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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) released their 16th annual Leadership Survey results based on a survey of 264 hospital IT executives. The study offers a snapshot of existing hospital IT practices, as well as insight into their near-term priorities. See the full survey results at the HIMSS site

After years of hearing about corporate information technology departments not being aligned with business, Im boggled as to why this topic seems to keep appearing in the trade press and on lists of IT goals. What does IT and business alignment really mean? For the CIOs that I know, its always been about business. Is […]

Microsoft Corp. announced late Monday that it has named former AT&T Wireless and E*Trade executive Michael Sievert as corporate vice president for Windows product management. Sievert is replacing 17-year Microsoft veteran Tom Button, the current vice president in charge of Windows product management, who has been in that role since the summer of 2003. Button […]

Some retailers have required minimum purchase amounts on credit cards due to high transaction fees, but technology improvements and signature-free transactions are part of a push to get retailers to drop the requirement. In 2003, Visa stopped requiring signatures on purchases under $15 and eased merchant fees, prompting Visa sales at fast-food restaurants to double […]

With customers turning more to online shopping and less to placing phone orders, Lands’ End is closing its Cross Plains, Wisconisn, call center in June. The retailer said the move will help Lands’ End “ensure consistency across multiple channels and respond more quickly to the business.” Last year, the retailer’s Web sales amounted to $511 […]

The number of convenience stores in the U.S. is up almost six percent from the end of 2003, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores/TDLinx Official Industry Store Count. Every part of the country saw an increase, with the biggest increase – 9.8 percent – in the Mid-Atlantic region, which includes New Jersey, New […]

NEW YORK—IBM is helping developers gain broader access to the companys open-source cache of products and unveiling a partnership designed to let developers build and deploy services and applications based on the PHP Web scripting language. The Armonk, N.Y., company last week announced it is joining Zend Technologies Inc., in Cupertino, Calif., to create Zend […]

Via Technologies Inc. plans to develop a line of chip sets for the server market this year, as the infrastructure supplier expands beyond its roots in the PC. Next week, the Taiwan company will introduce a program to place four of its C3 microprocessors in a single rack, targeting customers interested in embedded applications and […]

Microsoft has made no bones about its plans to release new 64-bit versions of Windows client and server in the next couple of months. But until now, the company has said little about its schedule for porting some of its own applications to 64-bit systems. During the past couple of weeks, Microsoft has begun to […]

Microsoft is continuing its crack-down on Windows pirates, and is modifying its product-activation policies to do so. Product activation, which Microsoft first introduced with Windows XP in 2001, is Microsofts way of requiring new Windows users to authenticate their copies of Windows. Microsoft has required users not covered by volume-license agreements to register their XP […]

Microsoft has been willing to share many details in advance about its next-generation SQL Server database product. But theres one thing officials with the Redmond, Wash., software giant wont discuss: the whereabouts of SQL Server 2005 Beta 3. Beta 3 is seen by many Microsoft watchers as the last hurdle Microsoft needs to clear in […]

I-19, the Canamex Interstate Highway, is the home of the “worlds first highway Wi-Fi mobile voice and high speed data network,” from Rio Rico to South of Green Valley, Arizona according to New Zealand based RoamAD, which supplied the Wi-Fi mesh software used in the networks infrastructure. In a live demo users were able to […]