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Making healthcare bills easier to understand

As part of a broader health IT push, the Department of Health and Human Services secretary rolls out challenge to bring transparency to opaque medical billing practices.

5 key requirements of successful big data projects

In her keynote presentation at Apache: Big Data North America, Amy Gaskins, a data scientist with more than a decade of experience, shared five key requirements that can make or break big data projects.

SAP design chief talks details of Apple deal

SAP's chief design officer says modern workers have high expectations for the enterprise apps they use each day, and the company's recent deal with Apple is designed to elevate business software and enhance the overall SAP user experience.

Public sector embraces bigger, longer outsourcing deals

Public sector outsourcing deals are growing as the U.S. government seeks shared services efficiencies.

6 important announcements from day 1 of CoreOS Fest, Berlin

New technologies, more open source, more funding

What does the future of the Apache Software Foundation hold?

At Apache: Big Data North America in Vancouver next week — alongside a huge array of keynotes, panels and tutorials — the ASF and ODPi will host a Q&A session about their collaboration and address concerns about project independence.

Apple’s SAP deal means more iOS enterprise apps

Apple continues to make headway in the business world. This week it landed a significant partnership with SAP that could have a major impact on mobile productivity.

Toys “R” Us hires CIO to boost ecommerce, customer tech

The toy retailer, battling Amazon.com and other ecommerce-savvy players, hires Phil Newmoyer from Serta Simmons Bedding as its new CIO.

Analytics comes to IT service management

ManageEngine, a division of Zoho, is looking to leverage its IT management domain expertise to offer a self-service IT analytics solution to help IT better utilize the data it generates.

LogMeIn creates CMS-like platform for IoT connected products

With the next generation of its Xively Connected Product Management Platform, LogMeIn is aiming to make it easier for companies to deploy and manage connected products in the Internet of Things.

CII’s Best Practices badge program is making open source projects more secure

Curl, GitLab, the Linux kernel, OpenBlox, OpenSSL, Node.js and Zephyr have received badges

Why your outsourcers’ cost of living adjustments don’t work

Cost of living increases are intended to keep IT outsourcing staff happy and working hard on your account. However, only a fraction of the money makes it into the pockets of those workers. Here are three ways to fix that.

Cloud Foundry launches fellowship program

The Cloud Foundry Foundation Fellowship program will serve as a think tank for the industry.

Twitter dives as Facebook continues to thrive

Facebook continues to defy expectations with incredible growth in virtually every important area of business success, and its accomplishments stand in stark contrast to Twitter's decidedly tepid performance.

Samsung explains why it’s all in on VR

Virtual reality was the star of the show when Samsung executives took the stage this week at its annual developer conference.

What Apple’s first down quarter in 13 years really means

All eyes are on Apple after the company suffered its first period of revenue decline since 2003. The next iPhone release will be a defining moment for the company, according to analysts.

IBM Watson teams up with Elmo

Apps built on IBM Watsonu2019s cognitive computing platform could make Sesame Streetu2019s Elmo a personalized tutor for preschoolers, reading and analyzing cues in real time and responding with engaging educational activities.

Startup brings together OLTP, OLAP and Spark

The startup has secured series A funding led by Pivotal, GE Ventures and GTD Capital with a new in-memory hybrid transactional analytics database.

5 years into the ‘cloud-first policy’ CIOs still struggling

Government tech chiefs see challenges in management and ownership aspects of cloud contracts, while security concerns persist.

How to get the most out of the upcoming summer hiring season

Itu2019s a great time of year to be looking at your next potential team members. These tips can be beneficial in guiding you to increasing the success of a new hire for the employer and the employee.

Cloud will make U.S. immigration agency more agile

Mark Schwartz, CIO of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, has turned to the cloud for a faster, more agile development model.

LinkedIn Students app helps graduates get gigs

Students and recent graduates are LinkedIn's fastest-growing audience, and the company this week released a new app that's designed to ease the post-college job search process.

Why early STEM education will drive the U.S. economy

The Obama administration pushes to start kids on science and technology education at a young age to elevate the nationu2019s competitive position socially and economically.

Why Facebook wants rivals to build hardware

Facebook bet big on hardware and software, but instead of selling its own network infrastructure products, transmission technology or 3D video camera systems, the company open sourced all of its related designs so they're available to competitor

PepsiCo hires veteran CIO to refresh IT

Jody Davids, who has served as CIO of Agrium, Best Buy and Cardinal Health, has taken the leadership skills cultivated in her 35-year career to beverage giant PepsiCo.

Teradata forms Global IOT Analytics special ops team

The analytics company has created a new Global IoT Analytics unit within Teradata Labs and also introduced a Hybrid Cloud environment to help customers shift analytic workloads among a mix of on-premises, managed cloud and public cloud systems.

