Year: 2006

  • Understanding the Basics of EPCglobal

    Understanding the Basics of EPCglobal

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    LOS ANGELES—About 200 people left home a day early to attended a pre-conference event held here in the western wing of the LA Convention Center on Oct. 11 with one goal in mind: figure out what EPCglobal is all about. Questions from audience members were so basic that attendees likely could have gone to the… Read more

  • Avnet to Deliver JD Edwards-Microsoft Integration

    Avnet to Deliver JD Edwards-Microsoft Integration

    John Hazard

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    Distributor Avnet Technology Solutions and Microsoft announced a partnership Oct. 16 to deliver an integrated enterprise resource planning solution for midmarket customers of Oracle’s JD Edwards on Microsoft’s Windows/SQL Server platforms. The partnership allows VARs, many of which are already hitching the application to the platform, to benefit from the Avnet delivery model—building and integrating… Read more

  • Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec

    Microsoft Removes Obstacle to Adoption of Its VHD Spec

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft has decided to make its Virtual Hard Disk image format specification available to users at no cost and with the guarantee that it will never take legal action against them. The VHD format will now be available to anybody wanting to use it under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker… Read more

  • EMC Revenue Growing, but Margins Falling

    EMC Revenue Growing, but Margins Falling

    Chris Preimesberger

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    EMC, the world leader in several data storage markets and the world’s sixth-largest software company, is being forced to tighten its belt and lose some weight—in the form of extra employees—after 36 months of digesting other companies in order to fill out its product offerings. The Hopkinton, Mass., company reported its third-quarter financials Oct. 17,… Read more

  • Medicare Explores How to Pay Doctors for More Effective Care

    Medicare Explores How to Pay Doctors for More Effective Care

    M.L. Baker

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    Under a new program from the Centers of Medicaid and Medicare, doctors in solo and small medical practices will soon be eligible for up to $10,000 more a year—if they can demonstrate that their performance is up to snuff. Among other criteria, doctors will be evaluated for the percentage of diabetic patients whose glucose is… Read more

  • Security Suite Smackdown, Part I

    Security Suite Smackdown, Part I

    Sean Carroll

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    Fall and winter are a great time for malware purveyors. All those pure, innocent, uncorrupted new PCs being unboxed, set up and connected to that font of all that is dangerous, filthy and malevolent: the Internet. Okay, maybe you don’t believe the information superhighway is quite that tainted, and maybe it isn’t. But if you… Read more