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CIOs in recent survey continue to throttle back their budgets and reduce spending on new IT projects. But they do see some light coming next year. Plenty has changed over the last nine months - bankrupt auto makers, government bailouts, a financial crisis, a Wall Street...

The House just passed a controversial SBIR reauthorization bill with the usual shenanigans by Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY). As in last year's reauthorization debacle, Ms Velazquez completely stifled any testimony contrary to her preferences. The major point of contention is whether to allow companies that...

AT&T hit back at Sen. Herb Kohl Wednesday, denying that the wireless industry is anti-competitive and again insisting that its exclusivity arrangement with Apple for the iPhone has paved the way for other innovative smartphones, not served as a hindrance. "The popularity of the iPhone and...

Lured by the state's tax credits for investments in high-growth companies, a Minneapolis biotech start-up said Thursday that it was moving to Wisconsin. VitalMedix Inc. is developing a drug that first responders, trauma center surgeons and military medics could use. The drug, Tamiasyn, has the potential...

A computer technician was arrested this week after allegedly stealing customer names and credit card numbers from a Sheboygan business and posting them on Twitter, the Sheboygan Police Department reported Wednesday. Advertisement The information was stolen from multi-restaurant delivery service I'm Hungry, which hired Michael P. Fumich,...

Waving $2.4 billion in cash, EMC finally beat out NetApp, its archrival in the storage business, for the right to acquire Data Domain and its data deduplication technology. On Wednesday, NetApp dropped out of the bidding, and Data Domain’s board approved EMC’s offer. Even in the...

Are we there yet? Dell and HP resellers tired of waiting for the next corporate PC refresh cycle can look forward to it starting in 2010 and continuing through the next three years, according to a report from Bernstein Research. Just when you thought PC sales...

Merge Healthcare, a health IT solutions provider, today announced the release of Frontiers™ 4.2.2, a surgery management solution that improves hospital workflow by capturing and charting clinical data throughout the entire perioperative-care process (pre-surgical screening, operating room and recovery)....