Offshoring
Infoworld, 11/17/04: Analyst: Outsourcing can save costs in health care
Employee morale remains a problem
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service November 16, 2004
Offshore outsourcing of some functions not directly related to patient care can deliver savings of 20 percent or more, said John Lovelock, a health care analyst with Gartner Inc. Gartner estimates health care organizations save an average of about 23 percent on outsourcing contracts, including IT and non-IT outsourcing, with some organizations seeing savings up to 45 percent on some outsourcing contracts, said Lovelock, who spoke at the Gartner Healthcare IT Summit in Baltimore.
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Fast Company Blog, 11/17/04: To India with Love (and a PC)
Leave it to Conan O'Brien to find the hilarity in a topic as complicated and controversial as outsourcing. In a recent segment, staff writer Andy Blitz answers the question, what it's like to visit one of those tech-support centers located halfway around the world?
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Patch Management
Computerworld, 11/17/04: Dell, Microsoft integrate patch management apps
The SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates will be out in January
News Story by Stacy Cowley
NOVEMBER 15, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Dell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said today that they're working together to integrate their systems management applications to allow customers to update server hardware and software with a single tool.
Dell's OpenManage 4 change-management software will work with Microsoft's Systems Management Server 2003 to offer customers a centralized view of all Dell PowerEdge servers on their network. When customers apply software updates, they will be able to use the integrated application to handle Dell firmware and BIOS updates at the same time they update their operating system and applications software.
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Collaborative Technologies
Wired News, 11/16/04: RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy
By Daniel Terdiman
One thing that many people agree on is that government bureaucracies are usually very slow to adopt new innovations.
So when the little-known National Agricultural Statistics Service last week began offering RSS feeds of some of its news, it was the latest sign that the technology, which allows anyone to subscribe and automatically receive dynamic content on their computers, has hit the mainstream.
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Family Members
C|net, 11/16/04: TiVo backer Alsop to leave VC firm
By Michael Kanellos
Stewart Alsop, the venture capitalist who helped foster TiVo, is leaving his firm to try something new. s
Stewart Alsop In a memo to staffers, Alsop said he will leave New Enterprise Associates by the end of the year to "see if I can design a working life for myself that is focused entirely on working with a few early-stage companies, whether that is in a smaller partnership or something more individualized." A spokeswoman for the firm confirmed his pending departure.
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Geeks with Too Much Time on their Hands
Engadget, 11/17/04: USB-Powered Santa
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Engadget, 11/17/04: Internet hunting coming to Texas
Don’t let anyone convince you that the Blue States have a monopoly on technologcal innovation. Case in point: a rancher in Texas says he’s going to start offering an Internet hunting service where visitors to his website can bag a deer, antelope, and wild pigs using a remote controlled .22 caliber rifle with a webcam mounted on it.
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