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Microsoft Releases Emergency Internet Explorer Patch
Users of Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are most at risk.
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Bank Of America Taps Cisco For TelePresence
Under a managed service agreement, Cisco will install 200 TelePresence units and provide monitoring, support, and maintenance.
Verizon Intros Push To Talk For BlackBerry
The service is available to enterprise customers using RIM's BlackBerry Tour 9630 smartphone.
More Connecting TV To Web
Consumers' growing use of PCs and game consoles to access the Internet on TV bodes well for the future of connected TVs, say analysts.
Obama Nominates Defense IT Chief
Teri Takai has been CIO of Michigan and California, winning numerous plaudits along the way.
USDA Awards $500 Million IT Contract
SRA International has been tapped to implement a SAP-based system to modernize the Department of Agriculture's business process systems.
Apple Updates Snow Leopard
The update will improve stability, application compatibility, and security within the Mac and server versions of the operating system.
NHIN Direct Focus Is Health Data Exchange Specs
Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Direct aims to develop interoperability specs, but not to replace statewide and regional health information exchanges.
FAA Teams With IBM On Cybersecurity
The Federal Aviation Administration is using InfoSphere Streams software from IBM to perform "predictive security analytics" on massive volumes of data.
NASA Archiving Social Networking Activity
The U.S. space agency has teamed with The Internet Archive to archive its image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource.
Verizon iPhone Could Come This Year
An Apple iPhone that would run on Verizon Wireless's CDMA network could go into production by September.
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If You've Got Big Data, You May Want Big Memory
By Charles Babcock
Jas Dhillon, CTO of Taser, explained to me last December how his company has gone from delivering stunning shocks to unruly police suspects to shocking the competition via cloud computing. In continuing to follow its innovative approach, I found a story behind the story of how Taser was able to do this.
Apple Updates iTunes Ahead Of iPad Launch
By Eric Zeman
Today Apple made iTunes version 9.1 available via its software update tools. The new version of iTunes offers just a handful of new features, mostly geared toward Saturday's launch of the iPad.
BlackBerry 9630 Tour Receives OS 5.0 From Verizon
By Eric Zeman
If you're using a BlackBerry 9630 Tour on the Verizon Network, head on over to the Verizon Wireless support pages. Verizon is offering a huge system upgrade to system software 5.0. New features and improvements abound.
Verizon Teases Motorola Droid Owners Yet Again
By Eric Zeman
According to an internal memo, Verizon has resumed rolling out the Android 2.1 update to users of the Motorola Droid. Don't go scrambling for your device quite yet, however.
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