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Today the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference wrapped up. In
previous blogs, I laid out the
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benefits of risk-taking in health care IT followed by my main
theme,
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interoperability and openness. This blog will cover a few topics
about a third important issue, infrastructure.

Why did I decide this topic was worth a...

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Atex, which provides software systems to media firms, has purchased a majority stake in classifieds site Kaango, according to Classified Intelligence. Classified Intelligence says in a clients-...

If Im already fatigued by the extended PR volley between Disney and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) over retransmission fees, just imagine how Cablevision subs counting on WABC for the Academy Awards S...

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has unveiled a new way to search on Android-powered phones: Gestures. According to a post on the Google Mobile Blog, the experimental application is available on Android-p...

Like so many of its peers, The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) is trying to find the right notes to play in just the right order when it comes to getting paid for digital content. Unfortunately, Jo...

New investment bank Code Advisors has picked up some senior banking expertise with the hiring of Chris Scarborough, an 11-year vet of Credit Suisse with significant Silicon Valley tech-media experience. Scarborough doesnt have a formal titlethe next-gen firm co-founded by for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, Fred Davis and Michael Marquez is playing down titles for the most partbut Smith tells me he will assemble the analyst-associate team. Scarborough also will be working with clients on busin...

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Weeks after Macmillan CEO John Sargent told Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) the publisher was switching to the agency model for e-book salesprompting the e-tailer to black out its e-books for several days,...

Mitch Lazar, Yahoos European Mobile managing director, is stepping down from his post after working at the company for four and a half years. Lazar marks one of many recent departures from Ya...

The data is starting to roll in for the full Vancouver Olympics. NBC hasnt been to provide some of the stats weve asked forthe number of video streams served the night the first USA-CAN hockey ...

Marketers and agency execs began gathering for the 4As Transformation 2010 conference in San Francisco to go over the current challenges to the traditional way of doing business. On day two, t...

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) unveiled a completely new smartphone operating system last month that in no way resembles its past corporate image. The new Windows Phone 7 fits somewhere between Bings v...

During last months earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger couldnt have been clearer about his willingness to shut off access to distributors unwilling to pay retrans fees. We’re pretty resolute, Iger told analystsand by extension, cable and satellite operators. Just three weeks later, Disney (NYSE: DIS) is trying to show that resolution, launching an intense campaign today to warn Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) subscribers that they could lose access to local station WABC-TV, Ch. 7, at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.

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Late last year when Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) finally announced the sale of its UK utility comparison shopping site uSwitch, we knew it was for a lowball price, and we guessed ar...

Mobclix, a mobile ad network aggregator, has acquired Heartbeat from New York-based Enormego for its ability to analyze the performance of iPhone applications, including sales reporting, statis...

I wrote in 2008 about Review Board, a code review package I'd tried and liked. Unfortunately our developers didn't like it as much as I did, and having learned my lesson (thanks, FogBugz), I declined to impose a tool choice on them. They chose Gerrit, instead, which is more tightly bound to Git, and has some nice features related to that (such as pushing to master from a button in the UI when the review is complete). The rest of the UI is very unpolished, but has been getting progressively better.

Code rev...

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Where 2.0, our mapping and geolocation conference, is at the end of March in San Jose and early registration is ending tonight. We are also opening the selection process for Ignite Where.

Where has a full program. We've got a number of great thinkers returning. We are also welcoming first-timers like Chris Vein (San Francisco's CIO), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp), Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Bing Maps), Josh Williams (Gowalla), Walter Scott (DigitalGlobe) and Michael Arrington (Techcrunch). And returning for the fi...

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Global Ignite Week (GIW) is kicking off today in Germany! From March 1-5 there will be >65 Ignite events happening around the world. Ignite is an opportunity for geeks to share their passions and ideas with local peers. Each speaker gets 20 slides that each auto-advance after 15 seconds for a total of just 5 minutes. The result is bite-size chunks of information that inform the crowd on new topics. There are lots of Ignite videos online.

Mashable has a fun piece with 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend an Ig...

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Foursquare is an on-the-rise application that blends mobile, location awareness and a clever points system that's an evolutionary leap for loyalty programs. Think coupons, but with rich data and gaming thrown in. Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Fou...

