...Patricia Ryan, Associate Chief Consultant for the VA Office of Telehealth, said more than 200,000 Veterans like Kenneth Winn have now used its clinic-based Telehealth services. She said another 51,000 patients nationwide are enrolled in VA's Home Telehealth program. Read More »

...As climate change intensifies, bringing more extreme weather, as well as seasonal and longer-term changes, effective adaptation for rural regions of Africa will depend on timely and accurate advance information. Early warnings will enable farmers to shelter their animals and protect their income and families. Read More »

...With a growing population and an increase in the number of patients, the pressure on doctors and hospital staff has increased drastically in the last decade. It has become very difficult for a physician to track a patient's medical history (including past visit information, lab results, previous medications, and drug allergies) through a traditional system. Read More »

This year MIT OpenCourseWare is celebrating its tenth anniversary of providing open access to more than 2,000 courses with course materials including lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, simulations, and the video lectures. Read More »

Google and Facebook owe their success largely to Linux — not the technology per se, but to the cheap innovation and mass collaboration it enables, Red Hat’s CEO says. Yes, free, as in freedom, but also free as in free beer, said Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat. Read More »

I recently wrote about the $4.5 billion auction for Nortel's portfolio of 6,000 patents that went to a consortium that included Apple, Microsoft, and RIM (Blackberry) -- three of four smartphone platforms. In the wake of this sale, Interdigital has contemplated monetizing its portfolio of 8,500 patents, perhaps even putting the company up for sale. Read More »

Nearly a year after physicians at the Mayo Clinic showed that patients' genomic information stored in electronic medical records can help in disease prediction, the National Human Genome Research Institute is awarding Mayo and six other facilities $25 million over Read More »

My compadre Ed Bott does a fine job of digging under the surface of Microsoft’s annual report to find that Microsoft no longer considers Linux a serious threat. Who does Microsoft think they’re kidding? Read More »

During his question and answer session at the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, revealed that while mainstream Linux and its popular smartphone and tablet son Google’s Android still aren’t as close as they should be, they’re s Read More »