George Halvorson: Celebrating Being in a Diversity League of Our Own

Source: The Huffington Post

The following post is being republished from a weekly Letter to the Employees of Kaiser Permanente. Dear KP Colleagues, One of our great strengths at Kaiser Permanente is our diversity. We have a wonderful level of diver ...
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Axis Could be a Welcome Boost for Yahoo

Source: PC World

With its new search/browser app Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company. Late in the day Wednesday, Yahoo launched Axis, which it's calling a "search browser." Axis ...
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iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

Source: ITWorld.com

May 26, 2012, 7:35 AM — Android and iPhone devices together made up 82% of all smartphones shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday. The combined worldwide shipments of Android- and Apple iOS-based devi ...
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Parents get new weapons in war over kids' phones

Source: ComputerWorld

Computerworld - Parenting is war. As the father of two adult children, I have the battle scars (if not the shell shock) to prove it. But I had it easy compared with the parents of young children today. Mobile consu ...
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Can the Web make mental-health treatment more mainstream?

Source: GigaOM

On discussion forums across the Internet, people openly share their stresses and anxieties with total strangers with similar experiences. But because of cost, convenience and maybe denial, a significant proportion of those wh ...
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The non-story about the RIAA seeking $72 trillion from LimeWire (It did not).

Source: ComputerWorld

There have been several breathless news stories this week, including a few in some pretty respectable media outlets, about the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) seeking a mind-boggling $72 trillion (that's not a typo) in damages from Lim ...
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FCC Ruling on 800MHz Band a Boon for Sprint

Source: CIO.com

In today's regulatory environment, protecting the confidentiality of patient information is increasingly vital at facilities like yours. Yet to provide the best possible patient care, immediate access to that infor ...
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Sun Hardware 'Blows,' According to Oracle Internal Documents

Source: CIO.com

CIO — One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of litigation is because of something we call discovery. Both sides get the opportunity to drill into each other's private correspondence and look for things neither rememb ...
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Google report sheds light on copyright takedown requests

Source: ComputerWorld

Computerworld - Google this week received a somewhat rare accolade from a privacy rights group for publishing a detailed report on all the copyright related content removal requests it has received over the past ye ...
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