As organisations in the healthcare industry in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) must constantly adapt to change, Oracle continues to be the choice for information technology products and services to drive down costs whilst improving patient care. During the 6 months ended August 2...

IBM has announced that it is putting advanced analytics to work zeroing in on fraudulent and abusive claims in the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry. The IBM Loss Analysis and Warning Solution is designed to help protect P&C insurance companies from illegal, unethical, or ...

IBM has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Palisades Technology Partners, a privately held company based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The acquisition builds upon IBM's ongoing strategy to leverage business consulting, IT services and software to develop integrated, replicab...

Today at Microsoft Tech Ed: IT Forum 2006, Microsoft has announced the formation of the Interop Vendor Alliance, a global, cross-industry group of software and hardware vendors that will work together to identify opportunities for enhancing interoperability with Microsoft systems on be...

IBM has announced its Internet Security Systems division is keeping customers ahead of threats posed by the most recent Microsoft vulnerabilities. Earlier this month, IBM Internet Security Systems discovered active exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft's XML HTTP request handlin...

IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Samuel J. Palmisano has announced that the company will invest $100 million over the next two years to pursue ten new businesses generated by InnovationJam, an unprecedented experiment in collaborative innovation held earlier this year.

At Supercomputing 2006, Sun Microsystems has announced an expanded relationship with NEC that will combine Sun's systems innovation strengths with NEC's worldwide systems integration expertise, delivering more advanced high performance computing (HPC) solutions to Sun customers. As par...

IBM has announced it will open a new IBM Innovation Center to help start-up companies, software developers, and independent software vendors (ISVs) create new software applications and services. Located in Barcelona, and serving companies throughout Spain and Portugal, the IBM Innovati...

IBM has introduced a service product and managed support services to help businesses reduce downtime, optimize IT resources and simplify the management of their IT environments. The new service product, IBM Solution Support for Open Point-of-Sale, provides retail clients with a single ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Office of Science, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and IBM will share the cost of a five-year, $58 million research and development (R&D) effort to further enhance the capabilities of the fastest computer in exi...

IBM and Centene Corporation, have announced the selection of IBM WebSphere Portal to provide online healthcare resources to physicians and patients receiving benefits under the Medicaid plans that Centene manages. Centene is a multi-line healthcare enterprise that provides programs and...

Avon Products, and IBM have announced a strategic multi-year business partnership by which IBM Global Services will provide Avon with a portfolio of specialized human resources services and technologies. Financial terms were not disclosed.

IBM has announced that it is expanding its vendor financing scope by offering financing capabilities to non-IBM manufacturers and suppliers in fast-growing industries. IBM Global Financing (IGF), the lending and leasing arm of IBM, will work with these companies to develop working capi...

ENGINEERING.com, IBM and Dassault Systèmes (DS), have announced the release of Version 5 Release 17 (V5R17) of CATIA and ENOVIA SmarTeam for the Education market. V5R17 education solutions include CATIA for collaborative product development and ENOVIA SmarTeam for collaborative lifecyc...

HP has introduced new server and workstation systems designed to maintain power efficiency while meeting the needs of high-throughput, data-intensive applications. The new platforms, based on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 series processors, include HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem s...

Microsoft has followed the Federal Trade Commissions's lead in fighting deceptive spyware operations by filing an action against persons allegedly distributing a notorious spyware program, against which the FTC recently took action. Microsoft's suit alleges that Timothy P. Taylor and o...

Microsoft held its annual shareholder meeting, where Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer discussed the company's opportunities for growth and innovation across multiple core businesses. As a part of the company's presentation, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, outlined the...

Microsoft has announced that the Get Net Safe tour, designed to help people learn how to become more safe and secure on the Internet, will stop in Los Angeles for several days, starting today. The multiple-stop tour, with events Nov. 14-16 in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, will giv...

Seiko Epson (Epson) and Microsoft, have announced a cross-licensing agreement that allows increased mutual access to each company's respective patent portfolios. The agreement will enable each company to broaden its product offerings and deliver more comprehensive, cost-effective solut...

HP has introduced powerful, energy-efficient multi-core workstations featuring the industry's first volume quad-core processors from Intel Corporation. The HP workstations are designed to help professionals such as digital content creators, oil and gas engineers, and computer-aided man...

