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Monthly Archives: June 2009

06.30.09 / US Senators Push Legislation to Punish Nokia Siemens

Should foreign companies that sell technology to Iran be barred from receiving federal contracts in the United States? According to two US Senators, the answer is a resounding yes. Hot on the heels of several news reports indicating that Nokia … Read more »

06.26.09 / Will the Declaration of Health Data Rights Help Drive Health Care into the Digital Age?

Bloggers from the medical, technology, and patient advocacy spheres are banding together to spearhead an initiative designed to let people—and medical care providers—know that patients have an “inalienable” right not only to access their medical records in electronic format, but … Read more »

06.23.09 / Iranian Web Spying Enabled by Western Technology

Communication technology in the digital age is a double-edged sword. By building a communications network, you also intrinsically provide the technological means to use that network for all sorts of nefarious purposes, many of which do not conform, exactly, to … Read more »

06.19.09 / Forgo the Silos: Convergence is Key

Long ago, it used to be that a company’s technology assets were locked up in the datacenter, and its business assets were in the hands of its business people, and never the twain should meet. “A white collar professional,” writes … Read more »

06.16.09 / One Person Equals One Broadcaster

In the wake of the hotly-contested presidential election in Iran, internet social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are emerging as the primary—if not only—means of disseminating information in a country in which the government has the power to censor … Read more »

06.16.09 / Salesforce.com Extends Enterprise Cloud Computing to Website Creation

Companies looking to solidify a robust presence on the web with a site that makes use of databases, integration with back end systems, workflow and approval rules, analytics, and more can now do it all on the cloud with Force.com … Read more »

06.12.09 / What's the Right Mix of Technology and Security?

The current state of the economy has led many companies to re-examine budgets and how resources are being allocated.  As many have experienced, this has meant layoffs, company restructuring, and policy changes.  During down times in the economy we also … Read more »

06.10.09 / In the Hyperconnected World, Video Is King

Hyperconnectivity.  If you’re a back-to-nature type purist, it’s a bad thing, but if you’re a networking equipment maker like Nortel or Cisco, it’s not merely a good thing, but the type of thing so great it forms the very basis … Read more »

06.8.09 / Is Twitter Putting Too Many Eggs in the Ambiguity Basket?

To call Twitter’s recent growth explosive is an understatement.  Citing numbers from comScore, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, in the past year alone, the number of Twitter users has increased from an estimated 1.6 million to 32.1 million.  … Read more »

06.5.09 / Will Bing Be Big?

Bing a Better Way to Search from MicrosoftPerhaps the best thing we can say about Bing, Microsoft’s new foray into the search arena, is that it might just be . . . well, pretty good.  Bing might not prove to … Read more »