Monthly Archives: November 2005
What Health IT Wont Do
Health information technology promises better care at lower costs, but it cant fix a broken system. Giving doctors more access to computers wont, by...
Feds to Push Health IT Forward in 2006
In early 2004, health IT became a national priority with President George W. Bush adopting it as a political cause. Although some progress has...
IT Problem Leaves TIAA-CREF Clients Without Access to Funds
The day before Thanksgiving—and just days before a major holiday weekend—potentially thousands of customers of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association–College Retirement Equities Fund...
Reuters IM Tool Plays Nice
Instant messaging users in the financial industry have been among the more vocal advocates for interoperability among IM networks, and this week Reuters Group...
Too Many Virtualizations to Handle?
Editors Note: This opinion is part of a new series of stories from the reporters and editors of Ziff Davis Internet. Instead of the...
When Legal Strikes—Chaos Theory Meets DRM
A recent brouhaha over a bit of spyware Sony BMG included in some CDs to keep buyers from misappropriating the music raises important issues...
Is Black Friday Secrecy a Relic of the Past?
Old ways die hard, and theres no industry that is more resistant to change than retail.
But the reality of big-time retail technology is that...
Yahoo: From Dot-Com Survivor to Web 2.0 Powerhouse
Through a series of clever acquisitions and in-house creations, Yahoo Inc. has transformed itself from a dot-com survivor into a Web 2.0 powerhouse driven...
BitTorrent Makes Up With Hollywood
The creator of the BitTorrent file-sharing system has agreed to bar users of the service from trading unauthorized copies of materials owned by the...
Xbox 360 Crashes, Defects Reported
So, the Xbox 360 launch was a success, right? Turns out the jury is still out—and early reports the morning after are not pretty.
From...