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As California faces budget cuts in Medi-Cal and Children Health Initiatives, the cost and quality of health care is more important than ever. Lawmakers need to make the critical decisions that will save an estimated $81 billion annually in health care cost by adopting federal health information technology standards.
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Topping our weekly technology review: Bell Labs bows out of semiconductor research, a remote control robot performs surgery, and Chinese researchers develop an anti-cloaking layer.
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Officials in many states are concerned about the reliability of electronic voting and are now moving toward systems that can provide a voter-verified paper trail. Larry Norden, author of The Machinery of Democracy, discusses the latest advances in voting technology.
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NEW YORK - Technology appears to be one of the least hard-hit sectors in an economy beset by unemployment at a five-year high.
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To encourage industry to source better technology, tie up with the best global brands and collaborate on cutting-edge industrial research, the government plans to relax the import regulations. Soon, there will be no quantitative restrictions on the pricing of technology transfers or valuation of brands in any foreign investment deal with an Indian company.
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BAGUIO CITY – Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza said his city was willing to share technology with the Baguio government to solve the summer capital’s problems on waste management and garbage collection.
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Internet search giant Google unveiled Chrome, a new piece of Web browser software on Tuesday. Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of SearchEngineLand.com, explains what Google’s open-source browser can do, and why a search engine leader wants to get into the Web software market.
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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill., Sept. 4 (UPI) — The U.S. Transportation Command has deployed a new container security technology from GE Security Inc. to protect military shipments into Pakistan.
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The creator of The Sims has a new game out. In Spore, players create their own worlds — starting from creatures the size of a cell, and evolving until an entire civilization springs up.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 4 (UPI) — The U.S. Defense Department has approved a communication technology developed by Amcom for use by the U.S. government and military.
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