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Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?

Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?Greed is the problem with our systemYes we are capitolists but greed is problem when it comes to affecting the lives of millions.People sue for malpractice and receive millions. Laywers make a bunch a money from the cases. Insurers make money...

Tags: Insurance, insurance company

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Microsoft increases Be Well prize fund by 50%

Microsoft has bumped the Be Well fund meant to jump-start HealthVault applications by 50%, to $4.5 million. It also named its judging panel. Most are names well-known only in the computing or medical industries, like Google-ex Adam Bosworth, longevity guru Mark Liponis, and medical dean Valerie Montgomery...

Tags: Panel, Microsoft Corp., Newt, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-28

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Newt Professional 2.5 build 144 (Windows)

A network inventory & discovery tool providing fast and easy scanning of over 200 items from NT-based machines with no user-deployment time. Gathered information is displayed in an easy-to-read spreadsheet-like format. Features include discovery & scanning by domain, workgroup, IP range, or by using the built-in network browser featuring real-time...

Tags: Network, IP, Microsoft Windows, Komodo Laboratories, Networking

Software downloads 2009-09-20

Big brains reax to NOAA global warming warnings

The MIT Technology Review previously glommed onto the temperature rises contained in the NOAA global warming report. Ten degrees or more before the end of this century. Kansas, for example, would have 120 days of highs topping 90 degrees. The Kansas ag industry might try growing sugar...

Tags: NOAA, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?

Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?King ObomaGood luck, Obama and his printing presses....RE: Can the Man Who Re-Assembled AT&T Change His Tune For GM?It's not like he just put together a corporate unbrella/holding company with many largely independent but coexisting brand names underneath with redundant...

Tags: Branding, Document management, General Motors Corp., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog

An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Jonathan Schwartz, NOW IT, blog, server, data center, new server, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Have insurers tied their fate to Newt Gingrich?

Did the health insurance industry just fail to research its own campaign brand or are they, in fact, acting as a Newt Gingrich front? They're certainly using Gingrich's tactics. If they're not connected, Newt, I'd sue. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Vertical Industries, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live Mesh

Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live MeshOh yeah, I can just see the data breaches...in the cloud. :)I agree - the companies that blend will seea better result. Especially the ones that require a disconnected view. It will be fun to see what happens.RE: Gillmor: Why Google...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Desktops, Digital media, Google Documents, Google Inc., Live Mesh, Gillmor, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hype

Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hypeHow's all this Google specific?So...''" if you want to show financial data to an end user, you will have to allow Google's servers a pass through your firewall to make the web service call.That's a basic security issue. Nothing...

Tags: SEARCH, Blogging, Google Inc., Google Sites, search engine

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Microsoft's Windows Live finally starting to come into its own

Microsoft's Windows Live finally starting to come into its ownMS Announces Zune IIOh wait, I mean Windows Live. For a second I got it confused with Zune. Late to the market, ugly and a poor second to Google.That doesn't mean I think it will be a failure. ...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

A second open source competitor in health IT

This is a story I originally wrote yesterday for our health care blog, but Misys has become the second major health care IT vendor to go open source, following Medsphere. Medsphere writes hospital software based on the public domain VistA system written for the Veterans Administration. Misys,...

Tags: Misys, Information Technology, Health Care, Medsphere, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Open Source, Benefits, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Is more Gore a bore? Or something to adore? Nobel reverb sounds around the world

Is more Gore a bore? Or something to adore? Nobel reverb sounds around the worldGore and Nobel peace prizeI think the work he and the UN panel did is very important, but I don't quite see how this relates to promoting peace. This work is very important for...

Tags: Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize, Internet, bore, glory

Discussion threads 2007-10-12

Most Presidential candidates use open source

Douglas Karr at the Marketing Technology Blog decided to survey the Web sites of Presidential candidates, finding out what software they were running and where they were hosted.(Why is this fellow here? All will be revealed soon, grasshopper.)Karr's methodology was not rocket science. He used Netcraft. You can do it,...

Tags: politics, Microsoft, mass market, management, Linux Server OS, Linux, Internet, Implementations, Government, General

Blog posts 2007-06-27

Gingrich takes to YouTube for mea culpa over Spanish comment

How does a politician get his foot out of his mouth these days? Well, Newt Gingrich, a long-shot contender for the Republican nomination for president - who decried bilingual education as "the language of living in the ghetto - is trying YouTube, The Washington Post reports. The "Mensaje de...

Tags: Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-09

FBI turns to broad new wiretap method

FBI turns to broad new wiretap methodFBI BROAD NEW WIRETAPGEO ORWELL's 1984...BIG BROTHER...."LET THE PUBLIC BE DANMED" DITTO FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND CONGRESS's "OATH OF OFFICE".ISP should be in charge of any data interceptionAfter all it's ISP's network, and they've got no vested interest in any particular legal...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Federal government, Government, Internet, FBI, Internet Service Provider, warrant, prez

Discussion threads 2007-01-30

House panel subpoenas two HP execs

House panel subpoenas two HP execsHPWho are the criminals here? HP Execs who take measures to protect their company on behalf of the shareholders, or the theives of their company's knowledge? By perpetrating a theft/betrayal of the trust of their employer, by not fulfilling their obligations, maybe these...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., homeland security, hearing, Bush Administration

Discussion threads 2006-09-25

Streming video and music to generate $27 bln by 2011

Streming video and music to generate $27 bln by 2011Assuming people can afford it...I'll let you know in 2011 if these statistics are worthy any spit.Right now they're as accurate and as potent as a witch stirring a cauldron, chuckin' in some newt eyes and casting spells that turn people...

Tags: Corporate communications, music, video

Discussion threads 2006-04-28

Ubuntu: Get set for 'cutting-edge' Linux

Ubuntu: Get set for 'cutting-edge' LinuxRE: Kind of like Microsoft's OS release promises?No one who spends any appreciable time here takes loverock seriously and none of us respond to him. Never, and I mean NEVER expect a response with any substance from Loverock. Worst of the worst.Take your...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, distro, Ubuntu, GET SET, cutting-Edge, operating system, Microsoft Corp., Windows-killer

Discussion threads 2006-04-20

Google's walk on K Street

As previously noted here, Google recently hired lobbying firm PodestaMatoon, notable for staff member Josh Hastert, son of House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Today the New York Times takes a look at the full range of Google's lobbying activities, which Esther Dyson describes as "sad ... The kids are growing...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-03-28

The future of nano-biology: regenerating tissue and artificial proteins

The last day the Future in Review conference focused on big societal issues, rather than the usual techno-centric topics. During a panel on the future of nano-biotechnology, Alan Russell, head of regenerative medicine at the University of Pittsburg, described progress in moving from treating symptoms to generating cures and regenerating...

Tags: Russell

Blog posts 2005-05-26