Recent Articles
-
Robots: Surgeons’ Little Helpers
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have unveiled a snakelike robot that might, one day, slither in patients’ throats to make incisions and tie off sutures. Another tiny robot could inject drugs into blood vessels in patients’ eyes, a procedure now stymied because surgeons’ hands tremor slightly. Right now, the steady-hand and snake robots for surgeries are…
-
VMware Unleashes Fusion Beta for the Mac
VMware, a virtualization software maker, has released the beta version of its desktop product, which will allow Microsoft’s Windows operating system to run on a Macintosh. The Palo Alto, Calif., company first announced it would offer a desktop version of its virtualization software for Macs at Apple Computer’s Worldwide Developers Conference in August. The actual…
-
Level 3 Communications to Buy SAVVIS CDN Division
Level 3 Communications has announced plans to purchase the Content Delivery Network services business of SAVVIS for $135 million in cash, a move meant to enable the company to provide more rich media services via the Web. SAVVIS’s CDN business, which has approximately 50 employees, made about $15 million in revenue in 2006, as of…
-
Swelling Installed Base Brings Challenges to Microsoft
As Microsoft heads into 2007, the company faces a number of ongoing threats and challenges, most notably getting its large installed base to upgrade to the latest wave of products. “The larger the installed base gets, the harder it is to move, and the longer it takes to transition,” Al Gillen, vice president of research…
-
VARs Find Money in Staffing
With the crunch on to hire qualified IT staff from an insufficient talent pool, businesses are increasingly turning to VARs and solution providers for help locating staff, and VARs are finding that it pays. By some estimates, there as many as 10 IT openings for every qualified candidate, and businesses are climbing over each other…
-
Survey: 40 Percent of Employers to Hire in 2007
Nearly one in 10 employers will hire more than of 500 new employees in 2007, according to a survey released by Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com on Dec. 26. While more than one-third (36 percent) of employers expect to add 10 employees or fewer in 2007, 29 percent intend to hire more than 50, and 20 percent plan…
