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...They test the signals coming from a patient's heart for the type of electrical problem that responds to defibrillation, and they're smart enough not to deliver a shock unless they find the right signal, thus preventing accidental discharge. Although untrained passersby have successfully used AEDs, the ideal user is someone who has undergone a four-hour training course on how to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and operate an AED. CPR by itself does not usually revive someone in cardiac arrest, but it can keep a person alive for the critical extra few moments needed to locate and hook...
...number of text messages that the average user of India's short messaging service (SMS) sends daily...
...That's good for operators, but from a user's point of view, it's not clear yet why the additional horsepower is needed. "A must-have application could pop up at any time," says K.Y. Ng, a stock analyst at securities firm Nomura. "But there isn't one out there right now." Other than live videoconferencing calls, in fact, there's really nothing you can do on 3G phones that you can't do on 2.5G phones, and those have not exactly been runaway commercial successes. (Indeed, consulting firm Analysys estimates that only one-third of people with...
...trend is already reflected in the amount of money customers are paying for monthly service. China Mobile's average revenue per user in September was $14.25, less than half the level of 1999 and far lower than the $60 to $80 users pay in the U.S. and Japan. That translates into lower overall profitability, and once-bullish analysts are growing more cautious about the prospects for China's mobile sector. Both CSFB and Goldman Sachs recently downgraded shares in China Mobile and China Unicom, which have fallen 21% and 34% respectively on the New York Stock Exchange this year...
...wait, there’s more! The Vapir is also armed with a purple laser light, which in Vapir-brochure-hyperbolic-speak is elegantly termed the “Herbal Illuminative Photon Ejector,” so that the user can see the essence of plant before becoming one with it. The on-panel digital display also features a handy alarm to alert you when digital aromatherapy session should end and your post-digital-aromatherapy-session snack should begin. Future models of the Vapir even promise a USB port so that the device can interface with the Internet or your...