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August 23, 2008 at 6:28 am
Execs--and of course pharmacists--from more than 150 retailers representing nearly 80,000 stores and $207 billion in drug sales will gather to talk industry trends (what to do about the nationwide shortage of pharmacists?). Do not attend this conference if you are a layman or operating heavy equipment; side effects may include drowsiness.
--KR
August 14, 2008 at 3:05 pm
No matter which country racks up the most medals at the Paralympics, Iceland will be celebrating. It's home to Ossur, the prosthetics titan behind the Cheetah Flex-Foot. Amputee athletes wearing the J-shaped carbon-fiber feet won every sprinting medal in Athens in 2004. Ossur expects another bumper haul in Beijing. About 90% of amputee sprinters in the Paralympics use Cheetahs, including South African runner and defending champ Oscar Pistorius (pictured below), who also competes against able-bodied athletes and successfully fought a ruling by the international track federation that the Cheetahs were performance enhancing. "Ossur is not in the business of enhancement," says CEO Jon Sigurdsson, who argues the athletes are improving prosthetics -- testing technology that will eventually aid nonathletes -- not the other way around. "These athletes are the equivalent of racing drivers for car manufacturers." -- TB
August 7, 2008 at 5:54 am
Think of Linux as your invisible yet ever-present friend. Like God. "There's not a single person in the modern world who doesn't use it," says Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "When you run a Google search, use an ATM, get GPS directions, set your TiVo..." To support this proliferation of Linux-dependent activity, the number of developers has doubled in the past two years. Thousands of these coding geeks will pack the room when Zemlin moderates a panel on two Linux-related trends: the future of mobile computing and demand in the U.S. for cheaper computers. In November Wal-Mart sold out its entire stock of $200 Linux PCs in two weeks.
--EG
