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| ABOUT "Medicine 2.0"TM (WEB 2.0) Aug 2008 |
| National Strategy for eHealth - Sweden Apr 2008Information and communication technologies (ICT) offer numerous potential benefits in terms of improvements for patients, health and elderly care professionals and decision-makers. Citizens, patients and relatives must have quick, trouble-free access to quality-assured information on health care provision and health concerns, as well as personal data on their own care, treatment and health status. They must also be able to contact care services via the internet for assistance, advice or help with self-treatment. Health and elderly care professionals must have access to efficient, interoperable eHealth solutions that make it easier for them to perform their day-to-day work while guaranteeing patient safety. Authorities and other bodies responsible for care provision need ICT for effective follow-up of patient safety and quality concerns, and to support management functions and resource distribution. A range of issues relating to ICT use must be solved at national level, based on the collaboration of all actors in the health care sector. These concerns must be dealt with on the basis of a common approach and nationally established guidelines and solutions. A national eHealth strategy is needed to ensure efficient and effective use of ICT. Used as a strategic tool, ICT will promote safer, more accessible and efficient health and elderly care services. Most of the work of enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of ICT use will naturally devolve on the county councils, municipal councils and private care providers concerned. In addition, a range of measures will be required from government at various levels and from other actors in the health and elderly care sector. Increased use of eHealth must be combined with effective security measures designed to ensure that highly sensitive confidential information relating to individual patients or users is securely handled by all involved in care or service delivery. Download National Strategy for eHealth - Sweden (.pdf, 783 KB) For further information, please visit: |
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| Google Health Pilot Project - First Official Overview Source: ehealthnews.eu "Working as an engineer here on the health team, I've been excited to participate in building tools that will help me and others manage our personal health information more effectively. Many innovators in the healthcare industry have worked hard to make results of doctor visits, prescriptions, tests and procedures available digitally. By using the GData protocol already offered in many Google products, and supporting standards-based medical information formats like the Continuity of Care Record (CCR), our health efforts will help you access, store and communicate your health information. Above all, health data will remain yours - private and confidential. Only you have control over when to share it with family members and health providers. This week, we hit another important milestone. We launched a pilot with a medical institution committed to giving patients access to their own medical records: The Cleveland Clinic. A large academic medical center, Cleveland is one of the first partners to integrate on our platform. Because of their size and reach with patients who already have access to their medical records online, Cleveland has been a great partner for us to test out our data sharing model. Patients participating in the Cleveland pilot give authorization via our AuthSub interface to have their electronic medical records safely and securely imported into a Google account. It's great to see our product getting into the hands of end users, and I look forward to the feedback that the Cleveland patients will provide us." Read more... Related news articles : |
| Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0 23 Jan 2008 How social networking and Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize health care, wellness, clinical medicine and biomedical research (preparing the "Medicine 2.0" (TM) Conference in 2008) In the past few years we have seen the rapid evolution of new tools and programming techniques collectively called "Web 2.0 tools", which facilitate the development of collaborative and user-friendly Web applications. Typically, the Web 2.0 is a term which refers to These technologies have led to a flurry of new applications and speculation on their potential to revolutionize health care and the entire spectrum of health and medicine - from consumer-led preventive medicine, home care, to clinical care. This coincides with a strong push towards personal health records, with major players such as Microsoft and Google entering the scene. High-profile takeovers and valuations of companies such as YouTube or Facebook also have led to a flurry of investment activities - Venture Capitalists are once again investing in Web start-ups, but much of the linguistics and hype is reminiscent of the Web 1.0 bubble in the late 90ies. (read more....) |
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| Supercomputing Grids Close Ranks to Meet HIV Medical Challenge Source: DEISA Newsletter ( http://www.deisa.org ) Two supercomputing networks have successfully joined forces in a distributed simulation of the effectiveness of drugs on mutant strains of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Although the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Application (DEISA) and the GridAustralia-Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) infrastructures use incompatible underlying platforms (UNICORE 5 and Globus Tool Kit, respectively), the researchers were able to spread the computing tasks over the two high performance computing (HPC) grids. As HIV is highly mutable, it frequently becomes resistant to drugs that reduce patients' viral loads and bind and inhibit critical viral enzymes. As a result, patients will then have to change their drug regime. It is essential to select the right drug in order to provide the best possible treatment, as well as to prevent the development of further drug resistance. The simulations run by DEISA and APAC are intended to help this process by testing the effectiveness of particular antiviral drugs against a number of mutant HIV strains. They analyse average interaction energies between anti-HIV drugs and the HIV protease strain, hoping to thus provide an accurate assessment of the drugs' effectiveness. A huge number of calculations is needed for this, and this is why the process necessitates the processing power of supercomputers. Researchers were sure that time-to-solution would be further reduced by employing several supercomputers in a grid and spreading the tasks over different grids at the same time. This is the first time that a reliable, automated bidirectional data transfer between the European DEISA grid and the Australian APAC grid has been demonstrated. Plesae read the DEISA PRESS RELEASE with more details on this issue |