Facebook at Work pushed to ‘later this year’

Facebook at Work wasnu2019t absent at F8, but it was relegated to a small booth where workers handed out swag and gave canned demos. The enterprise collaboration product is behind schedule, and Facebook will say only that wider availability is coming

The Salesforce ecosystem: A shift on the playing field

Obama announces computer-science-for-all initiative

In final White House science fair of his administration, Obama stresses that computer science and other STEM fields are as essential as reading and writing.

Facebook is bringing in the bots and AI

By opening the floodgates for bots on Facebook Messenger, the social media leader hopes to kindle a more modern and efficient mode of communication between businesses and their customers.

DataStax believes multi-model databases are the future

DataStax is strengthening operational database support for multiple data models, from key value to tabular, JSON and graph, and has added DataStax Enterprise Graph to its offering.

3 big tests for Facebook at F8

Facebook kicks off F8 this week with some big tasks that should dominate its efforts this year.

Opportunities and risks in 5 global outsourcing locations

A look at some of the key trends impacting IT and business process outsourcing locations around the globeu2014from U.S. veterans entering the IT outsourcing talent pool to currency fluctuations in China and Latin America to the geopolitical situation

Facebook Live revamp hints at what’s to come at F8

A week before its annual F8 conference, Facebook took aim at live video rivals Periscope, Snapchat and YouTube with a series of new 'Facebook Live' features that encourage you to create more live video, as well as watch and interact with vi

Twitter beat out Verizon, Amazon for NFL streaming deal

Twitter wasn't the favorite to land the NFL's Thursday Night Football live stream, but the company came out on top because of its potential reach and established role in creating online commentary around live sports.

MacHash 6.0: The best Apple news app gets a huge update

My favorite app for news about Apple has just had a big update to version 6.0. If youu2019re an Apple news junkie, youu2019ll want to check out MacHash 6.0 in the iOS App Store.

New Yocto recipes will make embedded devices smarter

Beechwoods Software, Inc. has contributed new recipes to for easy integration of the AllJoyn codebase into Yocto.rn

MariaDB targets big data analytics market with ColumnStore

The relational database company's upcoming MariaDB ColumnStore is a columnar storage engine for massively parallel distributed query execution and data loading, supporting use cases ranging from real-time to batch to algorithmic.

Mobile-only banking startup bets on bots

Companies are implementing artificial intelligence technology for customer service. Hereu2019s a look at how Atom Bank is incorporating WDS Virtual Agent software from Xerox into its mobile app to solve customer issues.

Linux Foundation announces Civil Infrastructure Platform

The framework will support the development of software needed to run critical infrastructure rn

Nordstrom CIO hires former Amazon exec as CTO

Nordstrom hires Kumar Srinivasan, who will work with CIO Dan Little to help streamline and improve the fashion retailer's merchandise and supply chain software.

Red Hat offers no-cost RHEL subscription to developers

Itu2019s not a watered down version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, itu2019s the same RHEL that enterprise customers use.rn

AtScale simplifies connecting BI tools to Hadoop

The startup, which specializes in creating OLAP-like virtual cubes on Hadoop, has added a Hybrid Query Service Service that allows its platform to natively support MDX and SQL queries.

Big data gets runtime specification

The ODPi Runtime Specification and test suite is designed to help organizations write Hadoop-based applications once with the confidence that they will run on a variety of Hadoop distributions.

Tech giants, government struggle with online speech policies

Officials with Google and State Department are struggling to craft a balanced policy that combats terrorist messages without unduly curbing Internet freedom.

Google cloud chief on tackling the enterprise

Google's cloud leader discusses one of the biggest IT challenges related to enterprise cloud deployments and offers advice on how companies can identify the business functions that are best suited for the cloud.

Google goes ‘all-in’ on enterprise cloud

A group of Google executives this week reinforced the company's commitment to the enterprise cloud u2014 one of its fastest growing businesses u2014 and said it has made more than 300 improvements to the Google Cloud Platform during the past yea

Why Apple no longer needs an iPhone ‘wow factor’

Apple product reveals used to be watershed moments for the technology industry, but today Apple innovates in increments, as demonstrated by the new iPhone SE and smaller iPad Pro, and consumers continue to purchase Apple devices in droves.

CIOs upbeat on iPhone SE, 9.7-inch iPad Pro

Apple revealed a pair of new devices this week that look strikingly similar to products it released years ago. However, the smaller sizes, and corresponding lower price points, of the iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro have kindled new interest among CI

Why it’s time to set standards for outsourcing providers

Sure, you and all your IT service providers follow ITIL guidelines, but you interpret those standards differently. And those little inconsistencies can lead to big problems.