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PrivacyPlace fisks HealthVault

The term fisking, a detailed rebuttal of someone else's statements and assertions, is fairly common to blogging but uncommon in health care. Today The Privacy Place gave a good fisking to Microsoft's HealthVault. The group's problems are these: HealthVault is not...

Tags: Privacy Statement, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., HealthVault, Privacy Place, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-09

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MyMoney 2.0.48 (Mac)

My Money is a high quality personal financial software written from ground up to work with online bank statements. Simply download your transactions from bank web site and they are automatically entered into electronic register. By bringing all of your important financial information together in one place, My Money helps...

Tags: Bank, Apple Macintosh, Financial, MTH Software, Data File, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2009-10-23

Welcome Doug Hanchard, our new government blogger

I'd like to welcome Doug Hanchard, our new government blogger, to the ZDNet network. Doug is principal of Rapid Response Consulting and is an IT veteran with knowledge of government IT issues. He will be examining the intersection of IT and government, one of the few...

Tags: Information Technology, Hot Button, Blogger, Doug, Government, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-15

When it comes to security, who do you trust more - Microsoft or Google?

Given their experience it has to be Microsoft.{NT}RE: When it comes to security, who do you trust more - Microsoft or Google?IMHO, Open Source applications are inherently more secure, with far more people pouring over the code.Closed source simply has the undiscovered flaws.Given that they design and make the OS...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., security, Google Inc., secure, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Microsoft plays the security card in response to Google's Chrome Frame

"Latest" phishing/malware data from NSS Labsapplies to Chrome 2. The most current Chrome is 3.0.195.21. I'm not surprised Microsoft mentions it though; they need to say something. Concering Chrome running inside IE..Yea I think they do, sort of. Correct me if I'm wrong but in Vista and beyond that plugin...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, plug-in, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., security, security card, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Facebook ranks in privacy poll; Users like control of their content

Facebook is ranked as one of the 10 most trusted companies when it comes to privacy, according to the findings from a survey by the Ponemon Institute, an information security research company, and TRUSTe, a widely recognized Internet privacy trustmark company. The social networking site - ranked...

Tags: Facebook, Privacy, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

OpenID, meet the U.S. government

The U.S. government has now joined the OpenID effort. Ten technology players said Wednesday that they will support President Obama's initial pilot programs to make it easier to register and work with government Web sites. OpenID is an identity system for the Web that lets people use...

Tags: Web, Web Site, U.S. Government, OpenID, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-09

The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?

I was out of the loop last week when Apple, AT&T and Google all answered Washington's questions surrounding the apparent rejection of the Google Voice app for the iPhone. Over the weekend, I had a chance to do some reading on what had gone down and, more importantly, the official...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., VoIP, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., App, Google Voice, Smart Phones, Telephony, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Final thoughts on supermodel-blogger catfight

A few final thoughts on the "skank" blogger case. I was on The Jeff Farias Show Friday talking about this story. Jeff asked me if I was concerned about courts stomping on Internet anonymity and I said, generally, no, that courts must strike a balance between First Amendment rights of...

Tags: Court, Judge, Rosemary Port, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Google reveals identify of Cohen 'skank' blogger

Welcome to the Internet only AOL ex/users give real info.Welcome to the internet everyone. It is amazing how many dummies give out real information to services that should not be given real information. This is a product of AOL where dummies who shouldn't have been on the internet got onto...

Tags: Blogging, INTERNET, Cohen, blogger, defamation, real name, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Bing! Yahoo-Microsoft ad deal close (yet again)

Bing! Yahoo-Microsoft ad deal close yet againWhat disturbs me the most...Is that of these "top-level Microsoft executives" not a single one is seemingly American.Have To Watch This OneI can't stand Yahoo.RE: Have To Watch This OneI agree with you!! I can't stand Yahoo or Google because of their privacy...

Tags: SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft AD, Bing, Microsoft Corp., advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

SEC inquiry into Steve Jobs health is too murky to go anywhere

SEC inquiry into Steve Jobs health is too murky to go anywhereDid it occur to anyonethat perhaps even Steve Jobs himself simply did not know a liver transplant was necessary until after that statement was made? If you look at the statement he made when he went on leave, he...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Steve Jobs, SEC, health care

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for Microsoft

Chrome OS: good for you; bad for MicrosoftWhat happens?How will it work if the internet is down, or you do not have connectivety for some reason?How is it fair for this OS to have the browser embedded so deeply in it, but Google argues against Microsoft doing that to the...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Google Chrome OS, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

SEC reviewing Apple disclosures about Jobs' health

A source tells Bloomberg that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators are reviewing how Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs' condition went from “relatively simple” to “more complex” in nine days. A pivotal question for regulators is what Apple’s board knew at the time of Jobs’s Jan. 5 announcement...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, SEC, Health Care, Apple Inc., Investor, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Did Jobs and Apple lie about reason for departure?

Did Jobs and Apple lie about reason for departure?Uh huh.We should definitely throw Jobs in prison for possibly affecting the share price in Apple. How dare he hide or not fully disclose the extent of his health problems? I mean, that could cost people money!The SEC should not only demand...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Apple Inc., SEC, health care, microphone, Steve Jobs, job

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down

Facebook is preparing to roll out new privacy settings - some of which includes tearing down the closed Facebook wall and opening the data to the general public. (Statement, Techmeme) But before anyone goes into panic mode, it's important to note that the company is going to...

Tags: Facebook, Wall, Construction, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Apple makes it official: Steve Jobs is back to work

The word out of Cupertino this morning is that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has returned to work, following a six-month medical leave announced in January. We kind of knew that already last week after reports of Jobs being spotted around the Cupertino campus - but now, it's...

Tags: Transplant, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-29

CLEAR: Your data will be properly disposed of

The defunct CLEAR service is attempting to re-assure its former customers that their biometric data will not be divulged or misused. The defunct registered traveler service CLEAR see previous post has recently sent out the following communication to its former subscribers,...

Tags: Clear, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Apple's secret society

Apple's secret societyI think people......have the right to know if he was bumped ahead on a waiting list just because he has money or if he legitimately waited his turn.They do not give livers, or other healthy organsto a person who has one removed due to cancer, so chances are...

Tags: Benefits, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., secret society

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Hospital confirms Steve Jobs transplant

The hospital where Steve Jobs received a liver transplant issued a press release tonight, confirming - with Jobs permission - the transplant. The hospital said Jobs received the transplant because was the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available. But more importantly, the...

Tags: Transplant, Steve Jobs, Patient, Hospital, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-23