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| Open Source Technology Could Boost Interoperable Health IT Source: iHealthBeat (California Healthcare Foundation)By: by Colleen Egan, Editor Date: 27 Sep 2007 The Certification Commission for Health Care IT, a not-for-profit certification body, and MITRE, a not-for-profit research and development firm, recently announced that they are teaming up to build an open source tool to test electronic health record networks for interoperability. The project signifies an important step in the development, testing and certification of EHRs, and its significance lies not only in the fact that the tool will be used to support and test interoperable EHRs, but also in that the format is open source. But what exactly is open source? And how does it work? In open source, the source code, which is the instructions that are written for the computer, is available for everyone to see, Leavitt explained. That is, to everyone who has accepted the conditions of the license. MITRE will license the project under an Apache 2.0 open source license, which allows CCHIT, EHR vendors, health information exchanges and other interested stakeholders to use the EHR testing framework and source code (Read more...) |
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| Open Source - the Ignorance of Crowds Source: (CANARIE.ca) General Introduction (BSA) The Ignorance of Crowds |
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| Medical Search Engine for General Practitioners in France Source: Healthcare IT News.eu (www.imakenews.com) Convera Corporation (NASDAQ: CNVR), a leading provider of search technologies for publishers, announced the launch of SearchMedica France. The specialized search engine, built for doctors in France, was developed by CMPMedica, Convera and medical experts from Le Quotidien du Médecin, a popular daily medical journal published by CMPMedica. CMPMedica, a division of UBM plc, is a global provider of healthcare information and education. SearchMedica France provides specialized access to well-respected medical Web sites, professional journals and clinical resources. The site also enables medical professionals to search CMPMedica's proprietary Vidal database of information on 3,500 pharmaceuticals. Search results are organized by distinct medical categories, which were developed by working closely with doctors in real-life working conditions. (more....) |
| NHS Greater Glasgow Hospitals use Voicemap™ to Pilot UK Training First Published in: NHS Connecting for Health www.informatics.nhs.uk Ho spitals in NHS Greater Glasgow are leading the way for the UK in using audio technology to train staff. Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the Princess Royal Maternity are the first hospitals in the UK to implement a new system using a mobile audio system to train new recruits. Voicemap™ is expected to improve safety and reduce risk for staff and patients. It is now being adopted by hospitals elsewhere in the UK and Europe , following the lead of NHS Greater Glasgow. Each new member of staff is given an audio induction via an audio player and follows a customised tour, which describes the geographical layout of their workplace, and identifies safety issues involving potential risk to staff and patients .(more...) |
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| Grids to aid breast cancer diagnosis and research The millions of mammography exams performed each year in Europe save thousands of women's lives, but if the data from all breast cancer screening procedures was made available to clinicians and researchers across the continent they could save many more. That is the vision that has driven MammoGrid . (more) |
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| UK research of interest for other EC Countries: Portal Sites Struggle for
Visibility Regional or countywide local government 'portal' web sites are providing
patchy coverage and in many cases have low visibility despite large amounts
of money being spent on their development, according to research due to be
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| Anti Spam Organizations Worldwide |
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| Spam: Report Card
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| Wireless Network
Security Concerns Wireless networks have many advantages over wired networks, especially when it comes to the ease of installation. However, this easy implementation has resulted in countless wireless networks being installed in areas where information security should have been the first concern. (more) |
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SMEs unimpressed with impact of Internet on business An end-of-year survey in the Netherlands claims that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are not satisfied with the effect of the Internet on their business. The survey was carried out by ICT company Syntens, which supports Dutch SMEs on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Among the SMEs interviewed, 66 per cent were mildly satisfied with the effect of the Internet on their business, while only 26 per cent claimed that the Internet had a positive impact. The remaining eight per cent found the Internet wholly unsatisfactory. (more) |
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What Users Want
from Servers Performance, reliability and virtualization capabilities top the list
of what users want from their servers. They're also looking for an easier
way to manage this pool of resources that are the cornerstones of business.
