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- Mono-mania: It's risky business
- M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...
- Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Steve Jobs' liver transplant confirmed
- Steve Jobs' liver transplant confirmedWhich is whyif I were Apple, I'd use all that surplus cash to start taking the company private again. Then you don't have to deal with this nonsense.What does this have to do With Hardware 2.0?There are plenty of other zdnet blogs dealing with headlines that...
- Tags: Blogging, Financial accounting, Investment, TRANSPARENCY, medical leave, blog, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- Conficker hits US university; why it wouldn't happen in the UK
- Conficker, potentially one of the most underestimated threats that face networks today, has spread to the University of Utah's computer network. The university, which also houses a medical school, two hospitals and vital systems for life support, spread to approximately 700 machines on campus. Hype over the...
- Tags: Network, University, U.K., Worm, JANET, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Hunker down or flourish - The choice of today's service groups
- Lots of free advice for service firms in a tough economy Recently, I completed a PowerPoint deck on a subject that I’ve lived through a couple of times in my career: how should a services firm navigate a tough economy. I presented that material in a webinar...
- Tags: Recession, Service Group, Service Firm, Professional Development, Business Services, Operational Accounting, Career, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Fired Director of IT acused of destroying organ donor information of former company
- Fired Director of IT acused of destroying organ donor information of former companyIt just goes to show...... that the thinking that the greatest security threat to any organization is its employees... and especially disgruntled ex-employees who are allowed to keep the keys to the kingdom.RE: Fired Director of IT acused...
- Tags: SECURITY, organ donor information, FIRED, Nate
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- RSnake picks on Google Health... yes, Google wants your medical records, too!
- Interesting article from Robert "RSnake" Hansen yesterday on one of Google's new innovations, the Google Health application. Yeah, imagine that, Google wants to own the content of your medical records, too! You'd think that Google would want to avoid this due to HIPPA complications, as this is a true example of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Medical Record, RSnake, Hipaa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Regulations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Google Health launches; Read the terms of service
- Google Health has launched for the masses, but watch those terms of usage closely. Google Health, which is expected to officially launch at a Google event today (see Google Webcast, Techmeme and Google Blogoscoped coverage), is now available to the average bear. Marissa Meyer, VP search products...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Information, Terms Of Service, Google Health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Sports Network hit by drive-by Chinese hack
- Poor SportsNetwork, a privately owned Hatboro, PA sports site. Chinese hackers brought the site down possibly thinking it was owned by CNN, which is targeted for attacks. The poor folks at SportsNetwork right have the following posted after a denial of service drive by attack Techmeme:...
- Tags: Network, Site, Hacker, CNN, Hacking, Security, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Cutting to chase of Personal Health Record debate
- The New England Journal of Medicine has entered the debate over Personal Health Records PHRs with four articles, all with different perspectives, all with the full text behind their registration firewall. So let's cut to the chase. I've seen this play out in a host of industries over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Personal Health Record, E-health, Hipaa, Healthcare, Regulations, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth blames ISO for OOXML's win
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth blames ISO for OOXML's winBut of course he doesThat is all he ever does, complain about everybody else.All very good points he is making. A sad day, but, not sure we have heardthe end of it yet. There are bound to be appeals, and the EU is already...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, OOXML, ISO, Shuttleworth, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Google Health makes its pitch
- With CEO Eric Schmidt not due in for HIMSS until Thursday, ZDNet got a sneak preview of the pitch for Google Health today. Project Manager Missy Krasner called the site "a proxy for the consumer." All data entry, and data delivery, will happen behind a https secure...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Clinic, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- SC07 Day 1: Parallel computing 101
- Quentin Stout and Christiane Jablonowski from the University of Michigan gave a nice introduction to parallel computing on Sunday. They covered everything from architecture to APIs to the politics of sharing a common compute resource. Hardware designs for parallel computing are as diverse...
- Tags: Processor, Controller, Computing, SIMD Architecture, Shared-everything, MPI, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- The real issue in the software patent fight
- The real issue in the software patent fightThis is why the issue NEEDS to come before the Supreme Court ...The legal basis of Software Patents has never been tested before the Supreme Court. The reason for that is that heretofore all of the litigants in Software Patent cases have...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, software patent
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- Today's Debate: Should doctors e-mail patients?
- Today's Debate: Should doctors e-mail patients?Email AuthenticationSMTP needs to change to address one of the most notable defects--authentication of the sender's identity.There are proposed changes, e.g., SMTP-AUTH, but none is in widespread use uniformly or mandated in any way.Top that major deficiency off with email exploits like the latest [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm]Storm...
- Tags: authentication, patient, e-mail, e-mail patient, physician
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?
- Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?Moot PointWhat happened to my rights?I don't think Hillary is the difference hereI think any President is going to mandate standards of care, including standards of record-keeping, which are interoperable and electronic.There are two sides in every business transaction, and one is the...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, E-health, HIPAA, eHR
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Signing e-mail to legally bind e-mail attachments: Easier said than done
- Signing e-mail to legally bind e-mail attachments: Easier said than doneExcellent article!I think you've done a great job on this article, and it has given us some things to think about if we are ever to move forward with digital signatures. For what it's worth, I agree more with...
- Tags: e-mail, e-mail company
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Thoughts on BlackBerry skins, protection, tight ladies pockets, etc.
- My old BBHub colleague Melissa Oxendale, who I hired back when I ran that entity for AOL, has surfaced at PDAStreet.Mel's out with a review of some BlackBerry Pearl skins. Her review doesn't focus on specifically named skins but with her visual impressions of skins-on-device."To start off with, these skins...
- Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry Gear
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Defamation suit tests online anonymity
- Defamation suit tests online anonymityThe little town of McAlester OK istrying to test the boundries of Internet free speech.http://www.mcalesternews.com/local/local_story_167184837.htmlThe Genie in the BottleUnfortunately this seems to be like a Genie in a bottle thing. Just like the accusation of Sexual Harrassment is often enough to get someone removed, replaced...
- Tags: defamation
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- The Microsoft-Linux patent deals
- The Microsoft-Linux patent dealsLethbridge has a restuarant?I thought it only had a railway bridge!As for that image - I never participate in Rorshach tests!Who to sue?If there ever WAS a patent infringement suit against Linux - just who would you sue? Talk about Whack-A-Mole! Sue a Linux distro, have it...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Lethbridge, Microsoft Corp., Linux, patent infringement, hobbyist software, software
- Discussion threads 2007-06-08
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