Wi-Fi enabled health care products to surge with electronic medical records ABI Research forecasts that Wi-Fi-enabled health care products will hit sales of nearly $5 billion globally in 2014, up 70% from 2009. How many Twitter followers does it take to get a job? Your online popularity might be as valuable to your career as a post-grad education. A recent job posting on Best Buy's Web site prefers candidates with a graduate degree and at least 250 followers on Twitter. Ubuntu's maker: Chrome OS 'no slam dunk' just because Google announces it Google may possess brand recognition and engineering resources that dwarf the 200-employee, $30-million-revenue-a-year Canonical Inc., but Chrome OS's ascent "is no slam dunk just because you make an announcement," says Gerry Carr, marketing manager for Canonical. Chrome, Android have different jobs, Google says Google's emerging Chrome operating system won't squeeze out Android, according to Andy Rubin, the company's vice president of mobile engineering platforms. Google CEO might leave Apple's board (and it's about time) When asked point blank on Thursday if he was planning on resigning from Apple's board now that his company is planning on building a competing operating system, Eric Schmidt said unequivocally, maybe. He also said that he would talk to Apple about it but "At the moment, there's no issue," reports Reuters. Hardly. iPhone 3.0 users report Wi-Fi connectivity issues Ever since upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 on both my first generation iPhone and my brother's current generation iPod touch, I'd been experiencing flaky Wi-Fi connectivity on both devices. I didn't think much about it at first: Wi-Fi coverage has always been an issue in our three-story brick-and-mortar house, so I kept telling myself it was no worse than before. Windows 7 to get boost from rebounding PC buying plans Microsoft's timing of Windows 7's launch is "fortuitous" because U.S. corporate PC buying plans are on the upswing for the first time in 18 months, a market research company said this week. You Knew I Had to Comment on the Cisco Certified Architect Program Morris: Overall, I am glad to see Cisco pushing along and rolling out the Cisco Certified Architect program. It's good for the industry and for individual engineers (ok, ok, and good for Cisco). I hope to take it some day. But, at $15,000 a test with only 7 possible candidates in a bad economy, it might be a while before we get CCA #1.....err....I mean Cisco Certified Architect #1. DARPA wants super-power lasers for imaging, sensing, targeting It's not supposed to blow things up like Star Trek's photonic emitter, but the type of super laser the US military wants for futuristic surveillance, 3D imaging, precision targeting and navigation is perhaps just as powerful. Giant Gundam comes to life in Tokyo After months of anticipation, an 18-meter high, full size Gundam came to life in Tokyo on Friday night. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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