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'Opt-in' will undermine e-health records: AMA
Jan 28, 2012: The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has continued to lobby the government to change its $466.7 million e-health record system to an "opt-out" model, arguing that the current "opt-in" model will undermine the system's health improvement objectives.
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Aruba smashes security intrusions for Tennis Australia
Jan 28, 2012: Tracking intrusions to the Tennis Australia network is easier this year due to an expanded partnership with Aruba Networks.
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Dig deep into Lion: The best overlooked, underrated features
Jan 28, 2012: Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and enhancements that can easily be missed.
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Resume Makeover: How an Information Security Professional Can Target CSO Jobs
Jan 28, 2012: Cole Hanson's career goal is to become an information security executive. Currently, he serves as a high-level information security professional with the U.S. Army. In February, Hanson, who is also a reservist with a rank of Lieutenant, will start a new job with the Marine Corps as the technology integration officer and deputy for its Communications Directorate. In this new position he will act as a project manager and oversee a major network infrastructure replacement.
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Maple Leaf Foods Digests Rapid, Vanilla ERP Transformation
Jan 28, 2012: An interview with Michael McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and Jeff Hutchinson, CIO.
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EHR app causes buzz at mobile health care summit
Jan 28, 2012: A soon-to-be released medical application for smart phones was the talk of a Canadian mobile healthcare summit Thursday, not so much for what it will do but for the innovative way it's being developed.
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Economic Uncertainty: Static Quo
Jan 28, 2012: "2012 may mark the beginning of a new and more frightening phase of the world's worst economic calamity in three quarters of a century," prophesized Joseph Stiglitz, renowned economist and Nobel laureate, blithely crushing faint hopes of a happy new year.
Business Issues
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The top 10 H-1B visa users in the U.S.
Jan 28, 2012: Offshore outsourcing companies continued to make up the majority of the top 10 H-1B visa users in 2011, according to new government data. These offshore firms have been adding employees by the thousands as their revenues increase.
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Facebook IPO could come as soon as next week
Jan 28, 2012: The Internet juggernaut Facebook could file papers for an initial public offering as early as Wednesday, hoping to raise as much as US$10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Consumer Electronics
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Microsoft Windows Phone 7 app fights malaria
Jan 28, 2012: Microsoft has awarded an Imagine Cup Grant to a team that developed a custom Windows Phone 7 and application that can diagnose malaria then upload the data to cloud servers that map the data to help track outbreaks.
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Police £80m smartphone rollout branded 'poor value'
Jan 28, 2012: An £80 million police smartphone roll-out has been poor value for money, says the National Audit Office.
Games
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HyruleCraft Is a Complete Minecraft Re-creation of 'Ocarina of Time'
Jan 25, 2012: Minecraft is a great place to make whatever world you want out of virtual building blocks-- whether it be a Game Boy emulator or the Death Star trench. For this week's Minecraft highlight, the mod group GenGame have made 1:1 scale re-creation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (OOT).
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Resident Evil 6 Confirmed, Coming This November
Jan 20, 2012: One of gaming's worst-kept secrets has been officially unveiled. A rather bleak-looking piece of graffiti in London has been linked to a viral marketing campaign arranged by Capcom to promote Resident Evil 6, and today Capcom confirmed that Resident Evil 6 is coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 20, 2012.
Components
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Wall Street Beat: Tech shines as earnings come in strong
Jan 28, 2012: This week's tsunami of tech earnings, led by Apple's jaw-dropping quarterly report, has given market watchers something to cheer about and also points to industry shifts around tablets and cloud computing.
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Scientists Use Freaking Lasers to Cool Superconductors
Jan 26, 2012: Here at GeekTech, we’ve seen our share of lasers used for anything from art to shooting down freaking missiles. But, one that “cools”?



