Agfa-Gevaert Announced Second Quarter Results - HealthCare Segment
Agfa-Gevaert announced its second quarter results. Mainly due to currency effects, Group sales declined 8.1 percent to 777 million Euro. In local currency, the decline was limited to 2.6 percent. Agfa Graphics' sales slightly decreased (in local currency), whereas Agfa HealthCare's competitive position suffered from the strong Euro.
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iSOFT Wins $14 Million New Business in Europe
iSOFT, an IBA Health Group company (ASX: IBA) announced that it has secured new business together with renewal of contracts worth AS$14 million in the UK and central Europe over the past month. iSOFT Northern Europe has had a record month of new orders worth AS$5 million (3.1 million), while iSOFT UK and Ireland has agreed contract extensions worth AS$9 million (£4.22 million) for ongoing maintenance and support.
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LifeSensor Passes Performance Benchmark Safely
10,000 virtual users access 10 million LifeSensor personal health records simultaneously. Response times are stable at less than two seconds. In a nutshell, this is the result of a ten-day performance test conducted by eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) at the Hewlett Packard European Performance and Benchmark Center. The result proves again: LifeSensor is ready for large-scale use.
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Robotised Tele-Ultrasound Examination via Satellite
Partners in the European MARTE (MOBILE And ROBOTISED TELEECHOGRAPHY) project, in collaboration with ROBOSOFT, carried out the first robotised tele-ultrasound examination via satellite. This demonstration was accomplished with an ESTELE robot entirely controlled by the robuBOX®.
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Collexis' BiomedExperts Rapidly Expanding its User Base
Collexis Holdings Inc, (OTCBB: CLXS) a leading developer of high definition search and knowledge discovery software, announced that its premier professional scientific social networking site, Biomedexperts.com, has more than 30,000 registered users, enabling researchers across organizations and around the globe to collaborate more efficiently and effectively.
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New Technology Paves Way for Visually Impaired Internet Users
IBM (NYSE: IBM) previewed a unique Social Accessibility collaboration software, developed by IBM Research, which allows Internet users to improve Web accessibility, particularly for those who are visually impaired.
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NVIDIA Dramatically Accelerates the Search for a Cure
Stanford University's distributed computing program Folding@home has become a major force in researching cures to life-threatening diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson's disease by combining the computing horsepower of millions of processors to simulate protein folding.
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