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Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center

November 3, 2009, 5:14am PST

CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
The month ahead: Will Droid do damage to the iPhone's mojo?

October 27, 2009, 2:59pm PDT

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz discuss the new Droid phone set to release in early November. Diaz also previews the upcoming Salesforce.com conference and weighs in on whether consumers will buy Windows 7 during the holiday season.
Facebook COO sees economic models changing on the Web

October 23, 2009, 11:17am PDT

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an information model to a more social model, which benefits Facebook rather than Google. In the future, she adds, more Web users will glean referral information from friends rather than strangers.
IT uses iPhone to be proactive and build goodwill with users

October 22, 2009, 9:53am PDT

Bill Detwiler talks with James Brown from Talecris about how the benefits of deploying Apple's iPhone far outweighed the hazards.
Windows 7: Not a Vista repeat

October 22, 2009, 7:25am PDT

At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 in Orlando, Florida, Bill Detwiler spoke with James Brown, Senior Manager for Security at Talecris about his IT department's plans to evaluate and deploy Windows 7.

U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems

October 21, 2009, 5:14pm PDT

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current health care system. He believes one of the biggest areas of waste is the money spent on billing within the system, with 17 cents of every dollar going towards medical billing. He says his department is working on solutions to reduce these costs.
HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing

October 21, 2009, 4:37pm PDT

At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure in the future. However, with more than 1,000 hacks a day, security creates an important need on differentiating what they put in public versus private clouds. "We wouldn’t put anything material in nature outside the firewall," Hurd says.
Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing

October 21, 2009, 3:21pm PDT

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One of the interesting features he introduces is "hottest topics." He explains that the Bing-Twitter search will aggregate information around the most popular links shared on any given topic.
GE shows off mini ultrasound device

October 21, 2009, 12:24pm PDT

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the new device will be make it easier for clinicians to monitor the human body in a variety of settings, including countries where medical professionals cannot afford larger imaging systems. Immelt also reveals new electronic medical-records software on which the company is working.
Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook

October 21, 2009, 10:41am PDT

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains to Federated Media CEO John Battelle his rationale for turning down Facebook in October of 2008. He says, "he didn't see a reason to sell…the point is really what we can build."
RightNow Technologies 2010 IT plans: Datacenters, ERP, and Windows 7

October 20, 2009, 5:22pm PDT

While attending Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009, ZDNet's Larry Dignan spoke with Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow Technologies, about the company's IT plans for 2010. Olson discussed RightNow's plans to consolidate and rework its datacenters, an upcoming ERP implementation, and the company's migration to Windows 7.
Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending

October 19, 2009, 4:44pm PDT

At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's deployed.
Movie gadgets

October 15, 2009, 12:09pm PDT

The tech we've seen in movies that we wish we had available at the electronics store.
Oracle announces Exadata 2

October 14, 2009, 5:17pm PDT

At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than can its biggest competitor, IBM.
Salesforce.com co-founder sums up the 2009 direction of cloud computing

October 14, 2009, 12:00pm PDT

Listen to Parker Harris sum up the current direction that Salesforce.com sees cloud computing moving in this four-minute interview.