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With the recession taking its toll on the bottom lines of many businesses, attorneys who engage in electronic discovery are looking to cut costs for clients. The first place to start, according to several lawyers, is scaling back the amount of information that is searched...

New figures out from outplacement stalwart Challenger, Gray & Christmas show that technology layoff rates haven't been this high since 2002. That's the bad news. The good news is that the overall layoff numbers on a quarter-by-quarter basis (and in overall total) are not as...

Marian College's IT infrastructure is undergoing a metamorphosis as the private liberal arts college undergoes its own transformation -- into a university. Enrollment increases of 30% during the past three years had tapped out storage capacity, and as business needs changed IT couldn't accommodate new...

Washington - This is what you get when politicians keep their comments to 140 characters or less: "We need to cut spending! Holy Cow! A novel idea in Washington." "Have u noticed your take-home pay has gone up? Stimulus at work." "Some think I'm on vacation. I voted...

My verdict on the conference: nicely done. I actually didn’t mind the weather as much as I thought, but the Saturday start in April really threw me off. The logistics were as good as ever and Chicago and the convention center were fine. My only...

The New York Times recently ran an article about the realities of being let go from Microsoft, a technology company not historically known for letting go of its own talent. In the past, those who left did so on their own or cashed out and...

Milwaukee - Merge Healthcare announced that it will donate $1 million over the next two years to the World Health Imaging Alliance, a non-profit group that brings low-cost, sustainable imaging to underserved communities. The Milwaukee company's donation will include staff time, software licenses, donated hardware and...

Whether you love it or hate it, the Small Business Administration has a new leader. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed President Obama's nominee, Karen Gordon Mills, as the organization's administrator late last week. Small Business Committee Chair Mary Landrieu took this to mean, "[S]he is...

From a scary story of newborn twins struggling for their lives to a cinematic allusion of driving a car over a cliff, the central theme of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition -- meaningful use of stimulus money to...

Dell joined a growing chorus of IT companies trying to grab a bigger slice of the market for digital health care records. The computer maker announced a series of partnerships on Monday aimed at bolstering its health care chops. At the high-end, the company announced a...