A massive investment in healthcare IT will be meaningless in a global economy if the technology doesn't rein in runaway costs because healthcare spending is unsustainable in the current economic climate, according to former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan. Simply pumping more dollars into Medicare...
Why would young people starting a career in IT want to work with mainframes? Well, let me tell you my story. It may ease your concerns about who will tend your legacy systems when your current IT pros retire. My foray into the world of...
Skype's introduction of its VOIP service for the iPhone may well be the tipping point for wireless network neutrality. While the right of hardwired Internet users to use the applications and services of their choice has been established by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), network...
The official Web site for former Beatle Paul McCartney was compromised to infect users through drive-by downloads. The site was attacked by the LuckySploit toolkit, according to web security firm ScanSafe, which discovered the hack. The toolkit was recently updated to include a set of...
It’s extremely rare — unimaginable, even — for a business not viewed as a high-tech enterprise to invest more than $1 billion in technology. But that’s exactly what hotel, restaurant, travel and marketing giant Carlson Companies did. “When I became CEO, I realized that we...
The Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics has sued Apple, alleging infringement of two of its touch screen patents, an Elan spokesman said Wednesday. The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Dennis Liu, an Elan spokesman, said by telephone from the headquarters...
Some of the most common - and most devastating - IT failures come as a result of failed enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiatives. These cases, illustrated in a slideshow, explain some of the problems these big projects face. Examples include a problem at Hershey's that...
The hackers who reportedly planted malware on key parts of the U.S. electrical grid, perhaps with the intent to cripple the country's power infrastructure, most likely gained access like any other cybercriminal -- by exploiting a bug in software such as Windows or Office, a...
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is "working triple time" on preparing to help providers and vendors apply the stimulus package requirements, according to its chairman. HITSP plans to accomplish everything on its slate for 2009, he said, but will focus over the next 90...
In October, when Wall Street was already wallowing in the financial crisis, many in the technology industry still thought they might be insulated from the worst of it. Sequoia Capital, the venture capital firm that backed Google, Yahoo and YouTube, scared them straight when it...