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Big Ethics for Big Data

Howard Wen | O'Reilly Radar | June 11, 2012

As the collection, organization and retention of data has become commonplace in modern business, the ethical implications behind big data have also grown in importance. Who really owns this information? Who is ultimately responsible for maintaining it? What are the privacy issues and obligations? What uses of technology are ethical — or not — when it comes to big data?

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Black Duck Software Reports Record Q2 Sales, Third Largest Quarter in Company History

Press Release | Black Duck Software | July 13, 2012

Black Duck Software, the trusted partner for open source software adoption, management, and governance, today reported that Q2 was a record quarter for sales and the third largest sales quarter in the company's history, driven by a 62 percent growth in new subscriptions. Read More »

Blind Ambition: Plea for Funds to Keep Free Software Project Alive

Sylvia Pennington | Brisbane Times | March 16, 2012

Two Australian programmers may be forced to abandon their not-for-profit work that allows blind people around the world to join in social networks and the information age if funding is not forthcoming. Read More »

BodyTel Joins Continua Health Alliance

Press Release | BodyTel | June 25, 2012

Telehealth solution provider BodyTel Europe GmbH has become a member of the “Continua Health Alliance”. Among other things, the industry organization promotes its own standard for the transmission of medical data based on the Bluetooth health device profile (HDP). BodyTel will initially adapt its blood glucose meter GlucoTel to comply with the consortium’s standards. As a result, the device will be interoperable with other Continua-certified products. Read More »

Brainstorm Tech Spotlight: Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder And CCO Indiegogo

Staff Writer | CNN | July 5, 2013

Fortune's Brainstorm Tech Conference (July 22-24 in Aspen, Colo.) regularly brings together the best and brightest minds in tech innovation. Each week, Fortune turns the spotlight on a different conference attendee to offer his or her own personal insight into business, tech, and entrepreneurship. [...] Read More »

Calculating Barack Obama's Geek Quotient

Elspeth Reeve and Rebecca Greenfield | Atlantic Wire | June 14, 2012

Does Barack Obama's have "very high" "geek quotient" as chief technology officer -- a.k.a official White House geek -- Todd Park claimed today in a CNN interview?...Park claims Obama deserves this "very high" ranking as a "a hugely enthusiastic proponent of the power of data, technology and innovation to advance national priorities," he told CNN's undefined.

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Can Software Save Lives?

Guangming Cui | Axial Exchange | July 27, 2012

The New York Times recently reported the death of a 12-year-old boy after being discharged from a hospital emergency room...At Axial, we strive for a solution to improve these situations, and we believe part of the answer lies in technology that improves timely, important communication amongst healthcare professionals and the education of patients and their caregivers. Read More »

Can US Government Shift To Outside-In Digital Approach?

Staff Writer | Computerworld | August 12, 2012

Embracing new ideas and technology to solve real problems and deliver winning customer experience management (CXM) strategies is separating winners from losers... Read More »

China Dumping Foreign Tech; It Could Work

Larry Seltzer | ZDNet | December 22, 2014

The Chinese government has been working for a long time on replacing foreign, largely American, technology with home-grown alternatives, but conditions are much better for them than in the past...

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Cisco's Case for Service Providers as Tourniquet for Hemorrhaging Health System

Tine Christensen | Government Health IT | June 27, 2012

While uncertainty about the status of healthcare reform hangs over the healthcare field like a black cloud, there are persistent glimmers of sunshine in the form of emerging incentives for providers and insurers to contain costs. Technology can play a key role in delivering critical opportunities for these much-needed cost savings. Read More »

Citizens Against Corruption

Matt O'Reilly | Indigo Trust | May 20, 2013

Last week, the UK’s Overseas Development Institute hosted an event examining the role that citizens can play in challenging corruption. Read More »

Clinovo Case Study: Open Source EDC Unmatched Cost-Efficiency

Staff Writer | Clinovo | August 28, 2012

A worldwide leading technology medical device company was expanding the use of their number one medical device to new therapeutic areas...The sponsor was looking for a way to efficiently manage such large amounts of data while staying on time and on budget... Read More »

Clinovo Launches Educational On Demand Webinars

Press Release | Clinovo | July 24, 2012

Clinovo Enriches Its Webinar Series with Free Educational On Demand Webinars For Clinical Trials Professionals Looking to Build New Skills, Learn Easily and Stay Up-To-Date with New Technologies for Clinical Trials Read More »

Cloud Computing And NASA

Adam Ritchie | CloudTweaks | April 4, 2014

Investments in space technology have produced many spinoff inventions that we now take for granted in everyday modern life. Advances in comfort, such as memory foam and shoe insoles, and life-saving technologies, such as smoke detectors and safety grooving in roads and runways, were all inspired by NASA research.

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Cloudera Chief Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher Teams With Mount Sinai School of Medicine to Solve Medical Challenges Using Big Data

Press Release | Cloudera, The Mount Sinai Medical Center | July 3, 2012

Cloudera...today announced that Cloudera Cofounder and Chief Scientist Jeff Hammerbacher will be leading a revolutionary project with Mount Sinai School of Medicine to apply the power of Cloudera's Big Data platform to critical problems in predicting and understanding the process and treatment of disease. Read More »