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Maybe ACS should follow IBM’s timetable. Big Blue created quite a stir on Nov. 7 when a top exec told a tech conference in Atlanta that it hopes to move 80% of its 300,000 employees to voice-over-IP phone systems by 2008.

VoIP providers face price war | CNET News.com Awhile back Jim McGovern mentioned that VoIP might be a real savings for ACS in the future. This article shows some of the price issues once the technology is ripe.

Running through BIOSILICO was a distinct vibe of big change in life sciences. The notion that already there is a pretty well developed industry begat of biology, medicine and computer science suggests that changes already have substance. That is, modern biology isn’t your father’s biology. It’s not even the biology of flora and fauna I studied in school (which brings ...

A subtext of BIOSILICO was the business conditions of Big Pharma, the giant corporations that produce the , Zocors, Celebrexs, and Gleevecs of the health system. The pharmaceutical companies are the direct customers for many of the tools and research approaches of bioinformatics and in silico biology. Many speakers represented companies that are producing hardware and/or software for which the ...