Author: WTN News

Prodesse today said that the US Food and Drug Administration has cleared additional claims for the firm's ProFlu+ assay, which says that the assay can detect the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The Milwaukee, Wis.-based firm said in a statement that reactivity testing completed by the firm...

How competitive is the market for on-demand CRM? Salesforce (NYSE: CRM).com CEO Marc Benioff puts it this way: "We are seeing our competitors do just about anything to try to win a deal from us." While many software companies are struggling to achieve any growth at...

Facebook just announced that administrators of Facebook Pages will be able to publish their updates to their Twitter accounts automatically. Administrators will decide which info to share from a Page including status updates, photos, notes and events. A number of well-known groups and celebrities are...

Computers may be good at crunching numbers, but can they crunch feelings? The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression. For computer scientists, this fast-growing mountain of data is opening...

The Obama administration unveiled $1.2 billion in federal grants for electronic health records systems on Thursday, the first wave of funding under a health-care reform plan to create vast records-sharing networks aimed at cutting costs and improving care in the coming decade. The administration has...

Are you tired of the hysteria of articles claiming that Twitter is such a must-have tool for your survival on Earth? Social media networking tools like Twitter are the latest “digital bling” you think you must exhibit in order to gain survival and acceptance by...

Most job applicants have a general checklist before a job interview — updating their résumé, ironing a professional outfit, rehearsing an explanation for those two years spent bumming around after college. However, if tidying up the Facebook profile isn’t on that list, maybe it should...

The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign just added the Amazon Kindle to its list of DRM-related offenders. The organization started a petition against Amazon for restricting readers' access to their own books and effectively discouraging reading options. Complaints include Amazon's switch to publisher-controlled...