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- Today's Debate: Is open source the cure for health care?
- Open source is the cure for what ails health care IT, according to Bruce Wilder. Wilder, writing in Advance for Health Information Executives, notes that current Electronic Health Record EHR systems can cost $44,000 to install, and $8,500/year to maintain, per doctor. But his argument for open...
- Tags: Patient, Electronic Health Record, Insurance Company, Health Care, Bruce Wilder, E-health, Healthcare, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
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- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...
- Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Open source should support Apple over Psystar
- Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...
- Tags: EULA, open source, Apple Inc., GPL, Joomla
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithmSchneier thought the sameIf you read Bruce Schneier's history on his website, he claim to have discovered the same revelation. He says he used to believe that if he found the perfect encryption, the world would be secure. He later...
- Tags: encryption algorithm
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claims
- Nokia's open source Symbian is no match or threat to Linux mobile, Linux Foundation claimsJim is missing one essential point.Dana,While I have not heard of any official plan to do this, it's a no-brainer to consider that the Symbian platform in its new role could be hosted on top of...
- Tags: mobile, Symbian Inc., open source, Linux, Nokia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Samsung HT-X810T
- If the primary appeal of soundbar speakers is based on their significant reduction of wires and clutter--as compared with 5.1-channel home theater-in-a-box systems--then Samsung's new HT-X810T soundbar should be a winner. While it's not the first single-speaker system with a built-in DVD player or a wireless subwoofer--that'd be the Philips...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, subwoofer, Samsung HT-X810T, speaker, sub, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., TV
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- First hands-on review of the D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD Media Player
- First hands-on review of the D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD Media PlayerLooks like a winnerGood overview. I wish these things would be more like $99 or so :-) Also, why are they handicapped to play certain video or certain rates is puzzling. If it plays on the PC,it should...
- Tags: Home networking, D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected HD-Media Player, D-Link Systems
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minuses
- The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minusesNegatives!!!What negatives!?RE: The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minusesWho gives a shit what cio's think? aren't these the very same jerks whose stocks are plunging, without the iPhone? How many ford execs have Blackberries? enough said.RE: The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses...
- Tags: Games, E-mail, Hacking, iphone, Pondering iPhone, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- GWT fireside chat
- I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- A call for national innovation policy
- Bruce Nussbaum at Newsweek calls on Obama and McCain Hillary is excused to address a key issue facing American competitiveness – the need for an "innovation policy." Here's his list: Support the codification of design methodology and design strategy as being worked on at leading...
- Tags: Immigration, Human Capital, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?
- In this month's CIO magazine, Bruce Schneier publishes one of his best columns ever. "How to Sell Security" starts with a common-sense argument about the psychological dynamics of why and how we as humans respond to sales pitches. It ends with this astute observation about why some computer security companies...
- Tags: Sales, Security, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Negroponte's big lie
- Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization. I talked yesterday with...
- Tags: PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Nicholas Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Do we need another CERT?
- Yes. Google's backing of oCERT is a major milestone in the history of open source. It's not that I have anything against the Computer Emergency Response TeamCERT at Carnegie-Mellon. They do important work, not only in identifying risks but in educating people on them. ...
- Tags: Vulnerability, CERT, Windows Machine, Dana, Security, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Crazy sales video rocks out: 'Gotta get me some' Windows Vista
- Microsoft can't seem to catch a break, whether from Apple's latest ads targeting switchers, or in a crazy music video celebrating Vista SP1 that was done by Redmond's channel group. Jupiter Research Analyst Michael Gartenburg pointed to this video on YouTube called Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Object Management Group, Gartenberg, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- 52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O
- On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...
- Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Denon S-52
- In the past few years, the addition of an iPod dock or a CD player has constituted a major upgrade to the tabletop radio category. Polk Audio upped the ante in 2006 with the I-Sonic, which included HD Radio, XM satellite radio compatibility, and even a DVD player in one...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Denon S-52, Apple iPod, Denon, radio
- Product reviews 2008-04-07
- Adobe joins Linux Foundation
- The question asked by Bruce Perens' attempt to re-join the OSI board might also be asked about the Linux Foundation, with news that Adobe is joining it, ostensibly to work on Web 2.0 applications Is this becoming a vendors' club? On the surface the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Is open source anti-American?
- Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...
- Tags: anti-American, American Business, Is open source anti-American, open source, IS open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
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