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Part 1 of this series discusses the growing trend toward adoption of electronic health records among healthcare providers, insurance companies, and government agencies The U.S. healthcare sector is about to embark on a multibillion dollar information technology investment program to provide electronic medical records for tens of millions of patient...

Google's Android Market website got a face-lift sometime in the past few days, but the update has many scratching their heads over the continuing lack of search and other capabilities Layout changes have resulted in a simpler, more straightforward desktop interface, with incrementally easier browsing of the market's top applications....

There's no shame in admitting that audits are hard. For those of us in IT, hearing the word "audit" probably brings up a groundswell of negative connotations and the corresponding aggravation and headache: We know from having lived through it that tech-heavy regulatory audits -- annual PCI assessments, HIPAA audits, ISO, etc. -- cut directly into our staff's ability to get their already-busy jobs done. ...

The producers of "The Hurt Locker" have reportedly signed up with the U.S. Copyright Group in order to sue thousands -- perhaps as many as tens of thousands -- of individuals who illegally downloaded copies of the Oscar-winning movie from the Internet. Voltage Pictures could file its complaints as soon as Tuesday of this week, according to The Hol...

Google has disclosed that devices inside cars it sent to gather street-level images for its Street View service captured information sent over unsecured WiFi networks while driving through city neighborhoods The company has acknowledged that devices in the vehicles capture data in two countries -- Germany and Ireland.

Roughly four months after it began selling its Nexus One "superphone" online, Google announced on Friday that it would halt Web sales and begin selling it through retail stores instead "While the global adoption of the Android platform has exceeded our expectations, the web store has not," Andy Rubin, vice president of engineering, wrote on the com...

For the uninitiated, "Bluetooth" is a funny word for an awkward device you stick in your ear. The moniker has thus become a non-assuming general descriptor for hands-free calling. That's about to change. Bluetooth has grown into a disruptive wave that's beginning to crest over the top of more than one industry "It's the perfect storm: The technolog...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, offers remote connectivity tools to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. These include GoToMyPC, which offers remote access; GoToMeeting, an online collaboration tool; GoToTraining, an online training package; and GoToWebinar Most recently, Citrix bought up Paglo and stepped into the managed...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, offers remote connectivity tools to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. These include GoToMyPC, which offers remote access; GoToMeeting, an online collaboration tool; GoToTraining, an online training package; and GoToWebinar Most recently, Citrix bought up Paglo and stepped into the managed...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, offers remote connectivity tools to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. These include GoToMyPC, which offers remote access; GoToMeeting, an online collaboration tool; GoToTraining, an online training package; and GoToWebinar Most recently, Citrix bought up Paglo and stepped into the managed...

Over the years, Salesforce.com has gradually transformed itself from being a CRM company to a cloud services provider. Along the way, it partnered with leading-edge Web 2.0 companies such as Google and Facebook, and most recently, it teamed up with virtualization giant VMware to offer VMforce, a new platform for application developers.

Linux fans tend to be a loyal bunch, showering their favorite operating system with rightfully deserved praise at every opportunity When they do complain about Linux, however, the topic is often gaming. Lack of games on Linux, that is -- a factor many consider crucial to Linux's ultimate mainstream acceptance....

I'm clearly on some kind of twisted Wizard of Oz/magic jag at the moment but, as I said last week, I'm just not convinced people fully get why Apple is successful. However, this week there are some other things brewing. Apple seems to have suddenly become the "Litigation 'R' Us" company and every time I've seen this happen, it has ended badly. ...

Facebook reportedly held a company-wide meeting Thursday to discuss how to deal with the negative publicity surrounding its privacy policies. To be sure, Facebook has been fielding complaints and criticism -- and even mass protests by its users on its own site -- for years. However, a series of recent events has pushed those complaints to a zenith...

Hulu stepped into the Adobe-Apple war Thursday with the announcement that it's sticking to Flash for now "We continue to monitor developments on HTML5, but as of now it doesn't yet meet all of our customer needs," Hulu VP of Product Eugene Wei wrote on the company's blog....

Is it 2005 or 2010? That's what many music industry observers may be asking themselves after U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood ruled Wednesday that online file-sharing software provider LimeWire has been infringing on the copyrights of creative artists in general, and recording industry companies, specifically The LimeWire company and, perhaps m...

A mind-controlled robotic arm is bringing new independence to an Austrian man who lost his arms, even allowing him to drive a car, the arm's maker announced earlier this week ...

Is it sarcastic, ironic or just a bit disingenuous? Whatever the rhetorical technique, Adobe certainly is raising eyebrows with its new ad campaign. A rotating splash screen on the company's main Web page displays a variety of "We Love" slogans, changing just the word after the heart. Adobe announces that it [hearts] not only Apple but also "HTML5," "authoring code only once," and, ultimately, "freedom of choice."

Whenever people debate the enterprise-readiness of cloud computing, the discussion usually centers on reliability, security, compliance and integration questions. However, underlying these important concerns is an even more fundamental issue that keeps most IT and business decision-makers up at night: customer support The truth is that a growing nu...

Lucid Lynx, Canonical's latest desktop release of Ubuntu(10.04), sports a new look and feel designed to attract new users, both in business and at home ...