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Lenovo Earns a Mixed Report Card from VARs
Despite some recent strides to engage the channel, Lenovo is still receiving mixed reviews from VARs as the PC vendor prepares to battle titans Dell and Hewlett-Packard. The Raleigh, N.C.- based company has earned some points with the channel, especially on price, but many resellers remain troubled by the vendors lack of name recognition among…
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Google Offers Mac Blog
Add another Mac blog to the list. On Oct. 9, Google launched its own blog dedicated to Apple Computer’s Macintosh and other Apple applications. The first post on Google Mac Blog by Scott Knaster, a technical writer, and Rose Yao, a Mac product manager, offered some insight into why the search engine leader decided to…
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Survey: Few Doctors Use Electronic Records, Fewer Use Adequate Systems
Just under one in four community physicians are using electronic health records; fewer than one in 10 are using EHRs that perform at least four functions deemed critical by the Institute of Medicine. That’s according to a new study specially commissioned to provide a reliable baseline to assess future IT adoption. Although many surveys on…
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Brocade Storage Products Take Leading Role in Hollywood
The transition from traditional optical film to digital formats has been a boon for resolution, editing, and post-production additions for film studios. But, as Pacific Title and Art Studio has discovered, it can also create hassles with extremely large files that transfer over the network at different speeds. In order to play back film in…
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What’s the Best Linux for Beginners?
I recently received a letter from a computer pro who’s nearing 80. He’s disgusted by “how [Microsoft] things have developed, and how most software is put out there full of errors and omissions. Help is virtually nonexistent. One really has to dig to find answers.” “So I am interested in learning more about Linux and…
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Health IT: How to Spend $240M
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger committed $240 million to health care IT in California, and a plan is supposed to be in place before the end of 2006. At the start of the coming fray, a major philanthropic group has just weighed in on what California’s health IT priorities should be. Now that Schwarzenegger has committed $240…
