Medical professionals have long agreed that electronic patient records are the future, but the vast majority continue to balk at making the financial and time commitment to get there. Now Medicare, the U.S. program that reimburses hospitals and physicians for medical care to qualifying people over age 65 years, has stepped in with an unprecedented […]
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The subway and bus bombings in London were a sign to security experts worldwide that the best defense governments can provide against terrorists armed with explosives remains low-tech options such as bomb-sniffing dogs, trained personnel, and working video cameras. The New York Times reports that after the billions were spent to improve homeland security worldwide, […]
The number of North American organizations expected to try Linux open source software for the first time is dwindling, according to a survey from investment banking firm SG Cowen and Co. The findings note that the number of companies planning to become first-time users of the software has fallen by half in the past year. […]
Some of the most intimidating hackers in the world have been corralled by the U.S. military as an elite posse ready to launch cyber warfare against enemy networks should the orders be issued. The group’s existence was revealed during a recent U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, where military leaders described a unit called the […]
A disturbing increase in pharming—the latest online scam to lure potential identity-theft victims—has security experts apprehensive. While phishing uses email spam to deliver fake messages to entice individuals to reveal personal or financial information, pharming automatically directs computer users from a legitimate Web site to a fraudulent mirror image of that site without any warning. […]
Harvard Business School rejected 119 applicants who accessed a portion of a Web site to learn whether they were accepted to the elite school before official notifications were sent out. USA Today reports the applicants were able to view files at AppyYourself (www.apply-yourself.com), a company that manages Web pages used by students to apply to […]
An international team of scientists has joined to genetically identify—or provide a barcode for—every plant and animal species on Earth. The Barcode of Life Initiative promises to build the largest database of DNA snippets from every known (and heretofore unknown) species on the planet, linking them to photos, facts, and a variety of scientific data. […]
The U.S. will suffer at least one devastating attack to its national information network or power grid in the next decade, says a majority of experts responding to a recent survey by Pew Internet & American Life and Elon University. The survey of more than 1,285 experts found 66% believed the U.S. will endure either […]
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