1. Meet The Sims and Shoot Them -- America's Army has proven so popular globally that, with so many users signing on from Internet cafes in China, the Chinese government tried to ban it. Full of interesting factoids like this about US military-created first person shooter America's Army and other military uses of games. (via Jim Stogdill)
2. Most Overused Cloud Metaphors, Sorted by Weather Pattern -- headline writers beware: you are not being original with your "does the cloud have a silver lining?" folderol. (v...

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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has updated its mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch to enable customers to update their DVR settings remotely, including the ability to search and schedule ne...

  Google (NSDQ: GOOG) wins the patent for location-based advertising. [VentureBeat]   New survey expects M&A to pick up this year, with more activity from buyers that laid low la...

After having shed its some of it major b2b mags, Nielsen has now sold off some of its smaller business travel and meeting brands to Northstar Travel Media, Folio reported. The sale, terms of wh...

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has bought up photo-editing site Picnikthe latest in its string of acquisitions. In a blog post, Picnik says that nothing will change immediately, although the online software now has more potential than ever before. One obvious result could be that Google could add Picniks photo editing features to Picasa.

More to come.

People love to debate the merits of free vs. paid content. But overlooked in all this is the cost of access to that contentthats where the action is. Were paying more than we ever have to recei...

BraveNewTalent, a British social recruiting site which has its sites on an overseas expansion, has raised £350,000 (roughly $560,000) in a funding round from nine angel investors. The sitewhich...

Cable operators are looking for ways to enter the wireless business as consumers disconnect their landline phones in favor of cell phones, and seek ways to connect their laptops while on the go...

Thumbplay has hired an exec away from Apples iPhone ranks to bulk up its team as it attempts to transform the ringtone company to a full-track music download service for the phone and PC.

Pablo Calamera, who oversaw the launch of Apples MobileMe cloud services, will serve as the companys CTO starting March 8. The Thumbplay subscription music service, which claims to have more than 8 million tracks licensed from the four major record labels and thousand...

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You can now edit all your account settings and newsletter-subscription details in one place on the site. Click here to see the options. If you signed up for a newsletter but never created an account on the site, you can register nowwith the same email address as your newsletter subscriptionand take advantage of the new features.

And later this week, youll be able to sign up for breaking-news email alertsthats on top of the topic-based email alerts that are already available.

Yes Movielink and Cinemanow sucked for a long time, and iTunes never became a big movie seller. That was 2-3 years ago. So what happened since, as online streaming has taken off? Turns out, not...

If Sports Illustrated (NYSE: TWX) wasnt already serious about getting into online video, these numbers probably would have management scrambling: SI.com has served more than 70 million video streams connected to the 2010 edition of the iconic swimsuit issue, roughly double last years total. A site revamp launching this afternoon (not live yet) moves ad-supported video into SI.coms mainstream, with plans to post 15 or so clips daily in a front-page player and across the Time Warner sports site.

Managing E...

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) just announced the 10 billionth iTunes music download sale. An impressive statistic for sure, but not the end of the story.  As Apple often does with download mileston...

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues Midas touch continues: three weeks after launch, SI has delivered more than 570,000 downloads of its ad-supported freemium Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 201...

Heres the rare geography-based startup that apparently isnt doing so well: Platial, which billed itself as the peoples atlas and let people aggregate stories, reviews and multimedia on maps, wh...

A restructuring is on the way for the revenue side of the Associated Press, with changes coming as soon as next week as part of Jane Seagraves recent promotion to chief revenue officer and the ...

Looking to expand its footprint into Latin America and beyond, EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) is acquiring a stake in Mexican satellite company Satmex in what will ultimately be a $374 million cash deal...

Funny how the parallel universe works: the same magazine publishers who were touting digital last year because, well, print sucked, are now going to spend about $90 million talking about how pr...

An all-hands staff meeting has been called for 9:30 a.m. at Publishers Weekly, one of the remaining U.S. Reed Business Information titles the company has said it plans to divest. RBI plans to keep only Variety among its U.S. ad-supported titles. Its possible that this mornings meeting is to announce a buyer but given RBIs inability to sell the trade weekly on its own or with other titles far, it well could be to announce the closing of the venerable publishing trade weekly.  The meeting does not include staf...

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Video games are shining brighter as the jewel in Vivendis crown. The French conglomerate is expecting Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard to contribute a boat-load more to this years group profit,...

