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NYC Mayor Calls for Citywide Electronic Health Records

In last years budget proposal, President George Bush called for $100 million to fund new projects in health information technology. This week, New York City...

3Com Takes Controlling Interest in Chinese Joint Venture

3Com Corp. on Feb. 2 announced it has bought controlling interest of its joint Chinese venture with Huawei Technologies. 3Com bought the 2 percent it...

RIM Cites Difficulty in Excluding Some from Shutdown

The U.S. Justice Department on Feb. 1 asked a federal judge to refrain from an injunction shutting down BlackBerry e-mail service until government workers...

AMD Hack Points to Widespread Web Forum Flaws, Attacks

Malicious hackers are increasingly targeting security vulnerabilities in open-source software that runs bulletin boards and online forums, according to Internet monitoring firm Netcraft. The unpatched...

A Minute With Alec Muffett

Muffett found a rather easy way around the censorship software Google's using on its newest search engine in China.EWEEK'S GOOGLE WATCH: How did you...

BMC Attempts to Smooth Transactions

BMC Software on Feb. 13 will introduce a new end-to-end transaction management initiative intended to make managing transactions across a company easier. The new offerings...

The Cell Phone Effect

Perhaps Google's Billionaire Boys Club ought to seek out advice from Jorma Ollila, the chief executive of Nokia.He's also running a company that's spoiled...

A Slow Death for ActiveX?

The Microsoft of recent decades has been much more willing than in the past to cast its own bright ideas aside and do what...

Symantec Names Former Oracle Leader as CIO

Symantec has revealed the latest change in its executive ranks, naming former Oracle executive David Thompson as its new CIO. On a conference call with...

Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000

Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that exploit code was being peddled by Russian...