Microsoft on April 4 announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group created to enhance the ability to use and share biomedical data, at the Life Sciences Conference and Expo in Boston.

It's been said that the American automobile industry is linked in one way or another to one out of every six jobs in the United States. That's roughly 17% of the entire U.S. economy. All things considered that makes the Henry Ford Health System's E-Prescribe program much more than a local success story of healthcare process improvement through automation; it makes it a model for saving jobs worthy of national study.

[T]his initial version of Google Pack is an embarrassment to the company. It's just a mess.

I once read a review of the PPC-6600 that billed it as a viable alternative to a laptop for a “power user.” Assuming I qualify as the latter, the PPC-6600 isn't the former. It's not bad, but it's not great; it's the Treo 300 of its generation.