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AT&T has joined the OpenStack community as the first major carrier to take part in the open-source cloud computing project. By joining OpenStack, AT&T can lend its hand in pushing the project forward while also tapping into the OpenStack cloud technology for AT&T s own developer cloud initiative announced Jan. 9. OpenStack is an infrastructure […]

Hewlett-Packard is bringing a new level of manufacturing sophistication to the increasingly competitive ultrabook space with the release of its Envy 14 Spectre, which the company is showing off at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas. The ultrabook features lightweight, scratch-resistant glass on the lid, display, palmrest and HP ImagePad. The notebook, which starts at […]

Polycom, the video collaboration technology vendor that last year made a strategic shift toward a more software-centric approach, is taking what officials are calling the next key step by having its RealPresence Mobile application shipping preloaded on the new Motorola Droid Xyboard tablet. Polycom officials said the RealPresence Mobile software will be demonstrated this week […]

LAS VEGAS–Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage here Jan. 9 for what could very well be his last keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). As predicted by many in the tech media, his talk focused primarily on Windows Phone, Microsoft’s designs on living-room entertainment and the upcoming Windows 8.   But most […]

High-performance solid-state storage device maker OCZ Technology added a key ingredient to its software lineup Jan. 9 in announcing the acquisition of privately held flash caching and virtualization software/hardware provider SANRAD. Terms of the deal were not revealed by OCZ. Mountain View, Calif.-based SANRAD, founded in 2000, has its research and development center in Tel […]

Health care IT research firm KLAS recently unveiled its list of the top software platforms in health care, with Epic Systems at the top of its Overall Software Vendors Rankings. For the survey, KLAS looked at such application categories as Acute Care Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Ambulatory EMR (over 75 physicians) and Practice Management. For […]

A recent study of technology job want ads shows a 61 percent increase in demand nationwide for IT professionals with cloud computing experience. The study, which is based on ads posted by about 2,400 businesses, was performed by Wanted Analytics, a firm that provides business intelligence for the talent marketplace. “This growth spurt shows that […]

Is Barnes & Noble’s Nook losing the e-reader wars to Amazon’s Kindle franchise? In a holiday sales statement issued Jan. 5, the bookseller suggested it would absorb deeper-than-expected losses over the course of its fiscal year. “The change in guidance is due primarily to a shortfall in the expected sales of Nook Simple Touch, as […]

If one of themes of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show was the rise of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android tablets, this year’s CES event will be the year the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows laptop market is revitalized with so-called ultrabooks. Ultrabooks are not supercomputers packed in small frames, or super electronic reading devices. They’re simply less expensive, Windows […]

Tablets will be a fixture in many doctors’ offices in 2012, research firm NPD Group reports. About 75 percent of small and midsize medical practices plan to buy tablets over the next year, according to a recent survey by the company. The results were part of NPD’s third-quarter "SMB Technology Monitor." Released Dec. 29, the […]

Symantec has confirmed that a group of hackers has stolen source code to two Symantec products, but downplayed the possible impact on users as a result of the theft. The attackers stole source code for two older Symantec products for enterprise customers, and not on the consumer-focused Norton product line as had been previously reported, […]

Technology advancements, changing dynamics in the PC industry, new enterprise server and storage architectures, and near-term hard disk drive shortages are all combining to propel the worldwide solid state storage market higher from 2011 through 2015, according to research from IT anayltics firm IDC. The worldwide solid state storage industry revenue reached $5 billion in […]