Networking hardware maker Zyxel will integrate its Smart Home Gateway with Entra Health Systems’ wireless glucometer to send blood sugar data to caregivers in real time. – Zyxel Communications, a leading maker of
networking and security hardware for the home and small business markets, has
announced an agreement to integrate its Smart Home Gateway with Entra Health Systems’
MyGlucoHealth Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose meter.
The
companies announced the partner…
With HP’s multicore PCs, Microsoft’s high-performance computing technology and Intel’s Parallel Studio 2011, Massachusetts General has shortened a virtual colonoscopy from 30 minutes to under 4 minutes. – Using technology from HP, Intel and Microsoft,
a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed an
algorithm to make colonoscopies less invasive, faster and less
expensive.
Hiro Yoshida, director of 3D imaging research in
the radiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital …
Thanks to virtualization options and improving application and middleware software, storage capacity, processor performance and cooling apparatuses, new data centers are inherently more efficient. – IT researcher Gartner reported Nov. 18 that most new data centers now being
planned and built will have inherent efficiencies that will enable up to 300
percent growth in storage capacity and use 60 percent less floor space to do
it.
According to consistent reports from eWEEK industry and anal…
Business leaders want to know what value they are getting for the money they spend on IT. But IT has been so busy supporting other departments that it has fallen behind in creating systems that help drive decisions based on ROI and understanding of cost structure. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Sunny Gupta explains how IT can provide cost transparency to business leaders, as well as create lean processes that will enable IT to quickly improve service levels in a time frame that optimizes business value. – There are many lean experts when you look across industries or business functions. We’re all familiar with lean terms such as lean manufacturing, Total Quality Management (TQM), kaizen, Six Sigma and the rest. When you boil these down and apply lean to IT, enterprises are presented with four guiding…
Adobe Systems will activate a new updater tool for its user base when it releases a security update April 13 for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The updater can be set to download security fixes for Windows users without any user interaction.
– Adobe
Systems is enabling a silent updating feature in two products in an effort
to ensure that users are running the most secure versions of the company’s
software.
With the new updater, Windows users can configure Adobe Reader and Acrobat
to automatically download updates without user intera…
The adoption and usage of Enterprise 2.0 applications in the workplace is growing at astronomical rates. While there is ample proof of the business benefits of their use, there continue to be major security and compliance risks associated with them. It is time for IT executives to demonstrate leadership and set smart policies. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Lee Klarich explains how IT executives can smartly and safely enable Enterprise 2.0 applications in their organization.
– Enterprise
2.0 applications have become the poster children of a flat world. They
provide rapid and agile collaboration, sharing and information
integration capabilities never seen before in enterprises. But, unlike
enterprise applications, Enterprise 2.0 applications weren’t born in
the enterp…
Developer Cyanogen has modified Google’s Android 2.1 mobile operating system to endow Google’s Nexus One smartphone with multitouch, which lets users navigate the device with more than one finger at once. The absence of this function has been a source of great consternation for some users, and many speculate the reasons are legal in nature. Some believe Apple has locked down multitouch patents and guards them. Erick Tseng, product manager of Android at Google, attempted to clarify Google’s position when in an interview with Engadget.
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A developer has modified Google’s Android 2.1 mobile
operating system to endow
Google’s Nexus One smartphone with multitouch, which lets users navigate the device with more than one finger at once.
Wired found out that Steve Kondik, whose
developer handle is Cyanogen, Jan. 21 relea…
State Secretary in the German Foreign Minister Werner Hoyer said that the climate must be created for making it easier for Belgrade to solve the Kosovo problem. Hoyer said in an interview with Deutsche Welle that Belgrade, Priština and Russia will have an influence on the solving of the Kosovo question, but that Russia and the international community will cooperation through the framework of the OSCE.
Bluetooth is very easy and hassle free way of data trasnfer among bluetooth enabled devices. If you have an iPhone and want to use bluetooth for data transfer, makes sure bluetooth option is turned ON. After the data transfer, it is recommended to turn OFF the bluetooth option on iPhone.
Turn ON / OFF Bluetooth on iPhone
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NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 23, 2009 – Today at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, Cisco, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., the government of Kenya and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a joint commitment to improve education in Kenya.