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European Wireless
Firms Push Adult Content To Boost Sales Europe's mobile-phone companies have invested more than $100 billion in faster wireless Web services, and now it's payback time. To boost revenues, Vodafone Group is inviting customers to send racy text messages over its Flirt service (which costs twice as much as regular messaging) and Deutsche Telekom is hoping its cell phone customers will start downloading erotic horoscopes. "Adult entertainment is what will make money for mobile phones," says a spokeswoman for Private Media Group, which supplies adult content to the phone companies. Private Media estimates that profit from adult content sent over wireless networks is expected to reach $4 billion a year by 2006. (more) |
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Supplier Portals
Fail To Address Key Business Processes Moving supplier relationships to Web-based portal tools leaves behind several important business processes, according to recent research by AMR. Specifically, too many companies install supplier portals that address only the needs of the procurement department, AMR Research analyst Bill Swanton told CRMDaily. (more) |
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Is Internet Security
Killing E-Business? E-commerce has come a long way from the days when shoppers would abandon purchases in droves rather than wait several minutes for tortoise-slow secure transaction pages to be processed. (more) |
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Spammers and virus
writers unite Spammers are turning to tactics favoured by virus writers to get their unwanted messages into circulation. Anti-spam activists have found that some unscrupulous spammers are hijacking the e-mail accounts of innocent users to send millions of messages. (more) |
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The Great IT Complexity
Challenge Technology is supposed to help simplify transactions and increase the speed of doing business, but often that is not the way it works. While technology certainly can speed things up, it also can impede progress. A company can become so tightly bound to any given technology that it loses its agility. Change then becomes a difficult, slow march. (more) |
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Styling your copy
For Search Engines AND Visitors Since all of the major search engines use the words that appear on web pages as an important factor in their ranking algorithms, it is important to make sure that you let the search engines know exactly what your pages are about. However, it is just as important that you do so in a way that will not compromise your marketing message or turn off your visitors. To demonstrate how it is possible to style your copy for search engines without diminishing the visitor experience, it is perhaps easiest to create a fictional example. (more) |
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Web Services Look
For Common Ground A Web services standards organization Tuesday issued a first draft of recommendations for linking systems using the emerging technology. The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), a consortium of companies working to make emerging Web services products compatible, said it has published its Basic Profile Working Draft to its Web site. (more) |
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Critical flaw exposes
Internet e-mail A newly discovered flaw in a critical piece of Internet infrastructure software could put more than half the Internet’s e-mail servers at risk, researchers say. The flaw exists in Sendmail, a program that sorts and delivers most e-mail. A single message sent at a flawed e-mail server could allow an attacker to take control of the server, read its contents and use it to organize a massive denial of service attack. But officials are hopeful that a month’s work of secret efforts to shore up defenses against the flaw — which included informing top federal offices and foreign governments — will minimize its impact. (more) |
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Web Vandalism On
The Rise Web vandalism is on the rise around the world, underscoring the shoddy state of affairs in IT security, according to the owner of a Web site that tracks such information. In the past two weeks, Zone-H.org proprietor Roberto Preatoni said defacements have increased to more than 500 separate attacks a day and more than 1,500 over weekends. A year ago, he said, his site got around 30 to 50 defacement notices a day from hackers. (more) |
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Third Wave of Internet
will transform Astronomy U.S. astronomers are gathering terabytes of data into a worldwide “virtual observatory” that will be accessible to scientists and laymen alike. Scientists in the United States, armed with a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, are building a National Virtual Observatory (NVO) that will make the world’s huge store of astronomical data available to anyone with a Web browser. (more) |
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Web Becomes Truly
