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  SMB BI Adoption Grows, Shifts to Cloud

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-22-12 |

  A new survey finds that BI use by SMBs is on the rise. And increasingly, companies are shifting their BI efforts from spreadsheets to cloud-based services.
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  The Ingredients for Social Business Success

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-20-12 |

  Crowdsourcing is increasingly influencing all forms of buying and business decisions. Consumers have unprecedented power over how brands are perceived and purchases are made. And employees are demanding social tools in the workplace, and are actively sidestepping established hierarchies and IT processes to use them. To be successful in this dynamic environment, companies must embrace these changes and become social businesses.
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  Quantum Effort to Nix Hacker Advantage

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-17-12 |

  With hackers winning the cyber-wars, the U.S. government is expanding its funding of uncrackable communications techniques that make use of quantum mechanics.
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  Gen Y Loves a Well-Connected Car

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-17-12 |

  Gen Y consumers want automobiles that are an extension of their social media and digital lifestyles. Automakers are responding by introducing innovative technology to help keep drivers connected while on the road.
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  Healthcare Tackles Big Data

  Michael Steinhart | Date: 02-16-12 |

  Workload-optimized systems for healthcare ensure that each application has the optimal mix of resources for high performance, reliability, and efficiency.
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  Africa Poised to Leapfrog Developed Regions in Technology Adoption

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-14-12 |

  Lacking the legacy IT infrastructure elements of more developed world regions, Africa's Greenfield situation presents the continent with great opportunities for the introduction of innovative, economic-boosting services.
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  Battling Non-communicable Diseases with Smart Technology

  Salvatore Salamone | Date: 02-13-12 |

  A social-media enabled support system for pregnant women with gestational diabetes and an advanced smart-phone service were the winning entries in an IBM and Novartis-sponsored contest to developed new solutions to help manage the growing global problem of non-communicable diseases such as asthma, diabetes, stroke and cancer.
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  Gamification Boosting Enterprise Websites

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-13-12 |

  By offering the same kind of incentives as massive multi-player gaming platforms--unlocking badges, moving up by levels, competing against others, and having fun uncovering surprise content--enterprises worldwide are quickly adding smart gamification software-as-a-service (SaaS) to their websites.
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  Smarter Net Boosts Tough Apps

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 02-07-12 |

  Compute-intensive applications executing on-the-fly processing of network data are turning to a new genre of accelerator that harnesses field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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  Cloud Brings New Jobs, Study Finds

  Rebecca Kutzer-Rice | Date: 02-06-12 |

  A study by the London School of Economics recently found that cloud computing brings new jobs and does not increase the risk of unemployment in the U.S. and Europe. It also predicted huge growth of cloud-related jobs in the coming years.
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  Cloud Computing at the Quantum Level

  Rebecca Kutzer-Rice | Date: 01-31-12 |

  Using quantum computers to create cloud infrastructure could enable faster and more complex cloud systems. But the intricacies at the quantum level could risk security. Now a team of Austrian researchers has successfully demonstrated a security feature for future quantum cloud computing.
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  Social Media Conquering Ebooks

  R. Colin Johnson | Date: 01-31-12 |

  Annotating ebooks--that is sharing notes in the margins with other readers of the same book--is poised to be the next ubiquitous use of social media.
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