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On Location: MedicAlert By Tim Wilson MedicAlert, the venerable maker of medical ID bracelets, is implementing a service-oriented architecture with Web apps capable of linking to systems in a variety of health-care settings. It's an IT-driven transformation that may put the company on the leading edge of health-care data storage. |
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On Location: MedicAlert's SOA Initiative Gets Healthy Prognosis By Richard Hoffman After much trial and error, MedicAlert's development team has its service-oriented architecture initiative on a healthy course. The initial result is a USB device that lets patients manage their own personal medical information -- an advancement that could revolutionize the health records field. |
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Feature: E-mail Authentication Techniques By Christopher T. Beers We examine three e-mail authentication techniques to see how effective they are in slowing the flow of annoying electronic junk mail. |
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How-To: Plan an iSCSI SAN By Howard Marks Think you're ready to build that iSCSI SAN? We give you tips on how to plan and configure it for enterprise success -- from paths to NICs to switches. |
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Research in Motion's BlackBerry Enterprise Server By Dan Renfroe Improved administration, support for Web services and a visual development tool distinguish version 4.1. |
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Mindreef's Coral By Mike Gunderloy Mindreef Coral can check a Web service's compliance with standards, capture diagnostic information in persistent workspaces and present a community support portal for end users. |
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Quest's Central 5.5 By Cory Cundy Quest Central 5.5 continues the software's tradition of enabling database administrators to manage multiple tasks with a common workflow across various platforms. |
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Iomega's ScreenPlay Multimedia By Bill Silvey If you're off on a long trip, you'll like the support for 90 hours of video -- and more -- in Iomega's new multimedia device. |
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Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet By Michelle Brandenburg What the tablet does -- Web browsing and a number of Internet applications -- it does very well. But Nokia blew it by failing to include basic PDA functionality. The device also falls down on battery life. |
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Cingular's Broadband Connect By Sean Ginevan Cingular's Broadband Connect is a new -- and worthy -- competitor in the 3G market. |
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Talk to the Shades By Jennifer Zaino In this edition, Oakley Razrwire takes sunglasses to a whole new level. Plus, Lego Mindstorm's NXT robot kid, a flashlight/digital camera combo and much more. |
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Last Mile: Va-Va-Va Vista Edited By Tim Wilson and Tom LaSusa In this edition we laugh at the "Top 11 rejected features for Windows Vista," online bidding for Captain Kirk's kidney stone and a computer controlled treasure chest. |
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Letters: Patent Problems By NWC Readers David Wall contends, "Fighting patents is the best way to reduce the legalized extortion foisted on us by patent trolls." |
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Get Online: Welcome to the New NetworkComputing.com By Richard Karpinski NWC's technology editors -- all IT professionals with real-world work experience -- drive our revamped Web site. Read about some of our big changes. |
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Reality IT: CRMinally Negligent By Hunter Metatek In this edition: A tale of CRM migration gone wrong. It's a good object lesson for IT project managers not to ignore key stakeholders -- including end users -- who might be affected by the change. |
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India's Outsourcing Case By Ron Anderson A trip to India brings a first-hand view of how the Indian IT outsourcing companies work -- and why they're so successful. |
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Build Your Own NAS, Part 2 By Don MacVittie Continuing the ambitious project of building our own Network Area Storage, we scour for parts and get watery warnings. |
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Is AJAX a Security Risk? By Lori MacVittie Asynchronous JavaScript and XML has come under scrutiny recently, after it was discovered that AJAX has the potential to expose browsers to potential security problems. |
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Network General Bets on Fidelia By Bruce Boardman Can the purchase of Fidelia, maker of the NetVigil network-monitoring product, pull Network General out of its downward slide? |
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Buzz Bonus: Itanium's Downfall; Turn It Down! By Tim Wilson If your organization has standardized on machines that use Itanium 2 processors, it's probably time to rethink your purchasing plans. Plus: One man sues Apple for making him deaf. |
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