To determine if there is cancer in one’s lymph nodes, a typically advanced stage requiring more aggressive treatment, pathologists are stuck performing several specific, detailed tests that may or may not target the cancerous cells. Using the needle-in-a-haystack analogy would be apt. But thanks to the work of researchers at the University of Missouri in [...]

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In “The end of SQL databases – part 1 [1],” I covered some background of the SQL language and relational databases, the current status and future for relational databases, the rise of frameworks that hide some of the complexities of database programming, and the rise of the NoSQL [2] category of databases. “The end of [...]

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Desktop management and virtualization software company Citrix has purchased IT-asset-monitoring service provider Paglo for an undisclosed amount, the two companies announced Wednesday. The deal closed in January. Citrix plans to fold Paglo’s services into its own Citrix Online remote support and IT management services, under the new name GoToManage, according to Elizabeth Cholawsky, Citrix vice [...]

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Microsoft is now offering a dedicated government cloud service, hosted in secure, dedicated facilities and designed to meet the particular security, privacy, and compliance needs of government agencies, the company announced at its annual U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit Wednesday. The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) Federal, includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online, [...]

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Microsoft has said that it will become increasingly open with its technology, and there’s recent evidence that it’s not just talk. In the last few days, it released detailed information about Outlook’s .pst file structure under its Open Specification rules, and will allow use of the .pst format “on any platform and in any tool, [...]

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The government department responsible for climate change policy has admitted bidding against one of its own quangos for advertising on Google, forcing up the cost to taxpayers. Ed Miliband’s Department of the Environment and Climate Change (DECC) said it sometimes battles the Energy Saving Trust to sponsor links on the dominant web search engine. DECC [...]

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You know it’s bad when it gets the suffix “gate.” In a case against the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania, which some are already referring to as Webcamgate, a federal judge Wednesday made a very clear statement. According to Fox 29 Philadelphia, the judge told the school district not to activate Webcams remotely under [...]

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PayPal will open an applications store this year where developers can offer their wares, the latest step in the company’s multi-pronged strategy to deepen its relationship with external programmers. Developers have a big opportunity to offer applications for merchants and consumers that PayPal doesn’t have the interest or resources to build itself, a PayPal official [...]

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Supercomputer maker Cray has staked a lot of its financial 2010 on its future “Baker” massively parallel Opteron-based servers and their new “Gemini” interconnect. And today, 2010 got off to a good start as Cray announced that the US Department of Defense has forked over more than $45m in tax dollars to drop three new [...]

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Three Bulgarian men were charged Wednesday with defrauding banks of more than $137,000 in a scheme that attached electronic skimming devices to numerous automatic teller machines in Massachusetts. In the 44-day hacking spree, the men planted skimmers on ATMs maintained by Bank of America and Citizens Bank and secretly recorded information stored on the magnetic [...]

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