Ira Wilsker's archive

Microsoft offers ‘Health Vault’ for medical records

For the past few years, I have been using two primary methods for recording personal medical information. One method I have been using to keep track of my personal medical information and records is an 8 gig flash drive attached to my car key chain along with a large, red, aluminum, engraved medic alert logo.

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Browser wars intensify with release of Firefox 5

In last week’s column about Google’s Chrome 12, I mentioned how one prominent computer columnist was publicly chastised for writing about the “recent” release of Firefox 5 while it was still officially in beta (pre-release version). Well, In the brief period between my writing last week’s column and its publication, Firefox did officially release version 5.

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Google raises ante in browser wars with its new Chrome 12

Strong competition is good for the consumer. In the heavily fought browser wars, Firefox 4 has been closing the gap with current industry leader Internet Explorer, partially since the new and improved IE 9 is incompatible with Windows XP while Firefox 4 will run on almost all platforms. Also in the race for browser supremacy is Google, which recently released version 12 of its popular Chrome browser. Chrome has developed a large and loyal following, and many have sworn off (and swear at) Internet Explorer, and to a lesser extent, Firefox.

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