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The Foundation for E-Health Initiative last week launched its Community Learning Network, a resource of materials on health information exchange. According to the group, the information “reflects current research as well as practical, on-the-ground advice and lessons learned from national healthcare IT experts and pioneering implementers in communities that are engaging in electronic health information […]

Apple Computer Inc. last week demonstrated its Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics at the ClusterWorld conference and expo in San Jose, Calif. The hardware and software package, and accompanying Web portal ships with 200 open-source scientific applications. The company said the clusers supports many commercial and open-source applications. Accoding to Apple, its Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics […]

A new health care technology project will focus on improving nursing care. The plan involves three Aurora Health Care Inc. hospitals; Cerner Corp. and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Cerners health care information software will track details of patient care, letting the university researchers digest the data to determine how nursing care contributes to the length […]

Many researchers have pointed to the benefits of virtual colonoscopy. However a new study shows the experimental cancer screening technique is not yet ready for prime time. Earlier studies showed that virtual colonoscopy offered a fair degree of accuracy in the detection of large polyps when performed by a trained operator. Still, when the test […]

Its security bulletin release Tuesday for Microsoft. The company issued four new security bulletins—all of which pertain to Windows vulnerabilities. Three of the new patches the company rated “critical,” and the other, “important. In the worst case, the new vulnerabilities could allow attackers to take control of users systems by installing programs; viewing, changing or […]

On April 2, the day Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced technical and legal agreements, Sun also promoted Executive Vice President of Software Jonathan Schwartz to president and chief operating officer of the Santa Clara, Calif., company. Schwartz spoke that day to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about the agreements and his strategy in […]

Software vendors, like Presidential Candidates, should be held accountable for taking consistent positions and following through on them. Too often, corporate officials make statements that sound good but dont carry over to product design. One example—although not the only one—is Microsoft. Bill Gates ended March with a memo to customers in which he detailed Microsofts […]

If your program is free software, it is basically ethical–but there is a trap you must be on guard for. Your program, though in itself free, may be restricted by non-free software that it depends on. Since the problem is most prominent today for Java programs, we call it the Java Trap. A program is […]

Human error is to blame for 84 percent of IT security breaches, according to a survey from the Computing Technology Industry Association. CompTIAs second annual study of IT security and the workforce surveyed more than 900 organizations and found that only 51 percent have a written IT security policy. The study also reveals an increase […]

Four Linux distributors, including Red Hat Inc. and SuSE, last week took issue with a recent report by Forrester Research that compared the security of Linux and Windows. In a joint statement, the four said: “Despite the reports claim to incorporate a qualitative assessment of vendor reactions to serious vulnerabilities, it treats all vulnerabilities as […]

Trend Micro Inc. has started shipping its Network VirusWall 1200 security product. The product marks a significant departure from protecting networks at the application layer. Instead of focusing solely on traditional e-mail and file-based threats, Network VirusWall 1200 fights a new kind of offender: network viruses that infiltrate a corporate firewall and wreak havoc from […]

Wireless LAN security provider AirDefense Inc. spent four hours last month monitoring wireless traffic at Atlantas CTIA, one of the largest wireless conferences in the country. Within that small slice of time, AirDefense monitors picked up 25 identity theft attacks on a T-Mobile and Cisco-sponsored Hotspot, where intruders basically were lifting IDs of insecure users […]