Do-it-yourself health care can mean savings

In the national debate over health insurance reform, Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on one thing only: the country needs to reduce the cost of health care.

The effort at cheaper care has seen waves of high-tech ideas, from Internet-based medical exams to autonomous robot care devices in the home. But a handful of Boston-area companies and organizations have gotten more traction by applying a mundane principal of e-commerce: pass on tasks and responsibilities to the customer.

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Mass Tech Corp named to Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest Growing Companies

Hold the presses. Stop the paperboy. Wake the kids. Call the neighbors.

MTC was named the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies. We're really proud of this achievement and based on the company we're keeping in this list, things aren't all doom and gloom in the economy.

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Is the Bubble Ready to Burst on Twitter?

  With a focus solely on marketing and advertising, can Twitter's model sustain itself?

With all of the press about Twitter, and its model squarely focused on advertising, marketing, voyeurism and immediate gratification, one has to wonder if the model can sustain itself.

A new service offered by Twitter allows sponsored tweets by selected advertisers, and (about time) Twitter has recently developed methods to combat the increasing amount of spam and junk found on the site and its distributed messages.

Unlike Facebook, we're still not sure if this is a real technology platform being developed, or another internet fad (remember ICQ?)...but the last year has brought an explosion in user traffic - monthly minutes of use grew 37-fold from April 2008 through May 2009 - and a growing role in disseminating news and organizing social and protest movements, from the streets of Tehran to a swimming pool in Huntingdon Valley (Philly.com)....

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