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The merger of online health sites Revolution Health Network and Waterfront Media could challenge WebMD's dominance in the online health care space.
Opinion
McAfee bought Safeboot late last year. CheckPoint bought Pointsec. And now Sophos is buying Utimaco. With all these purchases, look for sophisticated encryption capabilities to be rolled into corporate client security suites over the next few years.
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The Lenovo ThinkPad lineup grows a little bigger with the ThinkPad X200s notebook and the ThinkPad X200 tablet. The Lenovo ThinkPad X200s will give Lenovo an ultraportable laptop that will compete against laptops from the likes of Toshiba, while the ThinkPad X200 tablet will eventually replace the ThinkPad X61 tablet notebook.
Opinion
There are different standards for certainty in deleting data, and different methods of accomplishing them. If not done properly, there could be serious security and compliance ramifications.
News
A survey from Finjan says 25 percent of security pros admit their organizations have experienced a security breach, and many others aren't sure. With many security pros expecting their budgets to go up in 2009, data protection and other security technologies remain key spending items for businesses.
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Intel Chairman Craig Barrett started off the 2008 Intel Developer Forum with a far-ranging opening keynote address that went beyond Intel processors and focused on how technology and innovation can improve areas from education to health care. The key to this vision, Barrett said, is improvements in technology from PCs to wireless connectivity.
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As Microsoft announces service pack releases of its Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 technology, developers say the enhancements make for faster, better development. Microsoft's new service packs feature the .Net Framework Client Profile, ADO.Net Data Services and ADO.Net Entity Framework.
News
Dell is converting its Precision desktop workstation into a rack-mounted system that will move more computing into the data center. The Dell R5400 workstation server is equipped with Intel Xeon processors and will compete against IBM and HP blade-based workstations.
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The Intel Health Guide, which includes a small touch-screen PC and online interface to connect patients to doctors, has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Intel plans to start selling the PC and health care services later in 2008.
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Google and Microsoft jump on Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health initiative.
News
Two health care CIOs weigh in on the challenge of striking the careful balance among data efficiency, portability and privacy
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Opinion: There's a huge difference between the terms “on the Internet” and “accessible through the Internet.”
News
Deploying a WLAN is complicated in itself. Deploying it in a healthcare environment with its many regulations and security mandates is even more complicated. Ty Bindrup, Intermountain Healthcare’s Enterprise Network Planner, explains how his organization accomplished this daunting task.
News
Teens and young adults with disabilities will have the opportunity to carve new paths to high-tech careers.
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The latest data breach at a U.S. enterprise involved no malware, no cloaking software, not even a slip of the firewall. Several former employees simply handed over their old logins and passwords to the culprits. And the story is likely to be repeated at another businesses. Google's online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public last week, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories and reigniting privacy concerns. Google Health combines Google¹s classic search services with a user's personal health records online, making it available to pharmacies, doctors and hospitals anywhere. Companies try virtualization to save power and space, but typically find out that a well-tuned hypervisor can do much more than that. Before long it becomes a strategic asset. After a user consolidates servers and aggregates resources, the machines become more then the sum of their parts, VMware CTO Steve Herrod told eWEEK. It still matters where someone lives when he or she is looking for a job. Depending on the IT job you¹re pursuing, you¹re likely to find the odds better or worse depending on where you¹re looking, according to new data released last week by Sapphire Technologies, an IT staffing firm.
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