World-Wide Despite the economic slowdown being felt worldwide and the decline of many Internet-based businesses, global use of the Net continues to boom while e-commerce grows at a robust pace, according to figures released by the United Nations this week. The number of Internet users worldwide is expected to reach 655 million by the end of 2002, representing 30 percent growth over the same period last year, according to the yearly "E-Commerce and Development Report," issued Monday by the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. Additionally, the value of goods and services bought and sold over the Internet, e-commerce, could reach as high as $2.3 billion this year, a 50 percent rise from last year, the report said. That number could climb to $3.9 billion at the end of 2003, the UNCTAD report said. (more) |
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Recent FCC Rulings
Spur Fears for Future of Open Internet Microsoft, Yahoo and other media and technology companies are joining consumer groups that say FCC rulings — such as the recent Comcast-AT&T Broadband merger approval — could threaten the open nature of the Internet. In fact, Microsoft and Walt Disney Co. representatives joined Andrew Schwartzman, of the Washington-based Media Access Project advocacy group, in a recent meeting with one FCC commissioner. (more) |
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The Unstoppable
Flood of Spam Perhaps the time has come for Internet users to accept the unpleasant likelihood that nothing will ever stop spam. Filtering software has, by most accounts, fallen short. Seemingly airtight privacy policies always seem to have at least one loophole that allows marketers to ferret out even the most carefully guarded e-mail address. Lawsuits have been cited as the next best hope. A class-action suit filed in August against senders of junk faxes has been cited as a model for anti-spam suits. Yet, most experts say such lawsuits are unlikely to slow the march of junk e-mail into the inboxes of the world's computer users. (more) |
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Is Linux Really
More Secure Than Windows? Ramen, Slapper, Scalper and Mighty may sound like Santa's new team of reindeer, but they are creatures far lower down the evolutionary ladder -- and much less welcome. These are worms that have infiltrated Linux servers in recent months, commandeering the servers for use in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Linux enthusiasts who once believed they were less vulnerable to attack than Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) users have begun to wonder whether they were overly optimistic. (more) |
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The Hidden Gotcha
of Spam In the recent account of my struggle to employ wireless computing at a Florida technology conference, I described my attempt, when all else had failed, to use a Web-based POP3 e-mail account. That backup plan failed, too, but for reasons I never anticipated--and there's a lesson here for all of us. The source of my woes? Spam. (more) |
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IT Department's
Next Incarnation Current economic conditions and the need to cut costs have resulted
in a shift from the independent, autonomous IT departments of ages past
to more centralized IT shops. As a result, experts said, the IT department of the future will be more generalized -- focusing on infrastructure issues like network architecture, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and relationship management. The more mundane tech support and administration tasks will increasingly be delegated to "outside" consultants. (more) |
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Outsourced DNS Management:
A New Service for Improving Web Site Reliability Any business with an Internet presence is familiar with domain names. Information Technology (IT) engineers at these firms understand that the Domain Name System (DNS) translates, or "resolves," alphanumeric domain names, such as www.amazon.com, into specific computer addresses, such as 205.188.196.115. DNS is especially critical for companies that provide Internet-based services, such as Internet service providers (ISPs), application service providers (ASPs), and Web hosting companies. DNS is also highly important for companies whose main business model depends on Internet-based transactions (e-Businesses) such as eBay, Yahoo!, or Amazon.com. Without DNS, these companies are unable to provide their contracted services. An ISP customer cannot surf the Internet. An eBay customer cannot view auction pages, much less bid on them. (more) |
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New Institute Examines
Internet's Impact In 1949 Chinese communist leader Chou En-lai was asked about the importance of the 1789 French Revolution. After thinking for a moment he replied: "It is too soon to say." The effect of the internet on the lives of its users is just as hard to determine. More difficult is working out how life might be different years from now as we adapt to these changes. (more) |
