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Daily Forex Market Commentary
14.07.2008 00:18
actionforex.com
The confluence of geopolitical and systemic risk, and sinking stocks hurt the dollar on Friday. On Sunday, the Treasury and Federal Reserve produced sweeping steps to support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and attempt to avoid a potential meltdown in global financial markets. The Fed said both companies could access...
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Borland adds tools aimed at making application development more transparent
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Borland is announcing three tools, scheduled to ship in the fall, that are designed to give IT managers as well as business managers more visibility into application development processes.
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Hard & Soft
Backers Stage Protest on Obama's Social Network
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Showing how users can take Web 2.0 sites in unexpected directions, supporters of Barack Obama used his campaign's official social networking site to protest his stance in favor of a bill extending the controversial FISA surveillance program.
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Off the record
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
While standards are finally getting some traction with vendors and providers, there's still a long way to go before broad interoperability is achieved.
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Hard & Soft
EPA to Start Small on Energy Star for Servers
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
The EPA expects to introduce an initial Energy Star rating for servers by year's end. But it will take longer to develop a rating system that can measure the energy consumed by actual workloads.
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Hard & Soft
Seven Years And Counting: National Disease-Tracking System Still Unfinished
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
For the past seven years, the federal government has been pushing the adoption of a Web-based system that public health agencies nationwide could use to report and track infectious disease outbreaks. But even now, only 38 of the 50 states are fully compliant with the systems technical requirements.
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Short Takes
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Brief news items about IT developments.
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Finding True Diversity
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Computerworld makes an effort to cover IT from many different perspectives.
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Genderless Insights
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Insights in Don Tennants column didnt necessarily have anything to do with gender.
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Outsourcing Deal, Layoffs Lead to End of Tax Breaks
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
The Nielsen Co. has given up tens of thousands of dollars in property tax breaks this year after signing an IT offshoring deal that led to layoffs at its global technology center in Oldsmar, Fla.
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Hard & Soft
DNS Hole Doesn't Go Unnoticed
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
A security flaw in the DNS protocol didn't get Microsoft's top severity rating when the company and other vendors issued patches for it. But that belies the amount of attention being paid to the cache-poisoning vulnerability.
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Hard & Soft
Fix DNS Now
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Frankly Speaking: A major flaw in the Internet's infrastructure has been found, and a fix is ready. Make that fix now. Don't wait one second, warns Frank Hayes.
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E-medical Records: What Seems to Be the Problem?
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Progress on electronic medical records has been held back by loose and overlapping technical standards and poor interoperability among different types of health care information systems sold by hundreds of different vendors. But the biggest obstacle may be a payment system that offers little financial incentive for most health care providers to invest in using e-medical record internally, let alone sharing them with other providers.
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Doctors Push Back
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
Cost isn't the only reason why doctors object to using electronic medical records. Physicians say many systems fail to present information in the ways they need to see it.
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Personal E-health Records May Give Automation a Push
14.07.2008 00:06
computerworld.com
The advent of the personal electronic health record might just give the health care industry the push it needs to get records online.
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