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G.E. Profit Beats Expectations
Posted: April 20th, 2012, 2:25pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Excluding the impact from the sale of NBCUniversal, General Electric’s quarterly revenue also rose 4 percent, as the company increasingly returned to its industrial roots.
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Microsoft to Buy AOL Patents for More Than $1 Billion
Posted: April 10th, 2012, 12:04am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The lofty price Microsoft paid AOL for 800 patents — $1.3 million each — reflects the crucial role patents are playing in the business and legal strategies of technology companies.
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Bits: In Crosswords, It’s Man Over Machine, for Now
Posted: March 18th, 2012, 4:49pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Dr. Fill, an impressive crossword puzzle-solving computer program, matched its digital wits against 600 of the nation’s best human solvers. The computer program finished 141st.
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Computer Matching Wits With Humans in Crossword Tournament
Posted: March 17th, 2012, 1:35am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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This weekend’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn will have 600 of the world’s best crossword players, including the digital Dr. Fill.
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Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
Posted: March 6th, 2012, 11:16am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Researchers found that doctors using electronic records ordered expensive imaging tests more often than those relying on paper records.
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Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
Posted: March 6th, 2012, 11:16am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Researchers found that doctors using electronic records ordered expensive imaging tests more often than those relying on paper records.
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Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
Posted: March 6th, 2012, 11:16am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Researchers found that doctors using electronic records ordered expensive imaging tests more often than those relying on paper records.
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Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
Posted: March 6th, 2012, 11:16am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Researchers found that doctors using electronic records ordered expensive imaging tests more often than those relying on paper records.
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News Analysis: Big Data’s Impact in the World
Posted: February 11th, 2012, 11:47pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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For those who can make sense of the explosion of data, there are job opportunities in fields as diverse as crime, retail and dating.
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Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:38am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Wolfram Alpha Pro’s creator wants his “computational knowledge engine” to appeal to more than math and science enthusiasts.
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Unboxed: Apple and Google as Creative Archetypes
Posted: January 27th, 2012, 3:20am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Apple and Google take very different paths to innovation, but the gap between their approaches may be closing a bit.
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G.E. Says Operating Profit in Quarter Rose 6%
Posted: January 20th, 2012, 12:39pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The financial performance is in line with Wall Street’s expectations and reflected G.E.’s strategy of paring back its reliance on its big finance arm and relying more on its industrial businesses.
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G.E. Says Operating Profit in Quarter Rose 6%
Posted: January 20th, 2012, 12:39pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The financial performance is in line with Wall Street’s expectations and reflected G.E.’s strategy of paring back its reliance on its big finance arm and relying more on its industrial businesses.
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Unboxed: How Samuel Palmisano of I.B.M. Stayed a Step Ahead - Unboxed
Posted: January 1st, 2012, 9:29am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Samuel J. Palmisano, who is departing as I.B.M.’s chief executive, devised four questions that pushed his huge company to stay a step ahead of its rivals.
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Unboxed: How Samuel Palmisano of I.B.M. Stayed a Step Ahead - Unboxed
Posted: January 1st, 2012, 9:29am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Samuel J. Palmisano, who is departing as I.B.M.’s chief executive, devised four questions that pushed his huge company to stay a step ahead of its rivals.
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AT&T’s Next Move May Be Asset Sell-Off
Posted: November 27th, 2011, 11:53pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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To make buying T-Mobile USA more palatable to regulators, AT&T has to placate the antitrust forces, analysts say.
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Federal Panel Emphasizes Safety in Push for Digital Health Records
Posted: November 9th, 2011, 4:37pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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An Institute of Medicine report recommended that an independent agency investigate deaths and injuries related to poorly designed, hard-to-use computerized health records.
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Bits Blog: Nokia's Comeback Strategy in Smartphones
Posted: November 8th, 2011, 8:45am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The company's chief says it must exploit the shifting smartphone market, profit from its alliance with Microsoft and develop services based on its own assets,
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At Nest Labs, Ex-Apple Leaders Remake the Thermostat
Posted: October 25th, 2011, 6:53am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Nest Labs, a Silicon Valley start-up, is trying to transform the household thermostat into a digital assistant that reduces energy consumption.
