Monthly Archives: October 2006
Health Care Insurers Face Ranking
In a reversal of pay-for-performance in which doctors are paid according to how well they measure on a number of indicators, new state rankings...
GAO Report: Medicare Patient Data Vulnerable
The personal data of Medicare patients is at risk because Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has not held its network contractor to its...
Vendors Pump Up VOIP for SMBs, Resellers
Better management of voice over IP technology as well as enhanced management of call center activities is the focus of several new or enhanced...
Study: Smart Phone, PDA Shipment Up 57 Percent
A new study found that worldwide shipments of smart phones and PDAs were up 57 percent in the first six months of 2006 compared...
Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps
The industry is getting a glimpse of the not-so-distant future for microprocessors.
At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 10, engineers from Advanced...
Dells First AMD System: Good Performance at a Good Price
Apple made news earlier this year by switching entirely to an Intel-based platform.
Now Dell is making news by (finally) adding AMD processors to its...
Microsoft Patches 10 Vulnerabilities, 6 Critical
Microsoft released 10 individual security patches on Oct. 10, addressing a handful of critical problems in Office programs along with several equally serious issues...
The SCO-Microsoft Connection Grows Darker
The cat is out of the bag. According to BayStar Capitals managing partner Larry Goldfarb, Microsoft allegedly assured BayStar that it would somehow "guarantee"...
Qualys Adds Risk Management Tools Via RedSeal
Hosted security applications provider Qualys and RedSeal Systems announced a new product integration pact Oct. 10 through which they will offer RedSeals risk management...
For IT Managers, Best to Be a Small Fish in Big Pond
The career path of IT managers often sputters and stalls in small enterprises, according to research released Oct. 10 by the Info-Tech Research Groups...