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Bills to Share Health Data Introduced, Stalled

While members of Congress in June introduced legislation that would create nonprofit institutions charged with managing patients electronic health records for a lifetime, a...

New Xandros Linux Desktop Arrives

Xandros 4.0, the first new version of Xandros Inc.s desktop Linux distribution in a year and a half, arrived on June 20. Xandros 4...

AirTran Systems Upgrade Hits Turbulence

Discount airline AirTran Airways says a "preplanned outage" to update its reservations and check-in systems early this week turned into all-day unplanned outage on...

eWEEK Daily News Podcast, June 21

In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Unpatched software on corporate user desks is a greater threat than major application bugs; theres another major zero-day...

Tech Standards Could Be Robotics Road Map to Success

PITTSBURGH—Robotics industry executives, in an effort to grow their nascent market, are hoping to borrow some experience from the PC business. Several executives, speaking to...

NeoScale Beefs Up Tape Security Appliance

Backup security vendor NeoScale Systems on June 21 released a software upgrade to its CryptoStor Tape appliance. While giving the system a performance boost,...

Sun Adds New Features to Mustang Version of Java

Sun Microsystems has enhanced the second beta version of Java Platform Standard Edition 6 with new database and graphical user interface design technology. The Santa...

Microsoft, CareerBuilder.com Team to Help Job Seekers

Microsoft and CareerBuilder.com have joined forces to help people find work in the Web and application development areas. The two companies are collaborating to help...

FCC Adds VOIP to Universal Service Fund

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on June 21 approved two changes in Universal Service Fund charges for carriers. The first was to change the "Safe...

Intel, VMware Offer Virtualization ASAP Program

VMware and Intel are combining forces in a program designed to encourage software developers to build their applications for virtualized environments on Intels Xeon...