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For Zotec CEO, health care reform cuts both ways

In the eyes of Scott Law, Congress is heading in exactly the wrong direction on health care reform.

But the
CEO of Zotec Partners predicts a big bump in sales for his physician-billing management company if current reform proposals
become law.

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Quest Information goes after government contracts

Quest Information Systems does the kind of contracting where any screw-ups—even those not necessarily of its own
doing—can bring an unflattering public spotlight. The Indianapolis custom software developer works for politicians
and bureaucrats, a group many businesses seek to avoid.

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Mobile search engine faces test

ChaCha Search, the increasingly popular creation of serial inventor Scott Jones, was bombarded last month
after early reports that Michael Jackson had died.

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ALTOM: Technology moves too fast for law to keep up

Technologists don’t usually give the law a basketful of respect. From our point of view, the law is struggling frantically to stay within a hundred yards of our bleeding edge. By the time the law gets around to speaking on a technical subject, the subject may not even exist anymore.

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Brightpoint’s Danish deal not so sweet two years later

The cross-continent mega deal that made Brightpoint Inc. the world’s biggest wireless phone distributor
has lost much of its sheen two years after being struck. Brightpoint Inc. in August 2007 purchased Denmark-based
Dangaard Telecom for $385 million in stock and the assumption of $350 million in Dangaard debt.

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Whacked $1.9M for downloads

Unbelievable as it sounds, a federal jury in Minnesota ordered a woman to pay $1.92 million for violating
copyrights on 24 songs she illegally shared. Thatâ??s $80,000 per song.

Jammie Thomas-Rasset today asked a judge to knock the penalty…

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Innovation is focus of tech summit

The high holy day of Indiana’s technology industry is getting a new theme this year. The TechPoint Tech Summit will this year be known as the TechPoint Innovation Summit, Sept. 28-29 at the Indiana Convention Center.

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Smart phones and meetings

The days of only the powerful few getting by with tapping their Blackberries during meetings are long gone.

When was the last time you were in a gathering where more people seemed interested in the topic or the
speaker…

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Stitcher is more than just Pandora for news junkies

Stitcher bills itself as “a leading mobile audio company that provides a revolutionary media service which allows audio content to be easily aggregated, organized and shared on mobile devices.” It’s sort of like DVR for radio.

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Are new, low-cost laptops good for business?

Today, there are some small “notebook” machines on the market that mock the high prices of their bigger siblings. These can be had for $200 to $400, and have enough features to make them real business tools if you’re not too demanding.

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Consumers too connected to TV, telephone noise

Why are we so addicted to being “connected?” The cell phone, the BlackBerry, the television, all have “power off” buttons, but maybe that’s itâ??when we turn the power off, does the sense of being disconnected makes us feel less powerful?

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