CUPERTINO, Calif. — For the last nine months, Apple has refused to get into specifics about the well-being of its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, even as he said last month that he was taking a six-month leave of absence to deal with health problems. On...
The telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks said Wednesday that it would cut its work force by 3,200 jobs worldwide. The company, based in Canada, said the new round of job cuts would be made over the next several months. The reduction is on top of 1,800...
Two of Obama's claims from the SOTU: "We invented solar technology, but we've fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it." and "I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it." After a period of prolonged study and meditation...
Moral: don't dig yourself into a newsworthy tech hole. Online IT products and services reseller CDW ran a contest last fall called Project Upgrade, sponsored by HP and Microsoft. Small businesses with 50 or fewer employees entered the contest to win $50,000 worth of hardware and...
Eric Griswold doesn't want to say too much about his talking bottle cap. A slip of the tongue about his inexpensive technology might attract copycats. The Milwaukee engineering consultant wants to learn how investors think, however, and network with other entrepreneurs. His solution? For the third year in...
The best advertising for the high-end bicycles manufactured by Waterloo's Trek Bicycle Corp. is the fact that Lance Armstrong rode them to victories in the Tour de France, and Tim DeBoom relied on them on his way to victory in Ironman World competitions. But the...
Worldwide vertical market IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2009, a 0.5 percent increase from 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Utilities, Healthcare and Government are expected to be the strongest-growing segments of the market in 2009....
Fifty entries from 26 communities have advanced to the semi-final round of the sixth annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, contest producers announced Wednesday. The contestants were selected from a field of 326 first-round entries by an independent panel of judges organized through the Wisconsin Technology...
HCL joins GE Healthcare’s Digital Day One Initiative for New Hospitals in Emerging Markets KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--GE Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare technology, announced today a structured partnership to enable service offerings for all aspects of their healthcare IT lifecycle – planning, deployment, customization, and...
When Howard Rubin speaks, people listen. And when the subject is cloud computing, today’s IT leaders—many of whom are attempting to chart nascent cloud strategies—are bound to lean forward a little farther in their chairs. CIO Insight contributor Tony Kontzer recently spoke with Rubin, an IT...