by Leroy Hurt | Nov 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Express.co.uk: A new system of “virtual clinics” is being planned in which GPs connect with patients via iPads and Skype, an idea that NHS bosses are importing from India. The reforms would save £2.9billion “almost immediately” and improve the lives of most...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Seattle Times: Stewart’s company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, has faced some difficult blows lately: substantial financial losses and layoffs and cuts at its magazines and television programs. But Stewart, 71, the founder, has emerged as a patron saint...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via MSN: Combine this aging population with the difficult economy, and you have a population that no longer exits the workforce as soon as they reach their 65th birthday. Recently, Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. looked at the situation of workers 65 and older in...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via The Economist: America’s aviation regulators have been asked by Congress to integrate unmanned aircraft into the air-traffic control system as early as 2015…Pilotless aircraft could carry out many jobs at a lower cost than manned aircraft and helicopters—tasks...
by Leroy Hurt | Nov 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Firefox OS | MIT Technology Review: The reason to be excited about Mozilla throwing its hat into the mobile OS ring is that Mozilla’s platform will be more open, it claims, than the likes of iOS. Mozilla says its OS will be “free…from the encumbrances of the...
