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Ready for real Indian medicine?

With political sovereignty over quality-killing issues such as medical malpractice and a "clean-sheet" approach, Medical Onshoring could provide certain services (e.g., cardio-vascular, artificial knees) at prices at least 15% less than local hospitals. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hospital, North Dakota, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-24

No clear sailing for wind power

Courtesy: US Geological Survey In many venues wind power can be as controversial as nuclear power. In Scotland there's a big fight brewing over mlountaintop windmills to generate electricity. One charge: the tall towers holding the turbines uglify the once beautiful landscape. Critics...

Tags: Turbine, Farm, North Dakota, Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Update on Devil's Lake, North Dakota

I flew into Fargo Thursday afternoon and then drove a long, long ways, through more corn, sunflowers, and sugarbeets than I've ever seen in my life. In between, there were sugarbeet, corn, and ethanol processing plants (woo hoo! Renewable energy!), and the occasional Dairy Queen. While I haven't...

Tags: North Dakota, Starbucks Corp., Wi-Fi, Corn, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-08-09

Addicted to WiFi

I'm headed to North Dakota tomorrow for a family reunion. I haven't been anywhere between the right and left coasts for many years and I must say I'm getting a little edgy. I know that just because places are in the middle of the map they aren't utter...

Tags: North Dakota, Wi-Fi, Wireless Access, Wireless, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-08-08

USA-ND [North Dakota] Map for EagleEye PDA Tracking System 1.0.0 (Mobile)

USA-ND [North Dakota] Map for EagleEye PDA Tracking System

Tags: Mobile, North Dakota, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-03-14

Map of North Dakota (US State) (Mobile)

A map of the North Dakota by VITO Technology. Good for intercity travels with SmartMap. SmartMap is a mobile device application which uses vector and raster maps. It is compatible with any NMEA protocol GPS receiver (Compact Flash socket, serial port, BlueTooth or sleeve). The program enables you to view...

Tags: Map, Mobile, North Dakota, VITO Technology, SmartMap, GPS, Advertising & Promotion, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-02-15

EDMS White Paper

The Document Management Domain Team has been working for the past two years to develop a cohesive strategy for future deployment of Electronic Document Management System EDMS technologies within state government. An EDMS is a collection of technologies that are used to create, distribute, review, maintain and dispose of information...

Tags: State Government, North Dakota, Document Management Domain Team, Electronic Document Management System, Enterprise Electronic Document Management System, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Asset Management, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

White papers 2004-08-01

Job Service North Dakota Achieves Business Agility

Job Service North Dakota provides customer-focused work search services and training for re-employment geared toward meeting the current and emerging workforce needs of North Dakota residents. The company wanted to improve performance, ensure the highest levels of security, and enable ongoing strategic growth. Job Service North Dakota created a more...

Tags: Job, Unisys Corp., North Dakota, Job Service North Dakota, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

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Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Why?Because any future energy system , even if coal-powered, will make great use of IT, software and digital technologies. As will any affort to convert energy systems to solar, wind, tidal, etc. Even the digital and nano-tech being used in cars now and in future will come from...

Tags: Low Tech, wind farm, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun

Is there more wind power in our future? Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, says we can cut our greenhouse emissions 80% by 2020, if we use the wind that's just out there for the world to use. Brown says "Ask what can be done, NOT...

Tags: China, Plant, Wind Energy, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.

The good, the bad, and the unreal. Read all about it on this blog. Meanwhile Murphy Oil spends over $90-million for a corn ethanol plant in North Dakota. Canada's largest oil company, Suncor, will resume expansion of its ethanol plant in Ontario. It had been postponed...

Tags: Expansion, Corn, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

iBird Explorer Midwest 1.7 (Mobile)

iBird Explorer Midwest is an innovative field guide to 389 birds of the central states of North America. A self-contained ebook for the iPhone and iPod touch, iBird Midwest puts thousands of pages of expert birding information at your fingertips, and offers hand drawn illustrations, professional photographs, range maps, playable...

Tags: Mobile, Bird, iBird Explorer Midwest, Wiki, E-books, Online Communications, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-28

IBM's latest campaign against paper

You've got to love all the statistics that high-tech companies use to express the return on investment of their green IT offering du jour. Here is a new-ish one from IBM: the average office worker uses roughly 10,000 sheets of copy paper year. (Notice that does not mention printer output,...

Tags: IBM Corp., Content Management, Web Technology, Outsourcing, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Global wind day

As the planet warms and we attempt to harness more energy from sources other fossil fuel, there's some caution needed. Climate change is also diminishing the wind supply in some parts of America. Iowa State's Gene Tackle is co-author of study that shows declining winds in parts of...

Tags: American Wind Energy Association, Iowa State, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-15

ZDNet's Ultimate Tax Software Guide for 2008

It's tax time in the U.S. once again, and short of actually doing your taxes (you've got until April 15, right?), it's time to choose just how you'll do them. Say hello to tax preparation software. Instead of taking last...

Tags: Software, Extra, Return, TurboTax, Service, TaxCut, E-file, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Secure Converged 3Com Gigabit and Wireless Network Blocks 2.5 Million Attacks in for State College

At North Dakota State College of Science NDSCS students exchanged high-bandwidth files via the college's legacy Gigabit and wireless infrastructure. To continue to deliver secure, reliable, high-speed network services to a growing number of campus and remote students, NDSCS sought a more scalable Gigabit switching solution, a more resilient wireless...

Tags: Network, 3Com Corp., Wireless Network, Attack, Wireless, Intrusion Prevention, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Security

Case studies 2009-01-01

Record-Search 3.0 (Windows)

Access and research public criminal records, with our easy to use desktop application you'll be able to perform custom searches. Find records from around the US including Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey,...

Tags: Criminal Records, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-12-28

Batteries to store wind energy

Batteries to store wind energyWhat a novel idea!!!Batteries can store energy! What a novel idea! Why didn't anybody think of that before! SARCASMUmm, yeah, I think 99% of people you talk to would already know that it's a good idea to store energy in batteries during off-peak hours.Now the question...

Tags: Engineering, wind energy, battery

Discussion threads 2008-12-27

Forced to think about a career change? Here are some greentech job links

Forced to think about a career change? Here are some greentech job linksThe Big PictureWe have to look at "the big picture." Our days of tunnel vision need to cease. Our nation better wake up and smell the coffee. With all our bail outs along with the 168 billion economic...

Tags: Professional development, Recruitment & Selection, career change, job, career

Discussion threads 2008-12-24

Court's decision is boon for alternative energy

Court's decision is boon for alternative energyWhen will they learn?The last 168 BILLION DOLLAR round of stimulus checks did NADA for our economy. We must not as a nation forget the role the high cost of our dependence on foreign fuel played in the demise of businesses from the largest...

Tags: Green Energy, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2008-11-14