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I am such a weak person - I bought an iPhone

I am such a weak person - I bought an iPhoneYou're a fine one to talkYou've been pretty compulsive lately if I recall correctly...WelcomeMarc Orchant walks up the aisle and steps up to the podium..."tap tap...is this Mic on? ah hem.Hello my name is Marc Orchant and I am a...

Tags: E-mail, Cellular phones, Reality Distortion Field, Marc, Apple iPhone, sicko

Discussion threads 2007-07-01

Google monetizing negative press around healthcare?

Google monetizing negative press around healthcare?Making MoneyGoogle is just making money!! Just take the side who gives you money and you get to earn more. Very Simple.Though many businesses talk of ethics and things. Its finally abt money and I think is no different. Though it may be the sweet...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Google Inc., insurance, sicko

Discussion threads 2007-06-30

U.S. healthcare industry: Google wants to protect you from Michael Moore's Sicko

Taking a break from reading the wall-to-wall iPhone coverage on TechMeme, I ran across a post from Lauren Turner, who works for Google as an account planner selling ads to the healthcare industry. In the post on what is called the Google Health Advertising blog, but only contains two posts,...

Tags: Dan Farber, Google, Google Inc., health care, Michael Moore, Sicko

Blog posts 2007-06-30

Sickos busted, kids rescued: Chatroom featured live abuse of children

Sickos busted, kids rescued: Chatroom featured live abuse of children2005???!!!!!!!!!It took them somewhere near two years to trace these insert invective here ? Why? I applaud their efforts and the final accomplishment, but TWO YEARS??!!! And, how many dozens of children?This sicko should be killedthe only thing...

Tags: punishment, organ, sicko

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Additional Resources

The Terminator scenario: Perhaps not so fictional after all

The Terminator scenario: Perhaps not so fictional after allTerminator Scenario unlikely but misuse is a definite.I don't buy into the Terminator scenario very much. The idea of robots rising up in a coordinated effort is incredibly unrealistic at this point. Though I will admit its possible it is unlikely.What I...

Tags: Robots, robot, Terminator

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Go med young man

Go med young manThink of all the doctor appointments that you've ever hadYeow---I didn't like any of them---traumatized!Doctors are expensive to educate...... leading to large loans. They require expensive procedures and prescriptions to do their jobs.How many Doctors can the country afford?I've read that the mathematically best and brightest...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, young man, health care, Socialized Medicine

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Google Health makes its pitch

Google Health makes its pitchGiving people data...While I'm sure giving Google your data is good for their analytics division, I think there are other options for patient activists like http://righthealth.com and http://curehunter.com .I wonder what kind of business model they are going to put on this? Selling anonymous data...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Google Inc., PHR, health care, Google Health

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Porn companies challenged by Internet sites

Porn companies challenged by Internet sitesAh, a victim of it's own successin both the freedom in expansion and the push in improved/used technologies, the question is how hard to come down on the users and providers without losing mainstream interest and support, especially in a world of growing amateur and...

Tags: adult film industry, Internet, Internet-site, Porn company

Discussion threads 2008-01-13

Next up: The $75 laptop

Next up: The $75 laptopDon't blame Ms. Jepsen for a smart decisionUnlike what her detractors may say, this is neither taking advantage nor jumping ship. It's a smart move by a smart executive. The XO project is now very well defined and managing a stable project is not...

Tags: Notebooks, OLPC thing, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project, Next Up

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

Our most popular posts of 2007

Here are the most popular Between the Lines posts based on traffic. Come and get it: Fedora laptop for $150 Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0? Apple to nuke unlocked iPhones with next update Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings Nokia recalls batteries;...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-26

A big untapped social network opportunity

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the soft underbelly of Web culture. As Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore will tell you, there is no greater potential money-spinner in the US today than health. We all get sick. So there's always some sicko who wants to make a...

Tags: Network, Health Care, Geek, FatGeeks.com, Chris, Vertical Industries, Social Networking, Benefits, Healthcare, Channel Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Management, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Today's Debate: Is Dr. Gupta bad for your health?

Today's Debate: Is Dr. Gupta bad for your health?Gupta, the cable quackIt's good advice to laugh at medical advice. "Eggs will kill you!" Turns out they won't. Just wait for the next "study" to come along to counter the fear-based one. (Michael Moore even dealt with this very phenomenon in...

Tags: Cable, Vertical industries, health care, Gupta, Michael Moore

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

Study: Cell phones, hospitals don't mix

Study: Cell phones, hospitals don't mixSounds likeequipment needs to be manufactured from the begin to not interfere so as to not put the duty on the owner to worry about interactions with other devices, especially in a hospital, on a plane, or by a pacemaker. And maybe those devices...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Web 2.0, Cellular phones, privatization, cell phone, health care, hospital, phone

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

What can you expect?

Say "climate change" or "global warming" and you can start a debate most anywhere these days. Even if everybody present agrees things are changing or getting hotter, you'll find a dearth of agreement on what to expect.A summary of some of the issues, and key terms like "projection," "prediction"...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Crowded mobile-chip market likely to shrink further

Crowded mobile-chip market likely to shrink furtherMarvell WiMaxThe reason for shrinkage is likely related to the WiMax standard which Marvel has been on top of for at least a year and a half. WiMax will be huge in the USA assuming the US government fails to sell the < 1...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, health care, universal access, WiMAX, spectrum, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

Google, Microsoft and the glacial healthcare revolution

Google recently took a hit for a blog post by a salesperson who was evangelizing healthcare clients that the spending marketing funds Google ads could counter the negative publicity from Sicko. But Google's real interest in healthcare is more about its search and hosting businesses, as reported by Steve Lohr...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Congress limps toward concluding that bloggers can be journalists

Congress limps toward concluding that bloggers can be journalistsLet's just lose "journalist" as a categoryThe definition covers virtually anything - regardless of the $ factor you mention. Read that definition again. Oliver Stone's JFK; Micheal Moore's Sicko and others; Nancy Grace' Nightly indepth review of starlet life &...

Tags: Blogging, Oliver Stone, Op-Ed, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2007-08-02

Podcast: iPhones, batteries, benchmarks, Sicko and more...

Podcast: iPhones, batteries, benchmarks, Sicko and more...Serchable podcasts...... I tried it, it does not work! Zero results for "Apple", "iPhone", or "Dave". I cannot find anything not cynical to say about it, so I'll leave it alone. :)J.Ja

Tags: Podcasts, Engineering, podcast, Apple iPhone, battery

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

Facebook feeds and search mashups

Facebook feeds and search mashupsFacebookI am a Facebook Enthusiast www.facebookenthusiast.com. I had a very interesting thing happen, within 48 hours of joining Facebook, I was actually communicating with people whom I had only exchanged e-mails and actually had a sense of there personality...One of my "friends" noted she was riding...

Tags: Facebook, mashup

Discussion threads 2007-07-08

Monkcast #8: Goodbye Zimbra, Hello Google Apps (for RedMonk)

Although we took a circuitous route to get there, the bulk of this week's discussion had to do with RedMonk's migration off Zimbra to Google Apps (a process that was apparently managed by RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady who, ironically, wasn't present for the podcast). But before we found our way...

Tags: General, Google Apps To-Do List, IT Management, MonkCast Podcast, Office 2.0, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-07-06