The communications network used to transmit medical data for the U.S. government's Medicare and Medicaid programs has security vulnerabilities that could expose patients' medical data and other personal information, according to a report released Tuesday.
Just days before next week's kickoff of Novell Inc.'s annual BrainShare user conference, its chief technology officer disclosed plans to leave the company at the end of the month to become the general manager of a software business unit at another IT vendor.
That it is 2002 and Home Depot is finally installing an enterprise-widendata warehouse should come as no surprise - few companies, including largenretailers, have the resources to pull it off.
Taking the leap from a salaried position with a stable company to a contracting job can be exciting, lucrative and freeing, and many IT professionals rode out the dot-com bubble by doing so.