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The Web can help you take your medicine

"The pharmacist may be busy, or you may be embarrassed because it's out in the open. We offer privacy and anonymity." by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Web, Health Care, Pharmacist, American Economy, Sean Teare, Teare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-15

American competitiveness and the global economy

Can the United States remain competitive as 3 billion people in Asia rapidly enter the global economy? It's a question asked by many people across market segments, including IT personnel who worry about offshore outsourcing and the jobs threat that poses. Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and probably the...

Tags: AMERICAN, Fareed Zakaria, Swiss

Blog posts 2006-06-07

VCs hanker for hunk of China, India

VCs hanker for hunk of China, IndiaMessage has been deleted.The American economy is going well now.....But it's in a tenuous condition at best. The recent boom after the 2000 collapse has been due to the refi & Home equity boom. Now we have higher oil prices looming...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, American Economy

Discussion threads 2005-06-22

Additional Resources

Can Obama make science cool?

Give him a Nobel for Science for his science speeches!Please! Obama doesn't even deserve to be your President. All the promises he made have remained just that. What else can this world expect from a politician? And things are clear from his popularity ratings.Obama is good with one thing and...

Tags: Workforce management, Obama, education

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

(Mazda2 preview (photos))

Another copy!This car resembles the 2009 Seat Ibiza, I would say it is the same car on the outside, the Ibiza has a lot more equipment.Should look into importing this spanish cousin of Volkswagen, there verynice cars.But what kind of mileage does it get?Nice looking car. But the vital question...

Tags: Low-cost, car, Mazda2, Mazda Motor Corp., Ford Motor Co., photograph

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

American cars giving slightly more miles per gallon

More MPG...Excellent in my book!Government controlYes, almighty Gov give me free healthcare & food stamps I want my freebies!'tis just the beginning, I thinkVery nice. I expect the MPG climb to continue, even accelerate. From what I've seen so far, the automobile manufacturers are doing a great job of paying...

Tags: Manufacturing, car, MPG

Discussion threads 2009-11-21

AOL: Will Armstrong get any honeymoon?

Time to send out some free AOL signup disks ntntGood Bye AOLThe sooner AOL is just a shadow in the rear-view-mirror of technological history, the better.Since day one they were a success because of aggressive marketing not due to providing anything of any value to their customers.When they bought Time...

Tags: Transportation, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?

Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...

Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Recovery? This week's pink-slip tally tops 5,000 for tech

Jobless recovery...http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmvtiAvhIOM/Sd3eSXBNXoI/AAAAAAAAAkw/ijffEEeunms/S660/did_i_do_that.JPGNo worries, with our new messiah in office he is telling people he has'saved' the country from going belly up.Meanwhile, China/Russia/Europe want to get rid of the dollar standard since itis ranked 48th in the world.It is a banana republic folk's step rightup and drink some of the socialistkool-aid...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Open source be not proud

microsoft over java???hardly.Ellison should use GPL v3 for mysqland commit 1 billion dollars to it.This deal will sail through and everyone will be happy.It is a pyramid schemeFor a long time open source companies were only "profitable" because their perceived value.MySQL is a very good example of this. They sold...

Tags: Databases, open source, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype

Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, E-books, e-reader, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

What should open source do in a car?

Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...

Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

2010 Scion xB

Photo gallery:2010 Scion xBWith funky styling and a reputation built around the tuner crowd and the sound-off set, the Scion xB almost single-handedly established the market for little boxy city cars in the North American market. However, the current generation xB faces stiff competition from the likes of the even-quirkier...

Tags: Performance management, Scion xB

Product reviews 2009-10-27

Copenhagen countdown

Will he or won't he? To go, or not to go? That is the question. Some MSM outlets say Obama will skip Copenhagen. Yet political leaders in the U.S. and abroad are urging him to attend. The international climate change...

Tags: Copenhagen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

This Halloween, let's all celebrate what we're really feeling: The Wicked Vista is DEAD! In the United States, we've got a bunch of frivolous holidays. I've always regarded Halloween as a particularly frivolous holiday, one in which we encourage our...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Halloween, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-24

Print and online ad revenues plunge at New York Times Co.

Their losses will continue, and it's not because of a bad economyThe company said that there was some sign of an improving economy and that fourth quarter losses should be lower than in the most recent quarter.That's some good spin. However, their losses and that of the MSM started...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales force management, online advertising, New York Times Co., advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-10-23