Stories about: World Health Organization

As you all may know, in July I'll make a big career change. I'm not worried; I believe I'm still marketable. I'm a self-starter, I'm proficient in Microsoft Office. I guess that's it. Also I'm learning how to give money away.

Sony and Codian, both manufacturers of videoconferencing products for IP and ISDN connectivity, today announced a partnership to deliver an end-to-end high definition (HD) solution, which supports existing installations.

For the Pan American Health Organization, advanced conferencing technologies are literally a lifesaver.

Many companies and government agencies are counting on legions of teleworkers to keep their operations running in the event of an influenza pandemic. But those plans may quickly run aground as millions of people turn to the Internet for news and even entertainment, potentially producing a bandwidth-choking surge in online traffic.

Yvonne Parle started working in the technology industry in the 1970s where she was the only female in a data centre in London. Since then, she has played various roles in the banking, insurance, petrochemical, health, resources and education sectors.

I've just seen the most remarkable documentary called "The Corporation", which is based on a book by Joel Bakan called The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.

Spam-filtering technology may soon save millions of lives, thanks to the technology's potential use in developing a vaccine to fight the deadly human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

A revolutionary public health warning system from the Public Health Agency of Canada just got the global recognition it deserves.

Hoping to harness a few million of the personal computers are not already running the SETI@home screen saver, IBM and United Devices on Tuesday launched a new World Community Grid project designed to act as a clearing house for humanitarian computing projects.

IBM Corp. along with two partners announced on Wednesday a global research effort that will focus on developing new drugs to combat the smallpox virus post infection. The project will employ a huge computing grid designed to let up to 2 million users contribute their idle computing resources to the effort.

More sponsored top-level domain (TLD) names are coming to the Internet, but it is unclear how many and how soon, the organization that manages the Internet's domain name space said Sunday.