Sunday, May 1, 2011

IT News Head Lines (TechWeb) 01/05/2011





ACO Rules Limit Patient Telehealth Options
American Telemedicine Association wants HHS to waive five Medicare restrictions on telehealth payments.

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SAS Institute Creates Internal Facebook With Socialcast
Socialcast offers support for internal company activity streams that mimic the news feed on a Facebook page and is available as a service or as a software appliance.

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Microsoft Sees Business PC Sales Up 9%
The need to replace aging machines and upgrade to Windows 7 drives uptick in corporate market.

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Program Links Hospital Labs To Public Health Agencies
The Lab Interoperability Cooperative program is designed to help public health officials act more rapidly and efficiently to control disease.

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Amazon Web Services Apologizes, Explains Outage
The company said it will provide 10 days of service credit for customers using AWS resources in the affected region because of the multi-day outage.

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Sony Says PlayStation Credit Card Data Was Encrypted
Security Experts Say 'So What?' PlayStation account-holder data likely still at risk.

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IBM, Akamai Partner To Speed Cloud Apps
Combining Akamai's network and IBM's DataPower appliances lets businesses and cloud service providers bypass the Internet and accelerate the delivery of applications.

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Motorola Ships 250,000 Xooms, Delays LTE Products
Motorola Mobility reported a first quarter loss of $81 million on revenue of $3.0 billion, an improvement from a year ago when it lost $212 million.

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Congress To Question White House On Digital Communications
A House committee will consider whether social-networking communications of White House staffers should be preserved according to the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

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Pepsi Machines Get Social | Cisco Slams Gartner Report


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Phones Are Getting Thinner, Heavier, Larger
For a while, it seemed cellphone makers' goal was to build the smallest usable device, but smartphones with touchscreens have reversed that trend--though thin is still in.

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Feds Aim To Improve IT Management Skills
Officials have established a CIO best practices forum and program governance boards to comply with a 25-point IT reform plan.

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Feds Seek IT Ideas From Private Sector
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has called a meeting with business CIOs to identify emerging tech trends, with a goal of helping federal agencies begin planning now for what comes next.

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VMware, Why Are You Buying SlideRocket?
Acquiring the presentation software company and pushing into end-user apps seems strange, but the virtualization firm's new VP of apps insists it's core to what they do.

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M/A-COM Acquires Optomai To Boost Fiber Optic Business
Fabless semiconductor company Optomai targets the high-speed optical market to resolve power consumption, cost, and size issues faced by 40-Gbps and 100-Gbps systems.

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RIM's Reduced Forecast Darkens Outlook
Research In Motion predicted it will sell fewer devices than previously thought because it has failed to update its aging line of high-end BlackBerry smartphones.

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Intel Atom Processor Offers Storage Value
Using a low-cost Atom processor from Intel in a storage system can lower costs, improve power efficiency, and take up less rack space while also providing acceptable performance.

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PepsiCo Debuts Social Vending Machine
The beverage giant sees a new way to connect with customers.

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IBM Tutors Yale Students On Social Media Analytics
Cognos Consumer Insight business intelligence and analytic tools used by Yale MBA candidates to seek insight and identify evolving topics.

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Mobile Security, The Way Forward
Our newest Tech Center is your one-stop shop for news, analysis, and commentary on the nexus of mobile computing and cyber threats.

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Electronic Patient Consent System Planned
Given the public's concerns about online privacy and ID theft, ONC is launching a pilot project that will build trust in data exchange.

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DHS Creates Public-Private Technology Exchange
The Department of Homeland Security gives companies the requirements of a technology, product, or service it's seeking and companies spend their own money to build prototypes.

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Google Gmail Gets Shared Inboxes
Cloud workflow specialist RunMyProcess adds key collaboration feature to help businesses jump from Microsoft Exchange to Google Gmail.

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Microsoft Posts Strong Gains in Q3 Sales, Profits
Revenue from Office and server products up sharply, but Windows takes hit from tablets.

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GSA Prepares $2.5 Billion Cloud Procurement
U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra said federal agencies will use the cloud to consolidate 950,000 email boxes now sitting on 100 different systems.

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