Security vendor Symantec Corp. on Monday announced a new hosted medical image archiving and sharing solution the company is calling Symantec Health. Aimed at healthcare providers, the idea is to aid hospitals and medical facilities in lowering costs associated with storing medical records[......]
Archive for March, 2010
Microsoft Paint has come standard on Windows PCs for a good long while now. While we have a soft spot for Paint, it hasn’t really changed with the technology. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews As IE6 and IE7 users throughout Europe turn on their Windows Vista- and XP-based computers to notice, for the first time, the opportunity to switch Web browsers from Microsoft Internet Explorer to something they may have never heard of, their manufacturers are preparing for an influx of new customers[......]
The direction of robotics is something of a puzzle. On the one hand, the most successful robots are those designed for a single, repetitive function. On the other, there’s this insistence to create a human replicant: something “more human than human,†in the words of the Tyrell Corporation, despite the distinct limitations for success[......]
The e-Reader market has taken a turn, headed toward more expensive multi-purpose devices (e.g., Apple’s iPad, Amazon’s expected full-color multi-touch Kindle). This puts existing single-function e-Readers, which are priced relatively high, in some jeopardy. To keep the ‘pure’ e-Reader market alive and healthy, something cheaper and faster is going to be needed, and Freescale has obliged with a new chip, the i.MX508 [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Four men from a San Francisco company called Wiseguy Tickets Inc. have been indicted in a $25 million online ticket fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice announced today. The four men -- Kenneth Lowson, 40, Kristofer Kirsch, 37, Faisal Nahdi, 36, and Joel Stevenson, 37 -- have been indicted on conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to gain unauthorized access and exceed authorized access to computer systems, and 42 additional counts of wire fraud; gaining unauthorized access and exceeding authorized access to computer systems; or causing damage to computers in interstate commerce. [......]
It remains to be seen what kind of market exists for handheld tablets, but the general consensus is that even at $499 -- the cost of Apple's entry-level iPad -- tablets are going to be a tough sell. Enter Archos, who just announced a pair of large-screen Android-based tablets that cost less than half as much[......]
We're not sure why these haven't received any fanfare up to this point, but for those of you who like to get all touchy-feely with your notebooks, Dell's new Studio 1558 Touch and Studio 1749 Touch notebooks both beg to be groped . [......]
Who says you have to sacrifice functionality when putting together a micro-ATX build? Not MSI, who just unveiled its 890GXM-G65 motherboard[......]
Data security and disaster recovery firm CMS Products last Thursday announced its family of "Instant Server Recovery" solutions for SMBs running Microsoft's Foundation or Small Business Server OS. [......]
Mobile security has been getting a lot of attention lately, so much in fact that Symantec has come out and said it is working on new software that will keep mobile phones safe from viruses and other forms of malware, news and rumor site Fudzilla reports. [......]
