News tagged with personal digital assistants


New project uses personal digital assistants to track TB data

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it's critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six ...





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Personal digital assistants in space

Personal digital assistants in space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Can tiny and ubiquitous devices like Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) be of use for space applications? The answer is a definite yes. Recent tests have demonstrated current and future uses for PDAs on board ...


Wake-up call: Draft security pub looks at cell phones, PDAs

Technology / Other

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In recent years cell phones and PDAs—"Personal Digital Assistants"—have exploded in power, performance and features. They now often boast expanded memory, cameras, Global Positioning System receivers and the ability to record ...


Rambus settles EU antitrust probe, avoids fines

Technology / Business

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Memory chip company Rambus Inc. said Friday that European Union antitrust regulators had provisionally agreed to drop a probe and any fines if the company reduced its royalty rates for DRAM memory chip patents.


HP, Amazon to sell paperback versions of e-books

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.


iPod users big on content creation

Electronics /

created Oct 24, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

iPod owners are significantly more likely to create and spread consumer-generated media on the Internet, a survey reports.


Meet DNA's personal assistants

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Just as scientists finished sequencing the human genome, they got a new surprise. Inside the genetic pathway, where DNA produces proteins to sustain life, they found microRNA. These tiny ubiquitous molecules have opened a ...


New Jersey Lawmakers May Ban Texting While Driving

Technology / Other

created Mar 27, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New Jersey drivers who insist on sending text messages on their cell phones or personal digital assistants may find themselves on the wrong side of the law if legislators approve a new bill.


Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers

Technology / Software

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5

(AP) -- University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school's three hospitals.


Who are you? Mobile ID devices find out using NIST guidelines

Who are you? Mobile ID devices find out using NIST guidelines

Technology / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices -- Mobile ID -- has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.


Method uses 'Bluetooth' to track travel time for vehicles, pedestrians

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Engineers have created a method that uses pervasive Bluetooth signals from cell phones and other wireless devices to constantly update how long it takes vehicles and pedestrians to travel from one point to another.



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