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Is Apple Eyeing Microsoft Kinect Innovator PrimeSense?

Is another battle between Cupertino and Redmond brewing over gesture and voice control?Apple is in early talks to acquire for $280 million Israel-based PrimeSense,...

NASA’s Rover Curiosity Begins Extended Exploration on Mars

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is beginning a long-awaited, 5-mile-long journey across the terrain of the red planet to begin exploring a rocky area known...

eWEEK TweetChat July 10: Building Companies on Cloud Services

On Wednesday, July 10 at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKnews will host its seventh Tweetchat event. The topic will be "Building—or...

Digital Health Investment Slows but Continues to Grow: Report

Investment in the digital health industry is growing but not as much as in years past, according to a midyear report by heaIth IT...

Doug Englebart, Inventor of Mouse and Teleconferencing, Dies

Doug Engelbart, who was instrumental in the invention or development of several IT standards that have withstood the test of time—the computer mouse, email...

PLUMgrid Startup Launches New SDN Platform for Data Centers

New-gen data centers in 2013 are about virtualizing and automating every possible process, so it's no wonder why new software-defined networking provider PLUMgrid is...

Windows 8.1: The 3D Printing OS?

Not content to let Windows 8 serve as both a mobile and desktop operating system, Microsoft is banking that its flagship software platform will...

Dell Now Protecting Work Spaces in Its New PCs, Tablets

Thanks to a new partnership with an under-the-radar but powerful company named Invincea, Dell may have a legitimate stake in the ground as the...

IT as a Service to Bring Savings to Health Care IT: Report

IT as a service (ITaaS) will bring cost savings to the health care IT industry, according to a report by MeriTalk, a public/private partnership...

Microsoft, Oracle Make Cloud Co-op Deal Official

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is a multifaceted personality who been described in many ways—among them are cavalier, generous, pretentious, outspoken and flamboyant. But...