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Intel and Motion pilot new mobile clinical assistant (MCA) device
By Mike Hanlon
February 22, 2007 Intel Corporation today announced its mobile clinical assistant (MCA) is ready for primetime. Motion Computing’s C5 is the first product based on Intel’s MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world. As Intel’s first platform built specifically for healthcare, the MCA is an important step in the company’s efforts to better connect clinicians to comprehensive patient information on a real-time basis. The lightweight, spill-resistant, drop-tolerant and easily disinfected MCA allows nurses to access up-to-the-minute patient records and to document a patient’s condition instantly, enhancing clinical workflow while reducing the staff’s administrative workload. The Motion C5 features wireless connectivity to access up-to-date secure patient information and physician’s orders; radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for easy, rapid user logon; a digital camera to enhance patient charting and progress notes, to keep track of wounds as they heal; and bluetooth technology to help capture patient vital signs. Read More
Intel shows Mobile Medical Platform
By Mike Hanlon
September 28, 2006 Intel has unveiled a mobile point-of-care platform designed specifically to address the needs of nurses and physicians working on the front line of patient care. The mobile clinical assistant platform is the outcome of hospital workflow studies, nurse and physician interviews, and ethnographic research among nurses at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California. It focuses on the healthcare community’s needs to enhance patient safety, reduce medication-dispensing errors and ease staff workloads. Products based on the mobile clinical assistant platform could offer a variety of features and technologies including: an exterior casing that can be wiped clean with disinfectant; radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for rapid user and patient identification; and barcode scanning to help reduce medication-dispensing errors. Read More
New Intel processors deliver record performance and consume less power
By Mike Hanlon
July 28, 2006 Intel, the world’s number one chipmaker yesterday unveiled 10 Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Extreme processors for consumer and business desktop and laptop PCs and workstations, reshaping how computers perform, look, consume power, sound and produce heat. Intel Core 2 Duo processors feature two complete computer engine cores on a single chip. The highly anticipated processor family already has very broad support with more than 550 customer system designs underway -the most in Intel's history. Ultimately, tens of thousands of businesses will sell computers or components based on these processors. And the prognosis is good. Read More
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
By Mike Hanlon
May 14, 2006 The International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) is the world's largest celebration of science, showcasing the world's most promising young scientists and inventors in grades 9-12. This year in its 57th year, the 2006 final brought together1,482 students selected from 65,000 finalists who competed at 558 ISEF-affiliated science fairs across 47 countries during the past academic year. The top honours for the Intel-sponsored event were awarded yesterday with Hannah Wolf, Madhavi Gavini and Meredith MacGregor taking the gongs. Wolf took the main prize for her work studying formations caused by ancient earthquakes to predict seismic hazards, Gavini discovered a novel method of destroying a common and deadly infectious bacterium, while MacGregor studied the so-called “Brazil-Nut Effect.” Read on for a humbling array of student projects, such as a Mexican-developed Word Processor interface for the blind (pictured), a Chinese robotic fish used for exploring navigation techniques, a Brazilian device that converts solar energy into thermal energy and a British “Proximity Fire Alarm" which uses RF10 technology to transmit the location of individuals in a burning building. Read More
Intel demonstrates education notebook PC for developing nations
By Mike Hanlon
May 4, 2006 Intel today took aim at the next million people who do not yet have computers when President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini gave a speech at the World Congress on Information Technology. Otellini said the multiplying effects of computers, the Internet and education can double the reach of technology’s benefits worldwide in the next 5 years. “We’re close to achieving Andy Grove’s vision of a billion connected PCs – and the economic, social and personal gains that come with them,” said Otellini, referring to the Intel co-founder and former CEO. “Our job now is to harness the combined potential of full-featured technology, high-speed connectivity and effective education to speed the gains for the next billion people – and the next billion after that.” At the event in Austin, Otellini also gave the first public demonstration of a low-cost notebook PC for students in developing nations and announced a plan with the Mexican government to provide PCs to 300,000 teachers. Read More
Intel First to Demonstrate Working 45nm Chips
By Mike Hanlon
January 26, 2006 Intel Corporation has become the first company to reach an important milestone in the development of 45 nanometer (nm) logic technology. Intel has produced what are believed to be the first fully functional SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) chips using 45nm process technology, its next-generation, high-volume semiconductor manufacturing process. Achieving this milestone means Intel is on track to manufacture chips with this technology in 2007 using 300mm wafers, and continues the company’s focus on pushing the limits of Moore’s Law, by introducing a new process generation every two years. You can listen to a recorded interview with Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr by clicking the Manufacturing channel here. Read More
Apple introduces (4X faster) MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo Processor
By Mike Hanlon
January 11, 2006 After months of speculation, Apple today unveiled its new MacBook Pro notebook computer featuring the new Intel Core Duo processor – more importantly, it confirmed what everyone already had read, that the new computer delivers up to four times the performance of the PowerBook G4. The new MacBook Pro, the first Mac notebook based on an Intel processor, features an aluminum enclosure just one inch thin, weighs 5.6 pounds, includes a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing on-the-go, and the Apple Remote and Front Row software for a simple, intuitive and powerful way for users to enjoy their content wherever they go. The new MacBook Pro will be available in February. Read More
Intel partners with Venturi Fetish to make energy sharing possible
By Mike Hanlon
November 11, 2005 A strategic alliance between manufacturers of microchips and automobiles seems unlikely yet Intel and French Sports Car builder Venturi announced a pooling of their talents and resources yesterday, which has seen WiMAX wireless data communication technology incorporated into the Fetish, the world’s first all-electric sports car. We’ve previously reported on the Fetish here, here, here and here, but the addition of WIMAX adds considerably to the futuristic vision of Venturi - by incorporating an Alvarion pre-WiMAX wireless connection box into the car, the car will be in constant contact with its owner who can charge, discharge, or check the status from wherever they may be. WIMAX will also enable the factory to remotely monitor vehicle operation, fine-tune the car and even update on-board software. The data communication capability of the Fetish is just the first step on the road towards optimised energy management though. Thanks to WiMAX technology, the future Venturi vehicle - a solar powered electric vehicle - will usher in a new era of electric power-sharing networks in an urban environment. Using WiMAX technology, the fleet of vehicles will be remote-managed and each vehicle will be able to communicate with the others. Through its ability to store power and use wireless communications, the future electric car will be able to communicate with other vehicles, either to sell energy or to buy it. It could even act as a reservoir of energy for the State. Read More
Intel Science Talent Search Winners
By Mike Hanlon
March 19, 2005 The Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS) is America's oldest and most prestigious high school science competition and as Intel CEO Craig Barrett said when awarding the prizes, "we look forward each year to uncovering new scientific and mathematical talent, and each year we're rewarded with an outstanding array of students whose ability to explore, imagine and discover absolutely amazes us." Amazing? You bet! Read on to find out just how amazing you have to be to score a finalist position Read More
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