IBM targets health care market with grid computing

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News: IBM targets health care market with grid computing
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News: Motorola hopes to cut losses with Razr2
News: IBM deepens focus on governance, risk management
News: WINHEC: Microsoft expands sales channel for home server
News: Tech groups support new cybersecurity bill
Go Figure: Losses from software piracy rise despite a drop in some countries
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IBM targets health care market with grid computing
Hospitals have unique and challenging storage needs, as they are required to store every X-ray and medical record they create, and IBM Corp. is reaching out to that market with a system being unveiled Wednesday at a health care industry event.


Mozilla service opens up mobile Web
Mozilla Corp. developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones.


Oracle to buy Agile for $495 million
Oracle Corp. plans to pay US$495 million to buy Agile Software Corp., a maker of product lifecycle management software.


IBM contractor loses employee data
An unnamed IBM Corp. vendor has lost tapes containing sensitive information on IBM employees, the computer maker confirmed Tuesday.


Motorola hopes to cut losses with Razr2
Motorola Inc. announced the Razr2 cell phone and five other mobile devices on Tuesday with hopes the products will turn around the company's slumping sales and defend its turf from Apple Inc.'s iPhone.


IBM deepens focus on governance, risk management
IBM Corp. has become the latest IT vendor to talk up its strategy around IT governance and risk management software and services, a key area that's grown in importance for users struggling to comply with a rising tide of mandated regulations and rapidly changing business environments.


WINHEC: Microsoft expands sales channel for home server
Microsoft Corp. has signed up more vendors to build hardware for its forthcoming Windows Home Server, expanding the sales channel for the company's first server OS aimed at home PC users.


Tech groups support new cybersecurity bill
A tech trade group and a leading cybersecurity vendor applauded new legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress that would broaden penalties for cybercrime, including first-time penalties for botnet attacks.


GO FIGURE

35%
The share of software installed on PCs worldwide in 2006 that was obtained illegally, according to a report by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in collaboration with IDC.
SOURCE: IDG News Service


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