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- Will security paranoia kill wireless health IT?
- Frost & Sullivan's wireless analysts can come up with all the scary scenarios they want, but where is the real danger? The danger is you're raising the cost of care. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- With clouds license arguments become fog
- What we're entering, in license terms, is not a cloud era but a fog era. Clouds and fog are the same thing. The difference between them is in the eye of the beholder. If you can see clearly licenses and their terms are in the far distance. If you can't,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- WellAWARE of watching grandma
- Working with two of the largest faith-based nursing charities, WellAWARE of Charlottesville, VA has begun delivering on the promise of passive monitoring just weeks after its official launch by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Is the GPL losing its grip?
- The only non-GPL licenses to attract significant usage are the Artistic License and the standard BSD. But the GPV v3 should, at its present rate of growth, pass the latter in share within six months, the report says. Over half of all projects are still licensed under GPL v2. by...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Can a Virginia hack scuttle health IT reform?
- The Virginia hack is important because the Northrop-Grumman agreement compromised by it was negotiated by Aneesh Chopra, then the state's secretary of technology, now President Obama's CTO. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?
- Stallman's fear is that Microsoft will use its software patents to force open source C# implementations, and applications, underground. Any move toward bringing C#, which Microsoft developed and Mono, which Microsoft supports, into the center of the Linux community must therefore be resisted. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Gatekeepers of open source innovation
- There is enormous incentive in the mobile device market, where you can get paid for hardware with open source software embedded in it. So why are Android and Moblin still serving us leftover Apple slices? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Do security and privacy make health IT reform impossible?
- The hardest thing to be is simple. This is true in story-telling. It's true in science. It's also true in software. Any requirement that gets in the way of simplicity needs to be carefully considered, and pared down to its simplest form, before being tossed at an industry with a...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Red Hat rumors sign of business as usual
- The next recovery will come from the work of companies like Red Hat or, more likely, from Red Hat's customers, than from the financial services industry. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Is the world now an open source society?
- The Industrial Revolution wasn't built in a day. The same is true for the Post-Industrial Revolution. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Can contractors be part of health IT reform?
- Loonsk argues his case based partly on the development of Internet standards. But those standards were negotiated, not imposed. And they developed organically along with the network, in an open, transparent process by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- At what stage of life is the open source industry?
- Every industry goes through life stages, just like people. At what stage is open source at, now, in the middle of 2009? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- PARP inhibitors working against inherited cancers
- The big excitement is that PARP inhibitors can be designed against other forms of inherited cancer. They are already being tested against a form of breast cancer. And there are few side effects -- you take a pill twice a day and may get some indigestion. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Steve Jobs nearly died and lied about it
- Paul Argenti of Dartmouth's business school says Apple deserves to face SEC action for lieing about Jobs' condition, which is the outgrowth of his 2004 pancreatic cancer. I hate to be one of those birds pecking at Prometheus, but I agree. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Zoho embraces Sharepoint lock-in
- Zoho, which offers Office-compatible applications as services, is now offering a version of Sharepoint, aimed at extending Microsoft's lock-in of customers. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- News to know: Intel-Nokia; Netbooks; Security Essentials; Oracle; Win7
- 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. Dana Blankenhorn: Intel-Nokia deal boosts open source Jason Hiner: A Nokia, Intel partnership makes sense, but they...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Intel-Nokia deal boosts open source
- The Nokia alliance, combined with Far East manufacturing, give Intel a chance to innovate on a major player's behalf and gain a place at the smartphone table. But time is of the essence, because the market is ebbing away fast. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- How friendly is the Movable Type fork?
- For Movable Type to advance against WordPress, it needs this fork to succeed. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Can open source police open source?
- When a proprietary code base becomes popular, its owner brings in the cash necessary to defend their position in court. This is not automatic in the open source world, which thus remains vulnerable to small time scams. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- A new push for health data rights
- A coalition of health IT reformers today offers a Bill of Heath Data Rights aimed at moving the heart of the health IT debate away from doctors and insurance companies, toward patients. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
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