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Opportunity alert: GSA CAMEO Recompete
Lisa Pafe Civil & GovernmentGet ready for the General Services Administration’s (GSA) CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations (CAMEO) Recompete effort. GSA held an Industry Day Aug. 7 to introduce the procurement, which as they reiterated, is early in the process and industry feedback is welcome. The program is generating a lot of attention, with more than 230 companies attending Industry Day.
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Pulse check: Are you losing business because of a bad website?
Emma Fitzpatrick MarketingHow much time do you think you spend each day driving people to your website? Contemplate all the planning, writing, editing and posting you do for your email marketing, social media posts, search engine optimization/marketing, content marketing, and…you get the point. But for the average business, nearly 70 percent of shoppers leave the website because of a basic problem with your website’s design or functionality, found a new study from Corra. In order for your marketing efforts to pay off, you need to make sure your website isn’t getting in your way.
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How IoT will play a role in the future of travel
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementThe Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting the travel industry. In this era of personalization, IoT is paving the way for brands to effectively connect with customers. Hospitality and travel realize this more than other industries, and they are using big data analysis to achieve this goal. IoT solutions also autonomously reduce time lags and streamline resources. They take care of trivial tasks and help automate amenities that can be handled without human intervention. In turn, staffs are left with more time to serve customers.
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New research focuses on link between hormones and migraines in women
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareThe three most common forms of pain treated in the United States are headache, backache, and metastatic pain or cancer pain. Headaches are a major reason why people miss work or school or visit a healthcare provider. Migraine headaches, which affect about 12 percent of Americans, involve moderate-to-severe throbbing pain, often on one side of the head. Migraines are three times more common in women than in men and may relate to changes in hormones and hormonal levels during their menstrual cycle.
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How the Internet of Things is expected to influence engineering and manufacturing
Joseph Zulick ManufacturingThe Internet of Things is creating a 3-D map of your workplace, and it knows you have been taking too many coffee breaks. Every 15 minutes? Seriously, stop. In this connected map, devices, machines and business processes are linked. The potential of sensors embedded in new and legacy production equipment to deliver actionable indicators to decision-makers is at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution. Engineers and designers today are now challenged with a new task: how to perceive value and communicate the benefits of tech adoption for consumers and companies alike.
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Apple Pay, NFC services face competitors that could disrupt payment processing
Bill Becken RetailApple reached a milestone recently when it became the world’s first trillion-dollar company. It helped that, during its more than 40-year history, it has introduced some incredible innovations and products, most cannily directed at and designed for the end user. But a somewhat recent one, Apple Pay, also took aim at the retail and commercial markets, this time through mobile phone payments. There is no doubt mobile payments will continue to find more users in a retail context. But despite all the innovation in this area, smartphone payments, it seems, remain in their infancy.
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The benefits, risks of new blood pressure guidelines
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareSince 1999, more people with high blood pressure — especially those 60 years of age or older — have visited their healthcare professionals for treatment. Because of its high prevalence, hypertension remains an important public health concern and a risk factor for adverse health outcomes, including coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and decline in cognitive function. According to the landmark Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT), intensive blood pressure management may save lives.
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Nanotechnology: The new frontier for plastics
Don Rosato EngineeringNot since the discovery of the silicon chip has there been this much excitement in the field of physics and material sciences. Innumerable universities have established nanocenters, with many receiving industrial funding and sponsorship, and a large number of these spawning nanomaterial-related entrepreneurial businesses spun out as the fruits of academic research. Private industry and governments around the world are investing billions of dollars, rushing to exploit the small world that has been defined as materials under 100 nanometers in size.
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Dying man awarded $289 million as Monsanto faces more lawsuits
Michelle R. Matisons Science & TechnologyOver the years, more and more people have come to know the name "Monsanto" as synonymous with new industrial agriculture and genetically modified food. As a company, it is responsible for many products perceived as dangerous, including Roundup, the notorious weedkiller. Lawsuits have always grown around Monsanto like untreated weeds, but the courtroom tide is turning in favor of the public. Recently, a 46-year-old California school pest control manager with non-Hodgkin lymphoma won a $289 million settlement against the company.
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Modern crime fighting needs deeper tech utilization
Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityA recent report stated that the size of the global law enforcement software market will grow to $18.13 billion by 2023. This should not come as a surprise, since criminals have been quick to adopt the latest technologies, which means police must as well. The pervasive influence of social media and Internet of Things-enabled devices demand mobile-based law enforcement software. But law enforcement officers are still facing questions about regulations.
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