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  • Deltek’s Chris Dixon: Tech Vendors Should Factor Risk Into Consortium Procurements
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    Deltek’s Chris Dixon: Tech Vendors Should Factor Risk Into Consortium Procurements

    Government contracting analyst Chris Dixon believes there is potential as well as risk for technology vendors working with consortium-based buyers and they must include several factors in their risk assessments, he writes in a column published Saturday  by the Washington Post. Dixon, a senior manager at Deltek, writes state and local governments buy as a […] More

  • Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen on Open Source in Gov’t
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    Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen on Open Source in Gov’t

    Open source technology is slowly finding its way into the public sector as governments seek to build infrastructures based on those tools, says Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, senior vice president and general manager for the Asia-Pacific region. Part of the appeal is that the open source model promotes transparency and collaboration, and can be used […] More

  • Pharmacy Chains, Orgs to Back Blue Button Program
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    Pharmacy Chains, Orgs to Back Blue Button Program

    Five major pharmacy chains and three pharmacy associations have agreed to support the Blue Button initiative as the federal government aims to spur development of new healthcare data applications in the private sector, Fedscoop reported Friday. Scott Maucione writes the Department of Health and Human Service has worked with more than 70 pharmacy organizations to publish a guideline for […] More

  • NCS Technologies Unveils New Zero-Client Computer Product
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    NCS Technologies Unveils New Zero-Client Computer Product

    NCS Technologies Inc. has introduced a new computer device that stores user data in a remote server, GCN reported Friday. John Breeden II writes the Cirrus LT zero-client laptop works to connect a computer system to a data center through a remote workstation card with security protocols such as the Advanced Encryption Standard cryptography and […] More

  • Precise Biometrics Issues Fiscal 2013 Financial Report
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    Precise Biometrics Issues Fiscal 2013 Financial Report

    Precise Biometrics AB has released its financial report for fiscal year 2013, the company said Friday. Precise Biometrics generated $5.4 million in net sales and $6.7 million in income while its earnings per share and year-end available cash reached $0.20 and $15.2 million, respectively. Precise Biometrics was selected as the fingerprint algorithm provider for a financial information […] More

  • Three Purdue University Professors Get Funds to Commercialize Research Projects
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    Three Purdue University Professors Get Funds to Commercialize Research Projects

    Three professors at Purdue University’s colleges of engineering and science will work to develop and commercialize their research projects with around $130,000 in combined funding. The financial assistance will come from the Trask Innovation Fund, which aims to help faculty and staff further and market their works through the Office of Technology Commercialization, the Purdue […] More

  • Harsh Patel to Help Lead Claremont Creek Ventures Investment Team
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    Harsh Patel to Help Lead Claremont Creek Ventures Investment Team

    Harsh Patel, formerly president of big data analytics firm Bina Technologies, has joined seed and early stage venture fund Claremont Creek Ventures as an investment team director. Patel is a former general partner at RRE Ventures and In-Q-Tel, with his career also including work as an angel investor and mentor to seed state companies, Claremont Creek announced […] More

  • HP Opens R&D Center for Int’l University
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    HP Opens R&D Center for Int’l University

    Hewlett-Packard will build a research and development center at the University of South Australia, itnews said Monday. Allie Coyne writes a $5.5 million grant will be provided by the Australian government for the Innovation and Collaboration Center to be located at the university’s city west campus. “Students, graduates, commercialisation experts and industry have opportunities to explore new ideas […] More

  • Boeing to Tap Employee Ideas for Defense Unit Accelerator
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    Boeing to Tap Employee Ideas for Defense Unit Accelerator

    Boeing will launch a business accelerator with the goal of finding employees that have ideas for technology products that the company could commercialize, the St. Louis Business Journal reported Thursday. Brian Feldt writes the accelerator will fall within the company’s Defense, Space & Security segment and be based in St. Louis. “It’s essentially a method for […] More

  • Bill McDermott: SAP Targets Hardware Usage Cut Through HANA Migration
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    Bill McDermott: SAP Targets Hardware Usage Cut Through HANA Migration

    SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott told a group of investors in New York Tuesday that the company intends to cut the amount of hardware it uses by migrating more applications into the company’s cloud-based HANA computing platform, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Moving to the High Performance Analytic Appliance database management tool would help customers simply their […] More

  • Warren East Joins Oxehealth Advisory Board
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    Warren East Joins Oxehealth Advisory Board

    Warren East, formerly CEO of semiconductor intellectual property supplier ARM Holdings, has joined the advisory board of Oxehealth, a spin-out from the University of Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering. East will work to help Oxehealth drive its non-contact vital signs technology into the market and pursue partnership opportunities, Oxehealth said Thursday. He will also collaborate […] More

  • SGI, Cognilytics Form Computing and Analytics Team; Jorge Titinger Comments
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    SGI, Cognilytics Form Computing and Analytics Team; Jorge Titinger Comments

    SGI and Cognilytics have partnered to integrate high-performance computing with predictive analytics products with the goal of applying the combined tool for big data. InfiniteData Cluster is a cluster computing platform and SGI UV is a shared-memory platform that is built to carry out micro-second data analysis, SGI said Thursday Jorge Titinger, CEO of SGI, said the […] More