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Predicting drug side effects: It would certainly be nice for the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential side effects of a drug before it starts to be tested on humans. Now, a research team at the University of California, San Diego UCSD might have found a solution. They have developed a new computational technique to...; Tags: Technology Review, Protein, Drug, Molecule, UCSD, Philip Bourne, Tamoxifen, Team Management, Productivity, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-12-16

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Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?: I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...; Tags: Mr., Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Opera patches serious code exection flaw: Opera Software has joined the list of browser vendors shipping fixes for serious remote code execution vulnerabilities. The company's new Opera 9.5.1 patches at least four security issues, the most serious being a flaw reported by Microsoft's Billy Rios that could be used to execute arbitrary code....; Tags: Opera Software, Patch Management, Flaw, Security Statu, Security, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-03
Why your text messages are not private: The media, including your correspondent, reported last week that the Ninth Circuit decision in Quon v Arch clearly established an employee's right of privacy in his text messages, even on an employer-issued pager. The court said that a police department that looked through an officer's text message...; Tags: Text Message, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-06-29
SocialCalc: a killer app?: David Greenfield details SocialCalc, the wikified spreadsheet from SocialText. While David's assessment is comprehensive, I partially disagree with his analysis that: Â ...SocialCalc will have a long way to go. Today there's no Excel integration, something that Google Sheets already offers. What's more the range of functions provided with SocialCalc...; Tags: Killer Application, Socialtext, Spreadsheet, SocialCalc, Google Sheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-10

Calling out lawyers on their own FUD: Calling out lawyers on their own FUDReally?"Walsh’s claim that before these suits open source offered only a “philosophical dispute” is false. Copyright law has always been at the heart of open source."Really?Copyright law and the GPL are based on the concept of a "derivative work." What EXACTLY is a...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, derivative-work; Discussion threads 2008-06-10
Apple reveals MobileMe at WWDC: Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, unveils MobileMe, the company's new cloud computing service, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The new service will connect all of your devices and push information up and down to keep everything up to date. It's also designed...; Tags: Apple Inc., Cloud Computing, Apple, MobileMe; Videos 2008-06-09
6 reasons government IT projects fail: 6 reasons government IT projects failContradictory demandsThe complexity of a government project can arise not only from the ordicary technical problems, but from frequently observed situations.The simplest example is a data item which has different definitions and neither can be eliminated because each comes from a higher level of government....; Tags: Team management, team, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-30
6 reasons government IT projects fail: Failed government IT projects occur with alarming frequency. In some respects, these failures share much in common with botched private sector initiatives. For example, failures in both environments are primarily a function of poor management rather than bad technology. Still, there are important differences between government...; Tags: Team, Information Technology, Procurement, Accountability, Government, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-30
Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit City: Circuit City said Friday that it is exploring strategic alternatives and will allow Blockbuster and investor Carl Icahn to "conduct additional due diligence." Last month, Blockbuster announced a rather perplexing plan to acquire Circuit City in an attempt to take two struggling retailers and make one strong...; Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Diligence, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Penumbra: Black Plague Mac Demo (dmg): I woke in an old, concrete office room, damp with the smell of rot and death. The mattress beneath me was worse still, though the memory of the events that lead me there was the terrifying realization of all. I was in a complex, some way beneath the Greenland snow,...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Cell, Frictional Games, Philip; Software downloads 2008-05-07
NetSuite turns into battlground among analysts; High hopes for OneWorld: On the surface NetSuite's first quarter was pretty good. The company beat its earnings targets by a penny a share and revenue was better than expected. However, the on-demand ERP software provider's deferred revenue fell short of what analysts expected. As Credit Suisse analyst Philip Winslow, who...; Tags: Revenue, Analyst, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, OneWorld, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Second Life appoints new CEO with "rare and unusual passion for Second Life": Linden Lab, the makers of virtual world Second Life, have announced the appointment of a new CEO. Mark Kingdon, whose current post is CEO of online creative/marketing agency Organic of dot com bubble fame, will take over from former CEO and current chairman Philip Rosedale as of May 15th to...; Tags: Second Life, Leadership, Branding, Management, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-04-23
A 100-million-year dragon killer: Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...; Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City: Updated: Here's a deal where 1 + 1 = 0.5: Blockbuster is offering to acquire Circuit City for "a least $6 a share." Blockbuster went public on Monday statement with an offer to buy Circuit City. Blockbuster says it sent a letter Feb. 17, but Circuit City...; Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Convergence, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-14
Pennsylvania joins Health Information Exchange movement: Pennsylvania has become the latest state to join the rush toward Health Information Exchanges HIX, through an executive order signed by Gov. Ed Rendell. An HIE provides a framework for sharing medical records among doctors and hospitals. Often, as in the Pennsylvania case, it's pushed by industry...; Tags: Pennsylvania, Health Care, HIE, Healthbridge, eHealth Initiative, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Penumbra: Overture (exe): Like all good nightmares, Philip's begins with something all too real--his mother's death. The days following the funeral are characterized by nothing, save for an incessant feeling of abandonment. Until, that is, he receives a letter from a dead man. Philip's father left before he was born, taking his reasons...; Tags: Graphics, Overture Services Inc., Frictional Games, Penumbra, Philip, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-03-31
Oracle expected to navigate choppy economic waters: Oracle will report its fiscal third quarter earnings after market close today and by most counts the company has bucked any economic downturn and should turn in strong results. Analysts are expecting earnings of 30 cents a share for the February quarter on sales of $5.4 billion,...; Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Analyst, Sales Strategy, Middleware, Mergers & Acquisitions, Application Servers, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-26
Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours: For every person, there are personalities who's influence and life's work that can shape one's imagination and destiny. For some people, they are world leaders, musicians, poets, and philosophers. For me, the Grand Masters of Science Fiction float to the very top of that august group â€“ and...; Tags: Work, Computer, Productivity, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Apple to iPhone devs: Keep on developing for Jailbroken iPhones guys!: Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt is reporting that Apple has delivered a mighty slap across the face to many potential iPhone and iPod touch developers and turned what was good PR last week into what could be a PR headache this week. By week's end, almost everyone who had downloaded the...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Fortune, Apple Inc., Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-03-16