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Category Archives: Technology

01.19.11 / Accessibility: Making a Better Web for All

In what was heralded as a watershed moment in the movement for greater and more meaningful web access for those with disabilities, Staples, the world’s largest office supply company, entered into an agreement with several advocacy groups for those with … Read more »

01.13.11 / What Do We Mean When We Talk about Enterprise 2.0 and Customer Experienced-Centered Design?

Web 2.0, a term coined by Darcy DiNucci in her 1999 article “Fragmented Future,” describes the then-nascent rumblings of an internet disconnected from screenfuls of text and graphics loaded into a browser into an interconnected transport mechanism where all sorts … Read more »

12.18.09 / Google: All Your News Are Belong To Us?

If Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s crystal ball is good enough to predict the future five years out, here’s what we could be looking at, news delivery-wise, a scant half-decade from now. Cue the wavy lines. You’ll be holding some sort … Read more »

11.6.09 / Healthcare CPOE Could Go Awry with ARRA

In a recent interview with Healthcare Informatics Editor in Chief Anthony Guerra, Jeff Cash, CIO of Mercy Medical Center in Iowa, presented an interesting conundrum vis-à-vis the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and its push to drive … Read more »

10.29.09 / Innovation in Print: Esquire Goes Augmented Reality

“WTF” scream-asks a sub-head on the cover of Esquire magazine’s December 2009 issue, and while you may think the question is being posed about actor Robert Downey Jr.’s somewhat déclassé spread-eagled pose on the cover, what really garners the WTF … Read more »

10.15.09 / For Microsoft, Innovating Means Copying Apple

October 2009 is shaping up to be a company-defining month for Microsoft. On October 22, Microsoft is poised to launch Windows 7, the latest version of its ubiquitous Windows operating system. Plenty of ink and electrons have been sacrificed to … Read more »

09.14.09 / Intuit Scoops up a Mint

A rumor first reported by Silicon Valley Insider last week appears to be true:  personal finance and small business bellwether Intuit is buying Mint, a provider of free, online personal finance planning and budgeting tools.  The deal, according to TechCrunch, … Read more »

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 »