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New FCC Chairman Named

The White House has named Kevin Martin to succeed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell in overseeing the countrys communications and media industries. A...

Yahoo Project Builds Market Around Search Popularity

SAN DIEGO—Technology soothsayers can put their predictions to the test as part of a research project merging search-query data with a virtual, online marketplace. Yahoo...

Municipal Broadband Bills Come Under Fire

If not for politics and broadband, Ben Gould and Ron Sege might not have much in common. As chief marketing officer for DynamicCity, Gould...

AOL To Modify AIM Terms of Service

America Online Inc. plans to make three small but significant modifications to the terms of service for its AIM instant messaging product to head...

Is Two-Factor Authentication Being Oversold?

If youre exchanging sensitive data online and youre not worried about identity theft, you should be. Several new attacks are released every day to...

Varied Bang for IT Security Bucks

Its not often that a vendor comes right out and says, "Most of what I sell, you can probably get from my competitors."Even when...

MSN, Yahoo Make RSS Moves

Syndication feeds continue to gain more mainstream support as major online services experiment with ways to integrate RSS into their offerings. Microsoft Corp.s MSN division...

Microsoft Prescribes Digital Pharma Framework

At the Pharmaceutical Technology Congress this week in Philadelphia, Microsoft announced a full-scale strategy for addressing the IT needs of the pharmaceutical industry. Microsoft...

You Can Run Firefox, But You Cant Take the IE Out of Windows

In a recent blog entry, my companion in the hunt for technology truth, Larry Seltzer, points out that you really, really have to try...

Report: Evaluating Digital Hospitals

Consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers worked with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to release a report last week that surveyed 36 hospitals considered digitally...