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Reality Check

What's in Health Vault? Search Me.

Microsoft's foray into personal health records management isn't about storing your records. It's about beating Google in the ongoing search wars.

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Microsoft, VMware and the coming VMwars

The battle between Microsoft and VMware to control Windows virtualization is forcing users to chose between two proprietary approaches. Users are caught in the middle.

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Windows Server 2008: You write the story

Great, good or ho-hum? Weigh in here. Your comments may appear in our story on the future of Windows Server 2008.

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My life on the watch list

It's not easy being linked to the terrorist watch list. Now the DHS wants to make it easier for the watch list misfits like me to to get off.

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Give me security or give me death

When balancing the need for emergency access to electronic medical records against security concerns, patients are on the horns of a dilemma. But when you're in the ER, the choice is crystal clear.

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Google disrupts data center grain mix

What's big and yellow and Google all over?

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Social networking: Driving teams apart

Social network tools are no substitute for the voice or in-person interactions that make for a successful collaborative work team.

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Boycott! Amazon insurgency spreads to UK

The online bookseller's squeeze on print-on-demand publishers has small U.K. self-publishers up in arms.

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Sorry, wrong decade

The automated attendant at the VA San Diego Medical Center is so .... '90s. The prerecorded message presents callers with this intriguing message ...

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Survey: Most IT operations going green

Green IT initiatives are taking over, but it isn't about altruism. It's about cold, hard business decisions to be more cost efficient by being more energy efficient.

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Deregulation: Killing broadband in Germany

OECD reports notwithstanding, the state of broadband in Germany isn't as good as one might think, says this former resident.

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Amazon controversy heats up

The Independent Book Publishers Association goes on record opposing a controversial Amazon policy that forces publishers to use the e-tailer's print on demand services if they want Amazon to sell their books online.

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Does Kodak cut it? Low cost ink strategy one year later

Kodak didn't want to dominate the ink jet multifunction printer market with its low-cost ink strategy for its EasyShare 5000 printers: It just wanted to steal away its competitors' most profitable customers. One year later here's the report card that reviews how the strategy worked - and how it didn't.

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Hannaford breach hurts credit scores

The Hannaford security breach could hurt some consumers' credit scores, even if no fraud occurs, says an expert.

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Amazon pulls a Microsoft

Want us to sell your books? Then you'd better let us print them, says Amazon. And oh, by the way, this is not an ultimatum.

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