I attended the HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) conference in Chicago earlier this month, along with upwards of 20,000 other people. Most of them are involved in the sales and procurement process, representing thousands of vendor companies and the health systems, hospitals, clinics, governments, etc., that use their products [...]
Internetnews.com reveals that “[t]wo Republican lawmakers have called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to drop the proposed conditions for a new spectrum auction that would require the winning bidder to provide free Internet access. In a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Joe Barton of Texas and Florida's Cliff [...]
We've fallen horribly behind on our blogging over the past couple weeks, but this week we're officially back from travel/ICANN meetings/vacation/etc. and are ready to go. Not a moment too soon, either. Not only do we have a metric ton of news to cover from the past couple weeks, but [...]
Thanks to Ed Paisley over at Center for American Progress for pointing me toward this interesting tidbit in the Wall Street Journal's interview with Barack Obama yesterday. Buried in the last section of the article is a section entitled "Startup Companies":Sen. Obama also proposes eliminating capital-gains taxes on start-up companies, [...]
Reuters reports that “Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it planned to open a search technology center (STC) in Europe as part of its plan to accelerate investments in Live Search. The location of the STC has not yet been determined, the company said, with several cities being considered. The STC [...]