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Global Internet
Growth Slowing Worldwide Internet use grew slowly in the second quarter, with 553 million people now connected to the Web from their homes, according to a Global Internet Trends report from Nielsen//NetRatings. That figure represents a 4 percent growth rate, down from 7 percent growth in the first quarter of this year. (more) |
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| Enterprise
Apps: The Final Wireless Frontier For those who figure out how to serve it, the mobile enterprise application market could prove to be a gold mine of new revenue opportunities. Those in line to cash in include wireless carriers and device makers, as well as platform and software developers. But market realities dictate that it could be a long time before anybody hits it big on this untamed frontier. The technology is constantly evolving, and the needs of enterprises vary not only among industries and organizations, but also within the same company. (more) |
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| The Password
Is... Confusion For Web travelers seeking to lighten their load of usernames and passwords, help has generally been slow to arrive. Some relief for the forgetful has come in the form of functions -- installed on popular operating systems -- that serve to ease the mental burden of those surfing from a single computer. (more) |
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| China Surpassing
Japan in PCs, Internet Use With well over one billion people and a society that is rapidly transitioning to high-tech, it is no surprise that China is moving up in the world of technology. But there is some surprise at how soon the nation is passing its technologically advanced neighbors in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan. (more) |
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| Four Linux
Vendors (but not "Red Hat") Form Alliance Linux software vendors Caldera, Turbolinx, SuSE and Conective - but
not Linux industry leader Red Hat - have formed an alliance called United
Linux for joint distribution and R&D, and will sell jointly developed
products under their own names. Although Linux is given out free as part
of the "open source" programming movement, individual companies
charge for technical support and other services. Why wasn't Red Hat included
in the alliance? It was invited to join, but a Red Hat executive said:
"We are not sure what to make of it, because they called us yesterday
and have been working on it for months. We cannot join anything we don't
understand." (AP/San Jose Mercury-News 30 May 2002) |
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| Web Inches
Along from FOR-FREE to FOR-FEE Although the vast majority of content on the Web is still free, an increasing number of sites are requiring visitors to pay subscriber fees for at least some of the content they're providing. NASCAR races are no longer offered free on the Web, and recently ABC News has ended its free video; now CNN has decided to phase out free video clips on its news, sports and financial sites. The general manager of CNN rival Foxsports.com is sympathetic with CNN's decision: "I don't think the future is too far off where most sites will turn off a lot of the freeness. The big companies that support Web sites are going to take a very hard look - can we afford to continue losing $100 million to $150 million a year on this thing?" (USA Today 18 Mar 2002). http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/03/18/paycontent.htm |
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The Internet name game The London-based Global Name Registry has begun offering registration of Internet names for individual persons. Name registration will cost about $30 a year (not including Internet access), and the registry plans to expand ".name" designations to mobile phones and other personal devices by the end of the year. |
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ISPs form a new association Several Internet companies have banded together to form a new group that will focus on compliance and liability issues. The U.S. Internet Service Provider Association (US ISPA) will replace the Commercial Internet eXchange, which is folding. Founding members of the new group including AOL, Cable & Wireless, Earthlink, eBay, Teleglobe, Verizon Online and WorldCom. US ISPA vice president Tom Dailey says the group will examine such issues as online security, liability and compliance with the new antiterrorism law, the USA-Patriot Act, and the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. In addition, the US ISPA will raise "a variety of other policy and legal issues of concern to ISPs, such as Internet privacy, content regulations and intellectual property." |
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CAnet-3 News: "Study finds parts of the Internet are unreachable" Broadband customers and U.S. military systems are the most common victims of an online phenomenon researchers have dubbed "dark address space," which leaves some 100 million hosts completely unreachable from portions of the Internet. (more) |
