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Very interesting article late last week in the Wall Street Journal that covers United Healthcare’s plans to overhaul its fees for medical providers. If you’re a healthcare junkie like I am, and represent companies throughout the healthcare industry, you’ve been watching with interest new plan ideas that are being introduced as part of healthcare reform.

Last week, the world literally shook. Virginia’s earthquake was felt up here at PAN’s Boston office. Then Steve Jobs resigned. Irene hit and Beyoncé announced she’s expecting. The Twitterverse set off records. When the earthquake hit as well as Beyonce’s news, I went to Twitter first to confirm. Was that really an earthquake? The tweets didn’t stop. Is Beyoncé pregnant? Again, the Twitter stream was constantly giving updates and yes, I agreed with most comments surrounding Lady Gaga’s VMA appearance and performance. To keep up with Irene, again we looked to Twitter. Why wasn't this the case for Facebook?

January 27, 2010: the day we were all refreshing the Wall Street Journal Digits blog for live updates of Apple’s “big” product announcement. There had been speculations of what it might be and what it would be named. Either way, the iPad hype was HUGE. At first people weren’t entirely confident in the benefits the tablet would have for consumer or enterprise use. A few months after the product announcement, The Huffington Post even compiled a list of “9 reasons NOT to buy an iPad.” Despite doubts, the iPad exceeded expectations, as Fortune reports it moved 15 million units in 2010, the most of any tablet device ever.

Flash forward to March 2, 2011, and already the iPad 2 has been released. Every technology publication and blog was on top of it. And while the hype may not have been as immense, rumors flooded the media during the days and months leading up to Steve Jobs’ announcement. Glad we could count on the Digits blog once again for live updates, along with other reliable tech sites PCMag.com and GigaOm.