Author: WTN News

Microsoft wanted to offer people the full cloud experience. Well, now it has. The company's pre-beta Azure Services Platform has joined the likes of Amazon Web Services and Flexiscale with a massive outage - Azure's first....

The National Institutes of Health is accepting applications for $1.5 billion in economic stimulus grant funds available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Some of the funds can be used for information technology purposes. For instance, $1 billion is available for construction grants to build...

MADISON - Mithridion, Inc., a drug development company focusing on serious Central Nervous System disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), announced today that it has been selected to make podium presentations at two major biotechnology venture investment conferences. The 2nd Annual BIO National Venture Conference...

The move follows allegations of bribery in DC office he ran. The fallout from Thursday's arrests of a District of Columbia IT security official and contractor quickly raised questions about the fate of Vivek Kundra, the new federal CIO who until recently ran the office...

Tough times call for tough measures. Layoffs and cutbacks are rampant. Even if your IT budget is relatively stable, you will probably be asked to do more with less. But perhaps a better solution would be to do less with less -- to scale back...

A new report by Gartner, titled Dataquest Alert: Utilities, Healthcare and Government Lead IT Spending Growth in Challenging 2009, details where IT spending is headed. Gartner analysts expect overall worldwide IT spending growth of one-half of one percent, and an essentially flat U.S. growth rate...

An FBI raid on the federal CIO's former offices may be the least of his problems. As fed CIO, operating under the White House Office of Management and Budget, Kundra will focus on how government agencies buy, use, manage, and coordinate information technology. That's a...

Zappos.com Inc. credits its novel Web 2.0-based sales philosophy for much of its significant sales growth -- and continuing profitability -- during the current hard times. The online shoe and clothing store doesn't spend massive sums creating and implementing online or offline marketing and advertising campaigns,...

To demonstrate the threats from botnets, the BBC purchased a network of 22,000 infected computers, used it to spam its own e-mail accounts and for a denial-of-service test, and then left messages on the hijacked computers that they were infected. The BBC's Click technology program said...