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I’ll refrain from reading too much into this, but the sale of IBM’s PC business to a Chinese company is one of those sign-of-the-times things. The transaction…points to the rising global aspirations of corporate China as it strives to become a trusted supplier to Western companies and consumers. The sale also signals a recognition by I.B.M., the prototypical American multinational, ...

There are serious dangers when the data we see gets filtered to much.  Even more frightening is that we ourselves may soon be able to filter our own data, blocking items that are contrary to our own points of view.  Here is a link to Community Mobilization post with more insight.  Here is a link to an amazing video from ...

From the NYTimes: From the president on down, the Bush administration has been a proponent of modernizing the nation’s creaky health care system with information technology. But while the administration’s words of support for a high-technology future for health care have been plentiful, the dollars, it seems, are scarce. The huge federal spending bill recently approved by Congress eliminated a ...

Software giant Microsoft is now ready to take the plunge into the world of blogging by launching a test service to allow people to publish blogs, or online journals, called MSN Spaces….…MSN Spaces is free to anyone with a Hotmail or MSN Messenger account and people will be able to choose a layout for the page, upload images and share ...