Stories about: Tandem

In 2003, a staff member at the Public Health Laboratory of the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care of the Province of Ontario in Canada tried to send a fax to a doctor's office. (By the way, for U.S. readers, Canada is the large blank pink region north of the border on your maps and which, contrary to popular belief, actually includes people as well as moose and beavers.) Alas, the clerk mistyped a 5 as an 8 in the fax number and inadvertently sent medical records to a local gasoline station. The owner very kindly gave the fax to a doctor who was a regular customer and the doctor reported the breach of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act .

America Online Tuesday announced that it has acquired Sphere Source, a provider of contextual-search tools that offers related content to publishers.

Enterprise search is set to become a pervasive and demanding force in IT over the next several years, according to Gartner analyst Whit Andrews.

Borland this week announced the availability of [[xref: http://www.borland.com/us/products/starteam/index.html |StarTeam 2008]].

Former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for TMP Worldwide in the Asia Pacific region, Tim Ebbeck, has formally been appointed CEO for SAP A/NZ.

Businesses presenting their stories at last week's VoiceCon Orlando 2008 found that unified communications can increase productivity, reduce costs, speed up customer service and even do good things for the environment.

Google launched a free hosted service this week that helps Web site publishers sell advertising faster and fill unsold slots on their sites.

Advanced Micro Devices took a step closer to the introduction of its upcoming Cartwheel and Puma chip packages with the introduction of its 780 series chipset at the Cebit exhibition in Hanover, Germany.

Alcate-Lucent and HP yesterday announced the integration of their respective products for managing and securing Web services-based networks.

Continuing its push into the mobile consumer market, Microsoft announced that it plans to acquire Danger, the developer of software and services that run the Sidekick.

There is strength in numbers, according to the leaders of three HP user groups, who this week announced they will seek approval to join forces and pool resources to better serve more than 50,000 members worldwide.