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Improve patient care by improving the capabilities of your PACS

As your healthcare organization makes the transition to digital imaging and recordkeeping, you face a whole new set of technological challenges. But if you can transform the overwhelming amount of data into usable information, you can access records faster and more reliably - and benefit from operational efficiencies and better...

Tags: Patient, Pacs, Imaging, Financing, IBM Corp., IBM Healthcare Medical Imaging eKit, Document Management, Healthcare, Investment, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Resource centers 2008-02-20

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Super-duper green computers

If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it's pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list for insight. This list was brought to my attention by SGI, which has 11 entries in...

Tags: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Computer, Altix ICE, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-23

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?

  A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...

Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-22

SoSure (msi)

Secure your digital valuables with SoSure. SoSure is an easy-to-use continuous backup solution for private and business users, based on the leading IBM technology. With SoSure, your family photos and important documents will be automatically backed up and secured. SoSure is unique in combining a user friendly design with the...

Tags: SoSure, Backups

Software downloads 2008-07-22

The key barrier to health care reform

The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?

Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Where's Sarah Connor?Will it change its shape to an LA policeman and chase me in a tractor trailer truck?Mercury?It's the only metal I know of that is liquid at room temperature.RE: Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?Reminds me of liquid-sodium-cooled nuclear...

Tags: liquid metal-cooled CPU, metal-cooled CPU, water-cooled system, Liquid metal-cooled CPU, CPU, Galinstan, Mercury, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Apple chaos theory

I got a fairly lukewarm response to my excitement over Oracle putting applications on the iPhone. That should be no surprise to readers of Fortune which also poured cold water on the idea that iPhone's are going to be the next big thing in corporate gadgets: Companies in highly...

Tags: Apple iPhone, CIO, Theory, Information Technology, Apple Inc., Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The running scandal of long-term care insurance

The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...

Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Qik out of private beta

Over the weekend, Qik came out of private beta. Jennifer Leggio has all the technical details, along with some insights in Robert Scoble's outburst about how kyte.tv would kill off Qik and Flixwagon. One claim the company makes over at VentureBeat is that they have gotten latency...

Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Business Model, Beta, Qik, Jennifer Leggio, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Intel World Mural project - just what will the next 40 years bring?

Intel is turning 40 and while most of us by fast cars, take up motorcycling, or go bungee-jumping to deal with our mid-life crises, Intel asked 500 kids in 21 countries what they expected the next 40 years of computing to bring us. It's actually a great...

Tags: Computing, Computer, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Apple is not the real enemy of open source

Apple is not the real enemy of open sourceGodwin's Law is now in effectGodwin's law: whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress.Loser.Apple is the official NAZI PARTY of Open Source.Where is http://opendarwin.com? It's GONE.Apple SUPPORTED the whole OSx86 project, then THEY reneged- There...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Digital media, Godwin, Apple Inc., open source, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

The perils of information overload

Employees from technology companies including Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and Google have banded together to combat information overload, which they call "the world's greatest challenge to productivity." As the new nonprofit Information Overload Research Group gets off the ground, CNET News intern Holly Jackson hit the streets of San Francisco...

Tags: News, holly jackson, google, ibm, dell, intel, cell phones, internet, email, iphone, apple, information, overload, but no tags matched

Videos 2008-07-18

My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...

Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...

Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

A super-resolution x-ray microscope

Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging CDI and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy STXM. As a result, the new system offers both the high penetration power of x-rays and high spatial resolution. This method will allow other scientists to...

Tags: Method, Microscope, Researcher, Imaging, Image, Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy, X-ray, EPFL, Document Management, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-18

U.S. health care not getting better

U.S. health care not getting betterThe study has predetermined the result[Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, summed up what's wrong with the study: "The report does nothing more than reveal which nation does the worst job of satisfying the subjective preferences of the people who conducted...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, U.S. Health, medical care, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'

How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...

Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-18

News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest

Notable headlines: Earnings wrap: Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations Microsoft: $60 billion...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Keyboards, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Asset Management, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-18

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeGood PostIn those days i was the Manager of Technical Services and Computer Operations and remember not too fondly the innumerable meetings, courses, seminars required to implement changes. The technique "Structured or Top-down programming" was used to insure data integrity when program...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, Y2K, IS-department, data-processing, IBM mainframe, business rule, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-18