Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchSpansion Japan Expansion- (Found July 5, 2008 ) AMDZone Infoworld has a story on Spansion's expansion plans in Japan. Spansion is AMD's memory arm. "The company will convert its plant in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, into a "mega-site" for advanced flash memory chip production as part of a strategy that was announced at a webcast AMD analyst briefing in the U.S. on Friday."http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1687 Offshore Outsourcing Healthcare- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Offshore Outsourcing News InfoWorld reports healthcare organizations not considering offshore outsourcing are missing out on significant cost savings, but administrators need to be aware of potential risks, including lax handling of data security by some vendors and the effect on employee morale. Offshore outsourcing of some functions not directly related to patient care can deliver savings of 20 percent or more, said John Lovelock, a health care analyst with Gartner Inc. Gartner estimates...http://offshorexperts.blogspot.com/2004/11/offshore-outsourcing-healthcare.html RIAA files 761 new file-trading lawsuits- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Iggy Uncensored Looks as if the RIAA may be a bit jealous of the MPAA. So they had to file some new lawsuits. Infoworld has the story. Previous blog post in relation to the MPAA starting to sue is here MPAA Starts Suing - Let the MPAA lawsuits begin.http://iggy.gnomeblog.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/18/186512.html Poland: no software patents- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Ted Roche "Polish rejection may derail EU patent directive. The future of the controversial European Union (E.U.) software patent directive was thrown into doubt Wednesday after the Polish government indicated it could no longer support the legislation in its current form." InfoWorld: Top News Software patents are an abomination: licensing an idea, instead of the implementation of an idea (the latter is what copyrights are). Patents will chill the software development marketplace and reserve...http://radio.weblogs.com/0117767/2004/11/17.html#a1292 Jon Udell: RESTful Flash- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Sylvain Carle "...an example showing how rich internet applications can display their current state in the URL as the user interacts locally. This enables a user to bookmark a particular state in the local application, and also enables rich internet applications to be composed with others through REST." Wow. a fait des annes que je pense que REST et Flash vont ensemble, c'est trop webbish pour ne pas...http://www.afroginthevalley.com/archives/000262.html Checking In on Speech Recognition- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Darren Barefoot A couple of weeks ago, I referenced the video that Jon Udell made of testing Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I commented that I was still underwhelmed. I'm still underwhelmed because I tried an earlier version by Dragon in 1998., and wrote an article about it. Here's an excerpt: "Simple, right Naturally Speaking claims 95% accuracy. That's darn swank, until you evaluate what that really means. 95% is one in twenty. Imagine if once every twenty words you had to stop, go back, and...http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/001393.html Google Taking Blogs Global- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Corante Google appears to be doing for blogs what it did for search engines. According to this InfoWorld article, Blogger, which is owned by Google, is going to be localized for 9 languages "soon." The languages are Japanese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese. This can't be good news for the folks at Six Apart. Although they have a head start over Blogger, having already localized TypePad for six markets, I can't imagine...http://www.corante.com/goingglobal/archives/google_taking_blogs_global.php Mesh networks- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Trends Motorola to acquire MeshNetworks. "It lets users of mobile devices create self-forming and self-healing wireless networks that can reach beyond the range of established wireless hot spots. The technology has potential applications ranging from enterprises to home entertainment, for delivering data, video, voice and location information, Motorola said in a statement."http://www.byz.org/~rbanks/movableType/webLog/trends/archives/002104.html Acrobat 7, Adobe in the workflow business- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Rainer Volz: Virtual Projects After Adobe Systems moves in the electronic processelectronic business server area (see Adobe buys ebXML software developer and More about Adobe ebXML), Acrobat 7 does something for the client side. Users of the free Acrobat Reader versions can now be included in review and approval flows via PDF documents. (More about that in Adobe Introduces Acrobat 7.0 Software for Driving Intelligent Document Workflows and InfoWorld: Adobe aims at workgroups with Acrobat 7.)...http://www.vrtprj.com/weblog/communication/acrobat7.html Health Care Providers Can Save by Outsourcing- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The Outsourcing Times A new study by Gartner concludes that health care providers who are not offshoring are missing out on a chance to save some serious cash. According to InfoWorld: "Offshore outsourcing of some functions not directly related to patient care can deliver savings of 20 percent or more, said John Lovelock, a health care analyst with Gartner Inc. Gartner estimates health care organizations save an average of about 23 percent on outsourcing contracts, including IT and non-IT...http://www.blogsource.org/blog/2004/11/health_care_pro.html |