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Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

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Details on HP's Ion-powered netbook, Windows XP not dead yet

Almost nine months to the day after Nvidia announced its Ion Platform, the first real netbook to make use of the technology has finally shipped. HP announced the Mini 311, an 11.6-inch netbook that pairs Intel's Atom processor with Ion, which is based on the GeForce 9400M GPU. Ion should...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP, NVidia Corp., Netbook, HP Mini 311, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Court boots Pirate Bay out of Netherlands

It's official - The Pirate Bay is officially kicked out of the Netherlands. A Dutch court ordered the TPB founders to block traffic between the TPB site and the country within 10 days or face fines of 30,000 euros per day. [The founders] "each separately and...

Tags: Netherlands, Internet Cafe, Founder, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-30

TomTom tells Ballmer tear down this wall

By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won't get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft. OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license...

Tags: TomTom, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Wall, Linux, Construction, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-23

The Twitter Fantasy

It seems everywhere you turn these days there's an excitable story about Twitter, the microblogging tool that is a mystery to some people, a miracle to others, and a service some are noisily evangelizing in hope of self publicity. As Twitter scales up...

Tags: Twitter, Desktop Publishing, Productivity, Blogging, Collaboration, Groupware, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-21

Google's iPhone voice search delayed too?

Google's iPhone voice search delayed too?This is a cool featureI've been using this for quite a while on WindowsMobile and it really is quite neat. I'm very happy that my Apple brethren will finally get a chance to try this one out. :)Windows Live Mobile Search...Garret,Have you seen this before?http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9809095-12.htmlIt...

Tags: Blogging, Google Inc., Google iPhone voice, Google iPhone, voice, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-15

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?

The Dutch system combines heavy public spending and private insurance.The government offers subsidies covering dozens of pre-existing conditions so the private market can accept all patients. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Drugs, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-15

IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened

Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...

Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Shell farms out IT, telecommunications to EDS, AT&T, T-Systems for $4.2 billion

Royal Dutch Shell said Monday that it will farm out its technology and telecommunications infrastructure in three deals valued at about $4.2 billion. The outsourcing arrangement is notable given that big deals are rare. Shell said in a statement that it will outsource its telecommunications and networking...

Tags: T-Systems, Information Technology, AT&T Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Shell, Outsourcing, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Telecommunications, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Networking, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Will+the+EU+fine+change+Microsoft%3F

Will+the+EU+fine+change+Microsoft%3FOf course not.MSFT is run by the corporate equivalent of a rogue regime, the largest disinformation organization in the world. Only when the financial hurt becomes too high and the regime is toppled by the shareholders will anything change.The current regime is far too filled with liars, cheats and...

Tags: Financial accounting, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., MSFT

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

News to know: Windows Server 2008; MySpace developers; Zimbra

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: What will run on Windows Server 2008--and when No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are good to go Ballmer outlines Microsoft's eight long-term growth bets Vista marketing...

Tags: Developer, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Zimbra, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, MySpace, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Amigo brings open source to home networking

One of the biggest unmet challenges of this decade has been linking computing, entertainment, mobile, and and home automation systems in a single network. Many people wonder whether it should be done at all. It should be done, because many functions cross these product...

Tags: Mobile, Home Networking, Philips Electronics N.V., Open Source, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Solid Edge, Femap and NX Nastran Play an Important Role in Planning the Recovery of Wrecked Ships

SMIT Internationale N.V. is a Dutch company with 165 years experience in the maritime industry and 30 offices around the world. The company wanted to remove a sunken ship from the English Channel as quickly as possible to prevent damage to the environment and other ships. Company deployed Siemens ability...

Tags: Recovery, Siemens AG, SMIT Internationale N.V., Strategy, Management

Case studies 2007-10-01

Why bicycles are so stable?

For almost 150 years now, mathematicians have tried to understand why a bicycle could be so stable. Now, researchers of the Delft University of Technology TU Delft, working with colleagues from Cornell University and the University of Nottingham, UK, say they've build a model which unravels how a bicycle works....

Tags: Bicycle, Product Development, Productivity, Product Marketing, Transportation, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-22

Singularity Summit 2007: Designing rational self-improving AI

I interviewed Steve Omohundro prior to the Singularity Summit 2007 about his notions of developing artificial general intelligences AGIs, but he went into far more detail about his views. He applies what he called "microeconomic rationality," from the work of John Von Neumann and others, to building intelligent, well meaning...

Tags: Memory, Resource, Bhutan, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Morphing-wing robotic birds to spy on us

Dutch engineering students have developed RoboSwift, a bio-inspired morphing-wing micro aerial vehicle which flies like a swift. Like the real bird, this robotic one "will have unprecedented wing characteristics; the wing geometry as well as the wing surface area can be adjusted continuously." But unlike the real bird, RoboSwift, which...

Tags: Defense &, Security, Engineering &, Innovation, Robotics

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Calendar of historical events, births, holidays and observances (Mobile)

Features Who was born when! Do you know what is celebrated on March 8, and where? Educate yourself about world history by quick look to what happened on that date around the world. Use your down time to find when you favorite actors were born Navigate from Table of Contents...

Tags: Mobile, Calendar, MobileReference, Gregorian, American, Y2K, Desktops, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-07-06

Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model

Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Internet, IDEs, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management, Amazon, Akamai

Blog posts 2007-04-16

Has open source gone too far?

I come in for criticism here when I write about the open source concept being extended into areas like politics and journalism. It doesnt belong there, the critics charge. Wheres the license agreement? Youre rendering the concept meaningless.OK, so how about cars? Or music?Pictured here, from the Core77 Design blog,...

Tags: Strategy, Hardware, General, content, business models

Blog posts 2007-03-30

YouTube: Is Viacom hurting innocent YouTubers?

Corporate media giant Viacom is taking a stand against corporate advertising giant Google to defend itself against alleged copyright infringement at YouTube (see “Is the Google YouTube honeymoon over?”). Are innocent YouTubers caught in the high-stakes crossfire?Jim Moore recounts how he innocently uploaded a “friends and family” video of...

Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Legal, Google, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-02-02