When a clerk scans the bar code on a customer's driver license, what data is being collected? Is it fair to make retailers the first line of defense against underage drinkers and other lawbreakers? Can the information be stolen or misused? And how do you keep entry-level employees from turning...
Ever come across a program or file that you think is legit and useful but your onboard anti-virus program flags as suspect? Before you give up on it, run it through one of the online scanners that LifeHacker suggests to see if you're dealing with malware or just got a...
MUNICH (Reuters) - Two former top managers at Germany's Siemens have denied involvement in systematic bribery while at the company, prosecutors in Munich said on Wednesday. Last week Albrecht Schaefer, who was Siemens' anti-corruption manager from 2004-2006, said he repeatedly told ...
Coen's Utility Combustion Systems team was competitively selected to furnish retrofittable gas burner equipment to eliminate boiler vibration and load derating at Bell Bay Units 1 & 2 in Tasmania. Due to constraints imposed by the plant owner, it was mandatory that the boilers be able to deliver maximum load...
The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission TNRCC will soon implement strict NOx emission regulations for existing industrial and utility boilers in regions of Texas. The project required a comprehensive turnkey retrofit to insure seamless installation, with sole source accountability for the entire project from demolition to installation and commissioning of...
The challenge in front of the National Health Plans NHP was to develop an automated system to expedite the processing of medical claims forms and increase data accuracy. Verity provided the Verity TeleForm MediClaim Option, Panasonic S2055 high-speed scanner, indexing, storage and archival management, with SQL Server: Novel Network that...
MCI is one of the world's premier communications companies. The existing ordering system of the company was manual and tedious. Two types of order forms existed: Switched and Non-Switched Access. Both were very generic and time-consuming to submit. An automated ordering solution needed to be both form and HTML/Web-based. InterCorp...
The paper begins with the fact that since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, the field of diagnostic imaging has undergone dramatic changes. Within a year after its introduction, the application of X-rays to diagnosis and therapy had already become an established part of medicine. The decades to follow produced...
Many people who use computers - whether it's for their home or business - are moving toward a "Paperless" office. Simply, they are tired and overwhelmed by scraps of paper, clunky old file folders, envelopes - and they want to reduce the clutter. Many folks have made at least a...
In a simple scenario, with a single PC, a printer, and a scanner, you simply connect everything together. When you have many users, working with many PCs, who want to use the same device all at the same time, it does create problems. Then you have to network everything together...
Having invested in the best hardware and the right software for your business, you want your business to look good on paper. This is the point where everything that went into your system and looked great onscreen now comes out! What you buy depends very much on what you want...
Ceralox's product is more than 99.9% pure, which is essential for the demanding requirements of making such diverse products as synthetic gems clear sapphire and ruby, crystal watch faces, laser optic devices, computer chip substrates, synthetic hip joints, fluorescent and sodium lights, orbiting satellite windows, and bar code scanners. Ceralox...
Everywhere you turn online and in bookstores there are tips on how to write and format a scannable resume. The first task of a scannable format is to make your traditional resume content readable to computer search engines and database search devices. A second task is to make a traditional...
Piedmont made copies of patients' insurance and identification documents at registration, keeping the photocopy in the medical file within the hospital. The information was keyed into the database later. The business office would file an insurance claim based on the information in the medical file. While the benefits of high-volume...
Inland Paperboard's three Black Liquor recovery boilers burn waste oil as an auxiliary fuel for start up and to supplement black liquor at higher steam rates. The plant experienced frequent scanner failures with the existing flame detector system and great difficulty discriminating between the liquor bed and oil flames. Coen...
Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter, renowned sculptors, incorporated and opened a studio called Helmick and Schechter Sculpture (H&S) in Newton, Massachusetts. As H&S gained recognition, it became apparent they needed to reduce the amount of time it took to create each sculpture. The existing mold making process was very time...
All of The Lord of the Rings computer generated characters were a detailed clay maquette sculptured by Workshop artists. In a traditional approach, the digital modelers would have modeled the creature by eye, referencing the sculpture, or loaded photographs of the maquette into the computer, resulting in rough CG approximation...
Coen's new iScan flame scanner performed flawlessly after installation on a multiple burner boiler at The Center for Disease Control CDC in Atlanta, GA. One iScan scanner mounted on each burner discriminated between burner flames while scanning gas, oil and pilot flames at all firing rates. Previously, the CDC experienced...
The longer we expect to live, the more concerned we are with what’s going on inside us. Plus airports are being threatened by shampoo bottles daily – making Analogic’s medical imaging equipment and airport luggage scanners hot sellers year after year.
While I am pretty vigilant about scanning truly important documents into my computer eg my business license and personalized letters, I tend to throw the minorly significant stuff into on of the poorly organized file cabinets that hold up my desk. That's mainly because my scanner (part of my all-in-one...
