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Electronic Health Data Helping Katrina Victims

How do you take your daily medicine if you cant remember what prescriptions you have? Thats the situation facing many Katrina evacuees with chronic...

Panasonic Forms Embedded Linux Incubator, Seeks Collaborators

Panasonic Ventures has opened an embedded Linux incubator at its Digital Concepts Center in San Jose, Calif. The Technology Collaboration Center (aka Linux Collaboration...

Studies Show Electronic Medical Records Make Financial Sense

Instituting electronic health records is an expensive proposition, especially for small physician practices. And few of these practices are adopting EMRs, hindered by costs...

eBays Skype Swipe Points to Emerging Services

While many people are still struggling to figure out exactly why online auctioneer eBay Inc. was ready to shell out billions of dollars to...

FEMA, Microsoft Tiptoe Toward Open Standards

Strange, strange things are afoot in the land of open standards. First, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) showed that it could be as incompetent...

U.S. Appeals Court Tosses Bar-Code Patent Case

A U.S. Court of Appeals panel this week issued a ruling in a long-running patent infringement lawsuit that threatened retailers using bar-code readers. The...

Court Unseals Files on Apple Asteroid Probe

A California appeals court has agreed with the Electronic Frontier Foundations request to unseal documents relating to Apple Computer Inc.s legal campaign to force...

Microsoft: The Bull in the Color Shop

Microsoft is becoming more color-aware. In fact Microsoft, with input from Canon, plans a complete rewrite of the color game planin its Windows Color...

Dell to Expand Its DJ Music Player Line

Dell is doing its own little ditty. This holiday coming season, Dell Inc. plans to offer three new Dell DJ portable music players, starting with...

New Vista Build Makes Some Headway

Yesterday, at its Professional Developers Conference in Anaheim, Calif., Microsoft handed out copies of a new post-Beta 1 version of Windows Vista, dubbed Build...