* Healthcare CIO gets tough on net policy violators * IBM reclaims top supercomputer crown for U.S. * Leucadia sells shares of MCI * Microsoft open sources Web authoring application * Today on Layer 8
You can talk about privacy and security policies all you want – but how aggressive are you in enforcing those policies? CareGroup Healthcare System CIO John Halamka is extremely serious and has no qualms about letting everyone in his organization know who is getting canned for violating policy and why. Healthcare CIO gets tough on net policy violators http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928caregroup.html?net
You can talk about privacy and security policies all you want – but how aggressive are you in enforcing those policies? CareGroup Healthcare System CIO John Halamka is extremely serious and has no qualms about letting everyone in his organization know who is getting canned for violating policy and why.
Healthcare CIO gets tough on net policy violators
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928caregroup.html?net
IBM reclaims top supercomputer crown for U.S.
It took 16,000 processors to do it, but IBM has finally taken the title of the most powerful supercomputer on the planet away from the Earth Simulator built by Japan’s NEC. What’s more, this supercomputer is only a small prototype of a version IBM plans to deliver next year that will be eight times as big.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0929ibmrecla.html?net
Leucadia sells shares of MCI
Leucadia National this week sold all of its MCI stock. The conglomerate filed an 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stating that it sold its 5% stake in the carrier. According to the document the sale brought in a pre-tax profit of about $20 million for Leucadia.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0928mci.html?net
Microsoft open sources Web authoring application
Continuing its flirtation with open source, Microsoft on Monday posted the code of a little-known collaboration application to open source development site SourceForge.net.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928microopen.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where we put the ‘super’ in supercomputer:
Bloggers prank TGIFriday menu nationwide; new PC game lets you “fight” as John Kerry; Japan uses technology to track students; and life (online) after death; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
