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A lot of people expected satellite broadband to take off in 2004. It didn't for several reasons. Despite this, hopes are high that 2005 will finally mark the breakout year [...]

On the surface, the war with Iraq seems a simple case of hypocrisy gone lethal. With few exceptions, those in and around the White House who beat the drum most [...]

IT'S DECISION TIME all over again for makers o chips for set-top boxes (STBs), which serve as the junction between cable or satellite television networks and TV sets. Over the […]

DIGITAL ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, from modern communications systems to computers, to specialized gear such as medical meters, has always needed analog circuitry to link its abstract logic with the physical world. […]

Just as the one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind, the slow-growing handheld wireless market looks like a mountain of gold in a tech landscape that's mainly […]

If technology is the modern-day religion, as social commentators have remarked, think of nanotechnology as a mythological God, juggling technological advancements. 'Nanotechnology is going to be like that, a multi-handed […]

INTEL CORP. has no legendary research lab to its name, and wants none. Sure, places like Bell Labs and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) may have won Nobel Prizes or […]

You'd think a company that specializes in software and services for presenting product information over the Internet would have dim prospects following the Internet implosion of the last year or [...]

Faraj Aalaei has been a man in a hurry for a long time. When he moved to the US from Iran in 1978 at age 17, he was unable to [...]

Rick Willis, president & CEO, Tektronix Inc. In some ways, Rick Wills has grown up with Tektronix. He joined in 1979, and in January of 2000 was named president and [...]

SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS(†) 1. Cough can (a) be an important defense mechanism to help clear excessive secretions and foreign material from airways; (b) be an important factor in the spread [...]

We reviewed our experience with 115 patients with pleural effusion in whom bronchogenic carcinoma was suspected who underwent fiberoptic brochoscopy (FOB) to identify those for whom the procedure was useful. [...]

Standing in the shadow of Mount Fuji, a dazzling yellow factory run by Fujitsu affiliate Fanue Ltd. is virtually deserted. but don't be fooled--production is going full tilt. Industrial robots […]

Recommended criteria for surgical drainage of parapneumonic effusions include evidence of frank purulence, a glucose level 1,000 IU/L. To test the utility of these criteria, we reviewed the three-year experience [...]

Given Sun's position at the intersection of data handling and communications, it is well positioned to benefit as the telecom world transitions toward IP. Sun CEO Scott McNealy tells contributing [...]

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), although unusual, has been recognized in the immunocompetent host. Several cases of IPA with rapidly progressive respiratory failure have been reported in patients receiving short-term corticosteroid therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Atypical pneumonia caused by dual infection with Legionella pneumophila and Mycoplasma pneumoniae has also been reported. We report an unusual case of simultaneous L pneumophila pneumonia and IPA in an asthma patient with suspected allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis newly treated with corticosteroids. (Chest 1993; 104:1929-31) ABPA = allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; IPA = invasive pulmonary aspergillosis, Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) typically occurs in immunocompromised hosts and is frequently fatal.[1] it is prevalent in patients with underlying hematologic malignancy with prolonged granulocytopenia.[1,2] Other predisposing factors are severe [...]

Technological innovations with the potential to turn industries on their heads often face huge challenges in gaining commercial acceptance. The latest example comes from Sanswire, a subsidiary of Florida-based IP [...]

Looking a decade ahead, the VoIP industry has taken its first steps towards foiling future attempts by Internet-style hackers to bring down a major IP phone service. A new group, [...]

It made for irresistible headlines: 'FCC Spurns Naked DSL.' The problem was that the headlines weren't exactly right. True, the FCC's decision invalidated state requirements that BellSouth supply DSL service [...]

Lucent's recent announcement that it had upgraded its 'Super Distributed Home Location Register' wireless customer data management system is serious evidence that wireless roaming is entering a new era--and so [...]

This could be the year that determines the shape of the carrier IP telephony market for a decade to come. A couple of recent research reports make clear that the [...]

In light of the torrent of announcements about VoIP services and equipment surrounding the recent VON conference in San Jose, the central question facing the nascent business resembles the one [...]

A lot of people expected satellite broadband to take off in 2004. It didn't for several reasons. Despite this, hopes are high that 2005 will finally mark the breakout year [...]

Cingular recently fired the next shot in the wireless data speed wars, with trials in Atlanta of the high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology it plans to roll out nationwide [...]

You probably saw the headlines: 'FCC Moves To Allow Web Surfing In The Clouds,' or something like that. The stories usually claimed that, thanks to a recent decision by the [...]

With FCC Chairman Michael Powell's announcement that he will resign in March, the focus turns to who will replace him. For most interested observers, the main concern will be the [...]

After years of literally unbelievable hype, ultra-wideband wireless technology has made its commercial debut, appearing in products or demos at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The technology [...]

On first glance, the newest numbers from Dell'Oro Group charting optical transmission equipment sales seem to confirm an old story: that U.S. companies tend to focus on this quarter's financial [...]

It's an image designed to warm the heart of the most hardheaded wireless service provider: live TV delivered to millions of handsets via streaming media, the ultimate application of the [...]

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s recent introduction of two new Ethernet switches provides yet more evidence that the trickle of 10-gigabit speeds towards the edge of the enterprise will before long become a [...]

Even though Bluetooth is more a revenue enhancer than a revenue source for service providers, that doesn't mean they can ignore the advances and stumbles of the short-range wireless technology. [...]

When FCC Chairman Michael Powell announced at the recent VON conference that he would recommend the Commission claim jurisdiction over the regulation of VoIP services, he justified his position by [...]

Microsoft must enjoy being in a market where the important thing is not how worried its competitors are, but how worried its customers are. The burning question about the technology [...]

In late May, Cisco Systems set a lot of service providers free. It announced a new router that it calls, making sure no one misses the point, CRS-1, for Carrier [...]