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Breakthrough devices for autistic students

For children who suffer from autism and other neurological disorders that make it difficult to speak, there is a new technological development they may facilitate better communication, reports The Mercury News. The LinkPLUS keyboard is part of a series of augmentative and alternative communication devices that were developed for...

Tags: autism, Education Technology, Developmental issues

Blog posts 2006-12-15

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Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?

Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?Microsoft spend too much on R&D for the return, IBM spend right amountIBM has always been a set of collective businesses with a management that is without technology bias. This is a powerful formula for long term success.Microsoft by comparison...

Tags: Research & Development, R&D, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Don't even imagine the oil age is over

A new report by the U.S. Interior Department gives great support to those who say, "Drill, baby, drill." The report shows how little we really know about how much oil is, or isn't, under the oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. mainland. That would be the Atlantic,...

Tags: U.S., Coast, Energy, Wind Energy, Offshore Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-03

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panic

A bureaucrat says study vaccines and mercury so panicWhere to start?[i]Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose study, trumpeted on 1,000 Web sites, claimed the preservative in MMR (Mumps, Measles and Rubella) vaccines given to infants contains mercury which causes autism.[/i]Wakefield never claimed that preservatives in MMR caused autism; this may be due...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, mercury, MMR, autism

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Should we be teaching "productive IM"?

Should we be teaching "productive IM"?Don't teach it......but certainly don't discourage it. Kids seem to constantly come up with ways to compress the human language. Once you start teaching this they will stop thinking and just do whatever it is you tell them.However some people need to come off their...

Tags: Instant messaging, IM

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Women (Npwomens) (Mobile)

Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Womenpowered by Skyscape Publisher: F.A. Davis Company An enlightening clinical reference for students and clinicians working in women''s health. It focuses on the most commonly seen disorders and conditions of adult women, including those that occur pre- and post-partum; signs and symptoms, including...

Tags: Women, Mobile, Pregnancy, Complication, Skyscape Inc., Gender And Diversity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-05-29

What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?

What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?Well done Chinafor joining the EU and the US on the anti-trust front. Now I've got a feeling that they'll be more like the EU, in actually using the anti-trust regulations, than the US, who can't because Penelope and Rupert don't allow it.Will China...

Tags: Investment, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Worth, Alibaba, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-28

Your Classmate PC questions answered

I spent my first full day with a Classmate at school and I have to admit that I was impressed, both by its general usability, as well as the positive responses from students and teachers. Harder performance numbers will be coming this weekend, but for now, I'd like to...

Tags: Teacher, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Windows Machine, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Women, 2nd Ed (NpWomens™) (Mobile)

Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioners Working with Womenpowered by Skyscape Publisher: F.A. Davis Company An enlightening clinical reference for students and clinicians working in women's health. It focuses on the most commonly seen disorders and conditions of adult women, including those that occur pre- and post-partum; signs and symptoms, including...

Tags: Women, Mobile, Pregnancy, Complication, Skyscape Inc., Gender And Diversity, Human Resources

Software downloads 2007-09-06

The benefits of patents

The benefits of patentsOf course Stallman is anti-businessThe guy's a freakin' Marxist. Just listen to him rant for five minutes.Patents are essential for the progress of invention. The issue is not patents, but patenting things that are obvious to anyone in the field or that could easily be deduced. This...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, benefit, elaboration, software, patent

Discussion threads 2005-06-21

Researcher tests open source

Researcher tests open sourcehy Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!David Wheeler has a long running article collecting studies from academia and industry which have analyzed opens source development.Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why[i]This paper provides quantitative data that, in...

Tags: Operating systems, David Wheeler, OSS, OSS/FS, software, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2004-01-05

Red Hat Linux nears security clearance

Red Hat Linux nears security clearancetypo?"Besides Windows 2000, Sun Microsystems' Solaris, IBM's AIX and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, all have the higher EAL 4 certification."-i know that win2k is probably the best m$ ever produced, but is it really at the eal4 level? i can't believe it is up there with Solaris,...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Linux, Domain registry site, Microsoft Windows 2000, security, Red Hat Inc., Linux, certification, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2003-12-03