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Digital Dilemmas: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend?
Comment Now Facebook, flu-like, is everywhere. silicon.com's Natasha Lomas deconstructs this Digital Dilemma… It's the mother of digital conundrums: you log into your Facebook account and there's a friend request from a work... [28 Oct 2009]
Protect Your Business Information: Prevent Document Deterioration, Misuse and Loss With EDM
White Paper Medical experts are producing vaccine to combat Swine Flu. Security concerns are in the news a lot lately. The government has issued public alerts against terrorist activity. Military experts are debating how to maximize... [02 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet Bless you, that's not swine flu is it? So, PCeU. Not a sniff of it - PCeU stands for the Police Central e-crime Unit. PCeU is a police unit that co-ordinates the law enforcement of online offences nationwide and leads... [20 Jul 2009]
Doux Group Accelerates Global Expansion Through Enhanced Business Analysis
White Paper In the midst of corporate diversification- and fighting the ill effects of a global bird flu scare-Doux needed to analyze the profitability of its entire enterprise on a monthly basis. An expert in poultry since its... [12 Jun 2009]
350,000 NHS email accounts Exchanged in massive migration
News The new service includes functionality to send text messages via email - a feature which is used extensively across the NHS, with about 750,000 automated patient reminders for appointments and services such as flu jabs... [29 Apr 2009]
Businesses - 'beware the risks of Digital Britain'
News He gave the example of what businesses would need to think of if everybody was at home due to a flu pandemic. Some people would be working from home, and some people would be off work due to flu," said... [29 Apr 2009]
Three Critical Components of Product Traceability in the Food and Beverage Supply Chain
White Paper An increase in concern about contamination, allergies/ allergens, terrorist threats and food-borne illnesses such as Mad Cow Disease and Bird Flu, makes precise management of ingredients and product whereabouts essential. [23 Mar 2009]
UK biz not ready for hack attacks, flu, bad weather
News The report found the two greatest concerns for organisations are electronic attack (identified by 58 per cent) and human disease such as a flu pandemic (57 per cent). UK organisations are still not doing enough to ensure... [19 Mar 2009]
Global Healthcare Crises: How Information Technology can Address Pandemics and Disasters
White Paper The global march of the bird flu has heightened the sense of urgency in the international community for strategies to effectively prevent and respond to health-related crises. This IBM white paper presents an information... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: Windows 7, supercomputers, Google Labs, iPill
Photo Pictured is Google Flu Trends that aggregates search data around flu-related topics that research has shown correlates closely to actual incidents of flu. In this way, outbreaks of... [27 Nov 2008]
Photos: The best of Google Labs
Photo Google Flu Trends aggregates search data around flu-related topics which research has shown correlates closely to actual incidents of flu. In this way, outbreaks of flu... [19 Nov 2008]
Google tracks the common cold
News Using the same keyword-tracking technology found on Google Trends, it keeps an eye on people searching for queries involving the word 'flu' and tracks them both by date and location. The same trending technique could be... [12 Nov 2008]
How global computing grid could save the world
News David Foster, network and communication systems group leader at Cern, said a similar system could help the world deal with looming crises, from bird flu to earthquakes and financial meltdowns or global warming. [20 Oct 2008]
Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics
White Paper Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a dangerous public panic - is to identify a potential outbreak early, marshal medical... [30 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment Then, a disaster affecting one area may leave others unscathed - and in the case of an epidemic such as bird flu, the company could conceivably carry on operating. In reality, good security requires fundamental... [28 Mar 2008]