Health Mobile App Helps Breast Cancer Patients Understand Their Diagnosis Breastcancer.org has released a free mobile app to help patients research and understand their breast cancer pathology reports. The tool is meant to help educate breast cancer patients so that, along with their doctors, they can determine the right course of treatment. The app allows patients to enter their diagnosis information, with the goal of… Audrey Watters View comments
Features How One Small Business Increased Web Traffic by 300% With Real-Time Analytics For any small business trying to thrive online, there are few questions more critical or often, confounding: How can we increase traffic to our business's Website on a budget? And then, once they're there, how can we convert them to paying customers? There are lots of companies, SEO gurus and social media pundits offering up their solutions… John Paul Titlow View comments
Blogging Iran Gives "Blogfather" Longest Prison Term Ever for Blogger Hossein Derakhshan, who had been rumored to be facing the death penalty, has instead been sentenced to 19 and a half years in prison. Reporters Without Borders listed the "crimes" he has been found "guilty" of. "Derakhshan was convicted of collaborating with enemy states, propaganda against the Islamic Republic, propaganda in support of… Curt Hopkins View comments
E-Books British Library Digitizes the Hellenic World In an ongoing project to put its whole collection of Greek manuscripts online, the British Library has just announced that 280 volumes are now available on its Digitised Manuscript website. Free to anyone, not just scholars, the current digital collection contains over a quarter of the library's collection, including 1,000 manuscripts, more… Curt Hopkins View comments
Trends Open-Source Search: Application Centric and a Way to Big Data Eric Schmidt took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt. What he said seems striking, considering the pace of change we observe in our daily work. Schmidt said Moore's Law gave us a guide for the speed to expect on processing information. He said what we did not expect is the amount of information we would produce. What's resulting in face of… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments