish) experience suggests the exact opposite - federal systems are designed to accommodate wide differences of culture and rules within...

Tags: Kanellos, tech power

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

More EDS issues over botched IT project in UK

More EDS issues over botched IT project in UKMore EDS issues over botched IT project in UKThis is not the first catastrophe we've had in UK. The list of late and failed Government projects is very long indeed. There's also the small(!) matter of cost overruns, equipment failures and incompatibility...

Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

Data breaches: 2007 IT failure superstar

Data breaches represented the most important category of IT failure during 2007. The year 2007 saw spectacular failures, ranging from improperly-paid teachers at Arizona State University ASU and the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD, to a massive implementation problem at the UK National Health Service NHS,...

Tags: Breach, Information Technology, Data Breach, Disaster Recovery, Strategy, Data Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-29

i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon

Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London ICL. For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (€2.84 million or US$4.2 million)...

Tags: Robot, Imaging, Surgery, Surgeon, i-Snake, Robots, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-29

News to know: IE 8; 50W dual-core PC; Oracle; NetSuite; Dell snafu

Notable headlines: George Ou: Hitting 50W peak on a dual-core desktop computer Mary Jo Foley: Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test. MSDN blog. Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward Adrian Kingsley Hughes: First...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Dual-core, Oracle Corp., PC, NetSuite Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Keyboards, E-health, Business Structures, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Processors, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2007-12-20