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Sizing Up the iPad for Healthcare

MobiHealthNews has produced a 25-page report on the iPad and tablet PCs in the healthcare field. Luckily for those of you still in light summer-reading mode, they were considerate enough also to offer a distillation of their findings in the form of an easy-to-understand infographic. More »

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Better Contracts and Proposals with DITA

Solutions consultant and OASIS DITA Technical Committee member Su-Laine Yeo explains how DITA's content-reuse model can maximize data efficiency and prevent costly errors. More »

A Web by Any Other Name: Why We Need to Know About the Semantic Web

Richard Oppenheim, CPA, and Unlimited Priorities team member, discusses the significance of the emergent semantic web and why it may arrive sooner than we think. More »

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• Boeing has secured a $1.7 billion contract with the FAA to produce the Next-Generation Air Transportation System. Among the system's goals is updating the air traffic control system from radar-based tracking to safer and more accurate ADS-B GPS-based technology, as well as the integration of ground and air technologies to handle all types of traffic (commercial, military, unmanned, etc.). More »
• Worried that your fancy new iPad is just too humdrum? Don't you wish it were solid gold, encrusted with diamonds, and sported a price tag that's just under $200 Gs? Apparently you're not alone. More »

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