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With vendors offering tablets at a discount to boards of education, an IT consultant wonders if students end up losing the benefits of hands-on learning A little education never hurts, goes an old saying.

Financial news service appoints two advisors amid a series of apologies by executives over use of terminals to spy on clients A Bloomberg terminal displays news while traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

The move comes a week after revelations that Bloomberg journalists had access to some information on customers' use of Bloomberg's data terminals, including when they last logged in.

Watson , International Business Machines' Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, is about to become an advisor to research-oriented industries and the basis of an information ecosystem around which developers will build applications, according to IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty .

Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. on Thursday halted trading in some stock-options contracts on its largest options exchange due to "system issues," according to notices sent to traders.

Earlier this month, Forrester released a new Total Economic Impact study, "The Total Economic Impact Of IBM's Worklight Platform: Cost Savings In The Development And Maintenance Of Multiplatform Mobile Apps." The study shows that the cost of creating and managing a single multi-platform app is significantly less expensive when using IBM Worklight ... (more)

The new services will enable the company to bring beauty products to consumers more quickly and efficiently.

The company manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services.

It has been a somewhat perplexing reporting season for many companies in cyclical industries.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by equities researchers at TheStreet in a report issued on Tuesday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

The smartphone maker is bolstering its enterprise communications platform by expanding its offering to Microsoft's range of communications products, and IBM-based services.

The European Union said it could investigate two Chinese telecom companies for unfair trade practices, the Wall Street Journal says.

International Business Machines Corp. opened a center today for computing systems in Beijing to help customers and outside software engineers develop business applications for the open-source Linux operating system.

Every day consumers and enterprises create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. In fact, 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years.

Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "OSS-BSS Software Market in India 2012-2016" report to their offering.

Albany, NY May 13, 2013 Researchmoz presents this most up-to-date research on Global Cloud Software Services Market 2012-2016. The report focuses primarily on quantitative market metrics in order to characterize the growth and evolution of the Global Cloud Software Services Market.

Microsoft's valuation increased substantially after reaching a low at the end of 2012.

The Berkshire Hathaway Inc. annual meeting is attended by throngs of Berkshire faithful .

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While I think that index funds are fantastic tools for investors who do not want to spend a lot of time thinking about the stock market, and while John Bogle has done a commendable job of providing opportunities to the small investor, I still think it is a mistake for investors to think of the S&P 500 Index or the Dow Jones Index as "passive ... (more)