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• Broadband Innovations, Part 4: The Doctor Isn't In but Can Still See You How telehealth is changing the way America gets well.
• SharePoint Helps Insurer Avoid Risks Allied North America, an insurer for construction firms, says its customer portal built using Microsoft SharePoint helps track construction site activities and analyze data to reduce risks for its clients.
• DRM-Free ITunes for BlackBerry Users BlackBerry users can now easily sync music from iTunes libraries with their smartphones' media players thanks to a new, free piece of software from Research In Motion (RIM), aptly named BlackBerry Media Sync.
• Broadband Innovations, Part 3: The Film Editor's Dream A 10-gbps fiber-optics connection enables a Swedish film editor to do his job in real time from his dream home in a beautiful rural village.
• Collaboration Under SOA: The Human Aspects This book chapter from Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect shows how Web 2.0 business concepts apply to businesses, especially those enterprises that adhere to the philosophy of SOA.
• Printer Ink, Prohibitions, and a 108-Inch LCD This week our readers are all over the map, weighing in on printer ink, Sony's 108-inch LCD, and the FCC's probable action against Comcast.
• Broadband Innovations, Part 2: Fiber Optics Reaches the Tipi In Part 2 of our four-part Broadband Innovations series, see how the Ktunaxa Nation of Canada uses fast broadband to save its indigenous language and culture from extinction.
• Drizzle Project Plans a Stripped-Down MySQL A new open source project is develoing a new micro-kernel database based on MySQL, targeted at large-scale Web applications.
• Broadband Innovations, Part 1: The 21st Century Athlete Broadband is helping to redefine the modern athlete. Meet gamer Patrick O'Day, who hopes to compete in the worldwide Digital Games in China this fall.
• Sly Students Spell Trouble for Hapless Admin The school faculty believes its computer admin doing a great job, but the students know what's truly going on.
• IPv6 to Get Much-Maligned Feature Standards body weighs network address translators for next-gen Internet.
• Get a Grip on SOA Vendor Consolidation While acquisition sprees reduce infrastructure choices, other factors keep a variety of SOA platforms available.
• Yang and Icahn End Feud, but Who Wins? Both had to make concessions, analysts say.
• What's Killing SOA? SOA is not something you buy, it is something you do. Research shows us that very few companies are doing it well. But the reasons for so many failures are usually people issues, not technology issues.
• The Suits Can Learn a Lot From Web 2.0 Coders Companies can cut costs and boost productivity by focusing more on their users.
• Battle of the Mobile Browsers 'The browser wars are back,' says one developer.
• WSO2 Adds Google Gadgets to Mashup Server Version 1.5 of open source product is offered.
• Facebook Gets Facelift New design is intended to give users more control, fight spam, and regulate apps.
• SAP User Group Launches Database to Help Companies An interview with Steve Strout, the CEO of the American SAP Users' Group.
• More Fixes Needed, Says Finder of DNS Flaw Current patch options merely stopgaps; worst attacks likely on the way.
• Microsoft Adds Workflow to Cloud-Based SOA Platform BizTalk Services project still is in development as the R12 Community Technology Preview is unveiled.
• IT Outsourcing Challenges and Solutions Effectively perform an IT application outsourcing without getting trapped into standard headcount replacement from a cheap labor pool.
• Ancient Mars Had Lakes, Rivers and Possibly Life Scientists pinpoint areas that future expeditions can search for signs of past life.
• Everyone Works at Home at Chorus, Part Two In this story, the second of three parts, a small software company establishes work-at-home policies and figures out how to provide remote tech support. Part one focused on the IT infrastructure needed to support telecommuters.
• Online Office Apps: Google Docs vs. ThinkFree vs. Zoho Web-based suites have become real challengers to desktop applications.