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SOURCE: CNN.com Study: Two health systems -- black and white Wednesday, August 4, 2004 Posted: 5:11 PM EDT (2111 GMT) BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Inferior qualifications and less access to resources among doctors who treat black patients may contribute to racial disparities in the quality of U.S. health care, authors of a study said Wednesday. The study, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, found that many of the doctors treating black patients complain ...

SOURCE: CNN.com Geolocation tech slices, dices Web Monday, July 12, 2004 Posted: 1:03 PM EDT (1703 GMT) NEW YORK (AP) -- Type "dentist" into Google from New York, and you'll get ads for dentists in the city. Try watching a Cubs baseball game from a computer in Chicago, and you'll be stymied. Pre-existing local TV rights block the webcast. The same technology is also being used by a British casino to keep out the Dutch and by online movie distributors to limit viewing to where...

SOURCE: FORBES Why Did Merrill Exit The Google IPO? 06.22.04, 9:07 AM ET Prudential Equity Group said it believes that media reports which suggest that Merill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) opted out of the syndicate of banks underwriting the upcoming Google initial public offering because the deal would not have been profitable enough probably are correct. Prudential noted that Merrill Lynch's name was absent from Google's revised IPO filing. "We disagree that Google's likely...

SOURCE: Knowledge At Wharton Lessons from Google's IPO After more than more than three months of filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, public miscues, pricing changes and enough legalese to make a lawyer dizzy, Google's initial public offering is one for the record books. Experts at Wharton and elsewhere say Google's IPO, on the surface, seems to be a success, but they note it's too early to issue a verdict. After all, Google did raise $1.67 billion by going p...

SOURCE: FORBES A Motive For IT Spending Erika Brown, 08.26.04, 6:00 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO - It's been a tough recession for tech spending and a tough summer for tech stocks. But a Texas software outfit might give investors a reason to get back in the market. The U.S. recession was especially brutal for IT departments. Desperate chief financial officers took machetes to their IT corps and tech spending. Yet the demands on networks multiplied as companies hooked in customers, sup...

SOURCE: Boston Globe.com A technology whiz strives to make life simpler At home with MIT Professor John Maeda By Katie Johnston, Globe Staff | August 26, 2004 John Maeda is a man with a lot on his mind. The MIT professor of media arts and sciences thinks about how to make technology simpler; he thinks about using the computer as a mode of expression rather than simply as a tool; he thinks about making digital art from Cheetos and sugar crystals. Something the man Esquire maga...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Blog's the word in big business Last modified: July 23, 2004, 3:47 PM PDT By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com BERKELEY, Calif.--Long heralded as a way for the masses to wrest the Internet back from corporate control, the Web log has emerged as the hottest new enterprise tool. That's a key message emerging from BlogOn 2004, "The Business of Social Media," a two-day conference at the University of California's Haas School of Business here, where blo...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Reservoir blogs: Fan fakes Tarantino diary Published: August 26, 2004, 10:36 AM PDT By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com Celebrity impostors no longer need plastic surgery to be like the stars they covet--not when they have blogs. A would-be fan of Quentin Tarantino, the writer and director of such movies as "Kill Bill" and "Reservoir Dogs," among others, has created a pulp fiction of his own, Web-style. He or she has penned a Web log, or diary...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Amazon lists PlayStation 3 Published: August 24, 2004, 10:25 AM PDT By David Becker Staff Writer, CNET News.com And the winner is--the Sony PlayStation. While game console makers are still jockeying to beat each other to market with next-generation models, Sony achieved a dubious distinction recently by grabbing the first major retail notice for its upcoming machine. The Japanese unit of online retail giant Amazon has posted a product page for the P...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Internet2: 2004 and beyond Published: August 24, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman doesn't let a little thing like a few thousand miles stand in the way of reaching his students. Using high-definition videoconferencing technology available through the Internet2 network, he can give individual instruction to students half a world away with CD-quality soun...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com HP's iPod to lead consumer push Published: August 26, 2004, 10:14 AM PDT By Ina Fried Staff Writer, CNET News.com update Hoping to make a big bang in consumer electronics, Hewlett-Packard plans on Friday to unveil its long-awaited HP-branded iPod, along with its first televisions, an entertainment hub and the usual array of new printers and cameras, sources said. Also among the dozens of new gadgets that HP CEO Carly Fiorina will introduce at a Miami pr...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Fat lady to sing for flash mob August 26, 2004, 12:38 PM PDT Did the flash mob phenomenon come and go as fast as, well, a flash mob? The buzz died down quickly for last year's fad: the brief, impromptu and often improbable gathering--a sort of cross between guerrilla marketing and a 1960s happening. But the flash mob spirit lives on in the music scene among groups as divergent as punk rockers and opera singers. British newspapers are reporting that the B...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Science for the lazy August 26, 2004, 2:09 PM PDT Gone are the days of lugging your laundry down the block to the local laundromat, only to find that you are short on quarters. Thanks to the hard-working scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, tech-savvy shoppers may soon be strutting their stuff in self-cleaning pants. Using nanotechnology, researchers developed a process for treating fabric with a titanium dioxide coating that, when triggered ...