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Healthcare Companies Not Prepared to Manage IT Risks

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act promises massive new opportunities for the health care industry with the widespread adoption and use of electronic health records, but a new study finds the industry is ill-prepared to meet the security challenges.
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While health care and life sciences companies are on the brink of new
opportunities with the widespread adoption and use of EHR (electronic
health records) technologies called for under the ARRA (American
Recovery and
Reinvestment Act), the industries are not prepared to meet the
challenges o…


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Chris Kelly: California’s Budget Crisis Turns Out to Be Great for Oil Companies. Weird.

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

2009 isn’t just the 40th anniversary of man walking on the moon, it’s also the 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill, the worst…

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Lizzie Parsons: Lax Checks of Mineral Companies Allow Atrocities and Abuses in Congo

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Congo region have been forced to flee from their homes – some many times – because men with guns have given them no choice. Others have been massacred, raped or tortured.

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Swine Flu Profits: Drug Companies To Reap Billions

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies are reaping billions of dollars in extra revenue amid global concern about the spread of swine flu.

Analysts expect to see a boost in sales from GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Sanofi-Aventis wh…

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10 Reasons Why Companies Should Consider Alternatives to Internet Explorer

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

News Analysis: Internet Explorer may be the top Web browser in the enterprise, but should it hold the top spot? Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome outshine the Microsoft browser in terms of innovation. Here are 10 of the factors that might make some companies want to switch to the competition.
– Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been a
lightning rod for controversy as of late. The software giant has been facing intense
pressure from the European Union not to bundle its browser with Windows 7
when the operating system is released later in 2009. Opera Software has
continued pelting Micros…


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Kevin Grandia: 5 Cool Renewable Energy Companies I’ve found lately

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Here’s 5 cool, cutting edge renewable energy companies I’ve come across lately: 1. Big Belly Solar: formerly known as Seahorse Power Company, this Needham, MA…

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Drugs companies and poor countries: All together now

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

New initiatives to cure diseases of the poor world

HEALTH-CARE activists have long maintained that the system for granting patents on drugs denies the poor access to essential medicines and discourages pharmaceutical firms from collaborating to develop new ones for neglected diseases. Several initiatives announced this week, some focused on collaboration and others on openness, may help to remedy those problems.

On July 14th GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a British drugs giant, announced that it would waive patent restrictions to allow generic drugs firms to copy its HIV drugs for sale in poor countries. Notably, this waiver includes Abacavir, an advanced therapy that is used when the initial treatment for this disease fails. GSK had earlier announced that it would share its research and patent portfolios for HIV drugs with Pfizer, an American rival, in the hope of accelerating drug development in this area. …

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Microsoft Windows 7 Will Be Skipped by 6 in 10 Companies, Says Survey

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft plans on rolling out its newest operating system, Windows 7, with the expectation that it will help boost Redmonds bottom line in the midst of a global recession. However, a new survey by ScriptLogic suggests that a number of companies will decline to adopt Windows 7 when the operating system makes its debut on Oct. 22. Microsoft is facing a potential competitor in the operating system arena from Google, whose Chrome OS is being specifically targeted at mini-notebooks, known popularly as netbooks.
– Microsoft may have a hard road ahead in convincing companies to adopt Windows 7, its
upcoming operating system that represents the companys hopes for both increased
revenue in a global recession and wiping out bad memories of Vista: According to
a new survey by ScriptLogic Corp, six out of 10 com…


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Should Newspaper Companies Get Out Of The Newspaper Business?

November 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Forget the bailout. I have a great new business model for Detroit automakers. Sell Toyotas and Hondas. Detroit already has the dealer networks. There’s great demand for Japanese cars. In fact, Detroit could retool all of their manufacturing plants to make Toyotas and Hondas.
That proposal is similar to one put forth for newspaper companies by [...]

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