Today I'm at the IBM Impact show in Vegas. I've made the trek to this SOA event ever since the first one in 2007. This time, IBM is making a concerted effort to link SOA and cloud computing. No surprise there: When it comes to...
Considering the devastating nature of the economy, the cellphone business had a pretty good first quarter, but all signs are pointing to dark days ahead. Dark days for the carriers, not their customers. Sprint was the last of the major phone companies to release its financial...
The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties between the boards of two of technology’s most prominent companies, Apple and Google, amount to a violation of antitrust laws, according to several people briefed on the inquiry. Apple and Google share two...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of "meaningful use" for healthcare information technology. CHIME submitted its statement to a hearing of the National Committee on Vital and Health...
What's more important when you sign up for your Internet service: getting a lower price upfront or being assured that your bill won't jump later? That's the crux of the debate over broadband caps, a pricing system some Internet providers have been pushing lately. The idea behind...
The Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has published its definitions of ‘meaningful use of certified EHR technologies,’ as outlined in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Definitions were provided both for both meaningful users of certified EHR technologies, and for...
President Obama today named high-tech heavyweights Eric Schmidt of Google and Craig Mundie of Microsoft as technology advisers. The two will join academic scholars, researchers, and business leaders in the sciences as part of Obama's Science and Technology Advisory Council, the administration announced. "The council represents...
I've been getting story pitches with subject lines like this one: "Swine Flu Outbreak Highlights Need for Supply Chain Resilience & Vulnerability Assessments." Opportunistic? Yes. But nonetheless important. IT plays an important role in just about everything these days, so its role in a major health story...
The Health Care Communication and Social Media community from Twitter has launched a Web site to aggregate information feeds from social, government and traditional media concerning the swine flu. HCSM is a Twitter conversation community that collaborates each week to discuss best practices from social media...
A Nielsen Online report shows that despite social networking site Twitter's meteoric rise in popularity, the site is having trouble retaining its community of Twitterers. Data released from Nielsen Online, which analyzes online media and its audiences, shows the popular social networking site Twitter is struggling...