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How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device

I meet a lot of Silicon Valley companies but rarely do I come across a story as inspiring as this one. Robert Goldman is the founder of Vascular Designs, a company that just won FDA approval to sell a breakthrough medical device that could save the lives of countless terminally...

Tags: Software, Medical Device, Robert Goldman, Federal Government, Healthcare, Government, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-09-02

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How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device

A CREDIT TO ENTREPENEURSThis is the stuff of history; Thomas Edison, Alexander Fleming, John Logie Baird.I lost my sister to cancer at age 36yrs so he has my heartfelt sympathy and utmost admiration Robert Goldman is the kind of person who should be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine.RE:...

Tags: software, GoldMan, breakthrough medical device

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management

BMC Software said Monday that it has acquired MQSoftware in a move that will expand its offering from mainframe and systems monitoring to middleware. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed statement. BMC positioned the move as a natural evolution to provide monitoring from the mainframe to the...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Mqsoftware Inc., Middleware, It Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Dell's analyst meeting: Looking for the big vision

Dell's analyst powwow on Tuesday is expected to focus heavily on storage and cost cutting, but lack any big transformation plans---although many observers are itching to hear more about the company's acquisition strategy and vision. Caris analyst Robert Cihra sums it up well. Dell has been focusing...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Analyst, Vision, Cihra, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Storage, Desktops, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Sure, Goldman Sachs thinks it knows best or it wouldn’t have created its own digital system for analyzing financial risks it faces, aka its SecDB database and security pricing system. But that is not what has protected it from making the kind...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Marketing, Pricing, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Live Webcast: Calculated Risk: Inside the Billion-Dollar 'Gut' of Goldman Sachs

While competitors were still betting big on mortgage-backed securities, Goldman Sachs began betting against such derivatives at the start of 2007, even though this was still the fastest-growing business on Wall Street. While it didn't escape the credit crisis without recording a loss in the last quarter of 2008 and...

Tags: Business Structures, Charles Ellis, Ellis, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Personal Finance, Robert Arvanitis, Strategy, Webcast

Webcasts 2009-02-11

Uncalculated Risk: The Fall Of Housing Prices. What Goldman Saw.

This is the U.S. Census Bureau's graphing of housing values from 1940-2000. Nationally, housing prices march upward for six uninterrupted decades. This kept up for another six years. But as the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, below, shows housing prices --...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Security, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-10

1 million Classmates headed to Venezuela

1 million Classmates headed to VenezuelaAgreedChavez can control any Open Source software in his country, as the government is taking control of all private industries.This is not really about what he feels is best for all, but instead of what he feels he can control the best.You failed to notice...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Web browsers, Debian, Classmates, aversion, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

HP: Bearer of good enterprise spending news?

When Hewlett-Packard reports its fiscal fourth quarter results Monday it'll be expected to deliver a dose of optimism about enterprise technology spending. After all, we know the bad news. Financial services companies are pulling back on spending with giants like IBM and Cisco. And if those two bellwethers are...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Document Management, Real Estate, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Accounting, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-19

What should Microsoft do about the 235 "free software" patent violations?

A lot of pixels have been devoted to a story by Fortune Magazine CNN coverage here covering claims made by Microsoft that free software is violating 235 of the companys patents.The core of the argument is summed up as follows:The conflict pits Microsoft and its dogged CEO, Steve Ballmer, against...

Tags: Legal, Linux, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-14

The future in review

Mark Anderson, founder and publisher of the Strategic News Service SNS, opened his Future In Review FIRe conference Monday night in San Diego with a comparison to D3, a concurrent Wall Street Journal-sponsored conference featuring Steve Jobs, also happening near San Diego. FIRe has an incredible line up of...

Tags: Anderson, Hormats, Mark Anderson

Blog posts 2005-05-24

Hospital Medicine Essentials (Mobile)

Hospital Medicine Essentialspowered by Skyscape Authors: Robert M. Wachter, MD, Lee Goldman, MD & Harry Hollander, MDPublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Hospital Medicine Essentials is your portable decision-support tool for quick answers to more than 210 clinical problems seen in the inpatient setting. Now, Hospital Medicine Essentials is available for...

Tags: Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Hospital Medicine, PDAs, Handhelds, Engineering, Healthcare, Hardware

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