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Patients Willing to Pay for Electronic Medical Records, Surveys Show

Consumers are willing to pay as much as $60 a year for EMRs, according to a Web survey released this week by the consultancy...

Data-Theft Case Proves Need For New Disclosure Law

Top payment-system executives traveled to Washington on Thursday to try to convince members of Congress that no new laws are needed for credit card...

EMC Revamps Its DMX Disk Arrays

EMC Corp. is expected to announce improvements to its high-end Symmetrix DMX disk arrays, providing customers with doubled cache, increased capacity and the ability...

Expanding Cell Phones Reach Can Be a Lifesaver

Are mobile phones in planes controversial? Apparently not. But phones on the Underground? Unthinkable!Considering all of the rude names people have called me in...

Open Source: Is It or Isnt It?

What is "is," and why arent we watching more closely for when companies use "is" even though what they are selling isnt? Im talking about...

ICE Might Save Your Life

Vodafone and a Cambridge-based paramedic continue their campaign—its importance highlighted by recent terrorist activity in London—to encourage users to keep emergency contact numbers stored...

Patriot Act Reform Outreach Scuttled

Corporate America mobilized this week to break a nearly four-year silence on the FBIs expanded powers to demand sensitive customer information, but persistent cold...

Linksys Buys Kiss Technologies

Cisco-Linksys, best known for its home-networking hardware, will be expanding its reach into home entertainment by acquiring the Denmark-based Kiss Technologies, the forward-thinking creator...

Critical MySQL Flaw Found

A "highly critical" flaw has been reported in MySQL that can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to execute arbitrary...

USB Devices Can Crack Windows

Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device,...