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Constanze Kurz, Debora Weber-Wulff
Herbert, a recently retired data center employee, is waiting impatiently for the letter carrier. Four days ago, he ordered a new laptop from a major mail-order company. Normally, it would only take two or three days for the product to be delivered; Herbert has used the company many times before. After […]
David Zellhöfer, Debora Weber-Wulff
Hans was running a study on the effects of using a well-known anticonvulsant for the treatment of a geriatric condition. He had been able to get 57 patients with various stages of the condition from diverse senior citizen’s homes around the area to participate in the study.
He had […]
Constanze Kurz, Stefan Ullrich
The new startup company “Loose sCrew” specializes in Android apps—small programs for cell phones that make extensive use of the smartphones’ built-in location functions. The company achieved some degree of recognition in its hometown for its citywide scavenger hunt and other virtual terrain games for cell phone users. Its latest product […]
Stefan Ullrich, Constanze Kurz
Chris was in desperate need of money, and answered on online ad for a call center. It was an interesting job, and she didn’t even have to drive to work, she could do the work from home using her own computer. The company paid her a flat-rate for Internet […]
Debora Weber-Wulff
[A real case]
A company was started in Iceland in 1996 and was working on determining genetic markers for specific diseases. When the human genome was sequenced in 2003 the company began storing the data for all of the inhabitants of Iceland.
There are only 300.000 inhabitants and they are quite […]
Debora Weber-Wulff
Personal Health Records are all the rage. Do you remember what X-rays you have had or the names of the medicines that you regularly use? What were your blood cholesterol levels last year?
The company Health & More offers a personal online health record that provides a complete and accurate summary […]
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