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  • Banks to Deliver Personal Health Records Online

    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…

  • Cirba Launches Latest Version of Its Data Center Software

    Cirba, a data center intelligence software developer, has released the latest version of its product that will offer a number of enhancements and tools for IT managers looking to keep better track of data center assets. The Ontario, Canada, company’s software, called Data Center Intelligence, allows data center managers to keep view and keep reports…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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