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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
