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Report: Job Benefits Burden to Fall on Workers
2007 will bring greater expectations of responsibility and self-financing of benefits for U.S. workers, according to a report issued Dec. 28 by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a Washington-based global consulting firm. Among the health care benefit trends predicted in the report is an increased focus on HDHPs (high-deductible health care plans) coupled with reimbursement arrangements such…
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Ribstone, Scientigo Team on Indexing Software
Ribstone Systems announced Dec. 29 that along with Scientigo, it will release its indexing and data reviewing software designed to help law firms store, search and find documents. This offering from the Chicago, Ill. developer of document capture and image processing software, will also offer law firms a way to document indexed photo copied documents.…
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Vista Reignites Visions of Past Releases
One of the most overused adages in the IT industry is, “Change is the only constant.” That is true in most contexts, but at Microsoft the more applicable cliché is, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” I couldn’t arrest an involuntary smirk when I started reading over the past few days…
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The Well-Tempered Debian Desktop
I recently reported on my good results with migrating an old server from RH7 to Debian Sarge, beginning with the network-install CD. Responding to my comments that an install of a Sarge desktop on my old Thinkpad left me less than impressed, several readers admonished me for not installing Etch. I’ve now done an Etch…
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A Medical Open-Source Legal Hell Hole
To open-source or not to open-source was never in question as far as Steve Shreeve, founding CEO and largest shareholder of Medsphere Systems Corp., was concerned. So, this summer, Steve, self-proclaimed open-source software leader, and his twin-brother Scott, released the company’s matured code on SourceForge under the GPL. Their reward? They were then sued for…
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Judge Dismisses Patent Lawsuit Against Google
Google has won dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a small Wisconsin software company involving patents for database search technology. HyperPhrase Technologies of Madison, Wis., in a lawsuit filed last April, had claimed that the popular, freely distributed Google search tool bar infringed upon its own proprietary search mechanism. HyperPhrase aimed its lawsuit at the…
