Cisco is fleshing out its Data Center 3.0 strategy, which includes advances in energy management, data center virtualization, cloud computing, and collaboration.... [Continue...]

Seagate has announced the industry’s 1st 3 TB drive. Beyond the obvious “first” - but certainly not the last - the announcement is interesting for several reasons. [Continue...]

Last Wednesday Microsoft launched the third update to their IE9 platform, staying true to their word of releasing a preview of the platform every 8 weeks. The launch shows the IE9 capable of playing HTML 5 video and audio as well. IE9’s speed and support for web standards is significantly improved in comparison to the [Continue...]

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A new Commonwealth Fund study  reports that despite having the "most costly health system in the world, the United States consistently underperforms on most dimensions of performance... Compared with six other nations—Australia, Canada, Germany... [Continue...]

RAID 5 pain is on message boards and support forums all over the net. Failed rebuilds, lost data, unhappy bosses. Why isn’t RAID 5 as reliable as it is supposed to be? [Continue...]

The new external “like” feature has created an entire new movement of Facebook spam scams and has put the social network right back into a spot where it’s comfortable: being reactive to security threats. [Continue...]

Isn’t it ironic how after years since the XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was released by Windows, people are still holding on to the old XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)? Thankfully on July 13 — Microsoft is finally going to pull the plug for those users who have over-enjoyed the Windows XP SP2 and Windows [Continue...]

Former New York governor, Eliot Spitzer is set to co-host a new evening show on CNN. WSJ's Shira Ovide reports. [Continue...]

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Brad Wright dishes a special Research Edition of Health Wonk Review at Wright on Health timed to coincide with the  Annual Research Meeting for AcademyHealth in Boston.  Healthcare Technology News story on Defensive Medicine is... [Continue...]

Microsoft has just passed an important milestone on the road to shipping Internet Explorer 9, releasing a third Platform Preview for download by the public today. They’ve finally delivered the missing pieces of the HTML5 standard. Is this the la... [Continue...]

Guest author John Halamka is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the  Harvard Medical School. Decision Support Service ProvidersIn my recent Leiter Lecture, I spoke about the idea that decision supp... [Continue...]

Last month I called Adobe’s Flash “the new Vista,” and wondered out loud about Adobe’s commitment to fixing its reliability and security problems. Now that Flash Player 10.1 has been officially released, I have some initial, ve... [Continue...]

A recent independent national physician Gallup survey commissioned by Jackson Healthcare found that physicians attribute 26 percent of overall healthcare costs to the practice of defensive medicine. Of the physicians surveyed, 73 percent agreed that th... [Continue...]

Guest IdaRose Sylvester talks about how businesses can better think globally when it comes to thinking digitally. [Continue...]

 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched the official website for the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. This website will provide the most up-to-date, detailed information about the EHR incentive programs.... [Continue...]

If you think the virus has been one of the toughest enemies on the net, think again! Oh, well, they actually are! Anyway, the new serial killer these days are the malicious programs that hacks your information on the web. Matousec researchers outlined the way on how the attackers could make use of the kernel [Continue...]

The old downloadable signature file method of anti-malware protection is flawed in today’s era of cloud-scale malware threats, say a new generation of vendors. I caught up recently with Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Webroot, to learn more. [Continue...]

NHIN Direct is an ONC led initiative to enable boundaryless secure point-to-point provider messaging to other healthcare stakeholders. NHIN Direct would provide a standards-based replacement to paper, fax and email-in-the-clear and a transport layer ... [Continue...]

Tablet computers war is outrageous this year. Analysts says that Apple and Android are the leading product rivals, and on the other hand, Windows is still wondering how it can fit in. The rush of popularity gained by tablet computers took place after the launch of iPad by Apple as you know, although tablets were [Continue...]

National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal has sent the strongest signal yet that requirements aren't likely to relax substantially from the proposed rule.  His latest post makes the case that providers and healthcare organizations have a... [Continue...]

The uTest “Check-In Challenge” shows near 900 technical, functional and GUI bugs [Continue...]

Like it or not, cloud providers have to engage with public policy makers, especially if they want to operate across national borders. The US has it easy compared to Europe, where effective dialog is essential to ensure the growth and uptake of Internet-based services. [Continue...]

Bill Reddy: Should average users care anything about how Facebook shares and monetizes their information? Let’s take a look at some major objections to using the largest social network. [Continue...]