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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

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billion in Federal funds for the implementation of IT in healthcare, which has shown to help lower our outrageous healthcare costs, reduce costly medical errors and improve patient outcomes. Providers and other entities are reluctant to adopt automation and technology, primarily because of costs and other barriers. Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They therefore have large cost bases and have to pass on those costs to you. - But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely. These phones were so over hyped.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology - Part II

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Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. RDF is a tremendously simply standard - but it struggles to this day with a needlessly complex XML serialization. Even when marketing to technologists, education costs are important.