A computerized switch that normally handles 27,000 lines to homes and businesses stopped functioning at 2 42 A.M. while technicians were upgrading its programming, said a spokeswoman for the Southern New England Telephone Company, Beverly E. Levy.
The parliament had already accepted a much smaller deployment of technicians to upgrade Turkish ports and air bases.
A section of the Web site where people apply for coverage will be taken down for several hours a day over the weekend so technicians can upgrade its capabilities, the administration said.
There are many jobs out there that require what might be called technician skills: installing, upgrading, improving upon, maintaining complex machinery.
And during this same period, Republican technicians began to upgrade their Voter Vault database.
One student who was upgrading from being a laboratory technician to a medical doctor exemplifies this view: There is serious lack of academic stimulation in rural hospitals.
Working with a team of other technicians, he visited half a dozen Navy bases starting in July, upgrading computer work stations, according to the person with knowledge of his employer.
The smart machines of the future will need programming, servicing and upgrading — work done, perhaps, by a new class of digital technicians.
Analog cable technicians have to be upgraded to digital, too: it's much harder to splice fiber strands than it is to splice coaxial cable.
In that year--when compared to 2006--there 2006--there 2006--thereial increase in the number of nurses, nurse technicians and nursing aides per 1000 inhabitants (from 0.24 to 0.94; 0.15 to 2.47; and 0.6 to 3.16, respectively) as a result of the deliberate policy of upgrading the nursing capacity linked to the PROFAE and PROFAPS policy initiatives.
