News tagged with computer equipment


State govs saying 'No thanks' to mystery laptops

Technology / Other

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Even during tight budgetary times, a growing handful of state governors are proving too wary to accept laptop computers that have shown up at their offices this month, unsolicited.


Computer-related injuries on the rise

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While back pain, blurred vision and mouse-related injuries are now well-documented hazards of long-term computer use, the number of acute injuries connected to computers is rising rapidly. According to a study published in ...





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Keyboards and mice can harbor hospital infections

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although hospital computer equipment can act as a reservoir for pathogenic organisms, including MRSA, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases found that bacterial contamination rates from c ...


Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment

Prototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Johns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower-cubicle-shaped device ...


Computer model improves ultrasound image

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Doctors use diagnostic sonography or ultrasound to visualise organs and other internal structures of the human body. Dutch researcher Koos Huijssen has developed a computer model that can predict the sound transmission of ...


Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML  announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales

'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions.


Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Milling and drilling in cyberspace

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Machinists, NC programmers or mechatronics engineers -- trainees in engineering jobs often have to master complex equipment. In the future, trainees will practice and learn milling, turning, drilling and programming ...


New Southampton clean room to push the boundaries of technology

Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The University of Southampton’s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry ...


Cisco expands again, buying Starent for $2.9B (AP)

Cisco expands again, buying Starent for $2.9B

Technology / Business

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Betting on the growing popularity of data-hungry phones like the iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc. said Tuesday it had agreed to pay $2.9 billion for Starent Networks Corp., a maker of equipment for wireless ...


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Delayed spacewalk ends successfully

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two international space station crew members wrapped up a successful spacewalk Friday, the first since the size of the station's crew expanded from three to six last month.


'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML on Wednesday announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions.


PC program may help teach new surgeons

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New computer game technology can help educate otolaryngology medical students who don't have any anatomical knowledge or surgical experience, according to new research presented at the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology ...



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