"With heavy use of devices exposed to the vulnerability, the operating system crashes as well.
One team, for example, restricted the use of devices during their executive team meetings.
Whenever possible, eliminate the use of devices, including Pasteur pipettes, that can puncture your skin.
Use of devices that are surgically implanted into the brain or other parts of the nervous system is growing rapidly.
The use of devices like iPods and the PlayStation Portable in training has a couple of advantages, hotel executives say.
"People don't think of their use of devices as a political act," said Mr. Bernoff, the Forrester analyst.
But other medical experts say the widespread off-label use of devices could be a waste of money and even potentially dangerous.
British MEP Philip Bradbourn is among those arguing at the European Union level that use of devices such as Rapiscan's would be "disproportionate" to the security threat faced.
One of the most interesting yet controversial pieces of research into children's use of devices and digital media this year came from Nielsen Book.
But through the use of devices as newfangled as wall-to-wall video and traditional as Scottish ballads and folk dancing, the show's focus kept expanding.
A few days after the operation, I met with Lock, who is an expert in interventional cardiology — the use of devices to fix heart problems.
