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IF there was ever a time not to procrastinate, that time is now.
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With the economy in poor shape, and many Americans pulling back on their spending for fear of what tomorrow (or even this afternoon) will bring, now is not the time to [...]

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LOS ANGELES — Less than a week after a pirated copy of the unreleased movie “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” popped up on the Internet, federal legislators and entertainment executives presented an extraordinarily bleak picture of the damage digital piracy can inflict, and the grim prospects for limiting it.
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Online personal health records — controlled by patients themselves, not by hospitals, doctors, insurers or employers — have been available for years. Yet only a small percentage of Americans have digital personal health records today, analysts estimate.
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WITHIN Microsoft’s Office group, the calendar on the wall appears to be 1983, the year the company introduced Microsoft Word. The company still expects customers to buy its software applications as products and install and run them on PCs.
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Zoho.com’s home page includes Zoho Writer, an online word [...]

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PLENTY of authors dream of writing the great American novel.
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Bradley Inman is starting Vook, a platform for e-books that will combine text, video and social networking.
Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream — and [...]

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The News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, announced Wednesday that it had hired the former chief executive of AOL, Jonathan F. Miller, to oversee its digital media businesses, including its MySpace social-networking Web site.
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The appointment comes as Mr. Murdoch is reorganizing management [...]

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Now that the federal government plans to spend $19 billion to spur the use of computerized patient records, the challenge of adopting the technology widely and wisely is becoming increasingly apparent.
Two articles, to be published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, point to the formidable obstacles to achieving the policy goal of [...]

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With its lingering debt problems resolved for now, Blockbuster is pinning some of its hopes on a digital future.
The struggling video rental chain will announce a partnership with TiVo on Wednesday to deliver Blockbuster’s digital movie library over the Internet directly to the televisions of people with TiVo digital video recorders.
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COMEBACK stories are irresistibly appealing, in business as well as in sports. But recovering from some strategic mistakes is awfully hard. A case in point is Palm’s failure to anticipate the threat that Apple posed to its core business.
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Wal-Mart Stores is striding into the market for electronic health records, seeking to bring the technology into the mainstream for physicians in small offices, where most of America’s doctors practice medicine.
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Wal-Mart’s move comes as the Obama administration is trying [...]

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