Medical

A thorough searching of virtual world Second Life shows it is already being used for health-related activities. Women are taught how to do mammograms on themselves and transgendered individuals have a support group centre that is always open. The accessibility and anonymity of virtual worlds have health researchers taking a closer look at what benefits they could offer.

A new collaborative site created for the Victoria Order of Nurses connects around 3 million caregivers across Canada who use VONs services.

A report from IDC Canada highlights 10 small companies that provide amazing healthcare offerings. The products

At first blush, this statement (by a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation) may sound far-fetched. After reading this article, though, see if you feel the same way.

A hacker has made a $10 million ransom demand to provide the password for access to more than 8 million patient records and 35 million prescriptions that he reportedly stole from the Virginia DHP Prescription Monitoring Program site, according to Whistleblower Web site Wikileaks.org. The alleged ransom note claimed the hacker had backed up and encrypted the patient records and prescriptions and then deleted the original data.

Indian security researchers who demonstrated a Windows 7 hi-jack method at a Dubai conference have made their code available to the public. Dell may be considering using Android for a netbook.

Telus is tapping Microsoft's HealthVault Web portal to bring a novel electronic health records management system to Canadians. It promises to give users control over their health information and who its shared with.

A laid off systems administrator has pleaded guilty to cyber extortion in a U.S. court on Monday. As part of a plea agreement, Viktor Savtyrev admitted he tried to extort an undisclosed amount of money and forcibly secure good job references from a New York-based mutual fund company that had just laid him off. rn

Employee surveillance has been on corporate radar screens for a long time, but the recession has magnified the problem. With laid off employees dragging sensitive data away with them, or worse, many companies are keeping closer watch. One survey finds that six out of 10 workers leaving a job will steal company data.

Each year in Ontario, thousands of large animals are hit by vehicles driving on the paved roads that intersect their wildlife habitat. The Toronto Zoo wanted to raise awareness of the ecological damage of road kill among children, and has chosen a video game kiosk designed by George Brown College to help do it.

The Ontario Legislature has just passed a law banning use of handheld devices to talk, e-mail or send text messages. Expected to go into effect this Fall, the law allows hands-free use of such devices. Both Motorola and Nokia expect this will boost Bluetooth headset sales.

Earlier this month, Julissa Brickman, a gorgeous model who doubled as an Internet masseuse was brutally murdered at a hotel in Boston. Now digital forensics has helped investigators track down the man who may be the killer.

Viigo, a mobile phone app from a Toronto developer is the most downloaded application thus far on BlackBerry App World. It's broken all previous records for the popular mobile news reader.

The Secure Data Connector -- released earlier this week -- allows data behind a company firewall to be securely accessed by Google.

Fifteen employees at a Kaiser Permanente hospital have been let go and eight others reprimanded for improperly accessing the personal medical records of Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January.