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IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and Lotus Live allowed Newly Wed Foods to bring new products to-market in about half the time, says Brindza, SOA business analyst at the food ingredient technology company. The collaborative technology was easy to implement and required no end-user training because of its user-friendly, social media interface.
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With Megaupload's financial assets frozen and unable to pay its bills, the hosting companies storing the data may begin deleting the data Feb. 2. - All the photos, video and files stored on file-sharing site Megaupload could be permanently deleted from its servers sometime this week, according to federal prosecutors. Megaupload contracted with third-party hosting companies to store the actual files that users uploaded to the server. However, t...

Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly emailed employees about conditions at factories in China. Apple will dig and "undoubtedly find more issues," but it won't turn a blind eye. - Apple CEO Tim Cook is quot;deeply troubled quot; and quot;concerned quot; about issues within the Apple supply chain and accidents that have harmed workers, according to an email he sent to employees that has been distributed on the Internet. Cook reportedly wrote the Jan. 26 and published by...

Verizon Wireless' LG Spectrum Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone sports great speed and a fantastic, true HD display. - The LG Spectrum smartphone, available now from Verizon Wireless for $199.99 on contract, is the latest in a long line of multimedia-friendly Android handsets that flaunt large screens, big battery life and powerful application processing. It's quite possible, this Android 2.3 Gingerbread 4G Lon...

Big companies such as Lenovo and IBM are looking at high schools to tap into the next generation of IT workers to build the next killer apps and staff the jobs of the future. - As the need for more IT workers becomes more and more dire, major vendors are making efforts to seed the industry with trained technology staff by reaching out to potential candidates in high school. Lenovo recently announced an effort with the National Academy Foundation to launch a program to hel...

The company's return to top spot was partly driven by continuing to offer the iPhone 3GS at rock-bottom prices. - Apple overtook Samsung in smartphone shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to data from mobile analyst firm Juniper Research. Almost 25 percent of the 149 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter were iPhones. However, while Samsung lost its top spot to Apple, the...

If you're a technology professional with considerable experience, 2012 could be your year for a significant salary bump or even a hefty bonus, according to new survey data from Dice, a Website for technology and engineering career information. The Dice Salary Survey, administered to 18,325 employed technology professionals between September and November 2011, suggests that salaries are on the rise in certain areas (Silicon Valley and Portland, Ore., top that list) and for certain skill sets (including WebLogic and JBoss proficiency). On top of that, more technology professionals are receiving bonuses, and those bonuses are larger. Among job categories enjoying gains, "the biggest ones we've seen for over a year now are in mobile and cloud," Alice Hill, managing director of Dice.com, told eWEEK. Management of data was also a gaining category, with companies needing business architects and other professionals to "make sense of the data coming from all different directions." Skills related to enterprise Java (such as WebSphere, in addition to the previously mentioned WebLogic and JBoss) led to higher-paying jobs, as well. In terms of cities, Portland and Seattle have seen a rise in the number of cloud-related companies coming online, while Austin, Texas, and other locales are becoming hubs for games and mobile-tech development. The industry verticals most likely to pay out bonuses to their workers included telecom, hardware, banking, software and utilities/energy. The survey data wasn't fantastic for all tech professionals, however: Those at entry level saw their salaries actually decline, even as those with considerable experience (11 years or more) enjoyed a rise in pay. - ...

The most popular consumer-owned devices being used in the enterprise are Android and BlackBerry smartphones and Apple laptops. - Despite perceptions that companies and IT leaders are hesitant to embrace the consumerization of IT, a global survey by managed solutions specialist Avanade found companies are in fact embracing the change, and it is executives at the highest levels in organizations leading the charge. Based ...

The survey indicated small businesses understand the importance of implementing online marketing tools to help achieve business goals. - Schedulicity, a specialist in online appointment scheduling for small, appointment-dependent businesses, announced the results of its business and economic outlook study for 2012. Among survey respondents, fully 91 percent indicated they expect their business to perform better than it performed in 2...

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has become a top driver of Android tablet application consumption in less than three months, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry. - Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire has managed to become the first tablet based on Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system to see demonstrable application usage in a short period, suggesting that the 7-inch slate has become quite the content driver for the e-commerce giant. The table...