Online Age Verification for Children Brings Privacy Worries

November 15th, 2008
WHEN it comes to protecting children on the Internet and keeping them safe from predators, law enforcement officials have vocally advocated one approach in...

Is There a Privacy Risk in Google Flu Trends?

November 13th, 2008
When Google released its Flu Trends service earlier this week, the Drudge Report flashed a headline that read: “SICK SURVEILLANCE: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES,...

Will Technology Cure Health Care — Or Kill It?

October 21st, 2008
Advances in Technology create dilemmas. Obama says technology will save health care, and it’s true that IT is quickly becoming a medical resource: Google, which...

Biden Versus Palin: The Tech Debate

October 2nd, 2008
Vice presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will face off in their first and only debate Thursday, most likely touching upon the teetering...

Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says

October 2nd, 2008
IT outsourcing eases organized crime’s theft of credit-card data from chains, Verizon says NEW YORK (Associated Press) – The reliance of restaurant chains and retail...

Stacking Up Biden and Palin on Tech

October 2nd, 2008
Political experts don’t expect tonight’s debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin to hit on a lot of technology too much. But that didn’t...

Sarah Palin’s IT Record

September 12th, 2008
With so much attention focused on Republican vice president nominee Sarah Palin’s record, market research firm INPUT took the time to examine Palin’s performance...

Take Two Hackers and VoIP me in the Morning

July 11th, 2008
With over 10,000 magazines published in the US, I rarely have time to read all of them. But I do make an effort to...

FDA to develop electronic information system. EIS will be used to improve medical-product safety.

May 27th, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration is developing a new electronic information system to monitor how drugs and other medical products perform once they go...

Selling the bitter EMR pill (HIMSS meeting)

April 7th, 2008
A few days after the University of California Medical Center in Irvine went live with its new electronic medical record system, a letter arrived...