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GE has announced it will fold its cloud Centricity Advance product for small practices into its flagship Centricity Practice Solution. - GE Healthcare has announced it will discontinue its Centricity Advance electronic health record (EHR) application for small practices as of June 30. Centricity is GE's EHR platform used by both physician practices and hospitals. It incorporates medical, pharmaceutical, financial and administrat...

Alfresco Team is a package of powerful collaboration tools that can be quickly deployed for a small workgroup or pilot project, but one which can easily scale to fit ones needs. It works well with the Alfresco Mobile tools for Apple iOS, which themselves open up entirely new ways for businesses to capture and use images and sound. Alfresco Software is attempting to address the small and mid-range customer with Alfresco Team, based on the Alfresco Enterprise architecture used by nearly 2,000 businesses, including Home Depot, Michelin and the United Kingdoms National Health Service. It can be deployed in a traditional premise-based environment running Linux or Windows, or on an Amazon EC2 instance. Alfresco Team offers solid enterprise-class content management features including version tracking and granular user access. Coupled with the Alfresco Mobile tools for iOS, which allow the capture of audio, still images and video, Alfresco Team offers a first-class collaboration environment that meets the budget of the smallest organization. Alfresco Team Makes Collaboration Simple - ...

On AT&T's quarterly earnings call this week, CEO Randall Stephenson spoke about the FCC decision, presenting his companys position in arguably the most sympathetic light since its March 2011 bid for T-Mobile. - AT amp;T CEO Randall Stephenson offered lengthy commentary on his feelings toward the Federal Communications Commission during the carrier's Jan. 26 fourth-quarter 2011 earnings call. AT amp;T's initial response to the FCC report detailing its decision to block AT amp;T's proposed purchase of No...

If this event, which had been projected (apparently incorrectly) by several financial analysts to happen later this spring, does indeed take place, it will easily be the largest IT IPO in history. - The Wall Street Journal, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the situation, reported Jan. 27 that Facebook will file for its long-awaited initial public offering of stock on Wednesday, Feb. 1. If this event, which had been projected by several financial analysts to happen later this spring...

Fujitsu and ServiceMesh have a new partnership that looks to brings more public and private cloud offerings to their enterprise customers. - Cloud platform vendor ServiceMesh has forged a relationship with Fujitsu, giving ServiceMesh customers access to Fujitsus global, on-demand cloud computing footprint. ServiceMesh's customers will now be able to build hybrid cloud instances, which can be optimized to deliver IT services at lower cost...

Verizon Wireless Jan. 19 began selling its first new significant Android smartphone of 2012, the pretty LG Spectrum, which costs $199.99 on contract. LG hasn't pumped out many smartphones in the U.S., but this Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset is a beauty, boasting a 4.5-inch True HD IPS (in-plane switching) 16.7M Color TFT touch screen with 1,280-by-720-pixel resolution. This is the same technology LG uses for its HD televisions. Combine this viewing experience with the phone's Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 1.5GHz dual-core chip on Verizon's 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, and it's easy to see how this little machine can be a multimedia powerhouse for video consumers. To wit, the phone comes with HD access to ESPN's ScoreCenter app, which offers scores and highlights. It also provides Netflix access and the SmartMovie HD app for shooting and editing HD video. Check out eWEEK's hands-on tryout of the LG Spectrum in this slide show. - ...

Google Earth 6.2 includes integration with Google+, allowing users to share Earth imagery with their social network Circles. Also, the images are seamless and more easily searchable. - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continued its wholesale integration of Google+ with its existing applications, launching Google Earth 6.2 with the capability to let users share their virtual images with their contacts on the social network. Google Earth 6.2 includes the option to let users share a screens...

MacWorld 2012 opened Jan. 26 in downtown San Francisco, and, although it is always one of the most interesting IT shows each year, this time it doesn't have quite the same panache as it has in the past. Attendance appears to be down somewhat, and there aren't nearly as many vendors showing their wares as in previous years. One of the main reasons for this is that Apple itself no longer participates; in fact, this is the third year since the mothership has pulled out of the event, which is staged by IDG World Expo. However, there are still plenty of relevant and imaginative products and services to see. Here in this slide show are a few of them. MacWorld 2012 continues through Jan. 28. (All photos by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK.) - ...

Despite all the fresh new ideas on display for the Apple world from exuberant third-party companies, it matters quite a bit that the Apple mothership isn't here with her children. - SAN FRANCISCO--For the third consecutive year since the event began way back in 1985, Apple was nowhere to be found at the Macworld 2012 conference and expo here at the Moscone West center. Despite all the fresh new ideas on display for the Apple world from exuberant third-party companies, it mat...

Killer Apple iPhone 4S sales enabled Apple to take back the distinction of No. 1 smartphone seller during the fourth quarter. Samsung, however, was the overall 2011 winner. - Apple and Samsung continued their neck-and-neck race as the top smartphone vendor through the fourth quarter of 2011, with Apple bolstered by sales of its iPhone 4S. As predicted, the October arrival of the much-delayed iPhone 4S enabled Apple to pull ahead of its Android-supporting rival and rei...