Wikipedia is the major destination for health inquiries. Shouldn’t we have a fact check by doctors?

October 5th, 2009 Paperwork angst drives Ohio doctor, insurer effortCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio doctors, hospitals and health care insurers said Monday they have a new weapon against the pain of paperwork. It's a single Web portal they believe will reduce duplication, miscommunication, and confusion between doctors and insurance companies.

August 25th, 2009 EBay founder's group commits $2M to WikipediaNEW YORK — The organization behind Wikipedia is getting a $2 million commitment from a philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar Network's grant over two years will support Wikimedia Foundation's key goals of bringing free educational content to people around the world and of supporting more people to help create that content.

February 19th, 2005 Looks like new opportunities for the Java industry. The New York Times > Business > Health Industry Under Pressure to Computerize Across the ideological spectrum, health care experts and politicians agree that the nation's hodgepodge of paper medical files needs to move into the digital era, so that eventually each person has an electronic health record that can travel across networks and be read by doctors, hospitals, insurers and the patients themselves.

June 24th, 2009 Study: CEOs not doing enough on social networks NEW YORK — A new study says top CEOs should do a better job managing their presence online, on social sites like Twitter and Facebook and even Wikipedia. Sharon Barclay, who runs the executive public-relations firm Blue Trumpet Group and the blog UberCEO, took Fortune's 2009 list of the top 100 CEOs and found what she calls a "miserable level of engagement" when it comes to social networks.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - A meagre 10 percent of total Twitter users post 90 per cent of all tweets on the micro-blogging website, reveals a Harvard Business School report. And it is the prolific Twitter users, like Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore, who account for the majority of tweets.

July 27th, 2005 Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are looking for 400 people with type 1 diabetes to volunteer for a study of an inhaled insulin treatment. The Indiana University School of Medicine is one of 70 sites around the world testing the treatment developed by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co.

November 3rd, 2006 Google is asking for participants for their user studies. They will pay handsomely - 75 $ / hour.

August 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - An American study suggests that media multi-taskers who like watching YouTube, following Twitter, writing e-mail, and talking on the phone are generally not very good at any of their tasks. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the study was led by researchers at Stanford University.

March 22nd, 2005 A year back I posted a case study on how to deal with a spammer about Richard Milford, a stupid spammer and scam artist. The case was quoted by Plaxo as I dealt with them to get him (Richard Milford the stupid spammer) removed from their system.

April 29th, 2009 Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting?SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter quitters outnumber the flock of habitual tweeters on the rapidly growing online communications service, a new study suggests. Most people aren't joining the Web site's jumble of conversations for very long.

August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Popular social networking websites' users could be leaking their personal information to tracking sites, warn researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). They have found that the practices of many popular social networking sites typically make that personal information available to companies that track Web users' browsing habits, and allow them to link anonymous browsing habits to specific people.

October 15th, 2009 TORONTO - Identity theft and online fraud are likely to harm e-business prospects in the long run, warn experts, who are asking legislators to strengthen laws against cyber crime. Susan Sproule and Norm Archer of McMaster University, Ontario, who conducted the study, say identity theft and fraud are an increasing concern for consumers who interact with online businesses routinely.

August 10th, 2006 According to IDC study, the same four vendors that led the content management market two years ago still lead it today, although their individual rankings have changed. The study, which presents vendor shares for over 50 worldwide content management vendors, reveals that EMC's acquisition of Captiva catapulted the company into the top spot.

April 19th, 2006 The Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Release 4 update, issued Monday, fixes a vulnerability in Java Web Start. An application, exploiting the vulnerability, may grant itself permissions to read and write local files that are accessible to the user running the Java Web Start application.

March 2nd, 2006 Inocom (MedBridge division) designed Multilingual Medical Receptionist software had a test run in Saint John Hospital, Canada on Tuesday, where the program translated health terminology into Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Portugese, French, Russian and other languages. Health workers can ask patients questions in different languages through the computer software, which also allows the patients to see the words on the screen in their own language on screen.