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Amazon.com Wants Your Spare Change: All Of It
Pity the poor penny, the neglected nickel, the despondent dime and the queasy quarter. The times are changing and for…
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Electronic Health Data Helping Katrina Victims
How do you take your daily medicine if you can’t remember what prescriptions you have? That’s the situation facing many…
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Studies Show Electronic Medical Records Make Financial Sense
Instituting electronic health records is an expensive proposition, especially for small physician practices. And few of these practices are adopting…
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Ameriquest: Making Mortgages a Little Too Easy
When Ameriquest put in place an automated system to speed mortgage processing, it cut more than half of the 50…
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Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina took most of the Gulf region—and the nation—practically by surprise, companies that have moved beyond…
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The Fine Line Between Charity and Self-Promotion
The most altruistic gift is an anonymous contribution, in which a giver wants to help but does not want to…
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Drug Scientists Slow to Adopt Open Source
A surge in open-source technology offers many businesses a potent combination of power and low cost, but the pharmaceutical industry…
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Does Cyberterror Matter to Counterterrorists?
An Al Qaeda operative hacks into a network of a multinational company, grabs sensitive data about internal operations, floods its…
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UPS Delivers Real Presence for Virtual Bank
Chris Erice works for a medical services company in downtown Honolulu. He’s surrounded by banks. The nearest teller machine is…