Surgeons Twitter During Operation

It’s 7 a.m. at Henry Ford Hospital, and surgeons are preparing to remove a cancerous tumor from a man’s kidney.

It’s potentially a risky surgery, but everything’s ready: The doctors and nurses are in the operating room, the surgical instruments are sterilized and ready to go, and the chief resident is furiously Twittering on his laptop.

That’s right — last week, for the second known time, surgeons Twittered a surgery by using social-networking site Twitter to give short real-time updates about the procedure.

Following the February 9 operation online were other doctors, medical students and the merely curious.

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via: CNN

Windows and Intel: The digital Family Feud

Microsoft and Intel have always had their disputes since 1981 when they teamed up to spark the PC revolution. But most of this took place behind closed doors. These days, though, the ties that bind the two companies are starting to fray more openly. In the past, Grove, Gates, and their companies operated in a business climate very much under their control. With few exceptions, people did their computing on PCs built around this so-called Wintel duopoly. But since PC sales are dropping, users are doing more of their computing on the assortment of mobile devices that require no Wintel.

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via: Businessweek