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Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a national network of hospitals, has upgraded its entire technological infrastructure to HP ProLiant servers. The technology upgrade is expected to increase system performance, uptime and reliability. The hospitals depend on such infrastructure in order to operate electronic health records, specialized clinical programs, CRM and ERP applications. “The growth of […]

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., rolled out legislation July 22 that would establish national standards for data breach notifications to consumers. The bill would also require companies and organizations that maintain personal data to establish internal policies to protect the personal data of Americans.The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act also calls for […]

CEO Randall Stephenson admitted July 23 that AT&T’s partnership with Apple as the exclusive provider of the iPhone will inevitably end and network quality will ultimately be the differentiator for wireless carriers. AT&T’s deal with Apple-originally signed in 2007-is rumored to end next year.AT&T added nearly 7 million subscribers in 2008, many of them seeking […]

Nokia said July 24 it has acquired Cellity, a German social networking software company that specializes in consolidating address management from different sources such as a cell phone address book, Outlook, and Twitter and other social networking services. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.After the […]

Construction on the International Space Station continued July 24 as the Space Shuttle Endeavour crew engaged in a marathon 7.5-hour spacewalk to swap out batteries for the ISS’ oldest set of solar arrays. The batteries store power collected by the solar wings and cost $3.6 million each.The 16-day mission’s fourth of five spacewalks was longer […]

With lawmakers and federal regulators showing an interest in additional wireless industry regulations, Verizon Wireless July 21 proposed new conditions for offering roaming connectivity to small carriers. Under the proposal, Verizon says it is willing to offer two-year roaming deals on its networks to other carriers, including those that hold spectrum licenses but don’t offer […]

While health care and life sciences companies are on the brink of new opportunities with the widespread adoption and use of electronic health records technologies called for under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the industries are not prepared to meet the challenges of managing the risk as opportunities emerge, according to a new survey […]

Samsung plans to debut its Mondi WiMax tablet for Clearwire customers on Aug. 1 in Atlanta, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Portland, Ore., the four markets where Clearwire has rolled out its 4G mobile Internet service.The 4.3-inch touch-screen Mondi offers WiMax and Wi-Fi connectivity with a QWERTY keyboard, optical mouse, GPS and the Opera 9.5 browser. […]

Cellular modules built into end-use medical devices will be one of the primary drivers of wireless “telehealth” over the next 24 months, according to a study released July 22 by ABI Research. “Some 15 million such systems are forecast to be in use-mainly in North America-by early 2012,” the company said in a news release. […]

Verizon’s July 17 offer to limit exclusive handset deals to six months and make the devices available to the nation’s smallest carriers continues to be dismissed by critics as an empty political gesture meant only to stave off possible legislation.The exclusive handset deals offered by carriers have already gained the attention of Congress with the […]