Portable SPC data collection.

HEADNOTE A practical guide to today's key information areas As an information systems manager for a group of community banks in St. Paul-Minneapolis, I've developed a curriculum for the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (www.gsb.org) entitled Community Bank Technology Essentials, which is a practical guide to ......

Even as cable set-top boxes continue to add computer-esque capabilities, traditional computers are steering closer to the digital entertainment realm. The personal computer, once marketed as a time saving work tool, increasingly sprouts multimedia capabilities for entertainment use. But when and if the computer intersects directly with the focal point ......

For many organizations, the process of gathering data from remote sites, and transferring that data to computers at corporate headquarters, or other locations, is a routine task. For one of our clients, however, some severe restrictions on how the information could be gathered and transferred made the task anything but ......

INTRODUCTION As we all know, the PDA is all about getting information and taking it with you. All those address books and notepads are great, but to really fulfill the promise of the PDA, Web sites need to be made available. Beware: no content, no PDA party. So Carter Stowell ......

Palm devices aren't designed to be just cool little computers, although they're definitely cool little computers. They are designed to do useful things for you as soon as you take them out of the box. The standard Palm Computing applications don't have to be installed, configured, or fussed with in ......

A U.K. company has developed what it claims is the first open circuit television security system that will allow anyone with a mobile telephone and a desktop PC, laptop or handheld palm computer to transmit and receive high quality video pictures to and from anywhere in the world. The system, ......

Software packages for acquiring and analyzing data and for controlling experiments are converting desktop computers into laboratory tools that are so important that some tests could not be performed without them. Many instrument makers and software vendors provide off-the-shelf packages for programming and running laboratory experiments on desktop computers. Others ......