28 July 2013

Doctors inept at tech?

About one-fourth of operating room errors are caused by technology and equipment problems, but a preoperative surgical checklist could halve the error rate, a new study says (source infra)--

Technology Mishaps Behind 1 in 4 Operating Room Errors: Study ...
Surgical equipment checklist could cut errors in half, researchers say. WebMD Health News Center - The latest breaking health news and alerts....(read more at link above)

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... as the computing market, historically dominated by Intel, shifts to handheld devices, where Qualcomm's technology has become the industry standard.

Google is shutting down Google+ Local for iOS
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Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) lost a bid to delay proceedings in a London antitrust case until ... of ICOMP, a Brussels-based industry coalition that includes Microsoft Corp.
Boston.com
Online retailing behemoth Amazon.com Inc. will take up 129,125 square feet across six floors in a Kendall Square office building located at 101 Main Street, ... 
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Google likes to create things that gather data, which can be used to determine ... Hugo Barra,Google's VP of Android Product Management, told The Times that ...
Baltimore Sun
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc shares hit a record on Friday after quarterly ...Amazon is trying to turn itself from an online retailer into a broader ...
Forbes
Keeping you in the loop on some of the things happening around Apple this week. .... It didn't take long after Google announced the $35 Chromecast, a little ...

Google thinks balloons may solve problem of Internet access in ...San Jose Mercury News
DOS PALOS -- Only half-filled with helium, and already more than 12 feet wide, the giant plastic envelope shimmered and shook in the breeze like some ...
Computerworld (blog)
One of Google's biggest changes to the Android platform is actually ... Simple: Google made the code a part of Google Play Services, a standalone utility that's ...
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Microsoft says it can reduce access costs by a factor of ten for poor ... Microsoft South Africa is to fund a new trial for delivering internet connectivity ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Apple's damages in the ebook price fixing scandal — in which a federal judge ... to ebooks for more customers at a price that was above Amazon's $9.99 setting. ... Google Just Dumped A Lot Of Pressure On Apple To Put A Better Screen On ...

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Friday's selections feature a pair of Google product reviews and a theory about why ... tracksAmazon's growth in employees compared with Microsoft's and Google's. ... The Verge | ComparingGoogle's new Chromecast HDMI stick with Apple's ...
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Mario Aguilar
The only thing harder than math is math about real life. These Microsoft Word problems from our friends at McSweeney's are impossible:
Gizmodo 
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While most of you are fixing to shut things down for the weekend, Apple's developer ... Google'sstill working on a Glass development kit, suggests devs use ...
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Apple has formed an academic advisory board for its Supplier Responsibility program to assist with the company's goals to provide "safe and...
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By playing with the Google Maps API, Kim Asendorf put together....
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Apple's Developer Center is back after over a week offline | 9to5Mac
Seth Weintraub
After being offline for more than a week, Apple's Developer Center is back. Access to the portal was removed by Apple after it was discovered that a breach into ...
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Bad news for Samsung and Apple. ... The 20 Toughest Job Interview Questions Heard At Apple,Google, Amazon. ..... Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Admits He Made A Huge Mistake. 1. 6 Powerful Ways To Embrace Change - ...
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