Rep. Jason Chaffetz's recent remarks suggesting that some Americans should invest in their health instead of in a new iPhone reminded me of nothing so much of the old Jack Benny bit, where Benny is accosted by a robber who threatens "your money or your life." When Benny doesn't immediately respond, the robber prompts him, and the supposedly miserly Benny snaps back, "I'm thinking it over." I suspect that, like Mr. Benny, many of us would have a tough choice between our smartphones (and our other devices) and our health. It may be not so that we're miserly as it is that we're addicted.
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Italian Man Makes Worldwide Plea For Best Brain Cancer Treatment
Staff Writer | CTV News | November 18, 2012
Salvatore Iaconesi is looking for a cure for his brain cancer and he’s asking the world to help. Read More »
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Meet Nicole Wong, Obama's New Internet Privacy Czar
Brian Fung | Nextgov | May 8, 2013
President Obama has tapped a former Googler nicknamed "the Decider" to handle the administration's approach to Internet privacy. Read More »
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Mozilla Brings Firefox OS-Powered Smartphones In Bangladesh
Staff Writer | The Daily Star | September 22, 2014
Mozilla, a pioneer in Web platforms, introduces the Firefox operating system for smartphones in Bangladesh, in cooperation with Grameenphone and device partner Symphony. Customers of Bondhu, Grameenphone’s youth offer, will be able to enjoy range of benefits on Firefox OS, including 20MB of free Internet per day...
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Netflix And YouTube Make Up Majority Of US Internet Traffic, New Report Shows
Amanda Holpuch | The Guardian | November 11, 2013
Peer-to-peer file sharing has declined and Amazon and Hulu struggle to win receding American attention spans Read More »
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Open Health IT Video Channel
Peter Groen | YouTube | April 15, 2012
The Open Health IT Video Channel on YouTube contains playlists of selected videos grouped according to topics, e.g. Open Source, Open Health IT Software, Open Architecture & Standards, Open Access, Open Data, Open Communities, Public Health, Consumer Health & Open PHR Systems, Open Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions, and more. Read More »
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OSDD Starts Youtube Competition For TB
Staff Writer | BioSpectrum | November 2, 2012
India's Open Source Drug Discovery initiative and Vigyan Prasar have called for videos based on the theme, 'The need for TB drugs'. Participants need to be at least 18 years of age and can either upload the video on Youtube or send the video as an email attachment to the authorities, before Nov 26 Read More »
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Social Media Can 'Buoy' Disaster Preparedness and Response
Molly Merrill | Healthcare IT News | July 28, 2011
Social media such as Facebook, Twitter and foursquare may be important keys to improving the public health system's ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More »
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Social Media: An Asset to Saving Millions
Ruby Leo and Judd Leonard Okafor | Daily Trust | August 21, 2012
The amount of women and children that die hourly from preventable incidences can be compared to the amount of persons that died during the recent Dana clash that claimed 154 lives in Lagos in June. Read More »
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Technology Is Destroying The Music Industry, Which Is Great For The Next Taylor Swift
Ian Morris | Forbes | November 17, 2014
...So how will technology kill the music industry then? Well, it will simply destroy the record label...
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Uganda Speaks: Technology and the Right to Reply
Ken Banks, Olivia O'Sullivan | National Geographic | May 2, 2012
The developing world often gets poor representation in the western media. From well-meaning but simplistic representations by charities and advocates to enduring stereotypes of dark continents and poverty, developing countries are frequently denied the right to be seen as the complex, varied and human places they are. Read More »
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Unleashed: Open Source Tech Goes to the Dogs...and Cats...and...
By Jeff Macharyas | March 20, 2017
I was discussing open source technology with my cat this morning and he brought up a good point: "Why don't you do an article on open source tech for animals?" You know, Donald's right. Animal open source tech deserves a spotlight. Afterall, animals appear in many open source brands, and pets, like mine at least, lend lots of support while I'm trying out new software, building gadgets, or just writing about this stuff. I did a little research, and perhaps you won't be surprised to learn there is a gaggle (the name for a group of geese) of open source projects that help us keep, love, and improve the lives of animals. Let's take a gander (also another word for a goose), shall we?
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Why Google Is Suddenly Obsessed with Your Photos
Victor Luckerson | The Ringer | May 25, 2017
Google tends to throw lots of ideas at the wall, and then harvest the data from what sticks. Right now the company is feasting on photos and videos being uploaded through its surprisingly popular app Google Photos. The cloud-storage service, salvaged from the husk of the struggling social network Google+ in 2015, now has 500 million monthly active users adding 1.2 billion photos per day. It’s on a growth trajectory to ascend to the vaunted billion-user club with essential products such as YouTube, Gmail, and Chrome. No one is quite sure what Google plans to do with all of these pictures in the long run, and it’s possible the company hasn’t even figured that out...
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Wiki Project Med Foundation Launches Offline Medical Apps in Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Spanish.
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Wiki Project Med Foundation, Wikimedia Switzerland and Kiwix |
August 16, 2016
Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland have launched Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Spanish versions of Medical Wikipedia, a free app that offers offline access to thousands of Wikipedia articles. Each app contains articles related to human anatomy, pharmacology, medicine, and sanitation. It runs on Android devices version 4.0 and up. Once the app is installed, all articles can be accessed without an internet connection...
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Wikipedia’s Open Content Production Platform Creates Significant Spillover Benefits That Encourage Users To Contribute Further.
Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler | The London School of Economics and Political Science | October 16, 2014
Many organisations are developing open platforms to create, store and share knowledge. Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler analyse editing data by Wikipedia users to show how content creation by individuals generates significant ‘spillover’ benefits, encouraging others to contribute to the collective process of knowledge production...
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Your Smartphone or Your Life...or, the Dangers of Addictive Technology
By Kim Bellard | March 7, 2017
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