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IBM, Nuance to Tune Watson for Health Care
IBM will incorporate Nuance CLU speech-recognition applications into the Watson supercomputer to provide information that assists doctors as they make diagnoses. IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb. 17, Nuance will…
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Dell Planning New Tablets, Smartphones
Dell CEO Michael Dell shared, during the company’s Feb. 15 earnings call, that the company planned to enter the 10-inch tablet space later this year, with a device running Android 3.0, known as “Honeycomb.” But according to a leaked document said to be Dell’s product roadmap, Michael Dell was severely understating the company’s plans. According…
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Dell Server Business Gets Boost from Cloud
Cloud computing, virtualization and workload migrations are helping to boost Dell’s server business, as the company continues its transition to a solutions provider, according to Dell executive Forrest Norrod. In a recent interview with eWEEK, Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Platforms business, said that even though the company is rapidly…
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Tablet Computer Makers Target Education Market
(Reuters) – If Adrian Hartog has his way, college kids will be sporting tablet computers instead of backpacks loaded down with heavy textbooks. The CEO of educational tablet maker mySpark Technologies is among a growing number of entrepreneurs attempting to change the way students study, share and do homework. "Everybody is learning how to use…
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A Father’s Journey: 100 Marathon VAR Raises Awareness for Mental Illness
When it’s all going negative, and you can’t even remember what it was like to be positive, how do you turn that around? For Guy Fessenden, a longtime and well-respected VAR who had fallen on hard times following his daughter’s diagnosis of mental illness, the change came when he decided to take action again. Fessenden…
