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  • Tassie goes to market for more e-health

    Tasmania has gone to market for further e-health services in a continuation of its push to upgrade the health technology capabilities in its hospitals.

  • Suspected spam king to appear in court

    A 30-year-old man suspected of being the 'Rizler' spam king is scheduled to appear in federal court Wednesday, following his arrest last week when he flew into the US.

  • Patient tracking system unveiled to solve drug errors

    Australian citizens will be assigned a unique identifying number to help healthcare providers protect their patients from accidentally being given the wrong treatment.

  • Time for an online drug bust?

    The Clinton Administration is looking to crack down on illegal drug sales online. The White House's proposal, which will be submitted to Congress as part of the budget, would give the Federal Drug Administration authority over Net pharmacies, establish federal requirements for online drug sales and set fines and penalties.

  • Free Google Analytics: A spammer's best friend

    Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business.

  • US major source of Internet drug sales

    The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) reported that there has been an increase in dealers using cyberspace to market narcotics and mind-altering drugs illegal in most countries. Its annual report says Internet pharmacies are shipping prescription-only drugs across the globe.

  • Online pharmacy in detox

    The world's largest drug and health-care services companies, is trying to shake its Net hangover with a cautious but ambitious overhaul that it hopes will keep it selling everything from scalpels to Viagra long into the new millennium.

  • Accenture to invest US$450 million in SOA

    IT outsourcing company Accenture on Wednesday in the US announced it plans to invest US$450 million over the next three years in the development of service-oriented architecture applications.

  • Google gets into health records search

    Google launched a new initiative aimed at the health care market this week and announced major industry partners including universities, pharmacies and hospitals, declaring its intention to give people access to all their healthcare information in the one spot.

  • Microsoft and Pfizer court Viagra spammers

    Microsoft has teamed up with Viagra-maker Pfizer to launch 17 lawsuits against spammers and Web site owners that are allegedly selling 'dangerous' prescription drugs.

  • Herbal "Viagra" Web sites stretch the truth

    -Be the biggest man your lover has ever had!" urges the animated Web site for a herbal pill called LONGitude, created by a "former Viagra pharmacist" to increase penis size, or your money back -- guaranteed.

  • Buying online: May we have your fingerprint?

    In any given James Bond movie, 007 will be subject to an iris scan, a hand print scan or voice analysis by technology that secures and verifies his identity. All the cool gadgets, fictional or not, make for great entertainment.

  • Web services: The next big thing?

    Data can be exchanged and information combined in new ways with Web services linking servers over the Internet. Users can access services, with real time updates, through any Net device.

  • The Internet preps for a medical miracle

    Internet-savvy consumers, hungry for health information, may spark a revolution in personalised medicine that experts say will send shock waves through insurers, employers, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and the Internet itself.

  • The Bank of Dell is now open

    With his Dell Computer Corp. already one of the Internet's phenomenal success stories, Dell Chairman and Chief Executive Michael S. Dell is increasingly putting his own money into a stream of Internet and electronic-commerce startups.

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