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Bits Blog: Lessons From Britain's Health Information Technology Fiasco
Posted: September 27th, 2011, 8:26am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Britain is dismantling its ambitious, expensive program for a national system of electronic health records and sharing patient data. What are the lessons for the United States?
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Will Consumers Benefit if T-Mobile Stands Alone?
Posted: September 1st, 2011, 10:08am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The Justice Department challenged a merger of AT&T and T-Mobile to spur competition and innovation, but analysts question whether T-Mobile’s independence will serve that goal.
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A Bull Market in Tech Patents
Posted: August 17th, 2011, 7:48am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Recent blockbuster patent deals are fed largely by legal considerations, not economic ones, analysts say.
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Unboxed: First, Make Money. Also, Do Good.
Posted: August 13th, 2011, 8:30pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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More companies are pursuing the idea that profit-making should be a priority of their social responsibility programs.
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Can Microsoft Make You ‘Bing’?
Posted: July 31st, 2011, 12:03am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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To take on Google, Microsoft is spending billions to make its search engine the intelligent “decision engine.”
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G.E. Profit Exceeds Forecast
Posted: July 22nd, 2011, 9:03am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The second-quarter results from General Electric are seen as evidence of an improving outlook for major industrial companies.
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G.E. Profit Exceeds Forecast
Posted: July 22nd, 2011, 8:57am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The second-quarter results from General Electric are seen as evidence of an improving outlook for major industrial companies.
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Unboxed: Seeing Promise and Peril in Digital Records
Posted: July 17th, 2011, 5:57am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The standards set for digital health records will determine whether they provide better information, improve care and curb costs, or do more harm than good.
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Microsoft Takes to Cloud to Defend Its Office Business
Posted: June 28th, 2011, 3:08am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Google’s Web alternatives to Microsoft Office are pulling business away from the company’s biggest money maker.
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New Ways to Exploit Raw Data May Bring Surge of Innovation, a Study Says
Posted: May 13th, 2011, 3:08am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Data is a vital raw material of the information economy, but the business world is just beginning to learn how to process it all.
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For Microsoft, Skype Opens Vast New Market in Telecom
Posted: May 11th, 2011, 1:40am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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In agreeing to pay $8.5 billion to buy Skype, Microsoft is embracing a technology that is transforming the way people communicate at home and at work.
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Bits: Big Medical Groups Begin Patient Data-Sharing Project
Posted: April 6th, 2011, 12:01am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Five big medical groups are creating a consortium to share patient data electronically.
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Urban Athlete: Adventures of a Stair Master
Posted: March 11th, 2011, 12:10am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Stairs, it seems, are a neglected asset in the fitness crusade.
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Unboxed: Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records
Posted: February 26th, 2011, 1:12pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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A change to electronic data has the potential for broad health and economic benefits, but also presents huge design and social challenges.
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Unboxed: Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records
Posted: February 26th, 2011, 1:12pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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A change to electronic data has the potential for broad health and economic benefits, but also presents huge design and social challenges.
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Bits: The Administration Starts Its Start-Up Policy
Posted: January 31st, 2011, 9:57pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The Obama administration announced its policy to stimulate the creation and survival of start-up companies, which account for most new jobs.
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Unboxed: The Power of the Platform at Apple
Posted: January 30th, 2011, 2:00am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Apple has managed logic-defying growth via its combination of popular hardware, software and services. But its formula may face longer-term challenges.
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Debut of Game Device and Strength in Business Sales Lift Microsoft
Posted: January 28th, 2011, 2:28am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Microsoft’s second-quarter results, which topped expectations, were robust, with help from the $150 add-on for its Xbox consoles, the Kinect.
