Wednesday, February 01, 2012 2:37 PM/EST
By Tim Moran Cloud computing is high on the list of IT issues to be dealt with in 2012--and beyond. Its impact on today's business decisions and strategies is prime fodder for articles, blogs, and research reports all over the...
Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:33 PM/EST
By Samuel Greengard My Intel-powered crystal ball is displaying the following 12 information technology trends for 2012: 1. The cloud lifts. Vendor hype notwithstanding, cloud computing is here to stay. It cuts costs, streamlines collaboration and provides a high level...
Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:37 AM/EST
by Tim Moran "Honey, I'm a little chilly. Can you reboot the server please?" Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Virginia don't think that line is a joke--not if you have a "Data Furnace" in your house. A paper...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:30 AM/EST
By Samuel Greengard In the spirit of Thanksgiving, here are seven technologies and products that aren't only cool, they've actually improved the quality of our lives: 1. A healthcare revolution. Researchers keep announcing remarkable breakthroughs in medicine -- everything from...
Monday, November 07, 2011 10:58 AM/EST
by Tim Moran A Japanese systems engineer used a homemade supercomputer to calculate the value of pi to 10 trillion digits -- breaking the 5-trillion-digit record he himself set, with the same setup, last August. Shigeru Kondo, a mathematics enthusiast...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011 11:28 AM/EST
by Samuel Greengard Pervasive networking has changed the way we access and use information. IT departments long focused on getting crucial bits--documents, spreadsheets, presentations, whatever--to the right personal computer. But thanks to nearly ubiquitous Internet connectivity and cloud computing, workers...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:50 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer The homegrown software that served as a digital asset management system for VRX Studios, a commercial photography firm in Vancouver, B.C., was filled to bursting. Finding content among the 20 terabytes of image data stored for 8,000...
Monday, July 25, 2011 8:24 AM/EST
Samuel Greengard The demise of Border's Books couldn't have been a shock to anyone following the chain's ongoing financial troubles -- or the bookselling business in general. Amazon says that more than half the books it sells are in electronic...
Monday, June 20, 2011 10:20 AM/EST
by Samuel Greengard We surf the web with ease, but much of our data remains trapped and isolated on different islands. Despite all the hoopla over cloud computing and syncing capabilities, we still have a long ways to go to...
Friday, April 15, 2011 10:44 AM/EST
The CEO of a private company asked me what's new in business tech. He may have been making polite conversation to take my mind off a round of golf that was skidding into McIlrovian territory. But he lit up when...