Microchip Technology declares dividend

Microchip Technology Inc., which makes semiconductors and microcontrollers, said Wednesday it would pay a quarterly cash dividend next month.

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Dog in Calif. came — somehow — from Saudi Arabia

A "sweetheart" of a dog now in a California shelter may be really, really far from home. His microchip says the knee-high, light tan Saluki came from Saudi Arabia.

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Wireless hospitals systems can disrupt med devices

Wireless systems used by many hospitals to keep track of medical equipment can cause potentially deadly breakdowns in lifesaving devices such as breathing and dialysis machines, researchers reported Tuesday in a study that warned hospitals to conduct safety tests.

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Insurers to Test Implantable Microchip

In a new test program, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey plans to implant patients suffering from chronic diseases with a microchip that will give emergency room staff access to their medical information and help avoid costly or serious medical errors, the insurer said on Friday.

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Novartis and Proteus Biomedical are not the only companies hoping to implant microchips into patients so that their pill-popping habits can be monitored.

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Scientists at IBM are using a combination of nanotechnology and microchips to map out personal genetic code that could make significantly improve the process of diagnosing and treating diseases. More Articles

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After their cat Clyde was found 3,800 km away, the Phillips family is seeking to get funds to pay for its trip home.

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A Florida-based company that boasts selling the world's first and only federally approved radio microchip for implanting in humans is now turning its development branch toward "emergency preparedness," hoping to produce an implant that can automatically detect in its host's blood …

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A German shepherd named Astro who has been missing from his family for more than nine years is finally home.

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A SINGAPORE-American brain trust has made a new microchip they claim is seven times more powerful than its existing cousin. The icing on this cake: This new chip consumes 30 times less power.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Lawmakers in Indonesia's remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips — part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.

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A Mexican company named Xega offers microchipping services to Mexican families who are terrified by the rise in kidnapping rates.

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New microchipped passports designed to be foolproof against identity theft can be cloned and manipulated in minutes and accepted as genuine by the computer software recommended for use at international airports.

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When their brown and white collie Bo disappeared five years ago, Melissa Moeller and her family did everything they could to find their best friend.

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It was 1986 when John Snyder, then managing a Florida animal-control facility, saw his first microchip. He thought it was The Solution when it came to lost pets.

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The device by STMicro, which functions as a mini laboratory on a chip, can screen and ID multiple classes of pathogens and genes in a single test within two hours. A big potential market is the screening of travelers at airports and border checkpoints.

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Intel Corp.'s new 45-nanometer chip for the desktop, part of the newly released Penryn family, should give gamers, researchers and serious multitaskers a significant performance boost, according to analysts.

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Two employees implanted with RFID chips the size of a grain of rice. Story Highlights Microchips that RFID capability function as tracking technology They can be found in cattle, credit cards, library books and passports

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An eight-year-old dog snatched from outside a New South Wales newsagency in May has turned up more than 3,000 kilometres away. A Darwin City Council dog catcher found the poodle wandering the streets last week, looking somewhat worse for wear.

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CityWatcher.com, a provider of surveillance equipment, attracted little notice itself - until a year ago, when two of its employees had glass-encapsulated microchips with miniature antennas embedded in their forearms.

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If your child could wear an implant – a microchip that could tell a computer where he or she was at any time to within a few metres – would you buy it? After the horrific snatch of three-year-old Madeleine McCann from her bed in Portugal, the answer from many parents seems to …

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Need to track all employees from mechanics to chefs may lead to implantation. Congress is moving quickly to put into motion measures that will ensure airport employees are subjected to stricter security checks.

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THE owners of a dog which had to be left hundreds of miles from home after a passport control dispute have been offered free trips to France until their pet is released.

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Kristina Narfstrom, a University of Missouri-Columbia veterinary ophthalmologist, has been working with a microchip implant to help blind animals "see."

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Science and technology is progressing with a great pace and thus revolutionising medical science in particular. We are entering a century in which medical science will go beyond treating disease to create enhancements that will make us "better than well".

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A new kind of Rocky saga ... 15 months after being left behid during the Katrina disaster, Rocky, a boxer-akita mix, is reunited with his owner -- thanks to a microchip and some kind-hearted humans.

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From the article: Veterinarians in McHenry County were stunned as well when they discovered a microchip in the scruff of the dog's neck that placed his home more than 1,200 miles to the southeast.

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One day we will all happily be implanted with microchips, and our every move will be monitored. The technology exists; the only barrier is society's resistance to the loss of privacy

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Promising research demonstrating that computer chip implantation can make new and/or repair damaged neural pathways.

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