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Maybe Japan Was Just a Warm-Up
Posted: January 23rd, 2011, 3:08am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The trade tensions with China sometimes seem like a rerun of the 1980s rivalry with Japan. But can Washington use its old strategies?
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Maybe Japan Was Just a Warm-Up
Posted: January 22nd, 2011, 4:48pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The trade tensions with China sometimes seem like a rerun of the 1980s rivalry with Japan. But can Washington use its old strategies?
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Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
Posted: January 2nd, 2011, 12:09am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Computerized surveillance systems can protect hospital patients, watch for criminals — or invade your privacy.
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Unboxed: When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China
Posted: January 1st, 2011, 10:39pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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A new Chinese government document offers a glimpse into how the nation intends to engineer a more innovative society.
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G.E. Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff
Posted: December 4th, 2010, 10:32pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Jeffrey Immelt, G.E.’s chief executive, says the company must rely more on making physical products and less on financial engineering.
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Bits: Software That Spots Patterns
Posted: November 16th, 2010, 9:04am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Autonomy is introducing new software that sifts through data for doctors to help in diagnostic decision-making.
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Unboxed: Apple and I.B.M. Aren’t All That Different
Posted: November 6th, 2010, 10:53pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The two companies can be viewed as the yin and the yang of high-tech innovation, with more in common than is generally understood.
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Sales of Video Game and Flagship Software Lift Microsoft
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 1:07am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Revenue rose 25 percent as Microsoft reported a 50 percent increase in quarterly income.
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I.B.M. Rides Global Focus on Services to Deliver a 12% Increase in Profit
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 9:50pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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I.B.M. said it received a lift from strong growth in big emerging markets, led by China, India, Brazil and Russia, where revenue jumped 29 percent.
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I.B.M. Posts 12% Rise in Profit
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 5:50pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The company reported a 12 percent increase in net profit as revenue increased modestly, adding to evidence that corporate customers are beginning to spend again on computer technology.
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G.E. Quarterly Profit Falls 18%
Posted: October 15th, 2010, 12:00pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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G.E. said profit from continuing operations rose 29 percent, to $3.16 billion. And earnings per share increased 32 percent, to 29 cents a share, beating expectations.
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Oracle and I.B.M. Agree to Java Pact
Posted: October 11th, 2010, 10:21pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Oracle and I.B.M. have agreed to cooperate on Java development. The move comes after Oracle sued Google, claiming its Android operating system illegally used ideas and code from Java.
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Smarter Than You Think: A Machine That Teaches Itself
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 4:59pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Tom M. Mitchell, center, and, from left, William Cohen, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Justin Betteridge, Derry Wijaya and Bryan Kisiel.Researchers are fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human.
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2 Brothers Await Broad Use of Medical E-Records
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 12:21am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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After more than a decade, Dr. Tom Doerr and his brother, John, see a possible turning point for their business with Apple’s iPad and a national mandate for digital medical records.
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2 Brothers Await Broad Use of Medical E-Records
Posted: October 4th, 2010, 12:21am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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After more than a decade, Dr. Tom Doerr and his brother, John, see a possible turning point for their business with Apple’s iPad and a national mandate for digital medical records.
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Six Technology Firms Agree to More Hiring Competition
Posted: September 25th, 2010, 1:00am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The antitrust settlement promises to increase the competition for sought-after technology workers.
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I.B.M.: Africa Is the Next Growth Frontier
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 2:00am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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A big I.B.M. contract to supply technology for a major cellphone carrier underlines the company's growth strategy in Africa.
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Fastest Net Service in U.S. Coming to Chattanooga
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 6:50am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The service will put a midsize Southern city among the world leaders in digital technology, but the speed will be expensive.
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Unboxed: To Create Jobs, Nurture Start-Ups
Posted: September 11th, 2010, 11:10pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Small businesses have long been considered the economy’s main engine of job creation. But a study has found that a company’s age is a better indicator.
