There will come a day in the not-so-distant future when physicians take a back seat in healthcare, and where patients will have the mobile tools to diagnose, and in some cases, treat themselves. That was the summation of a keynote speech ...
Tags: Mobile, Computer Products, Computer
IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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Here at an IBM conference, City of Boston CIO Bill Oates was telling the audience how citizens are using apps to improve city operations. But it was one of Boston's latest apps, called Street Bump, that got the interest of one attendee, ...
Tags: IBM, Computer Products, Computer
Portsmouth City Council has managed to successfully upgrade the lighting in the iconic Portsmouth Guildhall theatre. Not only that, but the new design has managed to accommodate the wide range of uses that the building enjoys, utilising ...
Tags: lighting project, lighting, LED lighting
A quartet of low-cost but feature-packed gadgets to make life that little bit more exciting. ASUS MEMOPAD ($199) ASUS's new ultra-cheap yet feature-packed 7-inch Android tablet has a 1024x600 pixel, 10-point multi-touch LED-backlit ...
Tags: Android tablet, home networks, SMART Camera
News Corporation has taken the wraps off its new tablet computer for the school market, saying the device would use "digital innovation to transform teaching and learning". Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate showed the Amplify device at ...
Tags: tablet computer, screen tablet, Android operating system
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), is to collaborate with Murata Manufacturing Company on a multisource arrangement for ...
Tags: Peregrine, RF switches, Semiconductor
Looking to turn a plain-Jane television into an Internet TV? The new Roku 3 flagship streamer ($100) has an updated user interface that should make finding movies and TV shows easier, plus a new motion-sensing remote control with a built-in ...
Tags: television, Internet TV, Roku
Monitoring and measurement through ingestible, implanted, and body-worn wireless sensors can improve healthcare, and if those sensors can support continuous data streaming, more real-time information will be available for analysis. ...
Tags: wireless sensor, healthcare, data streaming
Siemens Canada says its traffic technologies will be more widely available to customers in Eastern Canada by way of a deal signed with Electromega Ltd., a Quebec-based Canadian player in the sale and distribution of specialized products and ...
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. The White House on Monday agreed with petitioners who asked the Library of ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun a test run of a Google database of unused spectrum in the television bands that's available for wireless broadband. The FCC on Monday kicked off a 45-day trial of Google's so-called ...
Tags: television bands, wireless broadband, FCC
South London-based technical solutions provider Presentation Rentals (PR) supplied lighting, audio, projection and crew to the British Film Museum for the 2013 Evening Standard British Film Awards. Staged in the Debating Chamber of London ...
Tags: PR Production, Evening Standard Awards, technical solutions
Green Throttle Games, creator of the Atlas wireless game controller, developer of the Arena app and publisher of mobile games, announced today consumer availability of the Atlas Controller and Green Throttle Arena app (Kindle Fire HD ...
Green Throttle Games, creator of the Atlas wireless game controller, developer of the Arena app and publisher of mobile games, announced today consumer availability of the Atlas Controller and Green Throttle Arena app (Kindle Fire HD ...