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Minister questioned about price rises - VietNamNet Bridge


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Minister questioned about price rises
VietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam - 1 hour ago
He admitted his ministrya s responsibility, saying its capability of forecasting market developments and building a retail and distribution network remains ...

Acuo Technologies(R) Announces a Fully Integrated XDS-I Solution

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Acuo Technologies, a market leading provider of comprehensive software solutions to the medical imaging industry for archiving, collaboration and migration services, is pleased to announce a fully integrated Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging (XDS-I) solution

One of the most important trends in healthcare today is the need to share clinical content. Healthcare IT solutions today must further demonstrate agility in dealing with a massive amount of clinical content (growing exponentially), integration of that content across the enterprise and beyond. Healthcare enterprises are demanding standard based solutions for managing and sharing content while increasing the availability of the data and removing downstream migration requirements.

Current healthcare IT solutions typically continue to offer non standard approaches to managing clinical content. Clinical content is often locked up inside proprietary databases, storage systems, or other vendor technology requiring costly point-to-point interfaces to be created each time content needs to be shared or aggregated across the enterprise or outside of the enterprise (such as in a RHIO). Further, medical imaging has the same challenges but also a protocol (DICOM) which is difficult to extend across institutional boundaries.

Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) -- enables a number of healthcare delivery organizations belonging to a clinical affinity domain (e.g. a community of care) to cooperate in the care of a patient by sharing clinical records in the form of documents and images as they proceed with their patients' care delivery activities.

End to End Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS/XDS-I) -- IHE's IT Infrastructure Technical Framework offers the XDS integration profile, including XDS-I for medical imaging, which provides solutions to the problems of sharing clinical content across multiple applications and institutional boundaries.

Acuo's forthcoming release offers full support for XDS-I, if you are interested in how to share clinical records in the form of documents and images within your institution or outside the enterprise, such as a RHIO or IDN, then Acuo Technologies has the solution for you using XDS. "I am very excited about Acuo pioneering the XDS initiative. We feel the IHE frameworks are both strategic and important to the future or the Acuo product suite as they are to the future of the healthcare IT market. We view XDS, and XDS-I for images, as paving the way for a true standards based solution for disparate healthcare institutions and applications to share critical clinical content" stated Jeff Timbrook, CEO.

Acuo Technologies, an image management software company, will be demonstrating DICOM Services Grid(TM) software solutions that manage medical image storage and retrieval and integrate them with existing technology platforms based upon DICOM/HL7/XDS and IHE profiles. The technology demonstration will be held at Acuo Technologies Booth #8075 at the HIMSS annual meeting in Orlando Florida, February 24-28, 2008.

About Acuo Technologies

Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in St. Paul, MN, was founded in 2000 with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative asset management solution for medical DICOM images residing in a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). Its first commercial product received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510-K approval in 2001. Since that time, over 180 medical sites around the world have deployed AcuoMed(R)/AcuoStore(R) software solutions. For more information, visit http://www.acuotech.com/.

DICOM is the registered trademark of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association for its standards publications relating to digital communications of medical information.

Acuo Technologies

CONTACT: Gennevieve Emery, Strategic Marketing Coordinator of Acuo
Technologies, 1-612-804-9067, gemery@acuotech.com

Web site: http://www.acuotech.com/

Fujitsu To Roll Out Underwater TV Viewing Mobile Phone F706i - News Line 365


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Fujitsu To Roll Out Underwater TV Viewing Mobile Phone F706i
News Line 365, India - 15 minutes ago
Once the phone hits the market, your entire phone using restrictions will be vanished! Other key exotic features that are likely to part with the Fujitsu ...

6-1 business briefs - Edmond Sun


6-1 business briefs
Edmond Sun, OK - 1 hour ago
Now, all zoo services will be provided by Cox. Cox Business now provides high-speed Internet, video and telephone services to the park. ...

Atmel Introduces First Ultra-low Power ARM7-based MCU Series With 100nA Power-down Mode ARM7-based 32-bit Flash MCU with Software Programmable Power Switches and Voltage Scaling for Power-constrained Applications

ROUSSET, France, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation announced today a new series of high-performance, ultra-low power ARM7TDMI(R)-based microcontrollers, the AT91SAM7L series, embedding power switches controlling multiple power islands and programmable voltage regulators to reduce power consumption in active and standby modes. There is a rapidly growing demand for more power efficient products that is driven by a market trend towards environmentally friendly, battery operated and portable products like media players, remote controls, weather stations, calculators, toys, control panels, thermostats and hand-held medical devices such as glucose meters, blood pressure meters and fitness monitors. The demand for green products is pushing manufacturers to consider low-power standby modes even on products supplied by the power grid. The individual standby power of audio or TV equipment is small at around 1 or 2 W per unit, but the fact that billions of these are maintained in standby mode, results in a total power consumption of thousands of megawatts.

Active and passive power control techniques. The AT91SAM7L series features innovative power reduction techniques for both active and standby modes. In active mode, the power consumption is optimized via a programmable operating voltage, operating frequency, and peripheral clock activity, and the use of DMA instead of the CPU for data transfers. The SAM7L operates in single supply mode down to 1.8V and consumes 0.5mA/MHz typical in active mode when executing code out of its Flash memory. The power consumption in the different standby modes is controlled via power switches, scalable voltage regulators, and the use of sampling techniques on Voltage Monitors, Power On Reset and Brown Out Detector instead of continuous measurement. This provides a higher level of granularity than is available in competing products, while achieving at least the same levels of power saving. In power down mode, the AT91SAM7L consumes only a typical 100nA, which is believed to be a unique feature for 32-bit MCUs.