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Why I.B.M. Took a Different Path in Storage
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:43am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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I.B.M.'s strategy in the storage business has been guided by its research labs spotting future trends.
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Paul Allen’s Company Files Broad Lawsuit Over Patents
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 1:00am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Interval Licensing is suing a cluster of defendants, including AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and YouTube.
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Some Business Skills to Go With the Passion
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 12:33pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Thousands of courses are offered in entrepreneurship by colleges and universities, small-business development centers and chambers of commerce.
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A Different Take on the Intel-McAfee Deal
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 2:13pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The former president of McAfee offers a contrarian view of what makes sense about the Intel-McAfee deal, and what doesn't.
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Unboxed: Company Innovators Ask: What Works?
Posted: August 14th, 2010, 11:10pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Works in progress at Weyerhaeuser, Best Buy and Citigroup show how new products and services can address wider market needs.
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Unboxed: Rewarding Consumers for Providing Personal Data
Posted: July 17th, 2010, 4:25pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Bynamite, a start-up company, says consumers should get more of a benefit from the information marketers collect from them online.
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Google’s Do-It-Yourself App Tool
Posted: July 12th, 2010, 1:16am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The company is offering a free software tool to make it easier for people to write applications for Android smartphones.
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NTP Takes On More Smartphone Makers in Patent Suits
Posted: July 9th, 2010, 1:30am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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NTP charges that the cellphone e-mail systems of the companies are illegally using its patented technology.
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Unboxed: High-Tech Solutions to High-Cost Medical Care
Posted: May 23rd, 2010, 7:40pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Innovations in technology are helping to shift the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases.
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Unboxed: High-Tech Solutions to High-Cost Medical Care
Posted: May 23rd, 2010, 3:31am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Innovations in technology are helping to shift the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases.
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I.B.M.'s Future: The Same, Only More So
Posted: May 12th, 2010, 5:23pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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I.B.M. plans to double its earnings per share over the next five years, and spend $20 billion on acquisitions.
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Study Details the ‘Invisible’ Work Burden of Family Doctors
Posted: April 28th, 2010, 10:19pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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A report shows that family doctors, paid by the visit, perform many hours of uncompensated follow-up work.
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Study Details the ‘Invisible’ Work Burden of Family Doctors
Posted: April 28th, 2010, 5:11pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The report shows that family doctors, who are paid by the visit, perform many hours of uncompensated follow-up work.
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Global Strategy Stabilized I.B.M. During Downturn
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 6:53pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The company has shifted its sales, strategy and some critical operations outside of the United States.
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Twitter as History: Library of Congress Signs Up
Posted: April 14th, 2010, 9:47pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The musings of ordinary people will be recorded in the national archives.
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Twitter as History: Library of Congress Signs Up
Posted: April 14th, 2010, 9:47pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The musings of ordinary people will be recorded in the national archives.
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Infosys Is Microsoft's Tech Helper
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 7:07pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Infosys's contract to handle all Microsoft's technology services and support begs the question: can't Microsoft get its own technology to work by itself?
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Unboxed: Paying Workers to Live Healthier Lives
Posted: March 27th, 2010, 3:08pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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A fledgling industry is offering financial incentives for workers to adopt healthier habits in diet and exercise.
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Unboxed: Paying Workers to Live Healthier Lives
Posted: March 27th, 2010, 3:08pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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A fledgling industry is offering financial incentives for workers to adopt healthier habits in diet and exercise.
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How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:50am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Using bits of data from social network sites, researchers gleaned names, ages and even Social Security numbers.
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Netflix Cancels Contest Over Privacy Concerns
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 12:20am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The movie rental company canceled a competition to improve film recommendations after learning that customers could be identified from data it released.
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Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’
Posted: February 17th, 2010, 8:49pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Intellectual Ventures has acquired 30,000 patents and has so far collected more than $1 billion in license fees.
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Bundling Hardware and Software to Do Big Jobs
Posted: February 8th, 2010, 1:18am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Companies are starting to see the advantages of being able to do large amounts of computing with technology built expressly for that purpose.
