For example, AirStrip offers virtual real time remote patient heart monitoring technology to a broad array of acute patient clinical settings.

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But improvements in piracy technology are making the problem more acute, draining Nollywood's coffers and confidence and stopping the industry from making the improvements in quality it needs to cross over into the global mainstream.

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Narayana Murthy : While the pressure on Western corporations to leverage the power of technology has been mounting for years, it became acute in the late '90s, and there was a tremendous shortage of trained manpower to do the application-development work involved.

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Better technology coupled with new payment systems will not solve the acute problems faced by newspapers today, but should eventually provide new models to enable news to flourish in the digital age.

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New technology has made sophisticated care possible at various sites other than acute-care, high-overhead hospitals.

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"We have the technology and the knowledge to treat these children who suffer from severe acute malnutrition very effectively, " said Werner Schultink, chief of nutrition at UNICEF.

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Jonathan Soderstrom, who runs Yale University's technology-transfer office and is the president of the Association of University Technology Managers, says that the problem of raising money has never been as acute as now.

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