The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth (CNN Money)
If you went around saying that in a couple of decades we'll have cell-sized, brain-enhancing robots circulating through our bloodstream or that we'll be able to upload a person's consciousness into a computer, people would probably question your sanity. But if you say things like that and you're Ray Kurzweil, you get invited to dinner at Bill Gates' house - twice - so he can pick your brain for ......more...Silicon Valley Pay-for-Performance Consortium Announces Significant Progress in Health Information Technology Systems ... (RedNova)
The Silicon Valley Pay-for-Performance Consorti...more... Avnet Electronics Marketing Now Distributing Applied Data Systems Embedded Computer Systems (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
COLUMBIA, Md. & PHOENIX----Applied Data Systems , a leading developer of ARM-based embedded systems, and Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. , have announced a distribution agreement for ADS' line of "application-ready" embedded single board computers....more... County getting wired (The Daily American)
Somerset County is one step closer to being wired for video arraignments. County commissioners accepted a $7,105 grant from the state Department of Community and Economic Development Tuesday to purchase laptop computers and video cameras for video arraignment systems....more... Silicon Valley Pay-for-Performance Consortium Announces Significant Progress in Health Information Technology Systems ... (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Silicon Valley Pay-for-Performance Consortium, a collaborative effort started by Cisco®, Intel Corporation and Oracle along with several large California physician organizations to accelerate the use of technology for quality health care, today announced its first year end results....more... Philip Hersh's blog: Insert track spike in mouth (Chicago Tribune)
...more... Closing bell: Optimistic investors push Nasdaq, Dow, valley tech stocks higher (San Jose Mercury News)
Stocks jumped Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average past 13,200 for the first time after a strong reading on U....more... Has the Mac been hacked? (News Interactive)
A COMPUTER security conference has uncovered a flaw that has launched a bitter worldwide nerd war over whether or not a hacker gained control of a MacBook Pro....more... Disney's discovery: How to avoid a midlife slump (Orange County Register)
Book on Disney artwork focuses on sources of inspiration. You might think Walt Disney wasn't much like painter Andy Warhol, computer whiz Bill Gates, or poet T.S. Eliot, but you'd be wrong....more... |