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Big Data Can Fight Fraud in Health Insurance Exchanges: Opera
As the federal government prepares to step in and build health insurance exchanges (HIXes) for those states that decline to implement them under the...
DDoS Attacks on Major Banks Causing Problems for Customers
A number of major banks have endured massive distributed denial-of-service attacks for much of December, with customers from Wells Fargo, Citibank and Bank of...
Landlines Left Behind as American Households Go Wireless
The number of American homes with only wireless telephones continues to grow, as more than one-third of American homes (35.8 percent) had only wireless...
Figuring Out Maps
Figuring Out Maps
The Apple Maps app continues to be a major thorn in Apple's side. The application wasn't ready when it launched with iOS...
Global Patent Chaos Creates Unwinnable Game for Mobile Tech Giants
Apple was supposed to have won big in the suit against Samsung in a massive series of claims of patent infringement. This was the...
Kindle Fire Tablet Amazon’s Most Popular Item
Amazon's Kindle Fire HD tablet is the online retailer's best-selling, most gifted and most wished for product across the millions of items available worldwide...
10 Practical Ways to Make Your IT System Greener, More Efficient
It's a general mandate that data center managers and IT administrators at all levels need to keep power bills as low as possible. Many...
BYOD, Telehealth, SaaS to Drive Health Care IT in 2013
Despite the security concerns of IT managers, in 2013 health care professionals will continue to adopt their own smartphones and tablets in health care...
Tablet Devices Owned by One-Quarter of Americans: Pew
As the number of ebook-reading devices proliferates, the population of ebook readers continues to grow, according to the findings of the Pew Research Center's...
Microsoft Sticks With Metro for Next-Gen Windows
Love it or loathe it, Microsoft's minimalist and blocky Metro user interface will provide Windows its signature look for the foreseeable future, according to...