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Legislation that would create a national cyber security czar reporting directly to the White House was introduced April 1 by U.S. Senators John D. Rockefeller (D-WVA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME). The new position would serve as the government's top official on all cyber security matters,...

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. will acquire Metavante Technologies Inc. under an agreement announced today. Both company's boards approved an agreement for the stock deal that will combine the financial service firms to create the world's largest provider of comprehensive integrated payment and financial core...

OAK GROVE, LA – West Carroll Memorial Hospital, a 33-bed hospital in northeast Louisiana that is part of a health information exchange project, is rolling out an enterprise-wide electronic medical record. West Carroll Memorial is using Minneapolis-based Healthland's physician practice management application. Financial management and clinical...

Social networking and rich media bring new threats to your data security. A report from MessageLabs, a unit of Symantec, describes several problems cropping up in the Web 2.0 world. * In 2008, criminals moved from email (spam, viruses) to sophisticated web-based...

Digital agency imc² needed a collaborative project management solution that would adapt to the rapidly changing environment of interactive marketing. When Bryan Bradley became senior vice president of technology services, one of his primary goals was to bring a formal software development methodology to imc²’s technology...

IT managers will have to decide whether to adopt storage virtualization or NAS clusters. There’s an odd thing happening in the land of storage these days. Vendors have come up with so many different answers to increasing storage utilization rates that entire divisions within some companies...

In its annual “State of the ECM Industry” research report, AIIM has found that managing electronic office documents is still a challenge for almost half of all organizations, and that more than 75% of all businesses do not have control of the modern business communication...

Apple has done it again and made an already-miniscule MP3 player even smaller with their 3rd generation of the iPod Shuffle. This Shuffle has no screen or physical controls on it aside from a single switch, and it comes with a headset with an in-line...

Levels of stress seem to be on the rise everywhere. How we deal with it affects our performance and career success. Career and leadership coach John M. McKee offers six tips and tactics that have helped his clients in demanding times. Every day we hear...

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider reinstating Virginia's tough anti-spam law, leaving in place a lower court ruling that threw out the measure as unconstitutional. The high court's decision ends the legal odyssey of the 2003 anti-spam law, one of the nation's first,...