Data Management

Why knowledge workers are expensive

IBM leads program to improve patent quality

Vendors team with USPTO on initiative to speed up patent approval process, improve quality of patents

MySQL gets U.S. gov’t stamp of approval

Five-year contract makes it easy for government customers to buy MySQL open source products

Oracle to increase staff in India to 10,000

Oracle has spent nearly $2 billion in India on development centers, investments in companies

Microsoft Research India to work on cryptography

Microsoft taps India's leading academic institutions for students with complex mathematical skills

IT will give up control of the network

As traffic increases, outsourced infrastructure and management will be the only viable solution

The last IT worker standing

When laid-off knowledge workers hold the key to undocumented data, expect the worst

Two new WMF bugs found

Security experts say latest vulerabilities less serious than the one Microsoft patched last week

Google’s Page launches video download service

Google VideoStore let consumers buy video content from providers from its Web site

High-performance computing: Supercharging the enterprise

Thanks to lower barriers to entry, compute clusters and grids are moving out of the labs and into the mainstream