Whether you're a big business or a small one, chances are you have embraced social networking such as Twitter and Facebook as a new way to connect with your customers and generate business. So, when Twitter went down last Thursday as a result of a cyber...
Rockwell Automation Inc. announced Monday that it is rolling out a new suite of automation systems designed to maximize energy efficiency as well as industrial output. "The manufacturing sector is responsible for almost a third of U.S. energy consumption, primarily by driving loads with electric motors,"...
Private bank and insurance company USAA plans to allow their customers to their iPhones to deposit checks. Using the camera on their iPhones, the person simply takes an picture of both sides, then emails it to the bank. The user then destroys or voids the check...
Developers who 'knowingly' ship buggy software may be held liable for damages. That might be good for users -- but a sloppy set of guidelines could hurt open source. Here's an odd couple: Microsoft and the Linux Foundation. These two organizations, normally on opposite sides of...
Project and portfolio management (PPM) is taking on increased importance in this economic recession as organizations focus on corporate initiatives and ensure that executives direct their spending and use of resources toward those goals. PPM creates visibility into available resources and assets to help IT...
Digital games are one of the latest tools being used to improve health outcomes, says one expert. Virtual realities, computer simulations and online play are among the games gaining traction, according to Carleen Hawn, co-founder and editor of Healthspottr.com in San Francisco. In an article appearing...
Some IT managers are saying 'smaller is better' when it comes to data-center size. Tom Gonzales is planning to shrink his company's data center footprint from 45 feet by 15 feet to a mere 12 feet by 12 feet -- and he couldn't be...
Lilly Ventures, the venture capital arm of Eli Lilly & Co., has spun out from its parent in an effort to compensate its members more like a traditional venture firm. As part of the spinout, completed May 1, Lilly Ventures secured $200 million from its corporate...
Researchers at the University of Florida claim to be the first to use targeted gene manipulation to take adult stem cells and change them into another kind of cell completely. They changed the stem cells, from bone marrow in this instance, into retinal cells. These...
Computer scientists working for the U.S. Department of Energy announced this week that they have been able to create a simulated botnet consisting of more than one million machines. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California, headed by Ron Minnich and Don Rudish, were able to...