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The California state Senate last week passed a bill to set privacy standards for the use of RFID in stores and libraries. The bill from Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach) permits stores and libraries to use bar codes to collect the same information they collect now, while at the same time banning the use of […]

President Bush just created a new position to advance the transition to electronic medical records. The official would be placed in the Department of Health and Human Services, and would be largely responsible for coordinating the public-private partnerships necessary to get health care systems across the country to use compatible standards and methods. Establishing electronic […]

Many enterprises think theyre locking down systems by addressing security at the application level rather than the database level. In this article youll find tips on how to lock down Oracle at the database level, as well as how to satisfy security and auditing regulations for HIPAA. Those tips come courtesy of Oracle security expert […]

Microsofts annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) traditionally is all about the low-level Windows innards that help make computers tick. WinHEC 2004, which kicks off next Tuesday, will focus heavily on the guts of Longhorn, a version of Windows that wont be ready for at least a couple more years. The time lag seemingly isnt […]

While many Windows watchers have been keeping a close eye on the forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, Microsoft Corp. is working simultaneously on another service pack: the first for Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has said to expect the final Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) release to ship in the latter half […]

McAfee Research, the technology research division of Network Associates Inc., was awarded a contract to build out a large-scale network testbed that will support a national Internet security research program. The work is part of two companion efforts. The Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research network is providing the physical infrastructure for researchers and the Evaluation […]

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved legislation to make video taping a movie in a theater a federal offense. The legislation would increase penalties for distributing copies of a work before the copyright holder has had a chance to get the product to market. Willful posting of a pre-release copy of a commercial […]

U.S. lawmakers in the House Energy and Commerce Committee vowed Thursday to pass legislation to stop spyware. “There is no more pernicious, intrusive activity going on on the Internet today,” said Rep. Joe Barton, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. But the proposed legislation got a cool reception from regulators at the Federal […]

Businesses are allocating more of their IT budget for printers than network security, according to a report from IDC. Firms spent $42 billion in 2003 in security products, less than five percent of total IT expenses. Printers and multifunctional peripherals came in at $43 billion. The study warns that breaches of security affect businesses in […]

Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Reed Hundt said wireless broadband should be placed in the frequencies currently occupied by analog UHF television stations. “Waves at lower frequencies are longer in length. Longer wave lengths hold their energy over longer distances. They can travel miles from a tower and find their way inside living rooms,” […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is riding high, maintaining the strong momentum it built up last year. In addition to rolling out its first 64-bit processors and scoring major OEM customer deals in 2003, the Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker refurbished its memory business and made a couple of key partnerships. The moves helped AMD string together […]

Microsoft is focused on making customers growing network of distributed systems easier to manage, CEO Steve Ballmer assured the companys customers and partners in one of Microsofts periodic “Executive E-mail” blasts, released on Wednesday. Ballmers e-mail missive highlighted Microsofts Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), its autonomic computing plan. Microsofts amorphous DSI is focused on building management […]