Is your data lost in time?

I saw this incredible story about an innovative way to recover lost data. If your hard drive fails, put it in a freezer for an hour.

WHAT???!!!

Seems it works...

See the entire story at Infoworld.com.


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Lawrence General Hospital: A beacon of e-health success

Lawrence General Hospital's Dr. Neil Meehan credits an electronic system, ED PulseCheck, sold by Wakefield-based Picis Inc., with reducing ER wait times by more than 30 minutes. The technology has saved $600,000 this past year in transcription services for dictated ER medical records and brought in $5 million in additional revenue.

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What are the odds of a semantic web?

  Book of Odds samples semantic web

A local Massachusetts company is putting down odds that they can make a go at it in the Semantic Web (sometimes referred to as Web 3.0):

What are the odds of being struck by lightning? Bitten by a rabid dog? Run down by a bus? Audited by the IRS?

Book of Odds Inc., a Boston company set to launch publicly tomorrow, is answering questions like these using semantic search — a technology long touted as ‘Web 3.0.’ On the semantic web — so the idea goes — search engines and applications will know what users are looking for, much in the same way humans understand one another based on context and other cues.

Instead of changing the face of computing technology, Book of Odds has a narrower goal: untangling the perplexing probabilities at the heart of human anxieties and dreams. For example, the odds of delivering twins are 1 in 31.1 — but how does that compare to something I can understand a little better?

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