Search

Focuses on American companies that spend at least $1 billion on information technology. Description of companies included in the group; Business operations; Importance of information technology in the companies' operations; Impact on the companies' competitiveness. INSETS: AT&T sees end to paper trail.;Chase's new image.;UPS expands online package.;IT drives MCI.

Discusses the advantages of converting paper documents to digitized versions through viewer software. Services offered by vendors Adobe, Novell and Common Ground Software; Technical aspects of the document processing.

The article reports on the overblown and underestimated information technologies, concepts like electronic medical records, and trends in the industry based on the "Information Week." The paper medical records, privacy policies and protection, network security and shortage in workers are just a few of what has been overrated during the past months.

Provides an overview on information technology programs of distributors of electronics, paper and components parts and assemblies in the United States. Primary challenge in tuning distribution supply chains; Arrow Electronics Inc.'s adjustment of its business model to account for the shift of manufacturing activity in Asia; Percent decline in the IT budget of Arrow.

Focuses on the plan of Corey Booth, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) information technology (IT) chief. Career background; IT objectives; Role in SEC's conversion of its paper documents related to investigations under way to an electronic format document-imaging and optical character-recognition software; Components of Booth's plan to improve the regulatory process. INSET: UPGRADE Fast WAN, more storage.

Reports on the work of information technology organizations for financial institutions in the U.S. Development of business-technology initiatives to support growth strategies; Modernization of paper-based processes; Improvement in the customer services.

Focuses on the loss of businesses due to theft of information and intellectual property. Plan of Xilinx to eliminate the paper price lists it distributed to retailers; Xilinx's use of a PageRecall application from Authentica Inc.; Access of price information.

Provides information on the two released products that turn paper forms into intranet applications with database connectivity and design function. Caere Corporation's Omniform Internet Publisher Version 2.0; WebBase Web Server 4.1 with ExperForms by ExperTelligence; Content of the Internet Publisher's manual; Ways on how to load a form into Internet Publisher; Features and functions of each products. INSET: At a glance..

Reports on the efforts of Kemper Insurance Cos. to digitize paper-based information and automize data handling. Damages suffered by the company due to the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States (U.S.); Laws in the U.S. concerning the use of paper documents by insurance companies; Software selected by Kemper for its digitization efforts; Challenges faced by the company concerning the matter.

The article reports on a research paper to decrease cybercrime. According to the report, computer science student Jason Franklin co-authored the paper about underground hacker economy with professors Adrian Perrig and Vern Paxson. The research tracked one of the primary communication channels for online credit card fraud, identity theft, phishing, and spamming.

The article reports on the move of Xerox Corp. to apply for a patent for a printing technology that creates images that last for one day with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Dubbed "Erasable Paper," the company emphasizes that it will be used for e-mails and documents that are printed for brief viewing. Moreover, the paper could be reused once the image fades. The said technology came from the company's collaboration with Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Reports on the use of direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems in the 2004 elections in the United States. Absence of safeguards such as voter-verified paper-trail technology that lets voters validate that votes on the screen match a paper printout; Claim by touch-screen voting system supporters that the systems enhance the election process; Manufacture of many of the electronic voting machines used by Diebold Election Systems, Election Systems & Software, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems.

Reports on the move of Binghamton Giant Markets Inc. to replace paper prices tags in its merchandise with the wireless electronic tags from NCR Corp. Advantages of electronic price tags over paper price tags; Benefits of wireless electronic price tags; How the wireless electronic price tag works.

The author discusses the capabilities and tactics figured out by military agencies which is important to any future cyber war. He states on the call of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center for contractors to submit papers for cyberspace warfare operations capabilities. Also discussed is the need for governments to face the major intelligence challenge by precisely tracing an attack's true origin, a process known as attribution.

The article focuses on the project of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center regarding the large-scale migration from paper forms to an application suite from Epic Systems Corp. Accordingly, the project makes software to manage patients' health data, prescription processing, billing and other important tasks. It cites the critical part of the project called Secure Authentication, which centers on the authentication and authorization component in administering of medication.

Information about several papers discusses at a symposium on the cloud-based services is presented. Topics include security on the enterprise-controlled repositories and networks, vendor lock-in and standards, regulatory and legal compliance, reliability and long-term vendor commitment. The symposium featured several executives including Ross Piper, Richard Soley and Mary Sobiechowski.

The article offers advice on how infomation technology professionals can ensure users follow company security policies. The author says users are the weakest part of information technology security, and that companies should make their policy simple and understandable and look for potential conflicts between policy and practice. He says that it is a standard practice for companies to distribute security policies on paper, but that users should also be warned and disciplined when necessary.