Low power modes and fast wake-up. In Power Down mode, only the Fast Wake-up (FWUP) pin is supplied, allowing a system wake-up through a simple push button. This feature can be used to control power on/off in applications such as calculators. In Backup mode, only the supply controller, the zero-power POR and the 32kHz oscillator remain running. The RTC, the 2K backup SRAM, the BOD, the charge pump, the LCD voltage regulator and the LCD Controller can be set on or off separately. This mode can be used when time, context or display need to be saved even if the main application is not running. In Wait mode, the 2MHz RC oscillator provides a rapid wake-up time for fast external event management.

Segment LCD Controller. The AT91SAM7L128/64 embeds LCD features. These include a Segment LCD Controller, built-in drivers and the programmable LCD power supply for contrast control comprising a regulated Charge Pump and an adjustable Voltage Regulator. It is intended for monochrome passive liquid crystal displays (LCD) with up to 10 common terminals and up to 40 segment terminals.

Choice of On-chip Flash and Extensive Peripheral Set. The AT91SAM7L series has two members, the AT91SAM7L128 and the AT91SAM7L64 with respectively 128k Bytes and 64k Bytes of Flash memory. The AT91SAM7L series also integrates a wide range of peripheral functions, including USART, SPI, Timer Counter, RTC and Analog-to- Digital Converters. The AT91SAM7L128/64 System Controller includes a Reset Controller capable of managing the power-on sequence. Correct device operation can be monitored by a built-in Brown Out Detector and a Watchdog Timer running off an integrated oscillator. This complete set of system functions minimizes the number of external components as the chip can run at maximum speed without any external oscillator.

Development Tools and Real-Time Operating System Support. The SAM7L is supplied with a low-cost Starter Kit, the AT91SAM7L-STK, and runs the comprehensive set of application development tools that has been built up over the years for Atmel's ARM(R)-based microcontrollers.

Availability and Pricing. The AT91SAM7L128 and the AT91SAM7L64 are available now; packaged in a 128-pin LQFP package and a 144-pin 10x10mm 0.8mm ball pitch BGA package. Pricing is below US in volumes of 10,000 units.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

(C) 2008 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof, and others, are registered trademarks, or trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. ARM(R), ARM7TDMI(R) and others are registered trademarks or trademarks of ARM Ltd. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information:

Atmel's AT91SAM7L product information may be retrieved at http://www.atmel.com/products/at91/default.asp

Press Contacts: Peter Bishop, Communications Manager, Atmel Rousset Tel: ( 33) (0)4 42 53 61 50, Email: peter.bishop@atmel.com Helen Perlegos, Public Relations Tel: ( 1) 408 487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com

Atmel Corporation

CONTACT: Peter Bishop, Communications Manager of Atmel Rousset,
( 33) (0)4 42 53 61 50, peter.bishop@atmel.com; or Helen Perlegos, Public
Relations of Atmel Corporation, 1-408-487-2963, hperlegos@atmel.com

Web site: http://www.atmel.com/

du To Launch Media Club Website - PC Magazine Middle & Near East


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du To Launch Media Club Website
PC Magazine Middle & Near East, United Arab Emirates - 18 hours ago
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Kenya: Some 865000 Kenyans to own profitable mobile phone firm - Afrique en ligne


Kenya: Some 865000 Kenyans to own profitable mobile phone firm
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Son of iPhone: the next revolution - Times Online


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Son of iPhone: the next revolution
Times Online, UK - 3 hours ago
O2a s current iPhone contracts include all-you-can-surf mobile internet, and free use of around 6000 wi-fi hotspots in the UK. Ita s not clear yet whether O2 ...

Hughes Communications, Inc. to Release Fourth Quarter 2007 Results and Host Webcast on March 3, 2008

GERMANTOWN, Md., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hughes Communications, Inc. (Hughes) will release its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2007 and will host an Internet Webcast and conference call on Monday, March 3, 2008. The discussion will feature remarks by Pradman Kaul, president and CEO and Grant Barber, executive vice president and CFO. Access information for the Webcast and conference call is as follows:

Date: Monday, March 3, 2008 Time: 2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 p.m. PT Webcast: http://www.hughes.com/, go to Investor Relations section for a link Dial-in #: 866-578-5747 International #: 1-617-213-8054 Participant Code: 72325184

Please access the Website approximately 10 minutes prior to the start time in order to download and install any necessary software.

An archived copy of the Webcast of Hughes Communications, Inc. fourth quarter 2007 earnings call will be available on the company's Website at http://www.hughes.com/, investor relations section.

Hughes Communications, Inc. is the 100 percent owner of Hughes Network Systems, LLC. Hughes is the global leader in providing broadband satellite networks and services for enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet(R) encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies. Its broadband satellite products are based on global standards approved by the TIA, ETSI and ITU standards organizations, including IPoS, RSM-A and GMR-1. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 1.5 million systems to customers in over 100 countries.

Hughes Communications, Inc.

CONTACT: Shareholders and analysts, Deepak Dutt, 1-301-428-7010,
ddutt@hns.com, media, Jaclyn Joines, 1-301-601-2672, jjoines@hns.com, both of
Hughes Communications, Inc.

Web site: http://www.hns.com/

Son of iPhone: the next revolution - Times Online


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