... what pundits like me have said in the past. Open source tries to save the world SmartPlanet / DanaBlankenhorn By announcing first as an open source company, People Power was able to secure, not only start-up capital, but firm alliances with UC Berkeley and Stanford University. That’s a lot of brainpower. People Power plans to launch a project dubbed the Open Source Home Area Network...
... patient health data rights another tool to track who has access to their health information. As DanaBlankenhorn says : What if you could find out where all your health data is? What if you could learn just which doctors, which hospitals, which insurers have what types of electronic data on you? Knowing what’s out there, and knowing the rules for releasing that data, you can...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" DanaBlankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...
... camp. This also means pretending to be players in “Open Source”, in ODF, and in social causes. DanaBlankenhorn correctly points out what we warned about twice in recent days not because Blackboard is suing competitors using software patents [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] but because it is trying to embrace and extend its Free software rivals, just as Microsoft does. Anyone seeking a case study of...