by Joseph Forbes | Apr 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, HEALTH, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
But the majority of US health providers are in smaller practices that have been slow to embrace electronic medical records Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S....
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
A House committee doesn’t change the cyberthreat sharing bill enough to win support from some digital rights groups A U.S. House of Representatives committee failed to make the changes necessary to allay fears about government surveillance in a controversial...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support
Wireless IP cameras from Foscam and other vendors have serious security issues, researchers said at Hack in the Box Thousands of wireless IP cameras connected to the Internet have serious security weaknesses that allow attackers to hijack them and alter their...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 16, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
No one is going to have a better pipe than Dish-Sprint, according to Dish chairman Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank. The satellite service...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY
The back-up registries were announced shortly after gTLD rollout security concerns were raised by Verisign and others The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names...
