Quoted: Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualize human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organizations, ...
[tags: video, sweden, statistics]
Quoted: Gapminder - taking information that’s “dry as dust” and making it visible through animation. Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!
[tags: Gapminder, sweden, statistics]
Hans Rosling (b.1948 in Uppsala, Sweden) is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of Gapminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden. From 1967 to 1974 he studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and in 1972 he studied public health at St John's Medical College, Bangalore. He became a licenced physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.
[tags: health, software, statistics]
Quoted: TED Talks In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software -- which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats. (Ten days later, he announced a deal with Google to acquire the software.) He also demos Dollar Street, a program that lets you peer in the windows of typical families worldwide living at different income levels. Be sure to watch straight through to the (literally) jaw-dropping finale.
[tags: health, statistics, video, TED]
Vioxx users who filed claims by Nov. 8, 2007, and can prove they had a heart attack or stroke are eligible. The amount that each victim gets depends on the severity and date of the injury, Vioxx usage and whether they had risk factors such as smoking or obesity.
Quoted: A glance at the $4.85 billion settlement Merck & Co. made with Vioxx users:
[tags: health]
Quoted: Sprint and Clearwire have broken off plans to develop a national wireless network. Is it curtains for WiMAX?.
[tags: wimax]
Google's first open source play, OpenSocial, is an interoperable toolkit for building social networking apps. It aims to make the lives of widget and app developers a little easier. At the same time it lets Google indirectly challenge its major social networking competitor: Facebook.
The other open project, which comprises a group of handset makers, carriers and silicon manufacturers, is dubbed the Open Handset Alliance. It centers around a new, Linux-based mobile operating system for smartphones, called Android. It's Google's long-awaited play for the mobile space.
Quoted: Get Wired's take on technology business news and the Silicon Valley scene including IT, media, mobility, broadband, video, design, security, software, networking and internet startups on Wired.com
[tags: google, mobile, social networks, development]
Quoted: VMware Fusion makes it easy to install and run Windows, Linux and other operating systems on your Intel-based Mac as virtual machines, giving you the power to use multiple operating systems simultaneously—and without rebooting your computer.
Quoted: The new kid on the ‘Windows on Mac’ block
Quoted: Parallels Desktop 3.0 is currently the best solution for running Windows, Linux, or any of many other operating systems alongside OS X.
Quoted: As with every OS X update since version 10.1, there's no single feature in Leopard that will force Mac users to upgrade immediately. Instead, it's the sheer deluge of new features that's likely to persuade most active Mac users to upgrade, especially since this is the longest gap between OS X upgrades -- two and a half years -- since the product was introduced. Sure, some items on Apple's list of 300 features might seem inconsequential, but if even a handful of them hit you where you live, that will be more than enough motivation for you to upgrade.
Quoted: PCmover now supports PC-to-Mac migration. Transfer all your programs, files, and settings to any Intel-based Mac.
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[tags: apple, mac, imac, migration software]
Five House Republicans held a news conference on energy prices on Friday morning, doing their best to imitate a gaggle of dinosaurs pretending not to realize that they are neck deep in a tar pit.
Quoted: News and commentary on globalization, commerce, technology and development, from Salon.com's Andrew Leonard.
[tags: solar]
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