eWEEK EDITORS

Fourteen companies, including Alcatel, AT&T, British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Motorola Inc., Nokia, Nortel Networks and T-Mobile USA, have published a cellular-to-WLAN roaming specification that would extend mobile voice and data services to wireless LANs. Ken Kolderup, vice president of marketing at Kineto Wireless, a mobile solutions provider and member of […]

Defense Information Systems Agency officials are looking at converging voice and data in many Department of Defense (DOD)installations, according to a recently completed study announced during the Army Directorate of Information Management conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL last week. IP telephony has already been deployed by Central Command (Centcom) in the Middle East and in […]

A dozen clinicians, IT vendors, and health care purchasers or payers have been appointed to the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, which will certify health care information technology products including ambulatory electronic medical records. The commission is part of a joint effort of the American Health Information Management Association, Healthcare Information and Management Systems […]

More-informed patients often do better, and doctors can help make patients better informed by supplying reliable Internet sites. Researchers at University of Iowa tested out the benefits of what they call an “Internet prescription”, or a list of web addresses containing information relevant to patients medical conditions. In the study, patients and their families that […]

Microsoft began notifying customers Tuesday that it has established new deadlines regarding how long they will be able to block Windows XP Service Pack 2 from downloading automatically to their systems. Microsoft made available to customers in August a couple of different tools to temporarily disable the delivery of SP2 to users machines via its […]

Microsoft Corp. is counting on next weeks release of its Virtual Server 2005 to entice users of older versions of Windows Server to migrate to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft set Sept. 13 as the date for taking the wraps off of Virtual Server 2005, which is designed to allow customers to run multiple operating systems, […]

Electronic trading and listings on multiple exchanges have spurred consolidation and shrinkage among firms specializing in options trading. Since 2001, the number of specialist firms working the five major option exchanges has plummeted from more than 50 to todays count of 20 that handle the great majority of all option transactions. The firms still in […]

Slashdot prepared a list of (unsurprisingly) irreverent questions for CAs Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president and chief architect of CAs Linux Technology Group, about the $1 million in prize money the company has pledged to give to developers who come up with tools to migrate people onto its newly open-sourced database, Ingres. Greenblatt is pretty […]

California State University has sent letters to some 23,500 students, faculty and staff warning that a lost hard drive containing an unencrypted database could expose them to identity theft. Names, addresses and Social Security numbers are some of the personal data of concern, since they can be used in credit applications. Read the full story […]

Salesforce.com Inc. has had a bumpy ride in 2004. An IPO (initial public offering) of stock planned for March was delayed until June, as the company nearly ran afoul of federal quiet-period restrictions. Since turning public, Salesforce.com has been hit with several shareholder lawsuits alleging misstatement of business performance, which caused the San Francisco-based companys […]

The open-source Apache web server will not support the proposed anti-spam standard Sender ID from Microsoft Corp. The Apache Software Foundation in a letter to the Internet Engineering Task Force said Microsofts terms for the use of its patented technology within the standard were incompatible with the terms of open-source licensing used by Apache. “We […]

The Office of Management and Budget last week released a security and privacy how-to guide to government agencies. The administration released the Federal Enterprise Architecture Security and Privacy Profile to help agencies balance the need for information sharing with the application of security and privacy policies. The profile outlines a set of questions for agencies […]