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- Technology-Enabled National Health Reform Focused on Patient Self-Care Promises US$150 Million in Benefits
- Ministry of Health, Chile wanted to reduce lengthy delays in access to healthcare and rising healthcare costs, driven mainly by the growing burden of chronic disease. The challenge was the urban and rural disparities in access to appropriate, timely care. As a solution ambitious transformational targets was underpinned by explicit...
- Tags: Patient, Chile, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Load Balancing: Toward the Infinite Network
- This paper presents a contribution on dynamic load balancing for distributed and parallel object-oriented applications. It specially targets peer-to-peer and their capability to distribute parallel computation. Using an algorithm for active-object load balancing, it simulates the balance of a parallel application over a peer-to-peer infrastructure. The algorithm parameters are tuned...
- Tags: Network, Load Balancing, P2P, Chile, Algorithm Parameter, Peer To Peer (P2P), Ooa/Ood/Oop, Network Technology, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-20
- e-Government Case Study: Chile
- E-Gov can be defined as the public sector's use of technology, especially the Internet and World Wide Web, to improve its information, communication, and service delivery functions, as well as its constituents' access to such services. The Chilean experience with e-Government demonstrates how progress can occur even though it may...
- Tags: Chile, Case Study, E-government, Government
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- Banco de Chile Reduces Application Deployment Cost With IBM Integration Solution
- Based in Santiago, Chile, Banco de Chile provides commercial banking services to a diverse customer base that includes large corporations, small and mid-sized businesses and individuals. The company wanted to enhance competitiveness by enabling a faster, simpler and more flexible infrastructure that could support new business processes targeted at improving...
- Tags: Commercial Banking, Chile, IBM Corp., Banking, Financial Services
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- Consorcio Periodistico de Chile (COPESA) Integrates Systems for Lower Costs and Greater Efficiency
- Consorcio Periodistico de Chile, or Copesa, is a Chilean media company with a combined readership of 1.5 million for all of its printed products. Copesa wanted to acquire a system that integrates the financial departments of Copesa's 23 companies to reduce system integration costs. The challenge was to invest in...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Chile, Financial Accounting, Finance
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- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?
- Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Where Latin American Internet users come from in April 2008
- Markets Audience, 000 Average Usage Days per Visitor Average Hours per Visitor Worldwide 849,580 17.1 25.7 Latin America 61,610 16.3 28.6 Brazil 19,320 16.0 30.2 Mexico 11,773 14.7 23.7 Argentina 8,440 17.8 32.4 Chile 5,320 17.4 28.4 ...
- Tags: Visitor, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Amazon Kindle - Now $359
- Amazon Kindle - Now $359SONY PRS-505 is better and cheaperWhy does the kindle have a keyboard where it should have screen space? It's definitely a first generation piece of junk that everyone will look back at in disgust.Apple could kill Kindle once and for allIf Apple ever makes small...
- Tags: Keyboards, E-books, Sony PRS-505, Wireless delivery, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksI meant MacBook....ntMac Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQMy Mac Powerbook G3 Wallstreet PDQ is far more stylish than any of the current heap of Laptops.RE: Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini and all three MacBooksWho cares about comparing apples to apples in this case?...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Processors, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Psystar, Geekbench, Apple MacBook, CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- The number of social network users in Latin American countries grew 103% in January 2008
- The number of social network users in five major Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) more than doubled from January 2007 to to January 2008 - it was up 103% - according to an Analytics 2.0. During the same period, the number of US Hispanic and Puerto...
- Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- From fungus to fuel
- An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding...
- Tags: Team, Biofuel, Researcher, T., Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Microsoft accidentally delivers Office Genuine nagware
- Microsoft is acknowledging that on April 15 it accidentally delivered its new Office Genuine Notifications to users outside of its planned pilot areas of Chile, Italy, Spain and Turkey. Infoworld quotes Cori Hartje, the Director of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative, on the mix-up: "The Office Genuine...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage 'nag' to Office
- Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a "nag-like" feature, akin to what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office. Office already currently includes an Office Genuine Advantage OGA validation mechanism (for Office XP...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Report: Japan investigates potential iPod nano battery defect
- Report: Japan investigates potential iPod nano battery defectSparksThe nano is not all that gives off shocks. I regularly got shocks from my G4 and its aluminium case this was bought in UK five years ago. I now have a MacBook Pro and have the same happen with this, this was...
- Tags: Engineering, battery defect, Apple iPod Nano, battery, Apple iPod, nano
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Computer science departments expanding focus and enrollment
- As computer science departments recover from all-time low enrollments in the first half of this decade, many are expanding their curricula to reach out to the new "Chic Geek" and move beyond traditional programming approaches. According to InsideHigherEd.com, With prospective students, [Giselle Martin, student recruitment...
- Tags: Computer Science, Programming, Computer, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- ING Chile Consolidates Information and Improves Budgeting Processes
- ING Chile wanted to implement a flexible IT infrastructure on one unified platform, to systematize the budgeting process and consolidate reliable financial information, permitting quick and efficient development of its 3 years budget (MTP - Medium Term Plan). The challenge was to eliminate manual processes and reprocessing of information, to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Budgeting, Information, ING Group, ING Chile, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Wrinkles in nanoscale-sized films
- An international team of scientists from Chile, the Netherlands and the U.S. has found a very simple way to measure the material properties of thin films having a thickness of only a dozen nanometers. The researchers just dropped water on thin film floating in a Petri dish. This causes wrinkles...
- Tags: Film, Wrinkle, Polymer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- How to carry a telescope
- Obviously, it depends on its size. But here I'm speaking about the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) which will be fully operational in 2012 and will be composed initially of 66 high-precision telescopes. These 12-meter submillimeter quality antennas will weigh about 115 tons and be installed at an altitude of...
- Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- US puts China, Russia on copyright watch list
- The Bush Administration put China, Russia and 10 other countries on a "priority watch list" for copyright infringement, a status that makes it more likely the US could bring trade cases against them in the World Trade Organization, the Washington Post reports. "We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity...
- Tags: Government technology, International
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
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