Bit by bit, AOLs once-ambitious Platform-A (NYSE: AOL) network is de-emphasising. The latest example - AOL (or should that be Aol?) is disposing of Buy.at, the affiliate marketing network it bo...

By Sarah Hughes: It seems all too familiar: five young people move into a house together in a series that follows them as they shoot for stardom in Hollywood. But while If I Can Dream, the new ...

Even before the economy turned bad, the FT was working hard to amp up its subscription funding and reduce its reliance on advertising. But FT Publishings 2009 operating profit sank 47 percent ...

Look for New York Times content to show up on screens in coffee shops and newstands in major cities nationwide because of a deal the paper is announcing with digital out-of-home company RMG Net...

Random House has set up a small unit to create books tied to new and existing video game titles in an attempt to compensate for the weakness in other parts of the book business, the WSJ reports...

Funny how the parallel universe works: the same magazine publishers who were touting digital last year because, well, print sucked, are now going to spend about $90 million talking about how print rules as the economy shows signs of an uptick. Five of the leading publishersTime Inc. (NYSE: TWX) Hearst, Condé Nast, Wenner Media and Meredith (NYSE: MDP)have banded together for this power of print campaign, reminiscent of a similar campaign by newspaper publishers a few years ago, when the world was slightly r...

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Not to be left out of the Twitter partnership spree, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is set to announce a deal with Twitter this evening to integrate the microblogging service across its properties worldwid...

Not to be left out of the Twitter partnership spree, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is set to announce a deal with Twitter this evening to integrate the microblogging service across its properties worldwid...

That New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Companys 2009 as a tough one is not a secret. How tough and how much did they have to do to realign the cost structure? Some numbers from its annual report 10-K ...

That New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Companys 2009 as a tough one is not a secret. How tough and how much did they have to do to realign the cost structure? Some numbers from its annual report 10-K ...

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which has faced three antitrust inquiries in the U.S. over the last year, is now facing its first in Europe. The WSJ says that the EU has opened a preliminary probe into the company. More to come.

E W Scripps, the newspaper and TV holding company, has decided to put its content and cartoons/comics licensing unit United Media on sale, it announced as part of its Q409 earnings results today. UM is responsible for licensing popular features su...

The public rift between Google and China may have elevated cyber security and cyber warfare into the public's consciousness, but truth is, network attacks and Internet-based espionage are nothing new. In the following interview, Jeffrey Carr, aut...

We have access to more health information now than any time in history, yet this deluge of medical data may sometimes make health decisions more difficult. The Internet has opened a Pandoras Box of data that can easily overwhelm us. We need a way to process all this information to assist us in making better healthcare decisions. Sifting through the barrage of health information writhing across the Internet can be a challenge and new sources are continually cropping up.

There are some great online resource...
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Last week marked the first time the U.S. iTunes store had over 150,000 apps available. Close to 31,000 different developers (or "sellers") were responsible for those apps, with many offering one to five apps, while a few offered over a hundred dif...

1. Mimo Monitors -- USB-powered external monitors for your laptop or desktop, and you can daisy-chain them for multiple external monitors. Opens the possibility of task-specific monitors (one for chat, one for email, one for shell, one for code, ...). Monitors are 7" (800x480) and there's even a touchscreen option. (via James Duncan)
2. The Secrets of Malcolm Gladwell -- how to give a talk like Malcolm Gladwell. A short read and interesting. (via thestrategist)
3. Plupload -- a nice widget to handle file uploads...

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The market for mobile healthcare is poised to surge over the next few years as smartphone use continues to ramp up and connectivity comes to devices like pedometers and heart-rate monitors.  And Broadcom is one of a small army of players hoping to...

Last spring, after leaving Yahoo and taking some time off, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield started a company called Tiny Spark with four other members of the original Flickr team, and started work on a browser-based, massively multiplayer ...

Peter Warden, a former Apple engineer, likes to analyze data so much so that he started scraping public profiles and photos from hundreds of millions of Facebook accounts about a year ago, and now has data collected from more than 200 million aro...

The Wall Street Journal in a blog post today points to a research note by Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope that he wrote in the wake of meeting with Apple executives. It reads: Apple wants the iPad to be the best device for a few key use cases. F...