Cisco’s Australian TelePresence System Logs 1660 Hours, Saves $100K+

Cisco and Telstra have enabled members of the Australian government to meet face-to-face without having to travel by deploying the largest national TelePresence networks in the country for the government, Cisco announced today.

The company said the service has hosted more than 1031 official meetings totaling more than 1660 hours, enabling staff…

CIBER Launches Mobility App For Salespeople On-the-Go

CIBER has launched a mobile sales application today that aims to give salespeople on-the-go a way to work more easily and productively. The app culminates real-time account, product and activity information from the SAP ERP and SAP customer relationship management application to Apple iPhones or iPads.

The app provides salespeople with locations, maps, contact information and store-finder functionality…

Report: Intel Close to Buying Israeli Biometrics Gaming Firm for $50M

Intel is close to acquiring Israeli printed circuit board manufacturer, Invision Biometrics for $50 million and is in the “advanced stages” of negotiations, according to a report on ynetnews.com.

Assaf Gilad writes that Invision develops 3D sensor PCBs “which detect face and body movement and translate them into on-screen game moves, similarly to Microsoft’s popular Kinect technology.”

Invision employs dozens of…

HP Chosen as Prime Contractor for VA T4 Contract; Dennis Stolkey Comments

HP Enterprise Services has been selected as a prime contractor for the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department in the VA Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology program. The VA T4 is multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, worth up to $12 billion under which HP says it will compete for task orders to provide advanced…

Oracle’s Enterprise Manager Selected by Healthcare Firm

Global Healthcare firm Cerner has recently implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager. Oracle’s solution has enabled Cerner to reduce capital investments by $9.5 million while also offering its clients a new suite of on-demand infrastructure and software including messaging, storage and virtual desktop capabilities.

Oracle Enterprise Manager’s business-driven IT management capabilities support Cerner’s Skybox public cloud solutions, which include…

Symantec Survey Finds Less Awareness in Government Infrastructure Policies, Protection

Symantec’s 2011 Critical Infrastructure Protection Survey found a global drop in awareness and engagement as measured by the CIP Participation Index. Symantec reported the CIP Participation Index measured at 82 percent in government protection programs this year, which is a 18 point drop from last year. 

“The findings of this survey are somewhat alarming, given recent attacks like Nitro…

IBM Allowing Employees to ‘Bring Your Own Device’

IBM is allowing its employees to bring their own smartphones and tablets to work, IBM’s CTO for mobility told Computerworld.

Bill Bodin said that by the end of the year, 100,000 IBM employees will be able to connect their own devices to the company’s internal networks, with an additional 100,000 to come on board by the end of…

Harris Helping Deliver Single Data View for Media Organizations

Harris Corp. and Marketron are collaborating to provide media organizations with a combined view of advertisers, revenue, inventory and other data across media assets.

The two firms are integrating Harris’ NetGain business intelligence and analysis system with Marketron’s Mediascape open ecosystem platform. Mediascape will use data from Harris’ OSi-Traffic system to help provide detailed transactional and operational…

Meg Whitman Comments on HP’s Decision to Keep PC Division

HP has decided to continue operating its personal-computing unit, rejecting to spinoff the personal systems group as proposed by recently replaced CEO Leo Apotheker.

The decision was made after an evaluation of the personal system group’s contributions to HP’s solutions portfolio and overall brand value.

The company said the cost of recreating PCs in a standalone company outweighed…

AT&T Intorduces Mobile-Marketing Media Solution

AT&T’s new Messaging Toolkit is a portfolio of mobile marketing solutions that can be accessed from an easy-to-use cloud-based web portal. The Messaging Toolkit allows customers to develop, execute and customize marketing campaigns using a combination of interactive messaging platforms, including text and picture mail, e-mail, voice broadcasting and Twitter feed compatibility among others.

“We wanted the AT&T Messaging…