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The way that software is being produced and acquired is changing rapidly. The availability of high quality software, often for no licensing costs and with very user-friendly license terms, is challenging commercial companies producing products in the same software category. This new type of software is called either Free Software or Open Source Software (it […]

Ciscos Linksys division this week announced its new Ethernet Network Attached Storage Device with PrintServer and 250GB hard drive (EFG250). The NAS device provides file and printer sharing as well as backup and remote management via the Internet. The Linksys NAS device is Gigabit-ready with a 10/100/1000 port. Read the full story at CRN

The total enterprise security market is a $2.9 billion industry worldwide in 2004, according to a study from The Radicati Group Inc. The group expects the market to grow rapidly over the next four years, reaching $6.6 billion in 2008. The group said users are moving away from point solutions and towards full suite security […]

Cirond Corp. this week said the company is shifting focus from managing to securing wireless LANs. “We have decided to focus the entire resources of our company and leverage our mature technologies in this space,” said Nicholas Miller, Cirond president and CEO. Despite already being crowded with 24 WLAN security-related vendors, Wai Sing Lee, analyst […]

NFR Security Inc. this week unveiled a new intrusion-prevention system (IPS) appliance that enables administrators to plug in the device, set it up and let it run, the company said. The device, dubbed Sentivist, boasts a confidence indexing mechanism that qualitatively ranks each threat, then enables customers to set thresholds targeting those threats that exceed […]

More than one out of every three music compact discs sold in 2003 was pirated, according to the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Many of the more than 1 billion pirated discs sold came from factories in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia. In unit terms, piracy grew four percent year-on-year in […]

Biostatisticians sometimes must spend hours reorganizing data from various formats. The FDA hopes that its experts and those at drug sponsors can soon use more of that time to actually analyze the data because more data sets will come in a standard format, the study data tabulation model (SDTM) developed by the Clinical Data Interchange […]

The nations top tech hospitals have futuristic medication tracking systems, not to mention methods of sharing data that make interoperability issues all but invisible. The 2004 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study ranks the nations hospitals on their use of Internet technologies, with an emphasis on those using wireless technologies. For the full story, click […]

The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems awarded ten organizations and individuals for their contributions to applied medical informatics. Winners included an air ambulance unit that allows patients data to be collected on Black Hawk helicopters as well as several implementations of electronic patient records. For the full story, click here.

The Nokia 6620 camera phone is the first handset for AT&Ts EDGE network—a high-speed data network promising more than double the speed of dialup Internet connections or GPRS wireless links for data transfers. The EDGE network, available in most major markets nationwide, enables you to do more with the 6620. You can use your phone […]

The most dreaded part of most consumers shopping trip is the checkout counter. With self-service efforts showing lackluster enthusiasm, retailers are exploring several high-tech options, including shopping carts that “check out” items the instant they are placed in the cart. One model will allow consumers to E-mail their shopping list so that their shopping knows […]

The Nokia 7610 is part of the first wave of one-megapixel cameraphones to hit U.S. shores. The camera is a great leap forward for phones, but the 7610 still doesnt measure up to a dedicated digital camera. The 7610 comes with two neat, unique applications: a mobile version of the Muvee automatic movie-editing software, which […]