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Archive for February 19th, 2006

Nanoradio Announces NRX700: New Low Power WLAN Chip

Nanoradio AB is a new Swedish semiconductor supplier founded
in March 2004. They just announced a very low power 20 mm square Wi-Fi chip supporting 802.11b/g. Their target is the cellular handset and consumer
electronics market, but this might make a nice chip for a medical device component radio.
The NRX700 is a two chip solution comprising a […]


Sony Releases Medical Grade LCD Display

For years, Sony has tweaked existing products to provide “medical grade” products for health care. The lastest example is a medical grade display, with lots of bells and whistles.
The LMD-1950MD has been designed without air vents to prevent foreign
matter from entering or exiting the unit to ensure that internal debris
cannot contaminate the sterile environment. The […]


Mediware Cuts 10 Percent of Staff

Cluster software vendor Mediware announced last Friday (the day after HIMSS) that their workforce would be reduced by 20 employees.

Before the cuts, the company (Nasdaq: MEDW) employed about 200 people,
including about 80 at its Lenexa headquarters. The filing did not
specify whether any cuts would come in the Lenexa site.

According to the filing, the […]


2006 Virus and Spam Activity Starts with a Bang

The week before HIMSS I was at a client site when I got hit with an email virus. A thoughtful gentleman with a new market research report was sure I'd be interested in his email and attachments - totaling 1 MB. I received 135 of his missives the first day. I've received echos of this […]


FCC Beefs Up 802.11a with 11 New Channels

The FCC has added 255 megahertz of bandwidth, divided into 11 channels, to the 5 GHz 802.11a ISM band.

The new rules went into effect Jan. 20, and allow the use of 5.47 to
5.725 GHz—11 channels in the 802.11a version of Wi-Fi—with a couple of
key signal usage modifiers. The rule also changes the requirements for
the […]


The Mobile Health Care Workforce and Avaya at HIMSS 06

Health care is the largest segment of the U.S. economy, yet when it comes to IT infrastructure health care usually gets warmed-over industrial and corporate solutions. You'd think a vertical market as large as health care would get solutions better tailored to its needs. The situation is so bad that a company like Vocera can […]


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