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U.S. Programmers at Overseas Salaries It’s the great unanswered business-economic question of our day: How do we replace the hundreds of thousands of information-technology, call-center, paralegal, and other jobs rapidly exiting the U.S. for India, Russia, and other low-wage countries? The main answer that the so-called experts put forth, without a lot of conviction, is that we’ll create new “high-value” ...

Health-IT World: First Contracts Near in Big British Health-IT Project Looks like the Brits are ready to build a model health information system.

Tun-a has developed a MP-3 player that sends out a beacon that alerts other enabled Tun-a devices that it is in the area. If another Tun-a is in the area the user can read the other device’s play list and song bank, and even listen in on what the other device is playing. This is all possible via a sort ...

Social software is changing the way that we structure our social frameworks. The architecture of our social networks is starting to morph because of the extensive use of internet technology. This article looks at Danah Boyd’s PhD research on the societal implications of systems such as Friendster, yafro, and others. The key is to identify the value of each system, ...