http://www.thetechupdates.com Latest Technology Discussions, Gadgets, Hardware & Software Reviews Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:36:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.thetechupdates.com/156/keass-adam-bosworth-speaks-about-new-health-care-start-up/ http://www.thetechupdates.com/156/keass-adam-bosworth-speaks-about-new-health-care-start-up/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:36:08 +0000 admin http://thetechupdates.com/news/keass-adam-bosworth-speaks-about-new-health-care-start-up/ The former head of Google Health, Adam Bosworth, officially unveiled his much anticipated health-care start-up today at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, showing off a site that will offer step-by-step and personalized “care plans,” as well as many kinds of online tools to better understand the data and tips on how to stay [...] No related posts. 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That would be Apple (AAPL), of course, with a big dollop of Twitter and Facebook tossed in, [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://www.thetechupdates.com/219/clutter-free-twittified-binged-and-also-apple-icious-the-new-msn-homepage-debuts-plus-screenshots-and-the-press-release/feed/ 0 http://www.thetechupdates.com/157/twitter-talking-separately-to-microsoft-and-google-about-big-data-mining-deals/ http://www.thetechupdates.com/157/twitter-talking-separately-to-microsoft-and-google-about-big-data-mining-deals/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:34:32 +0000 admin http://thetechupdates.com/news/twitter-talking-separately-to-microsoft-and-google-about-big-data-mining-deals/ Is there gold in them thar tweets? Maybe so, because–according to sources familiar with the situation–Twitter is in advanced talks with Microsoft and Google separately about striking data-mining deals, in which the companies would license a full feed from the microblogging service that could then be integrated into the results of their competing search engines. [...] No related posts. 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