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  • Xerox PARC founder Jacob E. Goldman dies

    Jacob E. Goldman, a founder of the Palo Alto Research Center that developed breakthrough computing innovations such as the graphical user interface and ethernet networks, died on Tuesday. He was 90.

  • Report: Google, Intel among Chinese hacker targets

    Cyberspies from China have hit 760 companies, research institutions, ISPs and government agencies over the past decade, according to a <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-reflects-undeclared-global-cyber-war?category=%2Fnews%2Fmostread%2F">Bloomberg article</a> published Tuesday.

  • Hadoop creator expects surge in interest to continue

    Doug Cutting , the creator of the open-source Hadoop framework that allows enterprises to store and analyze petabytes of unstructured data, led the team that built one of the world's largest Hadoop clusters while he was at Yahoo. The former engineer at Excite, Apple and Xerox PARC is also the developer of Lucene and Nutch, two open-source search engine technologies now being managed by the Apache Foundation. Cutting is now an architect at Cloudera, which sells and supports a commercial version of Hadoop and which this week will host the Hadoop World conference in New York. In an interview, Cutting talked about the reasons for the surging enterprise interest in Hadoop.

  • After Jobs: The Enterprise?

    We're finding out all sorts of things about <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220601/Steve_Jobs_1955_2011">Steve Jobs</a> now that he's left us. For example, <a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/19142/apples_steve_jobs_im_going_to_destroy_android">he wanted to crush Android</a> because it was "stealing" from him. That's funny, considering that one of Jobs' pet phrases was "Good artists copy; great artists steal." He knew what he was talking about, since much of Apple's early success can be ascribed to his "theft" of the mouse and GUI from Xerox. We've also learned that his next big idea was to transform the living room with <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/242413/apple_tv_set_was_jobs_last_tech_frontier.html">Apple TV sets</a> . That's all well and good, but Jobs is gone now. What should Apple do next?

  • Outsourcing's odd couple: Xerox & ACS, one year post-merger

    It's been just over a year since Xerox officially acquired business process outsourcer ACS for $6.4 billion. But as students of successful mergers understand, the real work of integration -- combining the technology, processes and cultures of the two organizations -- has only just begun.

  • Future Xerox printer uses new ink, heats paper

    Xerox on Monday offered a glimpse into the future of its printing products, announcing a high-speed inkjet printer that employs a new type of liquid-free ink to produce higher quality prints while reducing costs.

  • Xerox appoints Burns as chairman

    Xerox on Thursday said it had appointed CEO Ursula Burns as the company's new chairman, replacing former chairman Anne Mulcahy, who announced her retirement from the company.

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