CompEd2009xl:Computers in Business world

Computers in Business World

Improving Your Links in Business

One of the most difficult areas to improve your site is getting more incoming links.
You need to make link exchanges, with other blogs and traditional websites, to help yourself. Trades are good for everyone!
Those incoming links, or backlinks as they are often called, are important for several reasons.
First of all, links to your blog will get you more traffic. The more visitors to your site, the better. As with anything else, unless people know your great blog exists, they can't read it. Incoming links enable you to share readers with another blogger. They in turn enjoy visits from your readers who benefit from enjoying another great blog experience.
Google's PageRank is based on the number and the quality of your incoming links. For those unaware of their blog's PageRank, it can be seen as a green line on the Google Toolbar. Download one and check your blog's PageRank.
Google considers a link to your site to be a vote in its favour. The more votes the better, is one way to look at it. Another aspect of Google PageRank is it weights the links by importance of the linking page. For example, Google will give your blog much more PageRank credit, from a link from a PageRank 7 site, than from a PageRank 2 site.
More high PageRank incoming links raise your blog's PageRank considerably. Even if your current PageRank is fairly low, it will still assist your link trading partner to some degree, regardless of their ranking.

PC maker banks on untapped computer market

Gateway, a wholly owned subsidiary of Acer, Inc., is banking on the budding local Internet market to drive demand for its products amid the global slump. The country’s Internet penetration rate is only 14.6%.
"The Internet penetration in the country is not yet that mature, which presents opportunities for us. Also, there are still many untapped markets outside Metro Manila," Dio S. Vasquez, product manager of Acer Philippines, said.
He said they expect to sell 70% of Gateway computers in Metro Manila and the rest in the provinces.
The Gateway ZX2300 desktop computer has side-mounted speakers and a keyboard that can be stowed under the monitor. The model is powered by an AMD Athlon 2650e processor and AMD’s RS690+SB600 chipset. It has up a gigabyte of random access memory (RAM) and a 160-gigabyte hard drive.
Gateway also launched two notebooks — the MD260i and MD7802i. The first is powered by an AMD Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core ZM-82 processor, while the second sports an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Both notebooks come with three gigabytes of RAM and 500 gigabytes of storage.
Gateway also launched its netbook line — the UC7308i, UC7811i and the LT1001i. The UC7308i is powered by an Intel Dual Core T3400, while the UC7811i comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo T6400. The LT1001i boasts of an Intel Atom N270. Mr. Diaz said Gateway is targeting "trendy, stylish, visual-heavy" youths and professionals

Comped2009xl:Computer in Business Competetion

GCompetition can be a very healthy thing. Seeing someone doing something better than me does not have to make me envious, but it should provoke me to improve. Sharpening skills and improving products is a good thing. Who wouldn't want a car with better gas mileage, or a computer with a faster processor and larger hard drive? Competition forces improvements that benefit everybody. Understanding that the "jealousy" I feel when I see someone do something better does not have to be "bad jealousy." Instead, it frees me to admire a competitor's business success and spurs me on to improve my own. I've been encouraged not to fear competition, but to value its influence on my business

CompEd2009xl:Computer technology in Health

Computer Technology in Health

Monitoring health trough computer

A NEW device for patients to carry out their own health checks and send the information to a doctor has been developed in a bid to cut hospital admissions.
The Telehealth system allows sufferers of long-term conditions to have their health monitored daily without needing to visit their GP surgery.
Now, health chiefs are aiming to roll the service out to more patients in an effort to prevent unplanned hospital visits.
The personal healthcare system works by installing a small computer in the patient’s home with high-speed broadband internet connection.
The patient takes readings of their blood pressure, oxygen levels and weight before entering the data into the computer and sending to their doctor.
The computer is also fitted with a webcam– enabling the patient to have a video consultation with their GP.
It was piloted in 30 homes across West Lothian, Midlothian and Edinburgh and is now being rolled out to 400 more patients.

CompEd2009Xl: Solving Public Health

The widening economic gap between countries is paralleled by disparities in health outcomes. Computer technology has the potential to play an important role in the efforts to improve healthcare in poor settings. The useful application areas includes electronic medical record systems, decision support, healthcare education, telemedicine, data gathering, and a wide range of communication systems. In this talk, research scientist Neal Lesh provides an overview of international health issues and outlines several potential computer technology applications for communities with severe resource limitations.

CompEd2009xl:Computer technology in Education

Computers entered the medical arena on a small scale in the 1950s. Computers of this era were primarily employed by research labs to develop more sophisticated medical diagnostic equipment for the processing of signals and images. By the late 1950s, however, computer technology entered the hospital setting: a few progressive hospitals began to apply computer technology to patient information systems which required the digital capture of a large array of disparate information. The systems used for medical research differed dramatically from patient information systems in that they only required the application of well-defined, unchanging data sets. Conversely, patient information systems demanded more complex programming and more sophisticated technology that was not available until the late 1950s and 60s.
By the mid 1960s, the confluence of improved computing and communications technology, an increasing awareness of computer technology in the hospital sector, and congressional approval of federal funding for biomedical applications, made the development of patient information systems feasible for more institutions. While more institutions began to develop patient information systems, they were crude creations supported by monstrous mainframe computers and proprietary programming languages and hardware. Such systems could not manage large numbers of patient records over extended periods of time. By the late 1960s, integrated circuit computers and relational database applications allowed for more robust, flexible "modular" approaches to system design. These systems, while greatly improved, were still crude, ungainly and difficult to use