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SNS Top Ten Predictions for 2008: Forecaster Mark Anderson of the Strategic News Service SNS has published his top ten predictions for next year. As a context for his predictions, Mark noted that IT spending outside the U.S. will help bolster companies with the U.S. economic growth slowing: "Most large IT corporations now make more...; Tags: U.S., Web, Medicine, Patient, HMO, One-to-One Education, Social Networking, Healthcare, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-19

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Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate: The knives have already come out in the fight against health care reform in 2009. On the one hand we have ideology, represented by former Rep. Dick Armey, who complains that some Republicans are getting weak-kneed in their rejection of any but the most "market-oriented" (i.e., tilted...; Tags: Physician, Ideology, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The death gap: The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young...; Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day: Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...; Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14

Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front: Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC frontSugar on the $299 EEE.I would be willing to bet that Asus would be more than willing to integrate mesh, provide a 33% discount to $199 if a new organization, one that carried out the vision of an education tool to the...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Sugar, Microsoft Windows XP; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front: Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...; Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan KrstiÄ, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-13
No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?: InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-13
First, a game of green. Then, fade to black: It is truly astonishing that I mention the word Apple in a post and I get more talkbacks than pretty much anything I write about. Puh-leeze, get a grip. Anyway, just back from reluctantly leaving my old PowerBook G4 with the kindly (actually, can someone half my age be kindly?)...; Tags: Brain, Query, Apple Inc., Games, E-mail, Web Site Development, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-13
UK education agency nixes OOXML: UK education agency nixes OOXMLSo because Open XML is not open enough ...... schools should save their documents in the far more closed and proprietary .doc and other file formats. And people are worried about the US educational system!Agree with this moveIt isn't a good idea to expect all the...; Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), UK education agency, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, ODF app, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
UK education agency nixes OOXML: Office Open XML – the open standard with a trademark in its name – might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Asus Eee PC 900 (white, Windows XP): When we first saw the diminutive Asus Eee PC back in the fall of 2007, we were duly impressed by its capability to mix small size with a small price, and rightly predicted it would be popular with consumers and influential with other PC makers (although, to be fair, the...; Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Eee PC, Intel Celeron, Intel Corp., ASUS; Product reviews 2008-05-12
Major career web sites hit by spammers attack: What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...; Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-12
How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?: How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?What's wrong with walking to workAlthough I accept that "nobody wants to sit in the dark" the notion that "nobody wants to walk to work" is ridiculous.It is the car addiction of countries like USA that has led...; Tags: Self-Interest, Oil Prices, oil; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
Africans tie mobile data to health care improvements: Bridging the digital divide is the key to improving Africa's health, according to organizers of a conference in Namibia this week. And the fastest way to do it is through mobile links. Speakers at the IST-Africa conference in Windhoek said e-health services are key...; Tags: Mobile, Health Care, E-health, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-09
A conversation with Charles Phillips, president Oracle: This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracle's view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing earth shatteringly new in what he said, some nuggets emerged. ...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!: Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!Broken links galore!There are broken links at the NY Times site which have been replicated here. Congrats to both!I'm curious as to why this story isn't reporting the fact that this offer was originally set to expire 04/20/2008.The...; Tags: Pick-up Microsoft Office Ultimate, e-mail address, OpenOffice, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!: Here's a deal that some of you might be interested in: "The semester may be ending, but that doesn't mean the educational discounts have dried up for the summer — yet. Actively enrolled college students with .edu e-mail addresses (and carrying at least a 0.5-credit course load) have one...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-mail Address, E-mail, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Second Life is the latest reason our kids are doomed: Second Life is the latest reason our kids are doomedSecond LifeShouldn't keep telling people to get a life . they have...a second one.Ban Republinazis from Congress.And while we're at it we can start hanging the traitors.Even him...Maybe somewhen he could suffer a seizure and become a terrorist/rapist or whatever word...; Tags: INTERNET, Second Life, predator; Discussion threads 2008-05-08
Second Life is the latest reason our kids are doomed: I'm kidding of course, but U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) apparently isn't. According to the Chicago Tribune, Kirk sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting a consumer-alert warning about its dangers....Kirk said he knew of no cases in which children were targeted by...; Tags: Second Life, Internet, Engineering, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-08