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- Smart People: Virus hunter aims to predict & prevent pandemics
- Please don't forget the transcriptPlease keep transcripts - not just videos. Some of us find it much quicker to read/scan than to wait and wait and wait through a video which may not be very interesting after all. Please include transcripts. please..please
- Tags: Corporate communications, virus
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- News to know: HP; AT&T; Malware; Twitter; RIM
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hordes of owners complain of problems with HP Elite Pavilion PCs using Core i7 Ed Bott: Apple...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., AT&T Corp., Malware, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Smart People: Virus hunter aims to predict & prevent pandemics
- What if we could forecast outbreaks the same way we do hurricanes? Epidemiologist Nathan Wolfe ventures to the far-flung reaches of Africa, China and Asia to track how devastating diseases take hold in human populations and how they might be stopped before becoming widespread. Dr. Wolfe's most recent win? Helping...
- Tags: Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Swine flu? What it means for IT professionals
- Swine flu? What it means for IT professionalsSwine Flu is not Bird FluOur company's plan for bird flu is *wildly* different than for this one. We used the 1918 Spanish Flu as our bird flu model, which has a 1% fatality rate for healthy 20-40 year olds.If something like that...
- Tags: fatality, H1N1 flu, VPN, What it means
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- The cause of swine flu
- The answer to the pandemics of today and tomorrow lie in how we produce our food. Can we make it safe, and at what cost, to ourselves and the planet? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Antibiotics, Flu, CAFO, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- ETech 2009 Preview
- Next month, Silicon Valley welcomes ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. In it's 8th year now, the hands-on confab brings together thinkers, doers and "alpha geeks" to demo and discuss disruptive technologies and business models. The overarching theme for the four-day event that'll kick-off March 9th is how the way...
- Tags: Technology, Cyberthreats, Manufacturing, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .
- Now that the distraction from the election is gone, I wish there was another distraction out there because we still have a way to go in regards to the financial crisis. There seems to be a widespread perception that the mess caused by the sub-prime bubble has...
- Tags: Financial, Derivatives, Bubble, Philanthropia, Financial Services, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?.....Personally I do believe that eventually when the stark reality hits home, we will pull our collective selves our of the pit, but not before some really hard times around the world. ]:)strategic bee coloniesIf CCD or future bee pandemics became severe...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, bee, colony, strategic colony, bee population, bee colony
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- 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
- Blogs and the flu: eGovernment in action
- Blogs and the flu: eGovernment in actionContact good but not deepUntil the Hurricane director Bill Proenza was fired for commenting on a problem(http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/07/national-hurric.html) did I realize what a chance Dr. Leavitt and Admiral Agwunobi took. I was naive in thinking I could talk to those working for me...
- Tags: Blogging, e-government, H5N1, blog, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- US focusing on Estonia cyberattack in upcoming wargames
- It seems the US government is taking the cyberattacks on Estonia quite seriously. Earlier this week, US-CERT sent experts to Estonia to learn more about the attacks. At the same time, the Defense Department has been getting ready for cyber wargames, Ars Technica reports.The government is setting up...
- Tags: International, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Corals have as many genes as us
- You probably think that corals are very simple animals who also have a very simple genome. According to an international team of researchers from Australia, Germany and Japan, this is not true and corals might be more complex than us. They say that corals have as many as 20 or...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Continuity of Business
- Continuity Of Business COB refers to an organization's plans and procedures aimed at protecting its key assets and continuing its critical business functions in the event of threats such as natural disasters, pandemics, power outages, computer viruses, or terrorist attacks. COB has joined corporate governance and information security as factors...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Continuity Of Business, Corporate Insurance, Corporate Governance, Homeland Security, Business Security, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government
- White papers 2007-01-01
- 3-D images of a flu virus
- Last week, The Lancet released a study stating that an influenza pandemic similar to the so-called Spanish flu pandemic that killed between 50 and 100 million people between 1918 and 1920 would kill about 62 million people today, with 96 percent of the deaths occurring in developing countries (details here,...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine, virus, H3N2
- Blog posts 2006-12-30
- It's a wide line between IT security and physical security
- There is a line between IT security and physical security. Many of the big consulting firms and integrators would like you to think it is a fine line. But I think it is a nice wide line, one that gets crossed occasionally when people consider integrating a building access system...
- Tags: IT security, information technology, wide line, Spyware
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- A global avalanche
- Im a rabid optimist when it comes to humanitys future. On the one hand there are serious problems to be confronted, but on the other none of the problems touted in the mass media are particularly real or threatening. The world is not, for example, running out of oil, we...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- By 2020, kiss the snows of Kilimanjaro goodbye
- By 2020, kiss the snows of Kilimanjaro goodbyeGlobal warming is inconveniantI was amazed this morning that on Good Morning America a Shell spokesman actually conceded that global warming is happening. Of course Exxon still funds huge amounts of cash in special "research" groups that say global warming is a...
- Tags: Planet Earth, hemisphere, global warming
- Discussion threads 2006-05-23
- Planning for the unthinkable
- Planning for the unthinkablePandemicsI would have thought that in a raging pandemic, isolation of people would be one useful counter-measure -- the history of the Black Death in England has an example of this, where a village isolated itself -- and with modern technology for home working this should be...
- Tags: infection, anti-rejection, transplant, immune system, flu, Planning
- Discussion threads 2006-03-30
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