Kevin Fogarty

The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is far from being a run-of-the-mill health care organization dealing with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rules. Or, rather, its far from being just one run-of-the-mill health care organization. In addition to its affiliation with the 1,500-bed, 12,000-employee Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care hospital system—which undoubtedly qualifies it as […]

The wait for Microsofts next major operating system continues, and the question of how eager customers are to upgrade is unsettled, but its official name has been released. As reported in Ziff Davis Internets Microsoft Watch, Microsoft announced Friday that it would replace the code-name Longhorn with the proper name Windows Vista. The announcement, made […]

Microsofts decision to protect its channel partners and ISVs against any potential intellectual-property disputes wont radically improve its market or credibility. But if it had not stepped done so, both channel partners and end users would have become increasingly uncomfortable using products from a company whose products are so obvious a target. “This is very […]

Say what you will about its importance for business, communications and international relations; the Internets great power continues to be the ability to get peoples knickers in a twist over issues that were solved in other media decades ago. The size of the knickers and the importance of the twist continue to grow, however, which […]

Oracle Corp. is planning another acquisition, which was due to be announced at 4 p.m. Eastern time Monday, according to sources familiar with the deal. This time the target is electronic identity management and secure Web access software provider Oblix Inc., which is run by longtime Symantec Corp. CEO and security industry guru Gordon Eubanks. […]

What is it? A way to determine where your customers live or work by correlating their street addresses with their physical location. Its done by adding data from mapping software or the Global Positioning System to the customer information you already have, such as purchasing history, creditworthiness and income. By combining demographic and geographic information, […]

Best Buy will have spent 25,000 hours of staff and consultant time by October just so its systems can read one more digit in each bar code on the packages of electronics products that its cashiers run through their checkout aisles. That extra digit-part of an international tug-of-war over bar-code standards-was mandated last month after […]

What is event-driven architecture? One of the few instances in which the real-world benefits of a technology came before the hype. The term “event-driven architecture” refers to any applications that react intelligently to changes in conditions, whether that change is the impending failure of a hard drive or a sudden change in stock price. Is […]

In Athens this summer, the organizers of the Olympic Games will attempt a technological feat never tried before at the Games: recycling. No, technology staffers wont be collecting discarded Evian bottles for the deposit, but they will adapt technology used successfully at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City for reuse in Athens. Recycling […]

In criminal investigations the first suspects are always the most obvious ones—the husband, the girlfriend, the accountant with power-of-attorney who cant be located right at the moment. Not so when the problem under investigation is a database that suddenly starts taking queries but giving no answers back or, worse, spits out reports with data that […]