Known as the leading manufacturer of computer chips, it was only a matter of time before Intel set its sights on the mobile technology industry. The company has recently agreed to purchase the wireless chip division of Infineon Technologies AG, a German semiconductor and system solutions provider. At a whopping price of $1.4 billion, the [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on September 9th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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With China’s plans to spend billions on healthcare reform, a great deal of financial resources have been set aside to go into technological upgrades. Because of this, companies such as Dell Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have been working to secure the market potential from this development.
Managing medical data has proven to [...]
Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News, Technology on September 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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As a way of keeping up with the times and maintaining more efficient student administration, colleges and universities across the United States have decided to create their own tailored social networking sites, with the help of a couple of tech-savvy startups.
Having an official fan page on Facebook is great for creating a niche for students, [...]
Chemotherapy has been proven an effective treatment for cancer. It is able to suppress the spread of cancer cells throughout a patient’s body by targeting and killing cells that divide rapidly. Unfortunately, the treatment also affects cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances, such as cells in the digestive tract, bone marrow and hair follicles. [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on September 2nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are used to power a great number of gadgets. From digital cameras to cars, the ion storage packs are praised for their efficient energy dispensation and slow loss of charge when not in use. Now, they can be made more efficient, and affordable according to research from the US Department of [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 26th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The latest contribution towards the development of clean energy was unveiled in Scotland earlier in the month. Weighing 1430 tons and sizing up at nearly 75 feet tall, the AK1000 is described as the largest tidal power turbine. Its developer, the Atlantis Resources Corporation, says that the device’s 60 foot rotors can generate one megawatt [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 25th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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A recent report from the American Red Cross, named Social Media in Disasters and Emergencies, finds that in the event of a large-scale emergency, such as the onset of a natural disaster or an accident, one in five web users would try to contact an emergency responder through digital media channels.
From July 22 to 23, [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology on August 24th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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There are few who pay particular attention to the alarm clock in their hotel room. Those who do may find a nifty innovation in the rectangular timepiece. Nearly 40% of the 4.9 million hotel rooms in the United States have an iHome propped up on the bedside table. Looking a lot like the conventional hotel [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 18th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Commonly observed in laboratories, spherical fullerenes or buckyballs recently made their first appearance to man in space through NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Spectrograph.
Buckyballs are carbon molecules known for their distinct soccer ball shape. According to astronomer Jan Cami, the fullerenes are the largest molecules to be observed in space. The discovery has roused [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 17th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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In Israel, a scientific team led by Prof. Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute has developed a device which makes use of sniff-sensing to allow the severely disabled to communicate and even steer their wheelchair. The device works by sensing changes in air pressure in the nostrils which translates these into electrical signals for writing [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on August 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.