The new systems include an online booking system, e-prescriptions and fast computer network links between NHS organisations as well as the electronic records system.
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To compete at chess, the company built an extremely fast computer that could calculate 200 million chess moves per second based on a fixed problem.
Performance per watt is a way of measuring not just how fast a computer can grind data, but also how much power it uses when doing so.
On Tuesday, semiconductor giant Intel vowed to get a bigger piece of the fast-growing tablet computer market.
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The idea was to be so much better than Intel by making a chip that could run a computer very fast but use very little power.
This led to delays, because they couldn't be produced as fast manually as by computer, so NATS was forced to reduce the number of flights entering and leaving U.K. airspace.
Aaron Taylor's company, Gogamingo, develops specialist software for the fast-growing and lucrative computer gaming industry.
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It sported fast cars, early 3D computer renderings, kittens, tigers playing football, space ships, dragons, rainbows, Sonic the Hedgehog and The Ghostbusters.
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Flashing positive and negative images on a computer screen so fast that they duck beneath the radar of consciousness gives us a momentary glimpse of what captivates the unconscious mind.
While notebook computer prices are falling fast, notebooks that are still able to lighten the load while packing serious computing power command a premium price.
When the network becomes as fast as the backplane of your computer, the computer hollows out, its components dispersing across the Web, its value migrating to search and sort functions.
The Gigabit Ethernet adapter adds a Gigabit port to your MacBook Air, MacBook Pro with Retina display or any other USB 3 enabled computer and provides a fast and secure wired connection without hassle of Wi-Fi setup.
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The hub portion uses the latest SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard for fast transfer speeds between devices and your computer.
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Broad deployment of networked slots will depend on regulatory approval and how fast casinos want to pay for a big computer upgrade.
This concentration of fire is achieved by a combination of programming that causes an individual computer to make repeated requests as fast as it can and the ganging together of as many computers as possible to undertake this work at the same time.
Cable companies are rolling out video-on-demand, and computer-savvy film buffs are using fast connections to stream or download movies--legal or pirated.
The ground-breaking partnership brings the future of computer interaction-Leap Motion's incredibly fast and accurate natural user interface-to millions of potential consumers around the world.
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The modern military is, more than ever, a realm where technology and computer data are utilized in an ultra-fast paced environment where lives are on the line.
Leroy's model is Dell Computer, which has built its entire business on fast response times to incoming orders.
It's an axiom that computer or software companies have always had to evolve as fast as the underlying technology drivers.
If the computer programming is supple enough and the on-board processing is fast enough, engineers can now virtually nullify effects caused by vehicle height, weight, roll centers and center of mass.
The NASA spokesman explained that equipment and computer software upgrades, among other factors, helped to make Thursday's historically fast flight possible.
Just look at how fast information technology departments swung to servers connecting to PCs, shutting down mainframe and mini-computer data centers and wiping out thousands of green-screen terminals.
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If Bain wins, it has an internal group of some 70 consultants who take to the field to advise portfolio companies on everything from upgrading their computer systems to calculating the profitability of a two-for-one special on fast food.
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The new specification delivers the fast speed needed to capture a series of high-resolution photos and transfer them quickly to a computer, particularly important to professional photographers whose workflows demand the utmost efficiency.
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The Mogul doesn't look quite as futuristic or elegant as the iPhone, but it has some features Apple's phone lacks, like a removable battery, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for thumbing messages, access to a "third-generation" (3G) Internet connection for fast mobile Web access and downloadable software applications that let you turn your smart phone into a mini computer.
Don't believe the bandwidth gurus who tell you that the computer you hook up to the Net no longer matters, as long as your connection is fast.
Fast flux, probably innovated by a Russian cybercriminal gang known as Rock Phish, automatically changes the physical computer hosting a site as quickly as every two minutes, says Laura Mather, the APWG's director of operations.
This may not be fast enough to compete with the first models of autonomous vehicles, which will probably just be normal cars with computer brains and sensors strapped onto them (to put it in technical terms).
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