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Coroner Reporting Goes Live with Digital Forms
Every time someone dies in Kane County, Ill., without an attending physician or in obscure circumstances, the coroners office is called upon to determine...
Spring Takes a Page from the Eclipse Playbook
Interface21, the maintainer of the increasingly popular open-source Spring Framework, is planning to go the way of the Eclipse Foundation and introduce a coordinated...
Xirrus Adds RF Shaping to Wi-Fi Antennas
Xirrus has received a preliminary patent on a new RF shaping capability that allows the companys high-capacity Wi-Fi antennas to significantly improve signal coverage...
Control the Complexity
Now that youve got it, what are you going to do with it? Thats the question I find myself wanting to ask any number...
HP Customers Can Register for Free Windows Vista Upgrade
Hewlett-Packard announced that beginning Dec. 13 customers can register for a free Microsoft Windows Vista operating system upgrade, when it becomes available in early...
Sprint Takes Broadband Data Service Nationwide
Sprint Nextel announced Dec. 12 that it has launched 10 new markets for its high-speed EVDO Rev. A broadband data service.
Previously, the Sprint Power...
Identity Theft: Providence Healths Serious Pain
Laureen OBrien, CIO of Providence Health & Services Oregon region, was in her office, just back from the 2006 New Years holiday. A phone...
Congressmen Question HP CEOs Stock Transaction
A pair of Democratic congressman from Michigan are asking Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd to explain why he cashed in more than a $1 million...
Boeing Confirms Security Breach
Boeing officials confirmed that a laptop containing the personal data of some 382,000 current and former employees was stolen from a former employees car...
Microsoft Releases Bug-Fix Version of Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft has released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, which features fixes for user-reported issues.
Service Pack 1 of the development platform also...