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A new MobiLens report from digital market intelligence firm comScore reveals that the number of people accessing health information on their mobile devices has grown by 125 percent over the previous year. During a three-month average period ending in November 2011, 16.9 million users accessed health information on mobile devices in the United States, comScore […]

Service and asset management solutions specialist Alloy Software announced the latest version of its help desk and asset management solution aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). Available now, Alloy Navigator Express 6 Suite includes several new features, such as business process automation, automatic ticket routing and prioritization, announcements, change history alerts and a completely […]

Under a new Alcatel-Lucent and Arbor Networks partnership, service providers would be able to offer customers cloud-based defenses against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Arbor Networks’ Threat Management System (TMS) software has been integrated into blades installed inside Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 router, the companies said Jan. 18. Each blade can handle 5G bps of traffic […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–HTC, a maker of smartphones and tablets, hopes its new partnership with IBM, coupled with the mobility hardware maker’s success in the consumer space will help launch strong sales into the enterprise market. The company only recently began targeting enterprises, said David Jaeger, executive director Global Enterprise and Services at HTC, in an interview […]

Microsoft’s results for its second quarter 2012 offered little in the realm of the unexpected: Xbox 360 and Kinect hands-free controllers continued to sell at a steady clip, as did business software, while Windows revenue dipped on softening PC sales. All told, quarterly revenue topped $20.89 billion, a year-over-year increase of 5 percent, with net […]

IBM continued on its course of steady growth, reporting fourth-quarter 2011 net income of $5.3 billion for a 4 percent increase over the same period a year ago. Mark Loughridge, IBM’s chief financial officer, said software and services led the way in the fourth quarter, with software revenue up 9 percent and both Global Technology […]

Intel just completed a year in which it hit record financial numbers, including exceeding $50 billion in revenue for the first time, despite lingering softness in the core PC market. However, it will be the giant chip maker s performance in 2012 that will determine how it goes forward over the next few years. This […]

Technology distribution giant Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) has named Alain Monie as CEO, effective January 20, replacing Greg Spierkel who is leaving the role to spend more time with his family after helping with the management transition until April 15. Monie, 61, joined Ingram Micro as executive vice president in January 2003 and was named to […]

Linux is poised for continued growth among new and existing users thanks to lower total cost of ownership, technical features and security, among other reasons, according a recent Linux Foundation survey. The January 2012 report from the Linux Foundation and Yeoman Technology Group titled "Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users" claims […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–At Lotusphere, videoconferencing and unified communications developer Polycom unveiled product updates and a partnership with IBM designed to bolster its social business strategy and simplify enterprises integration of video, as well as a new video-as-a-service cloud offering. “We’re observing that video is becoming more pervasive. It’s really gone far beyond what you may expect […]

One week after attendees of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show searched high and low for tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) said its Xoom WiFi model would begin getting the ICS upgrade. The ICS upgrade will begin rolling out in phases over the air in the […]

IT organizations will have to deliver on multiple priorities without an increase in their IT budget, as CIO IT budgets are expected to be flat, increasing just 0.5 percent, with declining IT budgets in North America and Europe, according to a global survey of CIOs by tech industry research firm Gartner’s Executive Programs. Forty-six percent […]