The medical waistband is the latest front in the battle among smart-phone makers for the business customer.
Pagers have long reigned in hospitals, where they are prized for their dependability. But with doctors treating more patients and hospitals facing pressure to be more efficient, companies like Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. see an opportunity to peddle their devices.
International Business Machines Corp. is on a mission to expand its partnerships in Brazil in response to the country’s growing information-technology market.
Whilst I have often grouped Cloud Computing with the consumerization of IT (and the iPhone as it’s most visible example) together in concert in my disruptive innovation presentations, I never really thought of them as metaphors for one another. When you think of it, it’s really a perfect visual.
They might be helpful for solving your computer woes, but watch out for those shifty information-technology employees at your office–a recent survey says they may be stealing your passwords and copying your research and development plans.
Satyam Computer Services has more than 10,000 staff above what it needs, according to Vineet Navyar, the CEO of Tech Mahindra, which won the auction to buy the fraud-stricken IT outsourcing company.
According to Reuters, Nayer said today that it would be better to reduce staff significantly than to risk putting all 40,000 of Satyam’s workers out of jobs.
Intel reported stronger-than-expected earnings and said that it believed the slumping computer sales market had “bottomed out.” Wall Street’s response: Sell ‘em.
The chip giant’s shares are off four percent, dragging on the Nasdaq Composite and raising some questions about the tech sector generally. This bout of pessimism is probably a bit overdone and reflects more what’s happened in the past few months than what happened yesterday.
Hey, we can’t all have careers at Google. Sometimes when you work in IT, you have to hold your nose and hope for the best.
I don’t often look to movies about beer for poignant macroeconomic commentary, but as February ended with an 8.1 percent unemployment rate (and rising), a line from “Strange Brew” struck me as particularly relevant. As they’re introduced to their new jobs as the only two workers on the bottling line, the Mackenzie brothers are told: “Welcome to 1984, the age of automation and unemployment. The rise of the machine and the fall of man. The end of the human era.”
It’s a rough morning for the Indian IT outsourcing sector, which has been hit hard by a highly negative report from Wachovia analyst Edward Caso.
Caso says the group is likely to take another leg down, forecasting that April conference call season will see most of the companies issue guidance below Street expectations. He writes that “demand remains lackluster and decision-making slow.”
In the past we’ve given plenty of examples of how DRM hurts paying customers instead of the people it is meant for. Still, many software companies prefer to see their customers as potential “thieves,” but what they don’t realize is that they are actually breeding pirates instead of stopping them.
There was a time when the geeks who keep a company’s tech systems running could get by without knowing the finer details of corporate strategy. Well, those days are over. This downturn could mean the end of the sequestered CIO.
International Business Machines is pushing ahead with “cloud” computing technology–storing information and running applications in shared computing facilities, connected to users over the Internet.
IBM last month tacked on an additional role to Erich Clementi, its vice president for strategy. He’s now also general manager, enterprise initiatives, with responsibility for Blue Cloud, IBM’s name for cloud computing.
Intel chairman Craig Barrett held a talk at CES this afternoon on technology in the developing world. On stage with him were NetHope and Save the Children, which are both working to bring IT to places like China, Africa and Bangladesh. But ask Barrett what’s the most important technology to put in a classroom and he’d say “a really good teacher.”
Admit it. When you read that headline–“Gartner: 85 percent of enterprises using open source”–you assumed that was a good thing, right? Who’s afraid of enterprises saving a lot of money and getting much more flexible IT for their IT budgets?
RBC Capital got religion this morning on the slowdown in IT spending, cutting ratings on four stocks and slashing estimates and price targets on a host of others.
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