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  • Banks to Deliver Personal Health Records Online

    Banks to Deliver Personal Health Records Online

    M.L. Baker

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    The Medical Banking Project plans to announce a program later this year that will use banks’ Web portals to deliver personal health care information online. Advocates of online PHRs (personal health records) believe making such information more accessible will make for better-informed and healthier patients. Various groups are already investing in technology to use information… Read more

  • Vista Aims to Stop Hackers’ Social Engineering Ploys

    Vista Aims to Stop Hackers’ Social Engineering Ploys

    Matt Hines

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    Microsoft says the Windows operating system software is not the weakest link in desktop security, and contends that Windows Vista will help limit the greatest vulnerability of all—users’ bad decision-making. While previous iterations of Microsoft’s dominant operating system hit the market with an abundance of security loopholes that left users open to many different forms… Read more

  • Dell Wants to Show Its Rugged Side

    Dell Wants to Show Its Rugged Side

    Scott Ferguson

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    Dell wants to show its customers that its notebooks can be tough too. The Round Rock, Texas, PC maker is launching on Jan. 16 its first-ever “semi-rugged” notebook—the Latitude ATG (all-terrain grade) D620—which will compete for market share against well-known rugged models such as the Panasonic ToughBook and General Dynamics’ Itronix GoBook. In creating a… Read more

  • uXcomm Brings SOA Flexibility to Management Framework

    uXcomm Brings SOA Flexibility to Management Framework

    Paula Musich

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    Systems management platform provider uXcomm on Jan. 17 will launch a new architecture and products based on it that are designed to be to management applications what SOA is to business applications. The new SOMA (Service-Oriented Management Architecture) and follow-on uXcomm XManage Server Edition and XManage Information Appliance Edition products based on SOMA are aimed… Read more

  • Sun to License OpenSolaris Under GPLv3

    Sun to License OpenSolaris Under GPLv3

    Peter Galli

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    Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU General Public License Version 3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK. OpenSolaris currently is licensed only under Sun’s CDDL, but company executives have previously floated the idea of a dual license with… Read more

  • IT Execs Turn to Channel Brokers

    IT Execs Turn to Channel Brokers

    Deborah Rothberg

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    With an estimate of more than half a trillion dollars in total contract value, multiyear IT outsourcing deals have become so common that IT executives are turning to outsourcing intermediaries to build successful deals, according to a market report released by Forrester Research on Jan. 12. In a worldwide IT and applications outsourcing market now… Read more