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Texas Instruments Inc. has announced a new chipset that would allow portable IP phones to use WLAN networks. Based on TIs OMAP processor, the new chipset couples its WLAN silicon with the companys Telogy Software for VoIP. Phones using the new architecture will be available by the end of 2004, said Fred Zimmerman, executive director […]

The non-profit NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) reported that 563 health plans submitting data to its database have gotten better at tasks like managing high blood pressure and cholesterol. But according to a NCQA announcement, the report concludes that “the system is deeply polarized, delivering excellent care to some people, and generally poor care […]

Microsoft has been reticent to commit publicly on how, when and whether it would make the browser-specific security fixes that it delivered as part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 available to users of older versions of Windows. But this week, the Redmond software vendor issued a definitive statement regarding its back-porting intentions. The decision: […]

TeleCommunication Systems, a wireless financial market data provider based in Annapolis, Thursday announced a financial data streaming service for BlackBerry devices called marketStream. Alexis Davis, vice president of Mobile Finance for TCS, said the launch was timed “to coincide with the announcement of the shutdown of the O2 pager network in Europe scheduled for December […]

A Web-based cell imaging system means pathologists at 50 test sites can examine patient samples for breast cancer days before glass microscope slides arrive by mail. The technology was developed by US Labs in Irving, Calif. and employs an image analysis tool from BioImagene in San Jose, which provides an electronic, objective reading of slides […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. executives will take the stage in New York this week to display Solaris 10, the next version of that operating environment; clarify the vision for the product; and define the rationale for moving it to open source. John Loiacono, the Santa Clara, Calif., companys executive vice president for software, spoke to eWEEK […]

Whether your company is large or small, public or private, sooner or later the regulatory train is going to rumble down the track in your corporate neighborhood. When it does, it may bring the perfect opportunity for you as an IT professional to restore credibility in IT as a contributor of business value. First, lets […]

The prospect of an Amazon-fueled search engine with a memory—coming from the people who brought you “Search Inside This Book”–is whetting the appetites of CRM-hungry e-tailers who want to see how far this can go. As a practical matter, many question how often consumers would use such a service. Interestingly enough, its the sort of […]

Debit cards are slowly but surely whittling away at what was once safe ATM territory. The reasons for the decline are varied, including the convenience of direct retail purchases as well as higher bank fees pushing consumers to take more money out at a time thereby reducing the number of ATM transactions. Read the entire […]

To a major book vendor, layout is more than words on a page. Its also the eloquence with which consumers are brought in and moved around and made to like it. An experimental approach at Borders is to create the proverbial store-within-a-store. Offering coffee, DVDs and giftwrap is nothing new, but understanding the customer well […]

Fears abound as Microsoft joins the companies showing up their science projects about what can be done with RFID item-level tracking. Microsofts efforts include integrating smart microwaves that read RFID tags and then decide an ideal temperature and cooking time for the product. But privacy advocates fear that the technology will prove more invasive as […]

Theres a lot more to RFID than passive tags at the case and pallet levels. Some users have already reached very significant ROI with the more robust but less highly publicized active RFID technology. For instance, third-party logistics provider (3PL) NYK Logistics credits adoption of active RFID with benefits ranging from a higher level of […]