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CA*Net 3 - Optical
Internet Backbone In February 1998, the federal government announced a $55 million commitment to CANARIE build a national optical Internet network. In March 1998 CANARIE issued a Request for Information (RFI) to select potential industry partners to build and deploy this network. The new optical Internet network is intended to be a testbed to showcase Canadian industry capability in next generation Internet products and services and, in parallel with CA*net II, to provide an unparalleled network for the support of research and education. (more) |
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Rethinking the design of the
Internet This paper looks at the Internet and the changing set of requirements for the Internet that are emerging as it becomes more commercial, more oriented towards the consumer, and used for a wider set of purposes. We discuss a set of principles that have guided the design of the Internet, called the end to end arguments, and we conclude that there is a risk that the range of new requirements now emerging could have the consequence of compromising the Internet's original design principles. (more) |
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Canada leads world in Internet usage
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Super Fast Internet changing Telehealth and Distance Education The Australian Consortium is working on a new super fast Internet that
will make changes in such areas as telehealth, and distance education.
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The Red Eye: Streaming News
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA -- San Francisco streaming-media
summit. This time around, we were interested in getting an update on whether
bandwidth costs are falling. Driving this boom will be Gilder's law, which states
that bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
To compare, Moore's law, the computing paradigm that Mr. Gilder builds
on, says that computing power roughly doubles every 18 to 24 months. If
Mr. Gilder is right in his assertion, then growth of bandwidth will be
quite rapid. To date, we've already seen great progress. In fact, Mr.
Gilder likes to say that the amount of Internet traffic that went across
a network in an entire month in 1997 can now be transmitted in a single
second. Still, this is just the beginning. Ford Every Stream Interestingly, another company recently introduced a
technology that could revolutionize streaming. Digital Fountain's Mr.
Meltzer is hoping that his company's technology, which eases point-to-multipoint
streaming, will make bandwidth practical and affordable. Still, falling bandwidth costs just might generate the critical mass needed for the streaming space to come of age. |
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New Australian research network
using dark fiber &wavelengths AUSTRALIA PUSHES AHEAD WITH NATIONAL ADVANCED NETWORK PROJECTS A national advanced network backbone and broadband wireless project in Australia received commitments for over AUS $37 million in government funding, plus another AUS $93 million in contributions from consortium members. The Building on IT Strengths (BITS) Advanced Networks Program will include the following projects:
Each of these projects will receive grants funded from the partial sale
of Telstra to establish next generation networks using leading-edge network
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Future Revolution in Optical Networking
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Broadband Internet Access for Everyone
by 2004 "OTTAWA -- Tech tycoon Terry Matthews, Ottawa's
premier power broker, has a vision of a health-care revolution in Tuktoyuktuk.
It seems that the Northwest Territories' government put a nursing station
in the remote settlement, but it was forced to reduce services drastically
several times in the past year because of nursing shortages. This won't
happen in the e-world Matthews sees coming--and his visions have the uncanny
tendency to become reality...(more)" |
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TPRC2001: The 29the Research
Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
TPRC hosts this annual forum for dialogue among scholars and decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in communication and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and industry. The TPRC program is assembled from submitted and invited abstracts. TPRC is now soliciting proposals for papers for presentation at its 2001
conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical and/or empirical
research relevant to the making of communication and information policy,
and may be from any disciplinary perspective. TPRC welcomes national,
international, or comparative studies. Subject areas of particular interest
include, but are not limited to the following. More information about
these areas is available from the TPRC web site at http://www.tprc.org/TPRC01/sessions01.htm |
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