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- VIVO
- Video In Video Out Refers to a display adapter with analog video capture and analog video out NTSC out capabilities. See display adapter.
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- Catapulting to Success: The Story of MMS at VIVO
- A joint venture of Telefonica and Portugal Telecom, VIVO is the southern hemisphere's largest mobile operator, and it ranks among the ten largest operators in the world. VIVO's need was to get as many MMS-enabled handsets as possible into the hands of users, and to get a high percentage of...
- Tags: MMS, Comverse Technology Inc., Handset, VIVO, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications
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- Vivo Reduces Costs and Accelerates Processes With the Adoption of Intel Processor-Based Platform
- The need to remain competitive and reduce operating costs encouraged Vivo, one of the largest mobile telephone service providers in Latin America, to implement a platform able to unify the technology platform of its six regional carriers. With focus on improved customer service, the company bet on Intel technology. Vivo...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Vivo, Processors, Linux, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software
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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
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- A new robotic tasting device
- According to the latest American Chemical Society ACS Weekly PressPac, French researchers have developed an artificial mouth that chews apples like you and me. Here is a link to this PressPac, from which you'll be able to read a very short note titled 'Munch-o-matic: Scientists develop the artificial mouth.' The...
- Tags: Food, Compound, Hre, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- A 100-million-year dragon killer
- Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...
- Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- A new strategy to fight HIV and AIDS
- An international team of researchers has developed a novel strategy against HIV. They added two genes to immune cells which 'transformed them into potent weapons that destroy cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.' This idea of 'genetically engineering immune cells to redirect their infection-fighting ability toward killing...
- Tags: Strategy, Researcher, Cell, HIV, HIV-infected, CTL, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Using arsenic to detect cancers?
- An international team led by Texan researchers is using arsenic as a powerful tumor imaging agent. In fact, they are using a drug called bavituximab, 'an antibody that homes in on a specific molecular target on the blood vessels that feed tumors.' By linking this drug to very small doses...
- Tags: Rat, Combination, Technique, Imaging, Blood Vessel, Document Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Using bacteria as medical robots
- Does the idea of turning bacteria into cancer-fighting robots sound like science fiction? Maybe today, but not in a near future. A researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a four-year grant of more than $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the feasibility of...
- Tags: Mouse, Forbes, Bacteria, Salmonella, Mice, Robots, Hardware, Peripherals, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- A web blanket for weak hearts
- Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have developed a new device which could put the beat back into weak hearts and free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs. Current implanted heart assistive devices 'function by sucking blood from the ventricles and then expelling it into downstream...
- Tags: Heart, Web, Device, Channel Management, Productivity, Web Site Development, Healthcare, Marketing, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Cheap laptops are great, but sometimes you need horsepower
- Cheap laptops are great, but sometimes you need horsepowerUtility Computing...Seems that Cloud Computing is coming along at the right time to meet on-demand processing intensive needs and Thin Clients haven't looked better in terms of lower power consumption.Traditional IT departmental processing will eventually merge with Utility Cloud Computing attracted by...
- Tags: Notebooks, hardware part, horsepower, Cheap Laptop, school server, laptop computer, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Nanorobots for drug delivery?
- The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...
- Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-08
- Verizon iPhone WILL be here within a year or so: here's why
- Verizon iPhone WILL be here within a year or so: here's why"it will tire both Apple and AT&T out" - nahAT&T may get tired out... but Apple have a long history of persisting beyond the point of economic rationality.RE: Verizon iPhone WILL be here within a year or so: here's...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Verizon Communications Inc., CDMA, Verizon iPhone, Apple Inc., phone, GSM, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- How lasers cut flesh
- Lasers might be at the cutting edge of surgery, but scientists still don't know much about how laser lights interact with living tissue. Now, researchers at Vanderbilt University have investigated how ultraviolet lasers are cutting living tissues. As you could have guessed, 'the effect that powerful lasers have on actual...
- Tags: Plasma, Laser, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- Testing cancer with FISH on a chip
- In this case, FISH is an acronym for 'fluorescent in situ hybridization.' This is a complex, costly and time-consuming test that detects mutations in chromosomes for a number of different types of cancer. But now, researchers from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, have found a way to build...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Three motherboards for Intel and AMD CPUs: June 2007
- It's June 2007 and we have a whole new generation of motherboards for AMD and Intel. If you're looking to buy or build a new computer, you'll want to read on. See more images of these motherboards at higher resolution.Intel 3-Series ChipsetIntel launched a new set of motherboard chipsets called...
- Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Cancer therapy without side-effects?
- Most of you know at least one person who has been affected by cancer and treated by chemotherapy, suffering from side-effects such as hair loss or nausea. This is because chemotherapy attacks both healthy and unhealthy cells in the whole body. Now, Australian researchers are using nanotechnology to offer chemotherapy...
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- A tale of two handheld players: RIM vs. Palm
- This a tale of two well-known handheld device makers--Research in Motion and Palm--and their standing in the market. Both companies had investor powwows this week. Palm held an analyst meeting and RIM reported strong earnings.The biggest difference between the two? One, RIM, knows where its going and is...
- Tags: Research In Motion, Personal Technology, Palm, Mobile, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- An autonomous anti-cancer drug
- As you probably know, researchers have been working for a while to find more efficient ways to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to their targets. But instead of finding a new drug carrier, why not focusing on a drug that knows its path to the target and which delivers itself to...
- Tags: HPPH, cell
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- QuIET molecular transistors
- Physicists from the University of Arizona think they've found a way to use single molecules as working transistors. As traditional transistors will not shrink much smaller than 25 nanometers, they thought about making transistors as small as a nanometer by looking at quantum mechanics and using benzene, a ring-like molecule....
- Tags: transistor
- Blog posts 2006-08-31
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