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Coalition Offers Doctors Free Electronic Prescriptions
The next time your doctor writes you a prescription, she may reach for a mouse instead of a pen. A coalition of companies including Cisco, Dell, Google, Intel and Microsoft have banded together to let physicians write prescriptions over the Internet. In addition to warning of potential interactions between drugs, e-prescribing systems can guide doctors…
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Symantec Ships New Veritas Storage Software for Windows
Data storage and security provider Symantec on Jan. 17 began shipping Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 High Availability for Windows, a feature-packed enterprise storage software package that delivers high-end data and application availability for Microsoft Windows environments. It combines two existing products—Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server—for the first time with enhanced usability tools…
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Microsoft, Nortel VOIP Alliance Gets Real
Microsoft and Nortel Networks on Jan. 17 revealed more about their Unified Communications Alliance, announcing real deliverables and detailing a road map for further products due next year. The alliance, launched in the summer of 2006, has yielded over the last six months a series of integrated offerings due out this year. First of the…
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Ascentive Launches Channel Program with Initial Margins of 50 Percent
Just a few months after introducing an enterprise version of its BeAware workplace activity monitoring software, Ascentive has launched a channel program that offers partners up to a 50 percent margin for deals registered in the first 90 days of their participation. Any VAR can get a 20 percent discount from the list price, said…
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If You Think It’s Hype, You’ll Miss the Boat
Call it hype if you must, but managed services are fueling a very real IT services movement. And that movement is about to gain momentum, as users become more attuned to the benefits of engaging a solution provider to deliver the services. I can almost see the eye rolls as I embark on yet another…
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RSS Setup Can Be Really Simple
In today’s Web 2.0 world, learning how to hand-code an RSS file can often seem as necessary as learning how to create and edit the code behind a PDF document. That’s because businesses that want to use RSS will quickly find there are a whole host of applications happy to automatically create RSS feeds of…
