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Firefox 2.0 Alpha Arrives Unofficially

Officially, the first Firefox 2.0 "Bon Echo" alpha isnt here yet. Unofficially, Firefox 2.0 code for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows is already...

Sun Expands OpenSPARC Program

A month after releasing the architecture specifications and hypervisor APIs for its UltraSPARC T1 processor to the open-source community, Sun Microsystems is putting out...

Report: Health Insurance Companies to Use IT to Influence Doctors, Patients

A new report released by First Consulting Group predicts that health insurers are using health IT to expand their influence over doctors and patients. Increasingly,...

Vista Delay Prevents a Support Disaster

Much like the Kennedy assassination or the space walk on the moon, Microsofts latest delay for its Vista OS will engender a tsunami of...

Whats Really Behind the Windows Vista Delay?

To say that Microsofts bombshell decision to delay the launch of Windows Vista until 2007 was due to quality concerns is an oversimplification. Microsoft actually...

Blue Coat Speeds App Delivery with MACH 5

WAN optimization provider Blue Coat Systems on March 20 updated the software for its appliances that broadens the range of performance techniques and applications...

Vistas Delay Is Tough Love

In what were assured isnt a bid for lifetime tenure, Windows boss Jim Allchin "enjoyed" a crow lunch on March 21, announcing that the...

Readers Respond: Indian Education: A Weak Link?

It is a sad state of affairs, as I see management moving work to India despite an obvious lack of engineering skills there ("Indian...

Making Health Care Measurable

In an effort to make baseline health care quality statistics more widely available to health care facilities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,...

Readers Respond: Gesture Recognition Not Ready for Prime Time

Thanks for Peter Coffees great Feb. 27 column, "Gesture Recognition Not Ready for Prime Time" or "Thoughtful Gestures" (Epicenters). Having to support 50 or...