The article presents information about how Boise Cascade Corp., supplier of wood and paper products, turned difficult to use customer data into a valuable asset. The company used to extract customer data from business records and stored it in digital form on its mainframe. Mainframe database and disk expenses were much higher that commodity data storage products that are linked through a storage area network. Boise decided to store and index purchase orders and invoices in portable document format. The data was already being entered into purchase orders and invoicing systems.

The article reports that Google Inc. has turned down the subpoena of the U.S. Government requesting for search data. Through resisting the subpoena, Google was praised by privacy advocates. But the truth behind their refusal was to guard their trading secrets on how the world's best-known information factory operates. Google used to disclose information regarding their products. An example is the paper "Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture," which was published in 2003.

This article focuses on the usage of wireless networks and tablet computers by construction management company Skanska USA Building Inc. At any time, Skanska has 500 to 2,000 job sites, each requiring as many as 60 contractors and suppliers. Every day, the equipment, office trailers, and people at about 30 sites is moved to a new location. Skanska employs roughly 4,100 people, and 75% of them are mobile. Skanska built a "walking office," an on-site wireless local area network. It's also rolling out tablet PCs from Motion Computing Inc. to supervisors and project managers on job sites. The idea is to slash the inefficiencies of managing paper and bring the capability for near-instantaneous decision-making to job sites. INSET: Skanska's Chief Change Agent.

Focuses on the natural disaster preparedness of the business enterprises in the U.S. Compilation of critical document paper; Analysis of the business processes; Inventory of the unstructured information.

Reports on the declaration of President Clinton that private enterprise must lead the world into global electronic commerce. Advocacy of the president regarding Internet; Paper the president will issue regarding E-commerce; Paper's principal author; Head of the US delegation to the G7 E-commerce policy group; Proposal of Clinton and Gore regarding taxes and tariffs on digital trade.

Opinion. Presents the author's view on the concept of paperless office which remains out of reach. Paper as disposable copy; Offers of the software makers in repositioning paper; Hardware companies working on methods to deal with a document; Options from the document-management software Outlook, by Microsoft, and GroupWise 5, by Novell.

Reports on Crayola's collaboration with Plymouth Inc. to produce a line of colorful mouse pads, computer printer paper, and other office supplies.

Focuses on the white paper released by Infoliant Corporation regarding the year 2000 computer compliance. Concern of the company as outlined in the white paper.

Reports on Westinghouse Savannah River Co.'s establishment of an enterprisewide system for electronic document and records management. Conversion of paper into digital files; Storage of millions of documents and images from different sources; Use of Documentum's Enterprise Document Management System, Adobe's Acrobat and Capture software, and RSA Data Security's encryption software.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various papers within the issue on topics including, SAP AG's pact to resell cloud-based analytics software from Net Base, and SAP's Business By De-sign ERP suite.

The article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama has instructed federal agencies to improve the management and accessibility of government records by accelerating the move from paper to electronic documents. steps agencies need to take in pursuit of updated records management systems and processes.

The article reports on the importance of a one-button option to download electronic health records which have been highlighted in the policy paper by Markle Foundation in the U.S.

The article offers information on the Windows Azure cloud computing environment offered by Microsoft Corp. It cites the new paper of the company titled "Security Best Practices For Windows Azure Applications," which deals with service layer and application security. Moreover, the company offers several security services including Windows Identity Foundation, Active Identity Foundation, and Services 2.0.

The article offers updates related to information technology including the launch of Sea Micro's new 10U rack-mount server by Silicon Valley, the new Juno Pulse, a downloadable SSL VPN client, from Juniper Network, and the plan of Shanghai government to adopt electronic books and scrap paper textbooks.

Information about several papers discussed at the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference is presented. Topics include studies from the HIMSS which includes increased IT spending plans among healthcare providers, a study on U.S. doctor who do not use e-medical records plans in buying it within two years. The conference featured HIMSS chairman dr. Barry Chaiken as a speaker.

The article offers developments in the information technology industry which are featured in the web sites of the periodical "Information Week." The use of smartphone as equipment for improving healthcare located at informationweek.com/alert/hcsmartphone. A conference of the Black Hat DC located blackhat.com. Uploading of white paper to the TechWeb Digital Library located at informationweek.com/whitepaper.

The article focuses on the effort of Honda Motor Corp. Ltd. to lower its energy cost and other efficiencies which illustrates the commitment of Honda's green information technology to become environmental friendly. It discusses the establishment of a data center in Longmont, Colorado that was made of materials produced in an environmentally responsible manner. It also cites that the company is using a black-and white and double-sided printing to save paper and ink.

