Claire Rowland is Head of Research for Fjord London, an international digital service design agency and has worked extensively in user experience research and design. Recently her focus has been on a shift in user experience from the desktop toward services delivered through multiple platforms of widely differing form factors and the cloud. Read More »

Friday night, I tweeted a link to a Guardian article stating that app developers were withdrawing apps from Apple's app store and Google's Android market (and presumably also Amazon's app store), because they feared becoming victims of a patent trolling lawsuit. That tweet elicited some interesting responses that I'd like to discuss. Read More »

Xamarin has convinced SUSE–Attachmate’s Linux branch–to give it Mono’s intellectual property. In return, Xamarin will provide technical support to SUSE customers using Mono-based products, and assume stewardship of the Mono open source community project. Read More »

"Cartel" is a word not typically found in the American healthcare lexicon. Yet "cartelization" is the term John Graham uses to describe the impact government legislation could have on healthcare in America. Read More »

A growing number of states are shifting health care costs to the federal government by finding military veterans who receive Medicaid and signing them up for medical benefits through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Read More »

Wolfram, makers of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, unveiled a new set of tools today for embedding mathematical formulas and charts into documents--formulas and charts that the reader can edit and play with. With these tools, Wolfram takes a leap into the modern interactive publishing and educational market. Read More »

Smartphone health applications made great strides this week. The highest-profile of those, perhaps, is the contest-winning multi-lingual EMR app from Polyglot – but that’s not the only one of note. Read More »

The Indigo Trust is a grant making foundation that funds technology-driven projects to bring about social change, largely in African countries. In keeping with the Trust’s focus on innovation, transparency and citizen empowerment, they have been supporting FrontlineSMS:Radio to develop and deploy a tailored version of FrontlineSMS software optimised for radio DJs. Read More »

India and the US today inked a pact on cybersecurity to intensify information exchange on threats to computers and networks and initiate joint work on technologies against cyber-attacks. Read More »

...after participating in a big open source event here in Brazil, I can't keep ignoring the fact that open source software has been grown substantively, and has shed the label of not being a commercially viable option. Read More »