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Unboxed: A Data Explosion Remakes Retailing
Posted: January 2nd, 2010, 6:24pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Stores have long used sales and demographic information to better aim their goods at customers. But retailers now have access to a vast trove of digital data — and better tools to make sense of it.
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Ideas & Trends: A Souped-Up Model T May Have Been the First Mash-Up
Posted: December 26th, 2009, 10:02pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Hacking their Fords into snowmobiles and racing coups, early motorists pioneered “user innovation.”
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Unboxed: The Data That Turns Browsing to Buying
Posted: December 5th, 2009, 10:55pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Analysts say Next Jump, which uses vast amounts of data to draw inferences about what people will buy, could emerge as a counterweight to Amazon.
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Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records
Posted: November 16th, 2009, 12:52am EST by By STEVE LOHR
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A new study shows that electronic health records have so far not improved health care quality or cost. The reason may be that the technology is not being fully exploited.
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Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records
Posted: November 15th, 2009, 8:55pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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A new study shows that electronic health records have so far not improved health care quality or cost. The reason may be that the technology is not being fully exploited.
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Hewlett-Packard to Acquire 3Com
Posted: November 11th, 2009, 9:56pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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The $2.7 billion deal, valued at $7.90 a share, has already been approved by directors of both companies.
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Unboxed: Watch the Walk and Prevent a Fall
Posted: November 9th, 2009, 3:22pm EST by By STEVE LOHR
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Researchers are applying tools like wireless motion sensors in their quest to prevent the elderly from falling in their homes.
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A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health
Posted: October 6th, 2009, 3:44am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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A Web start-up led by a former Google executive plans to generate personalized health plans.
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A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health
Posted: October 6th, 2009, 12:28am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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A Web start-up led by a former Google executive plans to generate personalized health plans.
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E-Records Get a Big Endorsement
Posted: September 28th, 2009, 12:33am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System will offer its doctors subsidies of up to $40,000 to go to digital patient records.
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E-Records Get a Big Endorsement
Posted: September 28th, 2009, 12:33am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System will offer its doctors subsidies of up to $40,000 to go to digital patient records.
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A $1 Million Research Bargain for Netflix, and Maybe a Model for Others
Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 2:12am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Even the near-miss losers in the Netflix million-dollar-prize competition seemed to have few regrets.
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Bits: Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize for New Software
Posted: September 21st, 2009, 5:03pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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The company challenged programmers to come up with a more accurate version of its recommendation software.
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Now, an Invention Inventors Will Like
Posted: September 21st, 2009, 12:41am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Instead of spending millions in protracted legal battles, some inventors are turning to firms that will auction their rights to the highest bidders.
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Unboxed: Wall Street’s Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 3:59pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many experts want formulas for risk that look at human behavior and how it can change rapidly.
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Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients’ Records
Posted: September 10th, 2009, 3:21am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Both large and small technology firms are devising ways to update health care records. About $19 billion in government financing will help.
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Tech Companies Push to Digitize Patients’ Records
Posted: September 10th, 2009, 3:21am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Both large and small technology firms are devising ways to update health care records. About $19 billion in government financing will help.
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Challenging Microsoft With a New Technology
Posted: August 31st, 2009, 12:56am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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VMware is the leader in software that lets a computer run two or more operating systems at once. It is used mainly to cut costs in data centers, but that is changing.
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Unboxed: The Corporate Lab as Ringmaster
Posted: August 15th, 2009, 3:13pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Big research and development laboratories are reaching out to smaller, more varied groups of researchers.
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Microsoft to Put Office on Phones From Nokia
Posted: August 12th, 2009, 1:20am EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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Two giant rivals team up to try to fend off competitive threats from the likes of Google and Apple.
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For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics
Posted: August 5th, 2009, 8:30pm EDT by By STEVE LOHR
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With the explosion of digital data, statisticians can earn $125,000 in their first year after getting a doctorate.