Antone Gonsalves writes, "Randall Spratt, chief information officer for health care IT provider McKesson, painted a bleak picture Tuesday of a U.S. health-care system in which hundreds of people die every two days from avoidable medical errors." read more » 1 CommentBury
In this interesting article Christine Peterson, who is credited with coining the term "open source",addresses concerns about national security and invasion of privacy. She believes the answer is "to drive innovation and deliver new technologies that can guarantee both privacy and security." read more » DiscussBury
Six states, California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio and Texas, account for half of the software piracy in the U.S., according to a study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). read more » DiscussBury
KC Jones of Information Week reports that a house subcomittee approved HR 6357 on Wednesday. The bill would require all US citizens to have electronic medical records by 2014. The legislation is cal read more » DiscussBury
Jonathan Schwartz interviews Bill Vass, President of Sun's Federal Systems Group on what a recently established relationship between Sun's OpenSolaris and the National Security Agency really means. read more » DiscussBury
National Lambda Rail and Internet2, high-speed internet backbone companies, have for the second time called off talks of a proposed merger between the two companies. read more » DiscussBury
Two FCC Commissioners - Copps and Adelstein - suggested before the Senate that the United States need to consider a national broadband strategy which would increase the reach and competitiveness of b read more » DiscussBury
