Mike Haysley, a two-decade legal veteran, has been appointed director of strategic services for the CounselLink business at LexisNexis Legal & Professional. He will be responsible for driving growth and client results for the CounselLink strategic consulting services, LexisNexis announced Tuesday. Haysley will work with executives and legal departments to work on strategic services process stages […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has won an award for a Novartis facility that it provided design, engineering, procurement and construction management services for. The  U.S. Flu Cell Culture Facility at the Novartis Campus in Holly Springs, N.C. won the 2013 Facility of the Year Award from the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, INTERPHEX and Pharmaceutical Processing […] More

A high-speed satellite Internet service provided Hughes Network Systems was selected as a winner at the Consumer World Awards, an annual consumer industry awards program. The HughesNet Gen4 High-Speed Satellite Internet Service won the award for its work to deliver up to 15 Mbps of internet access and a greater download capacity, Hughes announced Monday. Close to […] More

Ian Dix has been named vice president for business marketing at CenturyLink where he is responsible for the business solutions group’s product, program and field marketing. Prior to CenturyLink, the more than 25-year marketing veteran served as senior vice president of marketing and market development at Trilogy Software. Dix was chief marketing officer at Xtendwave, SafeNet […] More

Craig Olson, formerly a group senior director at Rockwell Collins, has been named vice president and general manager of business and regional systems at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics manufacturer. He will report directly to Kent Statler, executive VP and chief operating officer of Rockwell Collins’ commercial systems business and succeeds Jeff Standerski, who is […] More

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has unveiled a rebranding of the company’s McAfee Antivirus software as part of efforts to gain a larger share of the mobile security market, CNet.com reported Monday. Seth Rosenblatt writes that Krzanich told an audience at Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show on Monday the product will now trade under the name Intel Security. […] More

Autonomic Resources has earned FedRAMP reauthorization for its ARC-P cloud offering, the first company to pass the federal agency’s ongoing assessment process. The ARC-P Community and ARC-P Private infrastructure-as-a-service platforms received initial accreditation in December 2012, the company said Monday. The re-inspection performed by a third-party assessment organization was checked against more than 100 NIST […] More

Oracle has updated its electronic health records and omics data platform in an effort to help healthcare clients further efforts to identify medicines. The new version of Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center is built to feature more than 70 tables and new attributes such as medical encounters, treatment results and medical histories of patients, Oracle […] More

A U.K. fighter jet equipped with metal components made with BAE Systems‘ 3D printing technology has taken its maiden flight. The Tornado aircraft flew from the UK Ministry of Defence’s airfield at Warton, Lancashire late last month, BAE announced Monday. 3D printing has the potential to yield approximately $2 million in maintenance and service savings for […] More

Synergy Research Group has released a new report on market performance of colocation providers in the U.S., Fierce Telecom reported Friday. Sean Buckley writes Equinix and CenturyLink‘s Savvis subsidiary are among the dominant players U.S. colocation market through continued surges in colocation and managed service earnings. Equinix generated $517 million in recurring revenues for colocation, […] More

IBM and Technicolor have partnered to introduce a cloud-based monitoring and management service for the consumer electronics market, IT Pro Portal reported Friday. Jamie Hinks writes the Virdata service is built for customers to manage Internet-connected objects and machine-to-machine services using device and application tools such as big data analytics stacks. Vince Pizzica, senior executive […] More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that U.S. spending on healthcare increased by 3.7 percent to $2.8 trillion in 2012, Reuters reported Monday. Caroline Humer writes that national health spending has been growing at a slower pace and CMS has linked the slowdown to recession-induced changes in medication prices and care payment policies. […] More