By Dick Weisinger, on July 31st, 2007
Dossia, an employer-driven health-care initiative was announced last year to great fanfare. The Dossia Consortium companies backing the initiative include Wal-Mart, Intel, Pitney Bowes, Applied Materials, British Petroleum, and Cardinal Health.
The goal of the Dossia project is to give users a secure way to access their health records on-line — and the records are to [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on July 30th, 2007
Over this past year’s Christmas and New Year’s celebrations James Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, announced that ‘Search is Broken‘, referring to Internet search options like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. (Wales also says that his own creation Wikipedia has spun out of control and is irreparably broken.) While often the search results are good, many [...]
By Dick Weisinger, on July 27th, 2007
In the race to capture enterprise search users, IBM and Yahoo! have teamed up to offer free software that they’re calling the IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition. The technology is based on the Open Source Lucene search engine with enhancements by IBM, and it is packaged so that it is easy to just drop into [...]