IBM Corp. and the University of Florida believe they've come up with middleware that will allow doctors to remotely monitor the health of their patients.
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PHP takes aim at Radar
PHP is wildly popular in the open source community, but less so in the enterprise. These things are hard to measure, but one indicator is job vacancies.
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NASA Selects SGI to Provide Largest Shared-Memory System in the World
NASA's new SGI Altix system is expected to be installed in August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. The new system will be the first supercomputer to operate 2,048 processor cores and 4TB of memory under a single copy of Linux(R) -- creating the largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world.
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Misys gambles on open source revolution
British software group Misys is expected to announce a major strategic gamble this week - giving its products away for free. Under new American management, the company is planning to embrace the "open source" movement, releasing a software code that can be copied or modified by other programmers.
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Industry Leaders Submit Identity Governance Framework to openLiberty.org for Development of Open Source Implementations
Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced two key milestones for the Identity Governance Framework (IGF). Today, industry leaders submitted IGF to openLiberty.org for open source development of IGF implementations.
Read more »In-vehicle Linux system assists first responders
U.K.-based Thorcom Systems Ltd is shipping a rugged, Debian Linux-based, in-vehicle computer intended for emergency first responders. The GPS-equipped VR2000 can serve as an application host, IP router, and vehicle locater in a wide range of mobile data, vehicle tracking, and in-vehicle communications and networking applications, according to the company.
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Enterprising Ubuntu?
In the three years since Ubuntu was unleashed upon an unsuspecting populace, debate as to its viability and marketability within “the enterprise,” whatever that means anymore, has been rampant.
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Web-based development platform goes open source
Australian software company Once Technologies has released what it claims is the first browser-based Web 2.0 development platform as an open source project.
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Free Healthcare Information System released
PatientOS is a free healthcare information system released under GPL 3.0. This enterprise wide software is designed for healthcare facility physician, nurses, pharmacy, laboratory and other clinicians and departments.
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IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes
"Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving $250 million in the process."
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Linux vendor strengthens smartphone security
A la Mobile’s Mobile Security Engine, uses 128-bit AES encryption and digital certificates to protect the operating system.
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Stark Exceptions Establishing Cartels?
Stark law exceptions were intended to remove barriers to Health IT adoption, allowing hospitals to pay for hardware and software for Physicians.
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Is Your Big Company, CCHIT, Proprietary EMR Safe?
Think your CCHIT certified, proprietary EMR from a 'big' corporation is a safe bet? Think again.
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ASUS Eee PC Hand's On Preview
Due to the fact the ASUS Eee PC 701 is aimed at booth computer novices and experts alike, there are two basic GUI designs included with its built-in Linux operating system. The first of which is called “Easy”, which as you might guess, is targeted at first time, or novice computer users.
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CCHIT, EHRVA and "Rankings" mean little, the AcerMed story
AcerMed was up until recently everything that a proprietary electronic healthcare record vendor was supposed to be. Now, no one knows whether they will stay in business. GPLMedicine has the full expose on why AcerMed is just the most recent case in point. Proprietary medical software is unethical.
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