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Archives: Communication Technology
Brace Yourselves, Google Fanatics…Fellow Fanatic Names Five Free Sites Which Are Better
The goal of people who need health information is to get the best information as fast as possible.
While health information is not mentioned in this review, there are some features of these five alternates which are, shall we say, “adjacent” to those who are staying on top of health care news and issues.
Since the writer, [...]
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Facebook Born in the USA: Two-Thirds of Users Outside USA
It is always interesting to know who is communicating how.
This is good-to-know-just-because-type information.
For one thing, it shows us how other countries adapt to American culture’s creations—in this case, it is Facebook.
For another, what does it mean that Australians are by far the “keenest” social network users?
This brief says that there are more than 350 millions [...]
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An App That Saved Aid Worker’s Life in Haiti
CNN
“Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.
“Then he remembered — he had an app for that.
“Woolley, an aid worker, husband, and father of two boys, followed instructions on his cell phone to survive the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.
“I had an app that had [...]
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While Health Care Experts Talk of Constant Change, Computer Pioneer Andy Grove Deems It Many Years Too Slow
Andrew Grove, Ph.D., and the former head of Intel, was the subject of an article, Brain Scan, in which the newspaper asked this pioneer of the chip-making industry about his views on businesses now.
The article is titled, “Paranoid Survivor.” Dr. Grove is well-known for his willingness to shake things up.
This is how he thinks health [...]
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Pandemic Flu Monitor: “Info-demiology” May Help Forecast and Track Flu
All public health monitoring systems have a lag time between getting reports, compiling and sending on to their state or federal agencies.
For example, the CDC issues a weekly update on Fridays about pandemic flu. What if the CDC could update daily when the winter probably will bring a rise in the numbers of cases? Hot [...]
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It This Still the Age of Facebook?
This story says that, in total numbers, Facebook looks as popular as ever.
Underneath those numbers, however, are people who are leaving because they think they are too tethered to it or because it is time to go elsewhere.
Facebook has felt, to its main users, as if it is a social support system online.
Is it? Depends [...]
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It’s 2012…Where Will Your Electronic Medical Records Be? Will They Be Secure?
In 2008, the Markle Foundation convened a group of organizations, each of which had an strong interest in how consumers could use the Internet to collect, use and protect their personal health information and patient privacy.
Today, the group has announced a consensus statement—a broad framework of how this could work.
View the framework . You may [...]
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Broadband Use Jumps 15%…63% of Adults Have It at Home
Broadband is not just for “early adopters” anymore. Seniors are jumping online as are other groups, says a new Pew Internet and American Life Project study.
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Elders Going Online Big-Time Is Big Social Trend
Elders, people older than Baby Boomers, are hopping online at a great rate. Read why.
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Let’s All Sing Happy Birthday to the World-Wide Web…
March 13, 1989, the birth certificate should say. That’s when the Internet (or the world wide web, the www. in internet addresses) came into the lives of the first scientists who used it.
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