Healthcare & Biotech

CA Revamps Management Product Line

Paul Korzeniowski, 11.19.2008

Being one of the industry’s leading suppliers of management software can be challenging. A vendor needs to satisfy its current customers while making sure that its product line remains in tune with rapidly changing customer desires. One of the industry’s leading suppliers has taken steps to maintain that balancing act. Read Post

Speedy New USB Spec Ready To Roll In 2009

Matthew McKenzie, 11.18.2008

Would you rather watch paint dry than wait for files to transfer to and from your USB devices? Relief is on the way -- and its name is USB 3.0. Read Post

Amazon Brings PayGo Pricing To Content Delivery

Benjamin Tomkins, 11.18.2008

Amazon's pulls back the curtain on another component of its increasingly broad cloud computing services with the beta release of the CloudFront CDN. Content delivery networks are hardly new, but CloudFront's accessible pricing structure makes it particularly appealing to growing businesses that can't or won't enter into long-term contracts. Read Post

It's a little-understood fact that in a virtualized server each virtual machine will need its own very real network connection, multiplying networking costs. HP has a solution that at least shows that things don't have to be that way. Read Post

Shouldn't surprise anybody, but the worse the economy gets, the more aggressive the phishers become. Some new statistics show just how aggressive that is. Read Post

When I was a newly minted programmer, we programmed in FORTRAN (it was all capital letters then), COBOL and other geeky languages like that. C was pretty new, and C++ hadn't been invented. BASIC was around, but it was a teaching language for universities. If you were doing business computing, you used COBOL or RPG, a report-writing language. If you were doing scientific or engineering work, you used FORTRAN.  Read Post

What is the future of the cell phone? Are smartphones going to eventually replace laptops? And how much hope should be placed in the BlackBerry Storm, which is being released on Friday?  Read Post

Will Microsoft extend its planned Office Web to Firefox and Safari browser users? That appears to be the case -- and it also looks like both Mac and Linux users will have a standing invitation to join the party. Read Post

This whole economic crisis is starting to look like a movie of a spectacular multi-car freeway wreck -- in slow-motion with no sound. We watch individual drivers careen about tying to avoid the pile-up, but end up causing new accidents.  Read Post

Greetings to all, as I make my debut at bMighty. As the new associate editor, you'll see my name attached to plenty of blogs as well as feature stories. I'm excited to be part of an innovative team that is eager to bring to you tools and technologies that benefit small and midsize businesses.  Read Post

Improved system throughput has been an ongoing desire for small and medium businesses. Many performance improving products were designed to maximize the use of devices housed in central locations and with set traffic patterns, so their efficiency is waning. One vendor is trying to deliver tools to enhance the performance of Internet based applications. Read Post