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Social Media Becomes New Venue for Technology Firms
Top technology firms like Dell and NetApp are turning to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Digg to reach customers.

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Intel to Unveil New Health-Care Technology
Intel will announce new hardware, software aimed at helping homebound hospital patients, according to a published report.
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Bill Gates Urges Rich Countries Not to Cut Health Aid
Microsoft founder Bill Gates worries the global financial crisis might drive rich countries to cut back spending on health aid for the developing world.
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IBM, U. of Toronto to Launch Supercomputer
With a total project budget of just under $50 million, the IBM collaboration will be the largest supercomputer outside the U.S.
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Intel's Barrett: No PC Market Slowdown
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says he's upbeat about business forecasts, despite economic woes.

 
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Hospitals Put IT in Second Place
Hospitals Put IT in Second Place
Innovations 2006: Information technology is a priority for hospitals, but with many of them facing a difficult financial environment exacerbated by the ballooning ranks of the uninsured investing in new IT systems may have to wait.
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    OPINIONS
    Hospitals Put IT in Second Place
    Innovations 2006: Information technology is a priority for hospitals, but with many of them facing a difficult financial environment exacerbated by the ballooning ranks of the uninsured investing in new IT systems may have to wait.
    Health IT Innovations Organize People, Not Data
    If 2004 was rightly hailed as beginning of the dot.gov boom in health IT, 2005 must be hailed as the year of committees.
    GE Healthcare, MobileAccess Pair Up for Single Wireless Infrastructure
    Giant GE Healthcare has teamed up with MobileAccess to enable hospitals to use common infrastructure for their wireless applications, such as cell phones, pagers, public safety radio and Wi-Fi.
    Health IT Groups: Anti-Corruption Rules Stall Technology
    According to health IT proponents and organizations, exceptions to anti-kickback laws do not do much to calm hospitals' fears about helping community physicians adopt health information technology.
    Intel Takes Center Stage at Aging Conference
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