Word: monitorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wong sat transfixed before a computer monitor, watching stock prices and anxiously awaiting her big payoff. Shares of vegetable grower China Green Holdings began trading for the first time on Jan. 13, and Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter, was one of the lucky few who had obtained shares of the hot China stock at its initial public offering (IPO) price of 16?. That was no easy task, since retail investors ordered 1,604 times more shares than China Green had undertaken to sell, making it the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history. On the opening...
Trager said yesterday that he was responsible for the posts in question, but said they were part of his larger effort to monitor anti-Semitism on campus...
Pister believes his tiny motes will have a transforming effect on how we monitor the world. "It's going to be a hugely revolutionary technology," he says. Already, he has performed an experiment for the U.S. Army in which a mere eight motes were dropped from a plane and used to detect a fleet of vehicles on the ground. Homeland Security will start using smart dust this summer in a pilot project to protect ports in Florida. And Honeywell has started using motes in supermarkets to make giant refrigerators more energy efficient. Says Pister: "There's a potential...
Also at the meeting, the financial officers told the council that FAS would have to continue to judiciously monitor its costs...
...Tech Watch TV Without The Cables Feel like watching TV on the patio - but worried the cords won't reach? Fear not. At November's Comdex convention in Las Vegas , Shanghai Visart Technologies, a Chinese firm, unveiled a 17-in. LCD monitor ($900) that doesn't need any wires. The screen can be carried anywhere within about 30 m of the base station, which transmits a cable-TV or DVD signal using the same frequency spectrum as cordless phones and wi-fi. A rechargeable lithium battery that lasts four to six hours cuts the TV loose from electrical wires...