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Expert Voices: Working Together to Improve the Health Care IT Prognosis at Montefiore
The history of health care IT has not, in general, been a happy one. The industry has consistently underinvested in IT, and thanks to the ongoing misalignment of interests among the patients, providers and payors, it doesn’t look as if increased pooling of efforts and more IT investment will happen any time soon. Still, there…
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Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard: A 3-D Impossible Dream
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computer once again showed it still owns the secret sauce when it comes to computer interface design (and maybe even with hardware industrial design). At the keynote address on Aug. 7 to Apple’s faithful developers gathered here for the annual Worldwide Developers Conference, CEO Steve Jobs “wowed” the audience with demonstrations of powerful,…
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CompTIA Preps Business Transformation Tools for the Channel
CompTIA’s Reseller Transformation Advisory Council is moving ahead with the creation of tools intended to help solution providers run their businesses more effectively. The council, backed with funding from Microsoft, IBM, Symantec, Ricoh, Canon, Xerox and McAfee, is developing tools that solution providers can use to assess the health of their business. The tools, currently…
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Websense Drills the Channel Home to Its Sales Force
Part of moving Websense from a direct to indirect channel has involved reorienting the salesforce to accept and work with the channel, channel chief Dave Roberts told The Channel Insider. About half of the salesforce is now working with partners in territory organizations, while the remaining force continues the old practice to “keep paying the…
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Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs
Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said. As Virtual PC for Mac was originally developed on the PowerPC platform, the amount of time that…
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Microsoft Wants Vista PCs to Pop
Microsoft wants PC buyers to recognize a machine running its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system from afar. The software giant has already set out the minimum hardware requirements for a PC to run the operating system. Now it’s begun sharing ideas on how to design a Vista PC as part of what it calls the…
