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Microsoft, UW Medicine Sign Deal on Health Care Informatics
Microsoft and University of Washington Medicine have signed an agreement to collaborate on biomedical informatics technology. Under the deal, UW Medicine will expand its...
Cyber-Criminals Cold Calling Users to Distribute Fake Antivirus Services
Cyber-criminals are continuously switching tactics, even going offline to work the phones, to trick users into a scam. Users hand over credit card information...
12 Important E-Discovery Trends for 2011 and Beyond
12 Important E-Discovery Trends for 2011 and Beyond
by Chris Preimesberger
New Sources of Data Will Become Routinely Sought in Discovery
There once was a time that...
Windows Phone 7, Kinect, Cloud Defined Microsoft’s 2010
Windows Phone 7, Kinect, Cloud Defined Microsoft's 2010
by Nicholas Kolakowski
Entering the Tablet Game
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his Jan. 6 keynote address at the...
Google eBooks Burned by Samsung Nexus S, but Solid
I knew Google eBooks was coming a week before the search engine launched the service months after its original summer target date.I was excited...
Microsoft Issues Advisory on IE Zero-Day
Microsoft released an advisory today to address a zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer.Microsoft decided to release the advisory after exploit code for the unpatched...
URL Shortener Is Also A DDOS Tool
Despite security researchers citing the dangers of using URL shorteners, they've proliferated online. Twitter pretty much requires them because of its 140-character limit, and...
Spammers Sending WikiLeaks Spam
Spammers and other cyber-scammers often cash in on breaking news and topical information to trick users into downloading malware or clicking on suspicious links....
Texts to 911? FCC Takes Next Step Toward Making NG911 a Reality
The Federal Communications Commission has taken a new step toward updating the nation's 911 services with the ability to receive text messages, photos and...
Microsoft Unveils Beta for Dryad Technology
Microsoft has launched a beta program for its Dryad Project, a set of technologies aimed at answering enterprise needs around large data sets.The company...