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Germany has already partially transitioned to electronic health records but some health IT experts have expressed concerns over the use of e-health cards

Big Blue grabbed 9.6 per cent of India's $5-billion domestic IT services market in 2007, the research firm says

Wi-Fi is being pitched as a way of bringing about better access and availability to municipalities, but it may also soon be critical in the response to -- and aftermath of -- a disaster

The Lac Carling Congress itself may last only two days, but it always delivers streams of work and research from the year just past and provides advice for the Public Sector Chief Information Officers Council (PSCIOC) and the Public Sector Service Delivery Council (PSSDC). This year

A recent survey by data-protection reporting and compliance vendor Bocada Inc. revealed some startling feedback about how IT pros feel about the headaches of backup.

Enterprise portals have been credited with reducing IT infrastructure, substituting online less expensive self-service for call centre reps, and providing faster executive communication to staff, according to Forrester Research.

Small, medium, and large organizations in North America are increasing their spending on security products and services over the next few years to the extent that end-user expenditures will grow 78 per cent between 2003 and 2007, from US$4.5 billion to $8 billion, according to a study released last fall by San Jose-based Infonetics Research, Inc. Titled User Plans for Security Products and Services, North America 2003, the study covers security products, security services and PKI.

That SQL Slammer was global in three minutes proves the increased speed of cyber attacks. That speed and greater exposures through wireless architectures and Web services applications are rendering companies more vulnerable. The cost of that vulnerability is just a guess as only an estimated 10 or 15 per cent of companies report their downtime. Research firm Computer Economics of Carlsbad, Calif., reportedly conjectures that the worldwide impact of malicious code is lower than the year 2000 high to date, but still over US$12 billion.