By Mark O’Neill

Google have announced their latest project – Google Health – which is a service where you can have your entire medical history uploaded into your Google account. But before you start hyper-ventilating, Google has promised that everything in your medical records will be password-protected and therefore will not be publicly indexed in Google Search (I certainly hope not!).

The whole theory behind Google Health is that wherever you go in the world, your medical history will follow you. I mean, how many times have you relocated to another part of the country or another country altogether and your medical records have been lost? Mine have been lost more times than I care to remember so Google Health wants to help people keep their records in the one place, fully organized and fully digitized. Never again will they go missing.

By Mark O’Neill

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is hoping that the Wikipedia magic will rub off on his latest project – to build a user community “wiki” search engine – unimaginatively called “Wikia Search“.

The search engine has been in existence for quite a while. I have had an beta invite to look at it and poke around at it with others but yesterday marked the first time that anyone could participate without an invite. In fact, before today, I hadn’t taken a look at the search engine in quite a while and I was really pleasantly surprised at how far the project had come. But after putting in a few search terms, it’s clear the search engine still needs a lot of work done to it.

By Mark O’Neill While Senator Barack Obama FINALLY moves towards to the Democratic presidential nomination and the TV talking heads speculate endlessly about his Vice-Presidential running mate, one domain name reseller has already decided who it will be – and he’s got the domain up for sale on eBay for a bargain basement $5000. Don […]

By Mark O’Neill A remarkable legal battle is brewing over whether someone is entitled or not to resell used software. The case could bring about a whole new interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This case involves an eBay seller called Timothy Vernor and his repeated run-ins with a company called Autodesk who produces […]

By Rob Dunn Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you already are familiar with Spiceworks, then you can skip ahead to “Brief History” – but if not, read on. Network Inventory for the budget-crunched masses If you are a systems administrator or IT manager who maintains a small to medium sized shop, you probably don’t have a […]