Year: 2005

  • Industry Labors in Anticipation of Health Records Standards

    Industry Labors in Anticipation of Health Records Standards

    John Hazard

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    That there isn’t a standard for electronic medical records already is somewhat of a surprise to Brian Deeley. Deeley’s firm, Graymar Business Solutions, provides doctors offices and hospitals with digital voice recognition solutions that record verbal comments on a patient and translate them into complete, electronic health records, ready for transmission around the world. Graymar’s… Read more

  • Tablet PCs’ Future Uncertain

    Tablet PCs’ Future Uncertain

    John G. Spooner

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    Tablet PCs can’t catch a break. The fate of the pen-driven, portable PC category, which got a boost in 2002 when Microsoft Corp. first rolled out its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software, is uncertain, as some analysts have begun to lower their long-term growth projections for the category and Microsoft remains mum about its… Read more

  • Microsoft Readies Next Two Small Business Server Releases

    Microsoft Readies Next Two Small Business Server Releases

    Channel Insider Staff

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    While Microsoft Corp. is preparing its midmarket marketing onslaught, the company is not forgoing its small-business push. Microsoft is expected to roll out a new Windows Midmarket Server bundle at a business summit for midmarket customers on Sept. 7. Although the midmarket server is not expected to ship until 2007, according to sources, Microsoft will… Read more

  • New Tools Diagnose App Problems

    New Tools Diagnose App Problems

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Two new methods of application problem resolution will find their way to market this week, targeting both service-oriented architectures and Java application server-based environments. IBM is expected to announce new software based on its Tivoli and WebSphere platforms and leveraging the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) to advance BPM (business process management) in SOAs. The… Read more

  • WinFS Is Back on the Redmond Radar Screen

    WinFS Is Back on the Redmond Radar Screen

    Channel Insider Staff

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    When Microsoft announced a year ago that it had decided to rip the next-generation Windows File System (WinFS) from Longhorn, many company watchers wrote off the feature as little more than vaporware. But it seems Microsoft didn’t simply shelve WinFS. According to sources close to the company, Microsoft just last week put the finishing touches… Read more

  • Gulf SMBs Flirting with Disaster

    Gulf SMBs Flirting with Disaster

    Karen Schwartz

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    As Hurricane Katrina ripped through the heart of the central U.S. Gulf Coast it threatened every company in the area. But small- and medium-sized businesses faced a more severe threat than larger companies. Unlike larger organizations, which usually have remote data centers storing all mission-critical data at regular intervals, smaller companies often don’t have the… Read more