A surge in the number of IBM Power technology-based supercomputers enabled IBM to seize the number one ranking on the just-released TOP500 Supercomputer Sites List. Overall, IBM systems accounted for 237 of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world and 49.6% the total processin...

Statoil, an integrated oil and gas company with substantial international activities, has signed a comprehensive services agreement with IBM, covering maintenance and support of SAP and desktop applications in Statoil's world wide operations. This Application Management Services initia...

Chairman, President and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano has launched a major initiative to bring IBM's global information technology services expertise and capabilities to China to enable company and government innovation in support of the country's increased focus on developing its services i...

RGA Outsourcing announced it has concluded agreements with 2 new technology partners. In just 6 months, RGA's access to engineering talent has increased to well over 1,000 people on 4 continents. These partners all have headquarters in the U.S. and development centers offshore. Among t...

HP has introduced a solution that eases the management of desktop environments and lowers costs by reducing the need to over-provision IT resources. The HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides customers with a cost-efficient desktop environment by consolidating many physical d...

IBM has released a new study which indicates that many healthcare systems around the world will become unsustainable by 2015. The study highlights the need for public and private healthcare systems worldwide to reform how care is funded, delivered and evaluated in order to reduce costs...

Customers can now rate and review HP consumer technology products online at the HP Home & Home Office Store (www.hpshopping.com), the company announced. Users have the option to rate HP products from zero to five stars and, if they desire, write a review. Visitors to the online store w...

HP has announced the winners of the third annual HP Real Estate Technology contest, which recognizes real estate professionals using technology to provide clients with a better and more personalized experience.

HP and World Wildlife Fund-US (WWF-US) have announced a joint initiative to reduce HP's greenhouse gas emissions from its operating facilities worldwide, educate and inspire others to adopt best practices, and use HP technology in conservation efforts around the world.

Cassatt has announced it will deliver a specific virtualization and automation 'QuickStart' professional services engagement for customers considering Cassatt and VMware solutions. In addition, Cassatt will extend support to the latest version of VMware's products, VMware Infrastructur...

IBM has announced it will license its acclaimed 'Clipped Tag' technology to Marnlen RFiD, who will begin production of the tags and offer availability immediately. The Clipped Tag, developed at IBM's Watson Research Center, allows consumers to tear off the majority of an RFID tag's ant...

More than 65,000 students from 100 countries competed in Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2006 competition, using their technology skills and talent to address these and many other health issues. Now in its fifth year, Imagine Cup continues to challenge students around the globe to imagine a be...

Microsoft has announced the Microsoft SaaS On-Ramp Program, which provides independent software vendors (ISVs) with discounted software infrastructure and technical resources to help develop and deploy software as a service (SaaS) applications.

MSN and NBC Universal Digital Studios, have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement announced by George Kliavkoff, chief digital officer of NBC Universal, and Rob Bennett, general manager of Entertainment and Video Services for MSN. Beginning this fall, the MSN Video audience wil...

Microsoft has announced agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to bring an initial lineup of over 1,000 hours of hit TV shows and movies to Xbox 360 gamers in the ...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has installed a new IBM supercomputer known as blueice that nearly triples the center's sustained computing capacity, IBM announced. With a peak speed of 12 teraflops (12 trillion floating-point operations per second), the new machine...

Memorial Health System has selected IBM to bring medical records online and provide physicians with real-time access to medical information to help deliver better patient-centric care. Memorial, comprised of a 477-bed hospital and 15 facilities throughout Colorado Springs, has chosen a...

HP has announced that it has completed its tender offer for Mercury Interactive Corp. HP's tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Mercury expired at midnight, New York City time, on November 1, 2006. As of that time, approximately 85.7 million shares, representing approximat...

ProCurve Networking by HP has been positioned by Gartner in the 'Challengers' quadrant of the October 2006 Magic Quadrant for (Global) Campus LAN report. The report positions vendors in one of four quadrants based on the companies vision and ability to execute on that vision.

Adobe Systems has announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 8 software amid an enthusiastic early reception from knowledge workers worldwide who for months have tested and provided feedback to help the company fine tune the product line.