News Clips

India's 'Open Data' portal launched with 3500 datasets

Medha Basu | FutureGov Asia Pacific | August 13, 2013

Looking to promote transparent governance and innovation, India has officially inaugurated Data Portal India, a portal for the public to access and use datasets and applications provided by ministries and departments of the Government of India. Read More »

Be A Part Of The Blue Button Movement

Lygeia Ricciardi | Health IT Buzz | August 12, 2013

The use and awareness of Blue Button as a consumer engagement tool continues to skyrocket and we need your commitment to be an active partner in the Blue Button movement. Read More »

Expand EHR Knowledge For Stage 2 Meaningful Use Success: Q&A

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | August 12, 2013

Nancy Fennell, Director of the Regional Extension Center of New Hampshire (RECNH), has overseen New Hampshire’s runaway EHR adoption success, recently announcing that 65% of primary care providers and 85% of critical access hospitals (CAHs) have achieved meaningful use. [...] Fennell sat down with EHRintelligence to discuss the challenges of Stage 2 and how providers can work with industry partners to get the most out of their investments. Read More »

Mystery Lung Fungus: Are You At Risk?

Kiera Butler and Brett Brownell | Mother Jones | August 12, 2013

Valley fever is hard to diagnose, even harder to treat, and potentially fatal—and the number of cases is rising dramatically. Read More »

Focused Only On The US? Here’s What You’re Missing

Russ Koesterich | BlackRock | August 12, 2013

Many investors remain fixated on what’s happening in the United States -- and particularly on what the Federal Reserve will do -- but Russ explains why they shouldn’t lose sight of what’s happening abroad. Read More »

The NSA Is Commandeering The Internet

Bruce Schneier | The Atlantic | August 12, 2013

Technology companies have to fight for their users, or they'll eventually lose them. Read More »

The Long Haul For New PTSD/TBI Research Projects

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | August 12, 2013

President Obama has announced new research projects focused “on developing more effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat mental health conditions like TBI and PTSD.” Read More »

Space Storms Could Knock Out The World’s Entire Critical Communications Infrastructure

Alan Woodward | Quartz | August 12, 2013

In 1859, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, we were given an important lesson about how vulnerable we are to the Sun’s power. The Carrington Event, named for the amateur astronomer who recorded it, Richard Christopher Carrington, was a coronal mass ejection: a huge burst of solar wind... Read More »

Microsoft To Open Source A Big Data Framework Called REEF

Derrick Harris | GigaOM | August 12, 2013

Microsoft has developed a big data technology that sits on top of Hadoop’s new YARN resource manager. Called REEF, it’s designed to let users build jobs that can maintain state even after they’re done, and that can grab data from wherever they need it. Read More »

Firefox OS-based ZTE One Coming To US, UK Through eBay

Barry Levine | CIO Today | August 12, 2013

For developers, a key selling point for Firefox OS devices is their emphasis on HTML5 apps, which can be readily adapted from Web apps and run on a variety of mobile platforms. [...] Read More »

Agile And Acquisition - The Match.com Of Contracting?

Emily Jarvis | GovLoop | August 12, 2013

"If you could fix hiring and buying in the federal government, you would fix 90% of it's problems," said Bryan Sivak. Sivak is the Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services. Read More »

5 Nagging Questions About Meaningful Use Stage 2

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | August 12, 2013

New technology, we generally assume, is supposed to make us more comfortable by instituting convenience into our lives. Yet new technology that comes with deadlines attached can have exactly the opposite effect. Read More »

China's ZTE launches 'open' Firefox phones in US & Britain

AFP Staff | AFP | August 12, 2013

Chinese telecom giant ZTE announced plans Monday to sell a low-cost smartphone using the open source Firefox operating system in the United States and Britain. Read More »

EU 'Open Data' promotion could benefit UK Economy

Graham Jarvis | ComputerWeekly | August 12, 2013

European Union (EU) 'open data' directive, updating the terms of the reuse of public sector information, will create 58,000 jobs in the UK up to 2017 and will add £216 billion to the country’s economy. Read More »

Canonical Will Win Even If Ubuntu Edge Doesn't Make Its $32 Million

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | August 11, 2013

Canonical , Ubuntu's parent company, made a bet. It wagered that there were enough visionaries out there to crowd-source 32-million dollars for the first Linux-powered combination smartphone/PC, the Ubuntu Edge. It seems that the company will lose that wager, but in the long-run, I think Canonical will rise from the gadget gaming table a winner. Read More »