operating room inventions 2007

	Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
...case of "malasanita". A month ago another case shocked Italy, when doctors removed the appendix of a 16-year old girl and did not plug into a generator the girl's ventilator. When the power in the operating room suddenly failed the girl died. The mistakes that doctors make today are highly disputed in various societies, despite this fact mistakes and errors are still present....
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	20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...Microsoft has published a report on the Microsoft's new generation operating system sales. The report stated that in the period between January 30 and February 28, 2007, 20 million copies of Microsoft Vista were sold; compared to 17 million copies of Microsoft's Windows XP sold in the same period of time in 2001, two months after its release, Vista's index could be considered as rather impressive. However, these 20 milli...
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	Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability
...th the latest versions of Windows should be aware that they are at a great risk of being attacked by hackers. This statement was made by Microsoft's officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista. In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its animated cursors...
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	New chocolate can save the planet
...s, this gives a lot of hopes on it's popularity. Raw chocolate makers intend to use minimum packaging, and labels made of recycled paper. Companies that work for production of raw chocolate are cooperating with South American companies. One of the forefront raw communities is called Shazzie and it deals with EcoAndino farmers, who take part in Fair Trade Federation. Organic Farmers & Growers Association also support r...
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	The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
... B.C in South-Western Iran); - fifth discovery was named the invention of the optical microscope in the 17th century; - invention of concrete by John Smeaton was placed on the sixth place among the inventions; - the seventh invention in the list was given to the steel processing, found about year 300 B.C. in India; - brass processing in about 5000 B.C. on the present territory of Turkey has taken the eighth entry in t...
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	Microsoft once again pressed by EU over patents
...on over patents. The war with Brussels over Microsoft's dominance on the world market continues for seven years. The European Commission asks the company to hand over its technical information on its operating system to the market competitors. It is worth mentioning that the group was fined in 2004 almost half billion dollars for abusing its dominance in the work-group server market. In addition Microsoft was fined abo...
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	Palm to use Linux platform
...The famous smartphone producer, Palm, is to use a new software platform that will be based on Linux. The company's officials announced Palm's new operating system platform while on a meeting in New York. During a discussion with the analysts, Palm's officials talked on the business strategy of the company but they refused to state anything regarding the recent rumors of a possible buyout. The smartphone maker for along...
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	Difficult child-good marriage conquers all
...towards each other and were not cooperative in dealing with their baby, supportive partners showed effective cooperation. The previous study conducted by the same researches concluded that badly cooperating parents are likely to have aggressive children. The result of the new study emphasized that effective parenting has more to do with the cooperation of both parents rather than with the fact how each of the paren...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Open-Source Infringes 235 Patents, Microsoft States
...ortune article assumes that in case the software giant will pursue open source, the combined know-how of the companies mentioned above can give it a few patent weapons to go after Microsoft's Windows operating system. Taking into consideration the power of the open-source software in the computing industry, it will be quite hard for Microsoft to take direct legal action against it. It is also worth mentioning that man...
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	Microsoft Reached 40 Million Licenses of Vista
...The software giant Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of its Windows Vista operating system in the first 100 days since the product was launched into the market. The chairman of the company, Bill Gates, mentioned that the fastest sales of the operating system in the history is due to an accelerating shift of the majority of population to digital lifestyles. He outlined that the premium editions had accounted for 7...
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	Google Brings Microsoft to Court
...Google has launched a legal challenge to new operating system Windows Vista introduced by Microsoft. According to Google, Microsoft has breached competition as Windows Vista makes it more difficult to use Google's desktop search tool, combing through a hard drive of the computer and emails of the user in search for information, than it does to use the search function provided by Windows. The fact that Microsoft has int...
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	Microsoft Identified percents of its OS as Counterfeit in 2006
...Microsoft's Windows genuine Advantage program revealed 22% of all operating systems from Microsoft as unauthorized for usage. The WGA is a part of Microsoft's anti-piracy program which is meant to reduce the overall number of pirated copies of Windows XP and Vista worldwide. Cori Hartje, director for anti-piracy at Microsoft, said that starting from March 2005, when the program was first launched and until March 2007 t...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
... 4. The Ig Nobel Prizes that are parodies of the real Nobel Prizes, are awarded annually to celebrate unusual, creative and improbable achievements in science, medicine and technology. Some of these inventions may seem weird and hilarious nevertheless they are truly breakthroughs in science. Medicine Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, was awarded for the in-depth report that a...
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