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Touchscreen Technology For Medical Equipment

Touchscreen technology has become a critical part of the medical field, used in everything from monitors and tablets to glucose readers and thermometers. They’ve become important tools in the operating room, they’re used by nurses to monitor patients, and they have even been implemented in self-patient kiosks to streamline service in hospitals and pharmacies. In only a matter of years, they have reduced dependence on peripheral equipment (mice and keyboards, for example), reduced the frequency of mechanical failures, reduced the size of equipment, and overall improved the efficiency of monitoring equipment. Medical professionals need large quantities of information immediately whether…

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How Metrology Has Changed And The Upgrades You Need

One of the reasons purchasing a used coordinate measuring machine is a smart move is that the mechanical structures of these instruments tend not to change much over the years, and you can purchase equipment made decades ago that operates the same as one today. There have been several changes over the years, such as a move away from granite tables to allow for more out-of-lab inspections, but by and large you can confidently buy vintage instruments and upgrade or retrofit them later. While the core mechanics of a coordinate measuring machine have changed very little, metrology as a field…

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5 Tips for Protecting Shopper Safety

You love your shopper. That’s why you dedicate yourself to providing the best products and customer service on your ecommerce site. But did you know that lurking in your web traffic is a malicious force, hell bent on preying on your customer base? It’s sad but true. Ecommerce sites are a prime target for hackers since they house personal and financial information on dozens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of customers. While privacy is a vital concern for store owners, it is also important to impress the importance of cybersecurity on your customers too. Here are a handful of tips…

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4 Drawbacks to Traditional Meetings that Virtual Meetings Solve

The board room meeting existed for a hundred years or more until the video conference came along and took them online. While the older method still has its uses in some cases and will never go away completely, there are still numerous benefits to online conferences that many people have already felt improving their businesses and personal lives. If you are still on the fence about making the switch, are worried about the technical aspects, or haven’t yet made an online call and are considering it, think about these four largest drawbacks that you have probably experienced and how they…

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Deep sea cabling provides for almost all of your international telecommunications needs

Deep beneath the world’s oceans, a silent web of wonder is evolving. For decades a mesh of glass at the nethermost regions of the deep has been growing, expanding and multiplying at an unfathomable rate. Providing for close to 99% of the world’s international telecommunications needs, this network of submarine cabling is truly a marvel of modern ingenuity. The laying of undersea cabling for telecommunications started out as a dream almost two centuries ago. The famed Samuel Morse declared his conviction in a transatlantic undersea cable as early as 1840. A few years later, undersea telegraph cables had been installed…

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Google Pixel iPhone Killer?

Hot off of a recent event in San Francisco, Google is now offering a phone that has many calling it the iPhone killer. Known as the Pixel and the Pixel XL, this phone runs Android Nougat. This is the latest OS that Google has to offer. The iPhone has had a stranglehold on the mobile industry for quite some time, but it looks like that is to end very shortly. In this post, we’re going to take a look at some of the features of the Google Pixel, we’re going to see how it stacks up against the iPhone, and…

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Are You Reaching Your Target Audience?

In order for your business to thrive, you need to drive sales as much as possible. Okay, that’s pretty much basic commonsense, yet so many businesses have trouble truly understanding that. When you have consumers with multiple options as to where they will spend their hard-earned dollars, you need to stand out from the crowd. As part of that effort to stand out from the competition, you need a marketing plan that is not only smart, but that is continually reviewed. Remember, as the business world changes, you must adapt or unfortunately get left behind. So, are you reaching your…

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Driverless Cars: What we Know About the Future of Automobiles

They have been talked about for years, but it now seems that driverless cars are closer than ever before to going mainstream. We were recently reading an interesting article by automotive expert Jeffrey Lupient, who lauded the technology as well as making several other points that suggest they could be on the horizon. This prompted us to dig deeper into the subject and as you’ll soon find out, these vehicles of the future could absolutely transform the way our roads function. Driverless cars are already here That’s right, amongst all of the press stories pushing on when these vehicles will…

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Apps and Their Influence on the World of Entertainment

One thing the world has always loved is entertainment. But the world of entertainment has changed dramatically, particularly with the advent of the internet and of smartphones. Today, professional entertainment industry programs are incorporating apps and development into their curriculum. And this is for good reason. Entertainment is a business, businesses have to make money, and to make money, you have to market your products. So how does all this work? Musicians and Artists More and more musicians and artists are able to break through by using apps on smartphones. Few budding musicians have the money to record their own…

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Injecting Better Results into Your Business

Running a business in today’s world takes a combination of things. This includes smart planning and strategies, knowing where and when to spend money, hiring the best talent out there, not to mention having a little luck along the way. That said your company can’t typically succeed if you are not reviewing your business practices on a regular basis. Such reviews are necessary to make sure not only your products and/or services are up to par with consumer expectations, but that you also are marketing and advertising your brand as much as possible. So, are you doing all you can…

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