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  • CompTIA Updates A+ Certifications

    CompTIA has made a major update to its A+ certification exams. The CompTIA A+ Essentials and CompTIA A+ Practical Applications exams have been streamlined, and CompTIA has tightened up the content, said Steven Ostrowski, director of corporate communications at CompTIA. "It’s more related to the jobs that people are doing and the tasks that people…

  • Health Spam Decreased in July, But Product and VoIP Spam Up

    Spam accounted for 89 percent of all e-mail messages in July 2009, with image spam making up 17 percent of all spam at one point during the month, according to Symantec’s August 2009 "State of Spam Report." During the month, health spam decreased by 17 percent, while product and 419 spam increased eight and 3…

  • Four Ways to Add Value to Health Care Security Offerings

    The Centers for MEDICARE and MEDICAID Services (CMS) released a report this week that documented findings from reviews it conducted last year of ten poorly-performing health care organizations’ HIPAA security compliance. The report documented the bad and ugly of health care security failings, with a number of recommendations springing forth from CMS review of organizational…

  • Smartphone Sales Skyrocket

    By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) – Global cellphone sales continued to fall in April-June, but at a slower pace than in the previous three months as falling prices boosted demand for advanced smartphones, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday. Total cellphone sales fell 6 percent in the second quarter as recession-hit consumers…

  • Microsoft Banned from Selling Word

    BANGALORE (Reuters) – A U.S. federal court has ordered Microsoft Corp to stop selling some versions of its widely used Word software in the United States in two months, ruling in favor of a small Canadian firm that accused the software giant of violating its patents. A U.S. district court in Texas ruled in favor…

  • Redefining the Restaurant Experience

    I had heard somewhere that the Olive Garden or Applebee’s (doesn’t really matter) revolutionized “fine dining” by obliterating the concept of “seatings,” the time period that restaurateurs would plan to serve the bulk of their customers. By turning tables over rapidly through fast food service, such eateries replaced fine dining with “casual dining.” In the…

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