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Experience Design In Health Care: A New Imperative

Leonard Kish | HL7 Standards | September 25, 2012

Patient engagement is a potent therapeutic, but how is engagement related to a core tenet of healthcare’s Triple Aim: Patient experience? For that, let’s take a quick look at user experience (UX) design in software. Read More »

FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls

Paul Roberts | threatpost.com | June 20, 2012

Software failures were behind 24 percent of all the medical device recalls in 2011, according to data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which said it is gearing up its labs to spend more time analyzing the quality and security of software-based medical instruments and equipment. Read More »

Finding the Balance Between Internet Freedom & Intellectual Property in the SOPA/PIPA Debate

Tim Yeaton | Open Source Delivers | January 20, 2012

Here at Black Duck, our business operates at this balance point, at least where free and open source software (FOSS) is concerned – and we think the FOSS community and ecosystem represent a compelling model for the US Congress to study regarding how to strike this balance.

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Five Reasons Why Windows 8 Has Failed

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | March 4, 2013

The numbers are in and they don't lie. Windows 8 market adoption numbers are well behind Microsoft's greatest previous operating system failure, Vista. Read More »

Five Tech Trends Impacting Business Innovation in 2012

Tim Sweeney | Innovation Excellence | January 11, 2012

Highlights From Our 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Trend GuideJudging several categories of the CES Innovation Awards over the last three years has revealed five patterns we, at UPSTREAM, believe will impact the business of innovation for marketers, researchers and technologists in the near term... Read More »

Five Ways To Bring A More Social, Open Development Environment To Your Company

Dave Gruber | OpenSource.com | January 20, 2014

Based on the success and effectiveness of the open source community, development organizations are taking a close look at the methods used within the open source world to understand how they can apply internal development to further increase creativity and accelerate development. Read More »

Forbes Africa: Africa's Top Startups - Ushahidi, Pesa Pal, Bongo Live

ChicaMod Editor | ChicaMod | February 17, 2012

Forbes Africa recently published a list of the top twenty startups in Africa, in its February 2012 edition. Read More »

Ford's Open Source OpenXC Platform as Gateway to Future High Tech Car Gizmos

David Herron | Torque News | February 20, 2012

Ford, like most other automakers, is heading towards a vision of the car as a platform for high tech wizardry and gizmos. Consumer electronics need not be limited to our living rooms or mobile computing devices, but can also be on-board the car. The OpenXC platform is a step in this direction, being an open source hardware and software stack allowing 3rd parties to connect gizmos to an OpenXC-compliant car.

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Former FCC Head: In Times Of Crisis, Open WiFi Can Keep Us Connected

Michael Morisy | Boston.com | June 6, 2013

After the Boston Marathon bombings, the traditional cellular networks went down hard and fast. Could generous strangers and ad hoc access help us weather the next disaster without losing touch? Read More »

Former Federal CIO Presses for Social Government

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | March 8, 2012

Kundra envisions a world where national, state and local governments will post computer code for custom-built applications to do everything from mapping potholes to processing health care data in a collaborative site similar to Salesforce's AppExchange. Technology officials in Chicago can then grab a pothole mapping app from San Francisco, New York or even New Delhi and retrofit it for their own needs without investing in a proprietary system.

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Former Microsoft Executive Says CEO Ballmer Culls Internal Rivals To Retain Power

Bill Rigby | Reuters | January 21, 2013

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world's largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges his authority, claims a former senior executive who has written a book about his time at the company. Read More »

Forrester: $2.1 Trillion will go into IT Spending in 2013; Apps and the U.S. Lead the Charge

Ingrid Lunden | TechCrunch | July 15, 2013

Forrester Research has now released its annual look at the state of IT spend globally, and the analysts project that there will be $2.06 trillion invested across software, hardware, and IT services by enterprises and governments in 2013. [...] Read More »

Foundation For Open Access Statistics

Bob Carpenter | andrewgelman.com | April 23, 2013

Now here’s a foundation I (Bob) can get behind: Foundation for Open Access Statistics (FOAS)... Read More »

French Radio on Open Source Technologies for Clinical Trials

Staff Writer | Clinovo | June 28, 2012

Clinovo was recently interviewed by the French radio BFM Business for l’Atelier Numerique, a weekly 2-hour broadcast dedicated to innovation and new technologies in the Silicon Valley. Marc Desgrousilliers, CTO at Clinovo and Ismael Ghalimi, CEO at Sutoiku described how open source technologies are used in the world of clinical trials. Read More »

From The Start, Signs Of Trouble At Health Portal

Robert Pear, Sharon LaFraniere and Ian Austen | New York Times | October 12, 2013

In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace, told industry executives that he was deeply worried about the Web site’s debut. “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience,” he told them. Read More »