California To Launch Online Drug Database

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has introduced a plan to create an online prescription drug database so that doctors and pharmacies can reduce prescription drug abuse."Every year thousands of doctors try to check their patient's prescription history information but California's current database is difficult to access," Brown said."If California puts this information online, with real-time access, it will give authorized doctors and pharmacies the technology…

Yahoo Responds To Corporate Raider

Yahoo did not take kindly to Carl Icahn's lambasting of its employee in-case-of-Microsoft-acquisition escape hatch. In a letter addressed "Dear Carl," Yahoo's board chairman Roy Bostock, heavy on the dubious adverbs, told Icahn what he could do with his criticism.

Why Can’t a Directory Be a Directory?

Web directories don't exactly have the reputation of being helpful resources for finding information. Most have become endless pits of links, and wading through them to find anything useful is next to impossible. Then there are the human-edited ones that tend to be more useful, but are aimed more at the submitter promoting their business than they really are towards the user who is there…