Monthly Archives: September 2004
Biometrics Make Health IT Security a Reality
Users of Contra Costa County Health Services once had to employ as many as 10 passwords to access patient information. But recently the public...
ZigBee, an Easy PDA App Builder and Retail Heaven
La Jolla, Calif.—Building and deploying applications on PDAs has never been easy. Interface skills honed on large PC screens are often inappropriate for smaller...
Microsofts Utility Computing Placeholder
The concept of utility computing conjures up images of rack after rack of inexpensive computers—interchangeable commodity items where no one computer is more important...
BorderWare Firewall Fights VOIP Threats
BorderWare Technologies Inc. has joined Ingate Systems AB and others in providing an edge solution to the external threat problem in voice-over-IP PBXes.
The Toronto-based...
Wi-Fi Phones Replace Hospital Staff Pagers
At El Camino Hospital in Californias Silicon Valley, Wi-Fi phones send information over the Internet instead of phone lines. The phones look and feel...
Filling in the WordPerfect Office Holes
In a previous column, I wrote about life in a Microsoft Office-free world. Readers responded that the Office alternatives, WordPerfect Office and StarOffice/OpenOffice, lack...
Computer Crash Helps Doctor See Patients
When computers crash during a busy at the hospital, a doctor reminisces on lost opportunities for communicating with patients and recalls the usual hiccups...
IMlogic Launches Free IM, P2P Blocker
IMlogic Inc. on Tuesday launched a free tool to let enterprises detect and block the use of instant messaging, peer-to-peer file sharing networks and...
Switch-Based WLAN Systems
Though standalone access points are often the method of choice for setting up wireless networks for the office, some businesses turn instead to switch-based...
E911 Provider TCS to Buy Location Software Company
TeleCommunication Systems Inc. on Monday announced that it has agreed to acquire mobile applications provider Kivera Inc.
TCS is already the leading provider of Enhanced...