The article starts with a general overview of telemedicine and its roots in NASA. Then, the article switches the focus to the implementation of telemedicine in Haiti. The establishment of networks in Haiti immediately benefited the effort to recover. Communication came immediately, but telemedicine found its way into Haiti and held a crucial role in recovery. Video sessions became common, allowing simpler analysis of data and training of doctors.

This short article discusses The Medical University of South Carolina's effort to start the Biomedical Research Bank, a collection of donated samples of blood, tissue, and bodily fluids with identifying information contained in a database. Then, by searching this medical database for specifics, researchers could easily find information necessary for research and various studies, and potentially reach their goal of "personalizing medicine".

The article is about an interesting method that Google is using to improve its security over time. Hackers (Crackers) are often despised by many online businesses and cause major problems. However, Google has managed to turn the problem into a solution by offering rewards to hackers who are able to exploit the system and report the exploits to Google. With the given information, Google can improve its services to be more secure. Specifically, this article notes the success of the solution and Google's intentions of expanding the program to its web services. This is an ideal solution because all stakeholders benefit. Hackers are paid, Google can improve its services, and users can feel more secure about using Google's services.

This article is about outsourcing of lawyers in India to cut costs and do work that would otherwise be reserved for those often unskilled young lawyers. By relying on outsourcing to do the petty and tedious tasks of Western law firms, lawyers are saving their time, money, and are given access to a much larger work force for a given price. The combination of these main points greatly increases efficiency around the law firm and allows the lawyers to be more focused on doing their job effectively and with more depth. People with experience in outsourcing from a variety of industries strongly encourage the use of outsourcing for the simple and mundane tasks of the business for a multitude of reasons described before that could save the company a great deal of time and money.

RFID is a technology which can create many new possibilities, as well as build upon existing ones. The technology can be applied to a variety of scenarios, but concerns rise due to problems with privacy and lack of security as it has been proven that viruses can be stored on the small 128 character capacity of the RFID chip. These viruses can be used to exploit whatever it is that the technology is implemented in. This could potentially cause problems such as some tags not getting scanned, or even all tags not getting scanned. The risk increases in other scenarios such as airports, where RFID technology could be very useful for streamlining and organizing the baggage transport process, but a single virus and the whole thing would be disrupted. Just as with computers, I'm sure that people will eventually figure out a way to protect from RFID-bound viruses to implement them for great purposes.

From Noreen's post, I learned that in many cases, social networks such as facebook can be used for much more than simply connecting with friends. In times of emergency, social networks can be used for getting important information to large amounts of people quickly. This is especially effective due to the fact that most people are part of social networks, leaving only a small group of people to be informed by other means.

The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is responding to claims about the production of a Facebook oriented Operating System, and possibly a Facebook phone. Zuckerberg dismisses these claims and responds that his goal is 'breadth not depth', meaning that he is focused on spreading Facebook to a variety of platforms rather than going in depth on one.