| WHAT'S INSIDE |
| Good Samaritan Deploys SoMo 650 |
| Memphis Schools Reduce Tardies |
| 802.11a/b/g Proudcts for OEM |
| Employee Spotlight |
| New Products and Product Updates |
| What's Really in Your Sushi? |
| INDUSTRY NEWS |
| U.S. Businesses to Spend Billions on Mobile Apps |
| Benefits of Tableside Ordering and Payment |
| PCI Compliance for Small Retailers |
| UPCOMING EVENTS |
| Sep 29 |
| Hospital Pharmacy Conference |
| Sep 30 - Oct 3 |
| Industrial Week 2008 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society Rolls out SoMo 650 in Senior Care Facilities | |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society is the largest not-for-profit provider of senior care and services in the United States. Dedicated to high-quality and compassionate care regardless of patients' ability to pay, the organization is deploying the SoMo 650 handheld computer in roughly 230 facilities in 24 states to improve care, streamline operations, and minimize costs... read more |
| Memphis Schools Get a Helping Handheld | |
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Memphis City Schools, the 21st largest metropolitan school system in the United States, is promoting positive student behavior and improving student attendance with a hi-tech tracking system from Socket Mobile and Plasco ID. The mobile system enables hall monitors to view student records, log student infractions, and print tardy slips on the fly... read more |
| New 802.11a/b/g WLAN Products for OEM Customers | |
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Socket will offer new 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN (WLAN) products designed for corporate and industrial OEM customers to use in their embedded and plug-in applications. Three form factors will be available worldwide including modules, Secure Digital and CompactFlash cards... read more |
| Employee Spotlight: Fahim Azimy, Vendor Quality Engineer | |
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Fahim has been assuring the excellence of all Socket products as a Vendor Quality Engineer since 1994. In this issue's Employee Spotlight, read about what this Italian-food-loving, part-time automobile mechanic finds most rewarding about making sure Socket products are flawless before they leave the warehouse... read more |
| New Products and Product Updates | |
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It's here! SocketScan software support for Windows Vista has arrived, compatible with all applicable data collection products from Socket. See which other updates we've released during the past few months, along with new accessories for the SoMo 650, Cordless Hand Scanner Series 7, and CF Mag Stripe Reader Series 4... read more |
| What's Really in Your Sushi? | |
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When you order a white tuna roll at your local sushi joint, how do you really know you're not getting a cheaper fish like tilapia? Two New York City teens used DNA bar code technology to identify fish from sushi restaurants and found that 14 of 56 species were mislabeled as more expensive fish... read more |