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Health plans are signing up to find out how well they use the phone and Web to help patients manage their health conditions and understand their benefits. The program is part of the National Committee for Quality Assurances plans to create standards for health care payers to communicate with patients effectively. Such standards, likely to […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—As the battle continues over what type of device will be the hub of the digital home of the future, neither Microsoft Corp. nor its competitors is betting on just one horse. Instead, device, software and content players are continuing to bet on multiple combinations of products and services, and are waiting for more […]

The job description for CFOs doesnt (yet) require X-ray vision and telepathy, but some feel they are held responsible for what goes on within their employers finances, even if they are not aware of it. Instead of spending their time strategizing or explaining their fiscal outlook to investors, many valley CFOs have had to spend […]

Most groups are a ways off from earning a return on investment from RFID technology because of difficulties in tying together receiving, production, quality assurance, shipping and RFID. The Wal-Mart RFID mandate forced some suppliers to jump into using RFID despite having no budget for the technology and little time. That caused suppliers to apply […]

A U.S. consumer group, CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), is urging consumers to boycott a U.K. retailer because of the chain’s use of RFID technology. The retailer, Tesco, began an item-level RFID tagging initiative recently. CASPIAN calls the tags “spy chips,” fearing that they can track customer behavior. Tesco’s use of the […]

Adobe Systems Inc. helped to shape the Desktop Publishing revolution of the 90s through its PostScript and PDF technology and such products as Adobe Illustrator, and it played an equally pivotal role in the emergence of digital imaging, providing key software applications such as Adobe Photoshop and standards proposals for file formats or media interchange […]

Microsoft Corp.s ERP strategy is morphing. Axapta, one of Microsofts four enterprise resource planning products, has fallen victim to Microsofts slip-date curse. Meanwhile, it sounds as if Microsoft has started to take measures to streamline its stable of four different ERP lines. Last summer, Microsoft Business Solutions officials said Axapta 4.0 would ship some time […]

New York Stock Exchange Chief John Thain expects that expanding the trading hours would divert some business from London and other European capitals, which open six hours or more ahead of Wall Street. After revealing the plan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thain said the NYSE should decide on earlier hours within […]

Microsoft Corp. is planning to make its currently voluntary Windows anti-piracy program mandatory some time in the second half of 2005, company officials said on Wednesday. So far, however, Microsoft has no timetable for broadening the program to other Microsoft products, such as Microsoft Office, server software or games, company officials said. But they did […]

Although a first Longhorn beta release is still a number of months off, its not too soon to begin considering whether the next version of Windows might violate antitrust concerns. Plaintiffs who settled their antitrust case with Microsoft in 2001 will start evaluating Longhorns compliance in mid-February. The U.S. Department of Justice and a handful […]

Microsoft Corp. made it official Monday: It has no plans to appeal the antitrust sanctions levied against it by the European Commission. As a result, a stripped-down version of Windows, minus Windows Media Player and related files, is moving forward rapidly. At least some PC makers had an inkling about Microsofts intentions not to appeal […]

On the heels of Apple Computers attempt to crack down on journalists for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets, some free-speech advocates are worried that Microsoft has launched a similar campaign. In a Jan. 18 letter it said was issued on behalf of Microsoft, the law firm of Covington & Burling asked the publisher of tech-enthusiast site […]