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In depth
Palm set to unveil ‘smart phone companion’
Palm founder Jeff Hawkins is set to announce Wednesday a “new category of mobile device” from Palm.
20,000 leagues under the sea, network-style
Multimillion-dollar contracts have been awarded to researchers who have been tasked with building an elaborate network of sensors and data crunchers designed to give scientists and the public much better insight into understanding oceans.
Sloppy e-discovery can cost you millions
Your company has been hit by a lawsuit. Do you know the whereabouts of all its electronically stored information? Lawsuits are a fact of life for organizations today. Recent surveys show that the average U.S. company faces 305 suits at any one time; that number jumps to 556 for companies with $1 billion or more in revenue. With each lawsuit comes the obligation for discovery – production of evidence for presentation to the other side in a legal dispute. In the past, this evidence consisted primarily of paper records, such as contracts, bills of sale, printed correspondence and so on. However, with the rise of the New Data Center, 95% of all business communications now are created and stored electronically.
SOA adoption crawling at a snail’s pace
Despite considerable hype, only a minority of enterprises have adopted service-oriented architectures and most that are using SOA do so only within specific departments or projects, rather than throughout a company, Saugatuck Technology says in a new …
Cell phones to warn of earthquakes in Japan
Cell phones in Japan could soon provide a vital warning seconds ahead of a major earthquake.
Survey: Nearly 30% of businesses not ready for a disaster
According to AT&T’s annual business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness study, 72% of IT organizations have plans in place in case of a natural or manmade catastrophe.
Microsoft unveils table-top ‘Milan’ computer
Microsoft Corp. has chosen what it sees as the next-generation in PC form factors — a computer the size and shape of a coffee table with a flat, touchscreen display — as the third major product it has designed and is branding for the consumer …
Schmidt: Internet is a powerful force for democracy
Speaking at a conference in South Korea, Eric Schmidt, the chairman and CEO of Google, ducked the question of whether his company’s dominance of Internet search may ultimately distort democratic gains from improved information access. But he promised …
Samsung embeds 4GB storage for 3G phones
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has squeezed 4G bytes of storage into a mobile phone chipset that the manufacturer believes could eliminate the need for external memory card slots.
Case study
Virtualization tames the storage beast for a veterinary schoolWhen it comes to flexible enterprise storage, the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine doesn’t horse around. Over the last six months, the college has been putting its 7TB storage area network through its paces, using it for nearline backup and primary storage, and has this insight to share: Storage virtualization is the cat’s meow.
