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CDC Respond Software Backs Office of Managed Care

The Office of Managed Care Ombudsman OMCO helps Connecticut consumers who have health insurance provided by a Managed Care Organization MCO. The office was created to promote and protect the interests of covered persons under MCO health plans in Connecticut. A major responsibility of the office involves educating consumers about...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Office, Health Care, Connecticut, CDC Software, CDC Respond, Investigation Task, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-01-28

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Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards

No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...

Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Paglo SaaS offering provides means to harness untamed collection of log and IT resources data

Paglo, the IT management software-as-a-service SaaS company, recently announced a new low-cost service that allows companies to tackle the Herculean task of trying to winnow out a rapidly growing mountain of log data. With log data piling up in terabyte leaps and increasing regulatory pressure to maintain...

Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Performance, Information Technology, Service, Paglo Logs, Log Management Service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm

The idea of nanorobots floating throughout our arteries to fight diseases and deliver drugs is migrating from science fiction to medical fact, at least in virtual 3D simulations. Nanorobotics pioneer Adriano Cavalcanti and his colleagues report progress with their nanorobot control design NCD software which helps them simulate the behavior...

Tags: Gradient, Vessel, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Team Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-25

BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx

BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company PrevxDid the BBC break the law?Surely what the BBC did was in contravention of the UK Computer Misuse Act?They made unauthorised changes to people's computers without their permission. Sophos has been asked many times by the media to take part in...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Team management, SECURITY, Spam, team, British Broadcasting Corp., botnet, BBC team

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Stop bashing social networks

Stop bashing social networksWhy the commotion?The guy was on BBC 2's Newsnight and it was pretty obvious to me, that he's one of those types who would demonise computer games as the catalyst for violent behaviour.Although it was pointed out to him by another guest, that his evidence didn't reveal...

Tags: social networking, Stop Bashing, network

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

Windows 7 - What we still don't know ...

Windows 7 - What we still don't know ...differences...What differences did you notice between the Ultimate edition currently available as public beta and the Home Premium edition that you are testing?32/64 bit?Will 7 be split into 32 and 64 bit versions? 64 bit only? I have hoped that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Taxes, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ultimate Edition, tax, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

Android security team appeals to hackers

Already burned by the discovery of serious security vulnerabilities in its SDK, the Android Security Team emerged from the shadows this week with an appeal to the security community for help fixing flaws in the Linux-based mobile platform. In a note posted to several public mailing lists,...

Tags: Team, Google Android, Mobile, Hacker, Android Platform Team, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees

A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees.  The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...

Tags: Sensitive Information, Stanford University, Data, Information, Stanford, Laptop Computer, Kroll, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Who's behind the GPcode ransomware?

In one of these moments when those who are supposed to know, don't know, and those who don't realize what they know aren't reaching the appropriate parties, it's time we get back to the basics - finding out who's behind GPcode, and trying to tip them on the consequences of...

Tags: Payment, Encryption, GPcode, John Dow-ish Daniel Robertson, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefield

On February 21 of 2008, just two months ago, Microsoft announced "strategic changes in technology and business practices to expand interoperability." These changes, which would be incorporated into a set of "Interoperability Principles" that would provide API and protocol documentation for connectivity to and from their "high-volume business products" naming...

Tags: Patent, Centrify, Samba, Protocol, Microsoft Corp., Tom Kemp, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau

  The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...

Tags: Harris Corp., Government Accountability Office, Census Bureau, Bureau, Handhelds, Hardware, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...

Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripples

Updated below: European regulators on Tuesday approved Google's purchase of DoubleClick setting up the search giant's big splash in the display advertising market. According to the EU's competition committee, Google's $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick isn't a threat to competition because Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are credible...

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Advertisement, Ad Serving, DoubleClick Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Performance Evaluation of Video Streaming in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks

Supporting multimedia services in wireless mesh networks is receiving more attention from the research community. While wired networks have mature infrastructure and protocols providing QoS for multimedia, supporting multimedia in multihop wireless mesh networks faces greater technical challenges. The unreliable nature and shared media of multihop communications make the deployment...

Tags: Multimedia, Performance, Network, Streaming Video, Performance Evaluation, Wireless, Wireless Mesh Network, Mesh Networking, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

Enterprise 2.0 IT governance: Whole Foods bans execs from blogs and chat

Enterprise 2.0 and IT governance have just kissed and jumped. In a Nov. 2 update to its corporate Code of Business Conduct, Whole Foods has banned executives from participating in non-company blogs and chat rooms, except in connection with absolutely personal topics. Clearly, this is an extreme...

Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Blog, Enterprise 2.0, Whole Foods, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-07

Canon Pixma MP210

The $80 Canon Pixma MP210 is the lowest-priced model in Canon's all-in-one inkjet printer line. It lacks features that would make it either office-oriented or photo-oriented, so it's best for general use and light workloads. It's missing a lot of the features that comparably priced all-in-ones offer, such as memory...

Tags: Scanners, Printers, scanner lid, control panel, Canon Inc., Pixma MP210, MP Navigator EX, MP Navigator, photograph

Product reviews 2007-09-17

Realtek silent data corruption caused by firmware

A little more than a week ago, I took Realtek and Microsoft to task over some Realtek WHQL certified drivers causing silent data corruption.  As it turns out, the problem was actually caused by a Firmware flaw in Realtek's hardware.  This means the problem would have affected any operating system...

Tags: Data Corruption, Firmware, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Vista IE7 issue remains unsolved for many users

When I read stuff like this, it confirms my belief that there's something very broken in the world of Vista. Here's a very knowledgeable user and talented developer who's confounded and befuddled by a well-documented and still unaddressed issue affecting Vista users running Internet Explorer 7. The problem manifests itself...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Marc Orchant

Blog posts 2007-08-05