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The first optical pacemaker

According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...

Tags: Heart, Contraction, Laser, Cell, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-29

iPhone Diary Day 13: Keyboard tricks

If iPhone's screen is its most revolutionary feature, then the on-screen, virtual keyboard has to be the most controversial.The keyboard gets plenty of criticism for not working in landscape mode in applications other than Safari and for being difficult to use for people with big thumbs - but I'm sure...

Tags: iPhone, iPhone Diary, Keyboard

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Experimental jet hits Mach 10

Experimental jet hits Mach 10military vs commercialisationMany technologies are borne from military requirements. However with laser technologies in development eg the US ABL programme, I wonder if this is an old world technology now?China also has quite a strong laser weapons program, if you believe many of the reports they...

Tags: Lorentz contraction, Lorentz, Mach 10, contraction

Discussion threads 2007-06-15

Heart Doctor (zip)

Heart Doctor is a complete guide to the management of the ten most common heart problems afflicting man today. Discussions concerning the disease description, orders, diagnosis, and therapeutics are presented in a most concise and comprehensive manner. Designed for physicians and patients, Heart Doctor acts as a quick reference to...

Tags: Patient, Contraction, Heart Doctor

Software downloads 2005-12-29

Contractions Tracker (exe)

If you're planning to give birth in the hospital, make sure that you and your doctor are in agreement about when you want to leave home. You don't want to arrive at the hospital too soon, in the best case you will spend long hours in the hospital room with...

Tags: Hospital, Contraction, Healthcare

Software downloads 2005-10-20

Route Fragility: A Novel Metric for Route Selection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

A key factor deciding the performance of a routing protocol in mobile ad hoc networks is the manner in which it adapts to route changes caused by mobility. Exploiting the intuition that a less dynamic route lasts longer, this paper proposes a new metric, the Route Fragility Coefficient RFC, to...

Tags: Expansion, Route, Mobile, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Contraction, Metric, Route Fragility Coefficient, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

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How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?

The economy is mired in a slowdown, Wall Street allegedly needs a bailout and stocks are on a roller coaster that is mostly headed down. What's less clear is how all of this turmoil is impacting the tech industry and your personal economy. A simple question was...

Tags: Wall Street, Economy, Consulting Client, Deals, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?

Importance of Financial Services to the Consulting & Outsourcing Industry While consultants and systems integrators have some enviable margins, these firms don't always make huge profits as they employ expensive resources who aren't always chargeable. In fact, these firms can be quite vulnerable to minor economic swings...

Tags: Revenue, Consultant, Systems Integrator, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Firm, SiS, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Financial Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Has Dell lost its mind?

Has Dell lost its mind?Dell has lost it's wayAnd Michael isn't the guy to bring it back. Making colorful boxes isn't the way either.Your solution is spot on, but it's too simple! They can't see past the BS like "cloud computing". WTF does that mean to someone who is shopping...

Tags: cloud computing, XP1, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Sometimes it takes a thousand words

Sometimes it takes a thousand wordsA lot more often than "sometimes". NT.Oh, so true......but you need the diagrams...too many people get lost in the words. That being said, adhering too closely to any standard or methodology is a self defeating exercise.BLUE!I can't believe that you were allowed to do...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, parallel, software, real world, Bookkeeper

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

Q1 2008 PC shipments grew 19% in EMEA

According to IDC EMEA, Q1 2008 PC shipments recorded robust 19% growth compared with Q1 2007. Notebooks continued to drive growth across the region with shipments recording an increase of over 43% year on year, while desktops suffered from the market contraction in Western Europe and declined by 1.7%, boosting...

Tags: PC, Shipment, EMEA, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, NB

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...

Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Invincible ignorance and the Pirate's Bay

Invincible ignorance and the Pirate's BayAgree in fullI'll also make the audacious claim that if one really thinks that software/recordings/books should be free, the right thing to do is to follow Richard Stallman's example by producing one's own freely sharable items and encouraging others to do likewise. Pirating copyrighted...

Tags: piracy, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

Open source and the shrinking waterhole

Open source and the shrinking waterhole?????I'm sorry dude, but you lost me. What on Earth are you talking about? I might be dumb, it might be the fact that English is my third language, or some other reason. But I didn't understand the point of your article.This is a tech...

Tags: Development tools, way open source, open source, advertisement, software development, software

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features

Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features"Exploitation is Still Possible...""What’s really important to gather from all of this, is that while Windows has made major improvements to it’s security..."itsObsessive-compuslsive or not, it's "its".--GlennRE: Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security FeaturesVista...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Third-Party Vendor, Exploitation, Problem Here, Still Possible, Third-Parties Neglect, Implement Vista Security Features, Implement Vista, security, Microsoft Corp., exploitation

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

SAP: Business on track; Fourth quarter revenue up 10 percent

SAP provided another data point on the health of the tech economy, outlining that its fourth quarter is on track. On Monday, SAP joined IBM in announcing that the fourth quarter was strong. SAP (all resources, BTL posts) said fourth quarter revenue is expected to be about...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Euro, SAP AG, Software Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-14

OLPC America

OLPC AmericaIlliteracy must be fought...I would be so much more encouraged about the state of education and literacy in America if I didn't find glaring grammatical errors in the first sentence of an article written by a teacher. The possessive of "it" is "its"; "it's" is a contraction of...

Tags: Desktops, desktop, OLPC America, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

Simulating planes flying at Mach 6

Scramjets, or supersonic combustion ramjets, such as the X-51A aircraft being built by Pratt & Whitney and Boeing, should start to fly in 2009. And if everything goes according to plan, missiles flying at Mach 6 could be deployed by 2015. But designing such planes is not so easy. This...

Tags: Purdue University, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-04

An analysis of Apple's notebook strategy

An analysis of Apple's notebook strategyA DockI could imagine an iPod Touch hybrid that would run MacOS X and sync apps and data with a home system, but it's not likely.When it comes down to it, what I really want is a dock. I miss my old Duo. ...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook strategy, Apple Inc., notebook, strategy, analysis

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate goes to MSDN, TechNet testers

Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate goes to MSDN, TechNet testersHaven't even installed SP/2And wouldn't touch SP/3 with a flag pole.Plenty of spyware, rootkits, and DRM without their SP's to update it.Yeah your right.. no tin hatsYeah your right.. no tin hats ... just 5 times longer to figure out...

Tags: Operating systems, SP-3, TechNet tester, Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate, Windows XP SP3, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-03