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I-managers in health care industries are worried about upcoming security standards for the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA), with one privacy officer calling the proposed rules “a logistics nightmare.” Passed by Congress in 1996, HIPAA mandates sweeping changes in how health care providers manage their information. The law — which will be phased […]

Call it the perfect storm for cybercoverage. The insurance industry has been rocked by gargantuan losses from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the destructive Code Red and Nimda worms, low returns on investments and several large IT-related losses. Together, these factors will likely mean dramatically higher premiums for I-managers trying to insure their operations against […]

A few days before RealNetworks was to host its annual developers conference and announce the next-generation version of its flagship streaming media player, Microsoft sent out an e-mail update noting the “dramatic rise” in the adoption of its rival Windows Media Player and claiming for itself the honor of being “the fastest growing and most […]

In keeping with its name, Generic Media created a Web site as plain as those white boxes in the grocery store aisles that read “Soap” or “Dog Food.” But shouldnt a company involved in streaming media offer something a little flashier? “I think theres so much hype on some Web sites that it obscures the […]

No Can Go While the airlines might be suffering staggering losses in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the same cant be said for videoconferencing developers and streaming media services. Sonexis, a voice and data conferencing developer, sent out a news release last week in which Chairman David Friend noted, “Companies that have […]

Intel Corp. apparently is offering PC makers “deals they couldnt refuse” in hopes of recapturing lost market share and reversing recent gains made by rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Spurred by fear that it was losing its grip on the PC market and hurt by sagging demand for its products, Intel went on […]

E-brokerages function normally Despite high trading volume, online brokerage sites functioned at or near normal levels on the Monday following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, according to Keynote Systems Inc., a San Mateo, Calif., company that tracks Web site performance. The study looked at the transaction performance—how long it takes for users to place […]

Better pre-employment screening and background checks are needed in the wake of terrorist threats inside the U.S., security and employment consultants warn. Employment experts say they are seeing a virtual epidemic in the tech industry of phony credentials and false or “inflated” résumés among the thousands of tech workers seeking new jobs. Among the challenges […]

Content management systems — once perceived as expensive, complicated pieces of heavy machinery — have reached a certain maturity, and are becoming accepted as powerful engines for Internet business. The major forces in the market — big content management system vendors such as BroadVision, Documentum, Interwoven and Vignette — believe its a golden time to […]

Sri Donthi had a big surprise waiting for him when, just over two years ago, he showed up at Motorola Inc.s Personal Communication business unit to get started on a major systems consolidation and standardization project. Namely, nobody could tell him how many storage devices the business had, how many people were assigned to keep […]