DST Health Solutions has obtained Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) software certification from National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its CareAnalyzer HEDIS solution. Calculating the comprehensive set ...
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Creating some consternation in the Web development community, Opera Software is switching from a home-built rendering engine to the more widely used open-source WebKit, now employed in the Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers. "It ...
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Mozilla yesterday took another step toward delivering a "Metro" version of Firefox to Windows 8 users. Late Tuesday, Asa Dotzler, the Firefox desktop product manager, announced that a preliminary Metro browser had reached ...
Facebook has deleted all European facial recognition data, the Irish data protection commissioner and a German data protection regulator confirmed independently Thursday after reviewing parts of the social network's source code. "We ...
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ASN1C is an all-in-one development solution targeted at product developers working with standards based on Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). Many standards bodies use ASN.1 to define interoperable protocols, in a variety of industries ...
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Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of incorporating an open-source program developed by Linus Torvalds into its own development ...
Infor is being sued by a Puerto Rican tax authority on grounds that its failure to maintain software used by the organization racked up $9 million in costs. The Municipal Revenue Collection Center first acquired a limited license in 2006 ...
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Access to software collaboration site GitHub appeared to be restored in China on Wednesday, just as former Google executive Kai-Fu lee criticized its blocking as a senseless move that would harm the nation's developers. GitHub, a U.S. ...
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US law enforcement has announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the US, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged international ...
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Huawei saw net profit rise by 33 per cent in 2012, the Chinese telecommunications firm announced in its financial results for the year. The profits were much improved on 2011, with the firm expecting to make a net total of 15.4bn yuan ...
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Oracle’s bad Java week got worse on Wednesday, after it was announced that a previously unknown flaw in the programming language still threatens the security of millions of PCs. This is despite the fact that Oracle issued an emergency ...
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The hundreds of ctargeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word documents as previously believed, but also by using Web-based Java exploits, according to ...
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Developers are finding that building applications in the cloud saves time, but concerns remain about security and uptime, according to a newly released study. Results of the biannual Evans Data Cloud Development Survey, conducted in ...
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A built-in PDF viewer component based on JavaScript and HTML5 Web technologies has been added to the beta version of Firefox 19, Mozilla said Friday. The browser maker described the built-in PDF viewer as more secure and safer than ...
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Atmel has expanded its ARM Cortex-M4 processor-based flash microcontroller family to include devices with extra connectivity peripherals, a floating point unit (FPU), analogue capabilities, and higher processing power. The SAM4E ...
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