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Most U.S. Hospitals Signing Up to Share Data
Failure to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) makes hospitals and health-care providers quake with fear of delayed payments from Medicare and Medicaid. Right now, health-care providers, including hospitals and physician practices, are not even 60 percent HIPAA-compliant in terms of the forms and processes they have in place. Click here…
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Another TechEd Hot Button: WSE 2.0
As part of its emphasis on developer and security issues at its annual TechEd conference next week, Microsoft will tutor attendees in the finer points of its Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 technologies. WSE is the vehicle via which Microsoft provides annual or biannual updates to its Web services support. The 2.0 release includes support…
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Microsoft Takes Aim at SMBs with Storage Server Refresh
Microsoft and several leading storage hardware vendors are planning advancements for the company’s Windows Storage Server, all in the name of helping small and midsize businesses (SMBs) buttress their infrastructures. Microsoft Corp. is planning to release next week at the Microsoft Tech Ed conference in San Diego the first feature pack for Windows Storage Server,…
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Microsoft Readies New Office Bridging Tool
Microsoft is readying a new tool that is designed to connect Microsoft Office applications to back-end enterprise systems. The tool, called the “Information Bridge Framework,” or IBF, will debut at the company’s Tech Ed 2004 conference in San Diego next week, sources said. IBF is designed to connect Web services to the Office client with…
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Industry: Code Theft’s Real Sting is a Black Eye for Cisco
When hackers allegedly broke into Cisco’s corporate network and stole source code for the company’s IOS router software, some feared that malcontents would soon be able to find and exploit flaws in the code to wreak havoc on the Internet. And certainly, the risk of such an attack still remains. But the biggest damage may…
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Tandberg Acquires Tech for IP Videoconferencing Across Firewalls
Tandberg ASA, an Oslo, Norway-based maker of videoconferencing endpoints and conference bridges, announced this week that it is acquiring Ridgeway Systems & Software, based in Reading, England, for $16 million. Ridgeway Systems & Software Ltd., which had offices in West Long Branch, N.J., and Austin, Texas, before waves of downsizing in 2003, sells servers and…
