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Intel vPro Tools Get Better Management, Security
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—When Intel starts shipping its newest "Sandy Bridge" PC processors later this quarter, the chips will come with the latest generation of the company’s vPro on-board management and security capabilities that now will include the ability to lock down lost or stolen PCs via a 3G text message. Intel officials have put on demonstrations…
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Turning USB Sticks into Weapons of Mass Destruction
This story starts at the Washington, D.C., Auto Show, which is held at the end of January each year. While I was at the show, one of the people at the Land Rover display handed me a USB memory stick. I assumed that it contained a brochure or something similar, so I put it into…
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IBM’s Watson Beats Humans on Jeopardy!
The humans redeemed themselves in the second game of the man vs. machine "Jeopardy" tournament, after the previous game’s debacle, but it wasn’t enough. The best "Jeopardy" player is now a computer named Watson. Watson didn’t dominate the Feb. 16 game as thoroughly as it had on the previous night, with Ken Jennings and Brad…
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IBM Recruiting MSPs, SAAS Providers
IBM is quietly working to build its MSP channel by creating programs to help traditional VARs add or migrate to the emerging business model and also by recruiting MSPs to its traditional channel program. The quiet moves come amid a time when IBM and other big vendors are talking in broad terms about the cloud…
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1. Apple
1. Apple Apple arguably understands tablets more than any other firm in the space. The company was the first to deliver a worthwhile tablet in the iPad, and by the looks of things, its iPad 2 could be just as appealing this year. What that means for competitors is anyone’s guess. But at least right…
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How IT Can Help Improve Healthcare
How IT Can Help Improve Healthcare 94 percent of doctors said their patients at least sometimes forget or lose track of potentially important things they are told during doctor visits. No Title 34 percent of the doctors said they themselves at least sometimes forget or lose track of potentially important things that their patients tell…
