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Aetna Offers Online Cultural Sensitivity Training
Health insurance provider Aetna hopes to use the Internet to make doctors and nurses more culturally sensitive. The company on Nov. 17 announced that clinicians who are part of the Aetna network or who have filed a claim with the insurer can take online courses in cross-cultural care for free. The online course is part…
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Novell, Microsoft Agree to Disagree
Duration: 12:13 Click here to download this podcast.
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Exploit Code Published for Apple OS X Glitch
Researchers have published exploit code that targets an unpatched kernel vulnerability in Apple’s OS X desktop software. An independent vulnerability analyst working as part of the “Month of Kernel Bugs” campaign released the details necessary to attack the hole in OS X on Nov. 22, revealing the manner in which hackers could target the glitch,…
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SOA’s Quality Assurance Challenge
Duration: 10:37 Click here to download this podcast.
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2006: The Year of Living Globally
Trade across international boundaries isn’t new. Multinational corporations aren’t new. Yet, it seems, globalization is new. Although international commerce has been going on since the beginning of civilization, what’s different now is instant communication between scattered locations that makes an office on the other side of the world look like it is next door. That…
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IBM, Cray Win DARPA Supercomputer Contracts
IBM, the world’s largest IT company, and supercomputer builder Cray were notified Nov. 21 that they will be awarded nearly $500 million in contracts by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build next-generation, multi-petaflop computers. Reuters reported that as Wall Street heard the news Cray’s stock shares rose 31 percent to $13.04 on…
