Recent Articles
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GAO Report: Medicare Patient Data Vulnerable
The personal data of Medicare patients is at risk because Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has not held its network contractor to its own security standards, according to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO concluded that information on the network could be disclosed without authorization and that vulnerabilities could be…
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Arrow Resets the Bar
For years there has been rampant speculation concerning the possible acquisition of one of the value distributors, given the limited number of solution providers in this space and the ongoing efforts of vendors to either drive solution providers out of Fortune 1000 accounts or service the solution providers that support that class of customers directly.…
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Vendors Pump Up VOIP for SMBs, Resellers
Better management of voice over IP technology as well as enhanced management of call center activities is the focus of several new or enhanced products to debut at the Internet Telephony conference in San Diego on Oct. 10. A handful of VOIP vendors, including Toshiba, Qovia, Switchvox and Spanlink Communications, are targeting small and midsize…
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Study: Smart Phone, PDA Shipment Up 57 Percent
A new study found that worldwide shipments of smart phones and PDAs were up 57 percent in the first six months of 2006 compared to the same time period last year. The Gartner study, released Oct. 5, found that global shipments of smart phones grew by more than 75 percent in the first six months…
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Chip Makers to Outline Road Maps
The industry is getting a glimpse of the not-so-distant future for microprocessors. At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 10, engineers from Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems will give presentations about their new generation of processors that will be released in 2007. Key to all the work being done is…
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Dell’s First AMD System: Good Performance at a Good Price
Apple made news earlier this year by switching entirely to an Intel-based platform. Now Dell is making news by (finally) adding AMD processors to its stable of multimedia-oriented PCs. The Round Rock, Texas, company’s first AMD effort, the Dell Dimension C521 ($1,024 direct; $1,214 with a 17-inch LCD monitor), carries an AMD Athlon 64 X2…
