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Photos: Training for WMD terrorist attacks

Firefighters don hazmat suits in exercise to prepare for major attacks involving chemical weapons, other biohazards. by CNET News.com

Tags: Firefighter, Training, Photograph, Terrorist Attack, Corporate Insurance, Business Security, Homeland Security, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Government, Human Resources, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-08-18

New satellite navigation system may save firefighters

New satellite navigation system may save firefightersre; New satellite navigation system may save firefightersis it big enuf to be used as a shield against bricks ?

Tags: satellite navigation system, firefighter

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

Access to Critical Information in Real Time Helps Firefighters Save Time and Lives

South Wales Fire and Rescue, one of the largest fire services in the United Kingdom, responds to about 60,000 emergency calls a year. Firefighters rely on detailed information to prepare fully for emergency situations, but, until recently, much of this data was paper based. The service worked with Microsoft Gold...

Tags: Firefighter, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Microsoft Windows 2000, Web Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2007-05-08

Jr. Firefighter (exe)

This game gives kids a fun way to experience being a firefighter. Kids go through a burning hospital and help rescue fun animals like dogs, horses, pandas, tigers, giraffes, and elephants.

Tags: Firefighter, Healthcare, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-06-22

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Can assistive technology save computing?

Computing is becoming an old man's game. (Picture from the University of Buffalo. Go Bulls.) Last year just 8,000 people graduated with computing majors, nationwide, the lowest figure in years. Can assistive technology turn that around? Michael Buckley at the University of Buffalo thinks...

Tags: Computing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Wheel of EMS (exe)

Whether a Firefighter or EMT you will need to know the language of the world of EMS. This game will teach you the terminology and meanings of words used all while havig fun. Spin your way to success in an exciting and rewarding career. This version is the first release...

Tags: Terminology, Professional Development, Games, Career, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-01-17

Robots to control oil drilling platforms

In 2015, and if everything goes well, oil drilling platforms located offshore Norway will be controlled by robots. Even today, these platforms don't use many people. But the idea behind the new platform concept is to install large modular process sections in unmanned areas to allow access by one or...

Tags: Platform, Robot, SINTEF, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-25

Today's Debate: Are online medical record databases good or bad?

Today's Debate: Are online medical record databases good or bad?What you're missing[i]But you tell me what I’m missing.[/i]What you're missing is that you and I have as much say in the matter as we do about the orbit of Saturn.RE: Today's Debate: Are online medical record databases good or bad?When...

Tags: online medical record database, medical record database, medical record

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

eBay to the rescue

Looking for "it"? eBay’s advertising pitch is "Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay.”Even snow. Snow balls, that is.New York City is the Big Apple, but no snow has fallen on the Apple so far this winter.I am not complaining, and I haven’t heard my fellow New Yorkers...

Tags: Local, Search, Culture, eBay, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, ecommerce, snow, Hansen, Mary Walker

Blog posts 2007-01-19

Combustible cell phone burns California man

Combustible cell phone burns California manNot releasing the name of the cel phone? What is the justificaiton for it?Hmm ... don't you suppose people who own that brand of phone want and need to know this? It is negligence and the height of arrogance to suppress this information, when...

Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, battery, cell phone, malfunction

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

Xerox Europe Automates Governance and Internal Controls, Reduces Administrative Effort at Support Desk by 89%

Xerox Corporation helps businesses deploy smarter document management strategies and find better ways to work. That's what Xerox Europe is doing itself around corporate governance - working smarter so it can keep its focus on the business. The company turned to SAP software - the Virsa Compliance Calibrator application, the...

Tags: Xerox Corp., SAP AG, Xerox Europe, Virsa Compliance Calibrator, Corporate Governance, Document Management, Content Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Case studies 2007-01-01

Anna Konda, the robotic firefighter

In fact, Anna Konda is a robotic fire hose moving like a snake. This robot, which has been developed in Norway by SINTEF, is 3 m long and weighs 70 kg. The snake contains 20 water hydraulic motors that move the robotic joints. And the energy needed to power these...

Tags: joint, snake, Anna Konda, SINTEF

Blog posts 2006-07-22

VC Tim Draper: SOX ruined our business

During an OnHollywood panel on exit strategies for private companies, mega-venture capitalist Tim Draper said that Sarbannes-Oxley is making it more difficult for startups to go public. "SOX has made it so a company can't go public with $20 million in revenue. SOX costs $3 milion a year. Entrepreneurs who...

Tags: Tim Draper, Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Blog posts 2006-05-04

Can you say 'offshore' anymore?

Can you say 'offshore' anymore?Who cares what they call it..It needs to stop.Human Family?Technology has effectively erased bondaries between nations. We are now a global community, and a global economy (even though the "have's" would rather forget about the "have not's"). If there are willing and able workers that can...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, NOW HERE, job, offshore, information technology

Discussion threads 2004-09-24

Report on Sept. 11 finds home on Net

Report on Sept. 11 finds home on Net9/11 coverupWhy was WTC buildings rigged with explosives on September 11th? And why did the owner of the Trade Center complex, Larry Silverstein, personally give the go ahead to "pull" (read: demolish) those two buildings? It takes some time to rig a building...

Tags: steel, wreckage, fighter jet, Andrews Air Force Base, More Evidence, Sept. 11

Discussion threads 2004-07-22