Canberra (ip-192.com): Medication prescribing errors can be reduced by as much as 66 percent with the introduction of electronic prescribing technology in hospitals, new a study from Australia’s University of New South Wales (UNSW) shows. Electronic prescribing or e-prescribing (e-Rx) refers to computer-based transmission and filling of a prescription instead of written or faxed prescriptions. [...]
Security threat management: Mitigate malicious network traffic
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Framingham (ip-192.com): A continually evolving breed of unknown, persistent, targeted, and adaptive security threats is driving the expansion of the security services threat intelligence market. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), this emerging predictive security market is forecast to grow from $198 million in 2009 to $905 million in 2014 as organizations [...]
Code injection risk: Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Symantec recommends that users disable or uninstall its pcAnywhere. The company, best known for its suite of antivirus software, says that source code stolen by hackers in 2006 may expose vulnerabilities in the remote access software. “Malicious users with access to the source code have an increased ability to identify vulnerabilities and build [...]
Cloud computing: SaaS used to augment business intelligence
January 25, 2012 By 1 Comment
Stamford (ip-192.com): Nearly one third of organizations uses or plans to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions. According to a survey of 1,364 IT managers and business users of BI platforms in the fourth quarter of 2011, only 17 percent of organizations have replaced or plan to [...]
Fourier transform: New algorithm improves compression
January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Cambridge (ip-192.com): MIT researchers developed a new algorithm that improves on the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a mathematical operation that decomposes a function into its constituent frequencies, known as its frequency spectrum. The new algorithm could be particularly useful for image compression to allow smartphones to wirelessly transmit large video files without draining batteries or [...]
Super-Identity: Project focuses on real and cyber identities
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Southampton (ip-192.com): The complex nature of identity, both in the real world and online, is the focus of a three year study at the University of Southampton. The project, which will investigate ‘Super-Identities’, aims to tackle the issues associated with unreliable and counterfeit identification and provide a faster and more efficient way of combating the [...]
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