Grid computing projects supported by Big Blue announced significant progress in looking for new potential drugs in cancer treatment

http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3888281/IBM-Volunteers-Help-Locate-Anti-Cancer-Drugs.htm

NVidia to launch a touch screen Android OS PC powered by 8 core chip that runs for 25 days

NVIDIA and Notion Ink, launches ‘Adam’, a touch screen tablet at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010, a high-tech IT product that was completely developed in India, marking the country’s big entry into product development. With NVIDIA’s Tegra system-on-chip at its heart, Adam is a device the new generation technology user dreams [...]

Myth=My sales people are wasting valuable time on Linkedin when they should be selling, Reality= Social Networking helps in Sales -Top execs say they are influenced by social networks

“My sales people are wasting valuable time on Facebook and Linkedin when they should be selling”: Now thats what most sales managers would say. I know thats true , I have irritated fare share of my managers by using social media to create and close sales and in lead generation. And I continue to do [...]

FDA Webinar Drug Marketing and Advertising Are You Prepared for the Challenges of Social Media?

Since the FDA cracked down on social media marketing and online advertising, drugmakers have been walking on eggshells. A key FDA meeting is scheduled for Nov. 12-13. Read on … Drug Marketing and Advertising Are You Prepared for the Challenges of Social Media? An FDAnews Webinar Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. — 12:30 [...]

Blogging and complying with FDA and other medical device regulations

Blogging and complying with FDA and other medical device regulations – how to safely generate a corporate blog for a medical device company? Given that marketing communications for medical device companies are tightly regulated, I wonder how realistic it is for a medical device company to generate a blog. Would love to hear from anyone [...]

3G Doctor

I am working on the topic (software as a service) SaaS applications in Medical and Healthcare field, so the next few months my focus there. So this week I like to post about 3GDoctor.com a service that allows you to video consult with General Medical Council registered Doctors using a 3G Video Mobile. When you [...]

Physician digital marketing & sales trends webcast

Taking the Pulse® U.S. — Physicians and Emerging Information Technologies, is a syndicated multi-client physician research study and advisory service focused on understanding technology adoption and integration trends among U.S. practicing physicians. Now in its seventh year, the primary objective of the research study is to track which technologies physicians have adopted, how they are [...]

Succeeding at open-source innovation: An interview with Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker and the USD $34 million Indian Government plan for Opensource Drug Development

Benjamin Franklin said “As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.” – Any one listening ! Leaders and veterans in Biotechnology and Health care research industry may not be welcoming [...]

George Bush Sings Glory to Open Source

The truth behind the new bill signed into law by President Bush on 26 December 2007, which states that the findings of NIH-funded research must be made freely available to the public within one year of publication. But all is not Hunky dory , as more obvious once you go through the complete text of [...]

Gmail adds coloured labels

I have blurred the images, but I had access to almost every beta features of gmail, strangely its not my official email that gets these features, but the email I use for receiving newsletters and obviously a lot of spam an average 500 email a day get into my inbox . Though my official email [...]

What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

from the Google Blogoscope. Fun apart I think the new Windows Live Mail (the Outlook style desktop software) is a good tool especially with its Feed Reader features and windows common feed list. Equally good is the Attensa Feed reader

free web-based LIMS (Laboratory Information Management) System and ELN for Science Research

Your Lab Data is a free web-based LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), aimed at a typical small molecular biology laboratory. It allows users to manage their chemicals, fridges, freezers, boxes, strains, plasmids or glycerol’s, oligos / primers and much more. Register

Medicine OnDemand

Move over the TeleMedicine and the usual chutzpah, Yesd Web2.0 is a bubble thats going to burst, but in healthcare field strangled by Insurannce companies, web2.0 is giving a whiff of relief to some people atleast , How!  WebMD ,MayoClinic ,eMedTV are few site that offers to help you through videos, blogs and other channels Officials at the Department of Health [...]

Microsoft Research, HIV, SPAM – MS anti-spam techniques help research HIV vaccines

Ever heard of the Teiresias algorithm, for spam detection developed by Chung-Kwei at IBM – the algorithm was developed in the bioinformatics group of IBM to detect patterns in DNA This algorithm is tested for SPAM detection- discussed in my  my earlier bioinformatics post So you may be wodering whats thats got to do with [...]

Twine is released in Web2.0 summit – the web3.0 application funded by Microsoft founder

Radar Networks announced an invitation-only beta test of its new “semantic web” application, Twine. Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Twine provides a smarter way for people to leverage and contribute to the combined brainpower of their relationships. “We call this ‘knowledge networking,’” said Radar Networks Founder and CEO Nova Spivack. “It’s the next evolution [...]

Microsoft launches Personal Healthcare Intiative -conversation with Peter Neupert VP of Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group about HealthVault

After Google announced the personal genomics and healthcare library intitaitves it is now the turn of Microsoft offering free personal health records on the Web Microsoft announced HealthVault, an online platform where personal electronic health records can be stored. The company’s consumer health offering includes a personal health record, as well as Internet search tailored [...]

Laying with the Lions

The following article is one of the best I just came across which talkes about advantages of better collaboration in pharma companies.   The study and articles are on Act Magazine website  

Growing like IT companies- can Biotech do the magic

Information technologies have significantly contributed to the evolution of work over the last fifty years. At first, IT was primarily applied to automate back office, highly repetitive and fairly standardized tasks, such as financial transactions, payroll, and inventory management. Customer self-service was arguably the commercial killer-app of the Web in the ’90s. Now giving way [...]

Microsoft accelerates free access to journals

Information technology company Microsoft will give technical assistance to enhance access to online research for scientists, thats when most of the publishers of scientific journals are fighting against Open Access journals. Take a look at the blog  on the subject by  Greg at nodalpoint Announced at a meeting in Washington in July Representatives from the [...]

From science to business

It takes upto to 15 years and multimillion  dollar investments  to patent and market one successful drug for pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Trying to make the sure that the scientists receive the best R&D support possible companies have looked at outsourcing and insourcing and everything else. And the new boy in the buzz world is [...]