Medical

The rise of inexpensive Internet connectivity and smaller, cheaper and "smarter" health electronics should deliver better, more efficient health care in 2010.

Long meetings are bound to leave participants bored and checking their BlackBerrys for e-mail while paying little attention. Keep it capped at 30 minutes to allow workers time to respond to their e-mail flow too.

Major wireless carriers in Canada have set up a way for Canadians to grab their cell phones and text their donations for relief efforts in Haiti. Dubbed mobile giving, this trend is catching on fast among a younger demographic.

Nine smart phones, a modern relational database, and a remote-access software application - these tools were brought together to drastically speed the collection of the data that helps combat the spread of malaria inside Uganda.

As far as corporate smartphones go, the Blackberry is time-tested and true. But is it being upstaged as the "business phone of choice" by the iPhone -- slick device that everyone craves. We offer you both sides of the argument ... and let you decide.

At a truly aligned company, all cylinders firing, every executive, every manager works on one goal: winning customers.

This year companies continued to be felled more by usual issues such as lost laptops, un-patched or poorly coded software, inadvertent disclosures and rogue insiders, rather than by sneaky new attack techniques or devastating new hacker tools.

There may be more than 85,000 iPhone apps in the market and some 125,000 developers in Apple's iPhone Developer Program, but there's always room for more.

From Larry Ellison of Oracle to Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Lady Gaga, here are some of this year's more memorable quotes.

A new squeezable mouse-like input device, dubbed called Suma, may have some groundbreaking applications in gaming and healthcare. The device also opens up new possibilities to artists working in 3D.

The recently released study of 4,000 U.S. hospitals over a four-year period found the immense cost of installing and running hospital IT systems is greater than any expected cost savings. And much of the software being written for use in clinics is aimed at administrators, not doctors, nurses and lab workers.

Naked Pizza uses Twitter to send followers special offers. The company also tweets to converse with customers in a way that mixes humour with social and health consciousness -- qualities that reflect Naked Pizza's brand identity.

A pilot of India's new Centralized Monitoring System is slated to begin next June. It allows government agencies to intercept communications without the help of network operators.

Most Canadians want their personal health records to be given to them by doctors or the government, a recent study shows. And more than half want access to a secure online site that lets them schedule office visits, order prescriptions view medical records, and find treatment options.

While the three major cellular carriers -- Rogers, Telus and (most recently) Bell -- have all dropped the $6.95 monthly systems access charge, the actual benefit to users from this may be scant. That's because what the carriers are giving with one hand, they are taking back with another, as one observer notes.