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Monument to cost rises over Copacabana

The old Copacabana nightclub in New York, across from the Javits Convention Center, will come down in favor of a 1 million square foot, 45-50 story tall medical device market.The World Product Centre is the brainchild of Israel Green, and will be built by Extell Development, best known for residential towers....

Tags: Medical Office Equipment, Medical Equipment, Hospital Equipment, Home Health Care Equipment, General, Gadgets

Blog posts 2007-08-02

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Making the giant health database work for you

It's these medical records experts whose function has been lost in the translation from paper to magnetic ink, Damianakis concluded, and unless that is recovered digital systems will never work as well as paper. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Care, Health Database, Vertical Industries, Storage, Benefits, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Human Resources, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-10

NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations

Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...

Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market

The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping – Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...

Tags: Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Adzilla, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Security, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee

News items 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Look who's buying Vista Home Basic (hint: it's not home users)

Who's buying new PCs with Windows Vista Home Basic? Judging by the name, you'd assume those OS editions would be loaded on underpowered machines for starving students and penny-pinching families. But you'd be wrong. Based on my observations of the PC market over the past year or two, I think...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Small-business Buyer, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm

The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...

Tags: iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Lidlow, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Laptops with mobile WiMax now available

The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...

Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Laptop Computer, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, 3G, Chipsets, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology

It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...

Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-09

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

AudioProc (exe)

AudioProc is a high-quality, linear-phase multiband audio dynamics processor for Winamp, utilizing 10-band compression/expansion/limiting technology that emulates expensive professional broadcast hardware. Intended to achieve a competitive 'on the air' sound signature resembling that of modern audio broadcast processors used by major market FM radio stations, AudioProc will normalize the volume...

Tags: Clay Hellman, AudioProc, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Remobo (dmg)

Remobo creates an instant private network between users and lets you connect to each other over the Internet as if you were on the same LAN. Just login from your computers or add other users to your buddy list and Remobo will create an IPN between these computers, allowing you...

Tags: Computer, AWIT Systems, Remobo, Productivity, Instant Messaging, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Network Home Reporter (zip)

Network Home Reporter helps network administrators keep a handle on their storage resources. By automatically generating a report for the administrator detailing the locations of each user's home directory, as well as the size and kinds of contents, you will be more able to ensure proper capacity planning or enforce...

Tags: Network, Digital Sapience, Storage, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...

Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Where are all the programmers?

Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software development

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

No surprise: Microsoft to fine-tune UAC in Windows 7

No surprise: Microsoft to fine-tune UAC in Windows 7Not Far Enough.I have not had a lot of experience with Vista but what I have experienced is more than I care for. When I have used Vista I had the distinct feeling that I was being watched by the computer....

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .

i use a lot of online services and I try to push as many applications as I can into the cloud. This means that I can work from anywhere on virtually any computer device. I don't need a personal computer (but I do need a personal cellphone - the new...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Web Services Company, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky

This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...

Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08