The article focuses on the collaboration between United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to develop a wearable printer-scanner. It says that the UPS and HP worked together to device the printer that will let sorters spray shipping instructions onto a package and will let UPS save 1,338 tons of paper annually by not having to print sorting labels. The HP is free to sell the printer even to the rivals of UPS.

The article discusses the skillfulness of Automation and Web 2.0 in insurance industry. The insurance sector often encounters technical problems such as paper-shuffling, complicated business processes and heavy statistics. In 2008, the insurance companies deploy Web 2.0 tools to optimize the efficiency of business procedures. The tool helped the members to gain access to business intelligence-driven data and social networks such as wikipedia and blogs.

The article highlights Chief Information Technology Officer Scott Gibson of Best Western International. The cyber crimes which Gibson has been a part of and was published in the "Sunday Herald" is also included. It mentions that the paper describes a hacker who breached the hotel group's online booking system and sold access details as part of underground network.

The article profiles Vercie Lark, chief information officer of U.S.-based Embarq Corp. The paper provides information on Lark's educational attainment, professional experience, business philosophy and management style. His advice for other chief information officers is to stay abreast of technology trends and take the time to acquire skills in business administration, economics or finance.

Information about several papers discussed at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, California in 2008 is presented. Microsoft Corp.'s lawyer Brad Smith pleaded that the relationship between his company and open source developers will be less abrasive and addresses an open source gathering. He assured that the company wanted to sign as many patent agreements with other software companies.

The article focuses on the innovativeness of the electronic boarding passes (e-boarding pass) in the U.S. The e-boarding pass has been launched by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Continental Airlines. Accordingly, due to the existence of the e-boarding pass, paper boarding passes may become obsolete and it can be installed in cellular phones.

The article presents news related to the information and computer industry in the U.S. compiled as of October 2007. Art Wittmann has written a paper about the latest gear and techniques to make date center state of the art. APO expert Michael Biddick discussed trends in delivering high quality voice and video.

The article focuses on the lost International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. tapes which contains confidential information. The tapes disappeared on February 23, 2007 which contains information on current IBM employees, retirees, and people who left the company. IBM is silent on how many employees are affected by the lost data. The company ran ads in several New York papers seeking their return and offering a reward of an unspecified amount.

The article reports on developments related to information technology. Microsoft Corp. has made significant improvements in ways to recover from and repair serious problems related to Windows Vista. There are 12 add-ons to transform iPod into an entertainment center. LG. Philips LCD Co. Ltd introduces the Color E-Paper Display, which is a 14.1 inch display and a thin, flexible, and comparable in quality to printed pages.

The article reports that Hewlett-Packard Co. has rolled out two high-volume model of printers. The printers use less ink and thus cut the cost of printing by 30%. The printers have a stationary print head which spans the width of a page with a thin array of 60,000 nozzles which spray ink as the paper moves.

The article refers to the views of Columbia law professor Tim Wu on wireless communications. Wu thinks that wireless customers should be concerned about more than dropped calls. In one of the papers, he states that innovation is hindered by domineering wireless carriers. About four issues were addressed by him including undisclosed wireless broadband limitations and carrier control of wireless device connectivity over public-owned wireless spectrum.

The article reports on the proposal of a federal advisory committee of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission that would help secure electronic voting in the country. It promoted the idea of installing and auditing new voting machines by paper trails or other technology. The recommendation was made following the issuance of a draft report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The article reports on the complaint for e-voting in the U.S. CEO of Common Cause Chellie Pingree said that the complaints has included lack of poll worker training, missing parts and machines that failed to register the right choices and lack of paper trail for recounts. Further, founder of Verified Voting Davil Dill said that he is expecting revelations about e-voting problems. He adds that vote flippings may have been the caused by the calibration problems.

The article reports that New Hampshire will employ electronic prescription system by 2008. The system replaces handwritten paper orders and pharmacist and health plan databases can check dosage, allergies and insurance. The program does not depend on federal government funding and developers develop incentive plans rewarding doctors who use the system for the improvement of patient care. The system does not require process changes of electronic medical records and offer fewer errors.

The article evaluates the online personal storage locker that stores wall paper, ring tones and address book, from Oasys Mobile in the U.S. and offers information on product features and price.

The article reports on a September 2005 study which found that only 14% of group practices had electronic-records and people in the field have not seen much change a year after Hurricane Katrina destroyed millions of paper medical records. It comments on the implications of the findings on U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 goal for most Americans to have e-health records in 10 years.