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Microsoft gets its first award for HealthVault

Microsoft HealthVault has won its first industry award, from Frost & Sullivan, as the company ramps up the marketing of its hospital computing solutions. The award is a "Best Practices" honor for the HealthVault platform which, analyst Priyanka Gouthaman writes, gives Microsoft "a distinct early-mover advantage" to  "gain...

Tags: Peter Neupert, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft HealthVault, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Microsoft: We're good for your health

Microsoft has been signaling its intentions to enter the health-records-management space for more than a year. On October 4, the company finally provided an official gameplan of what it's readying on the healthcare software and services front. On October 4, Microsoft launched an open beta of HealthVault,...

Tags: Peter Neupert, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-04

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News to know: Microsoft; Yahoo; Google; IT contractors

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught. Dennis Howlett: Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain Paul Miller: Powerset really does go to Microsoft... but for how much? Mary Jo Foley: Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Team Management, 3G, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain

Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable

You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...

Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most

One of the most disheartening things that can happen in any job is when the boss that inspired you, the one you loved to learn from and who made a grueling job more bearable leaves the building. It may be no different at Microsoft this week, as the "geeks" or...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Sales, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Live Webcast: Now is the Time for HD Video Communications - The Smart Business Tool

More and more organizations today are turning to HD video communications as an everyday business communication tool. Why? Because video communications today is High Definition - the same quality as you experience on your home HDTV. And Telepresence, the new buzz word in video...

Tags: Webcast, Communication, Video, Tool, GBH Communications, Video Communication, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Webcasts 2008-06-25

An Irregular experience with Oracle

I was in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday, attending Oracle EMEA's marketing kick off. This was unusual on three counts: I tend to stick it to Oracle on any and every occasion It's rare for someone with my background to be invited to these affairs ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here

The digital television transition has begun. And it has little to do with Feb. 17, 2009. Yah, that's the date that all local TV broadcasters have to be sending out all their signals in digital form. And there are going to be a handful of clueless TV...

Tags: Advertisement, Digital Television, Digital Television Transition, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-15

PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer

Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...

Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.

Two radically opposed views of global warming bill: fighting it will bring health and welfare, or end our currently blessed state of being. You get to watch the battle.Just let the earth burn up and then say to St. Peter"goodness, there was some REALLY greedy people down there."Let the...

Tags: Vertical industries, global warming, health care

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Time Warner Cable's metering plans: Why not?

Time Warner Cable's metering plans: Why not?It's the Tip of the IcebergThis is just a new revenue stream for Time Warner. It's also a step back in time to the early days of the Internet when you had usage fees. And, if they decide to keep it, the other...

Tags: Cable, Network technology, BluRay, Time Warner Cable Inc., wireless, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

PaaS and the patent trolls

PaaS and the patent trollsSafety in the Long TailPhil - you are technically correct that a user could stumble into a patent infringement. But I believe these PaaS offerings for biz users such as Coghead will appeal most to the long tail of business apps - the apps that have...

Tags: PaaS, patent troll

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Jerry Yang: The Web's most overanalyzed exec

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has a lot to worry about these days. Activist shareholder Carl Icahn wants to toss his board. Microsoft is playing hard ball. Large investors are angry. Google is the Web darling. What's next? The body language police. Yang and Yahoo president Sue Decker...

Tags: Body Language, Web, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

(Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraft)

(Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraft)Images: Phoenix Lander greeted by Mars spacecraftHiHow much for a 600 sq yds plot ? Please book mine. Should be a corner plot.Peter Topno

Tags: spacecraft, Phoenix Technologies

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Mobile 2.0 conference debuting in Europe on July 4th

Rudy De Waele sent me a message a couple of days ago announcing that the is expanding to Europe and the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference is coming to Barcelona, Spain on July 4th this year. This is a one day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile...

Tags: Mobile, Conference, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

News to know: Microsoft's social bookmarking; Google vs. Viacom; Adventures in Linux; Facebook

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd Larry Dignan: Google: Viacom's YouTube lawsuit threatens DMCA. Full complaint. Techmeme Ed Bott: Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Social Bookmarking, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Viacom Inc., Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Viruses And Worms, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Peter Norvig on Google's mistrust of machine learning

Peter Norvig on Google's mistrust of machine learningI can understand Peter Norvig's (or Google's)reluctance - search is [b]Google[/b]'s core operation, and «catastrophic errors on searches» are not something they could afford. Still, it would be fascinating if [b]Google[/b] were, after appropriate testing among volunteer guinea pigs (I offer myself as...

Tags: Google Inc., Peter Norvig

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation?

Many studies have been conducted about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown of 1986. A large majority of them were focused on the environmental consequences of the radiation release. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune asks, what happened to bugs? Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator from Zurich, Switzerland, has collected...

Tags: Radiation, Bug, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Sales, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-25

Peter Norvig on Google's mistrust of machine learning

Peter Norvig has been at Google for a long time now -- he was, until recently, the Directory of Search Quality; the guy who made sure every time you submitted a query, you usually got what you wanted. He has since moved into the Director of Research role, but...

Tags: Algorithm, Google Inc., Peter Norvig, Anand, Engineering, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-05-25