North York General Hospital in Toronto will use IBM’s InfoSphere and Cognos applications to aggregate medical data into a standard format and a user-friendly dashboard view. – NYGH (North York General Hospital),
a multisite teaching hospital in Toronto,
will become the first Canadian hospital to integrate both IBM’s data aggregation software and a dashboard tool.
Big Blue has optimized its InfoSphere Clinical Analytics application
to process the data-intensive workl…
The goal is to use cloud systems to promote data sharing and cost efficiency among NATO’s 28 nation-state members. – IBM has a big new international project
on its agenda as of Dec. 22.
Big Blue is going to show the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) how
best to migrate wildly disparate computer systems to cloud computing, and the
plan is for NATO to, in turn, take that information and promote more da…
HP has joined with CHAI (the Clinton Health Access Initiative) to provide the technological backbone for testing and treating infants exposed to HIV in Kenya. – Hewlett-Packard has joined with Clinton Health Access Initiative to provide the technological backbone for testing and treating infants exposed to HIV in Kenya. Former President Bill Clinton founded CHAI in 2002 to boost integrated health systems around the world and increase care and treatment for …
Traditional management theory has focused on efficiency through division of labour and specialising roles. Although this has been successful it has raised inefficiencies due to poor communication between divisions. In the 21st Century we must use management software to enable management to share resources and increase efficiency hence collaborate to compete.
The announcement of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt highlights the recent work between General Motors and IBM, showcasing the Rational products used to develop the software system on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. GM is one of the first U.S.-based automobile manufacturers to produce a next-generation "plug-in, range-extended electric vehicle." It is directly propelled by an electric motor, for up to 40 miles, with a gasoline engine that will drive the vehicle up to an additional 300 miles. The Chevy Volt features 10,000 lines of code, and each car has its own IP address. IBM’s software and simulation tools helped GM engineers develop the software in the advanced control systems on the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, which was designed and engineered in just 29 months, a record for GM, a company spokesman said. GM engineers used IBM products to develop some of the Volt’s critical electronic controls for the vehicle’s innovative battery system, electric drive unit and cabin electronics. The Volt’s unique propulsion system required the design of an unprecedented "system of systems," centered on software that seamlessly integrates the Volt’s 16kWh lithium-ion battery pack with its highly sophisticated electric drive system. IBM Rational software tools were used to help GM engineers model the interactions of the Volt’s embedded systems, helping to increase the quality and efficiency in developing this systems approach. – …
IBM Research will contribute its expertise in medical-dictation processing to Nuance Communications with the goal of using speech recognition to incorporate structured data into electronic health records. – IBM
and Nuance Communications have announced a partnership in speech recognition to
direct physician-dictated text into the structured fields of an EHR (electronic
health record).
Nuance
is the maker of the Dragon
speech-recognition software, which in addition to health care and other
indus…
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WORLD
 Alexis Taylor, Bernard Sumner, Joe Goddard, Benz, DJ Haus |
Following their announcement detailing the launch of the year-long Connectivity campaign celebrating the
incomparable British music scene, Converse today releases “Didn’t Know What Love Was”, an original music
collaboration between Bernard Sumner from New Order and Joy Division, Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and Hot City. Starting now, all
music fans can download the track for free at www.converse.co.uk and authorized Converse websites around the world.
Accompanying the release of the new single is the iconic chain image featuring not only the collaborating artists but
also a range of emerging musical talent from across the UK. The campaign imagery will appear nationwide
beginning October 11 in music and lifestyle print titles, high impact outdoor sites along with underground takeovers
in London. Click here to
view the full chain image.
ARTISTS (Within Chain, From Left to Right):
Paloma Faith
Bill Ryder-Jones
Michael Hibbert from Chapel Club
Graham Coxon
Mez from The Neat
Hudson Mohawke
Tigs from Chew Lips
Tom Hudson from Pulled Apart By Horses
Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip
Bernard Sumner
Joe Goddard from Hot Chip
Benz from Hot City
DJ Haus from Hot City
Laura-Mary Carter from Blood Red Shoes
Lewis Bowman from Chapel Club
Stay tuned for announcements revealing details on the music video, plus what else Converse has in store throughout
the Connectivity campaign.
BAND ALSO JOINED BY DRES OF BLACK SHEEP
Toubab Krewe, whose
TK2 studio album is out on Nat Geo Music, are born collaborators. The quintet from Asheville, NC
have traveled to West Africa many times to play and study with Lamine Soumano and other masters,
have played with The Dead, reggae
stalwart Earl “Chinna” Smith and Matisyahu, and recorded with Umar
Bin Hassan of The Last Poets,
among others.
This past summer, at the Manifestivus Festival in northern Vermont, the band showed their versatility by
teaming up with hip-hop luminaries Common and Dres from Black Sheep, resulting in funky percussive
performances:
Watch Toubab Krewe collaborating w/ Common:
Watch Toubab Krewe w/ Dres of Black Sheep:
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Hewlett-Packard and Hynix will work to bring memristor products to market. Memristors could eventually replace not only traditional memory technologies such as Flash and hard drives, but also CPUs. – Hewlett-Packard is about three years away from taking its memristor
technology from the research lab to the marketplace.
HP officials announced Aug. 31 that the company has entered
into a joint development agreement with memory supplier Hynix Semiconductor to
develop and bring the technology to …
HOPE THEY DO DARK STAR!
 Bob Weir |
On October 22, the Marin Symphony will team up with Bob Weir for a program of Grateful Dead adaptations called “First Fusion”. The event takes place at the Marin Center’s Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Tickets range from $50 to $350, and go on sale starting September 1 at the Marin Center Box Office.
The Marin Independent Journal has more on this story here.
A research group forms to help businesses understand the nature, structure and business purposes of cloud systems and make it possible even for SMBs to use e-services, aka cloud-based services, to smooth out tricky IT-related business processes. – IBM announced July 7 that it is entering
into a collaborative agreement with the European Union and several academic
institutions to launch a research consortium on cloud computing.
The work group’s mission is to help businesses understand the nature, structure
and business purposes of cloud s…
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Atheros and Freescale team up to offer cost-conscious businesses a reference design for high-performance WiFi access points, which integrates Freescales QorIQ P1020 system-on-chip (SoC) and Atheros three-stream XSPAN chip set. – Freescale Semiconductor, a provider of embedded processors for
communications, consumer access, and intelligent industrial and aerospace
applications, and Atheros Communications, a developer of wired and wireless
communication semiconductors, announced a collaboration on a production-ready
refer…
FedEx Office announces a partnership with printing and imaging giants Canon USA and HP to bring 12,000 new Canon and HP printing devices to more than 1,800 FedEx Office locations across the U.S. and Canada.
– FedEx Office, an operating company of FedEx Corp., announced an alliance
with Canon U.S.A.,
a subsidiary of Canon, and Hewlett-Packard to create a network of printing and
imaging capabilities, giving customers access to new technologies and an
extensive machine fleet.
Beginning next month, Fed…
PayPal and DBS Bank today signed an agreement to offer 4 million DBS/POSB customers yet another payment choice for their online purchases via PayPal.
In the middle of the year, DBS/POSB customers can debit their respective bank accounts to fund their PayPal accounts.
Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova Release One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels
 Bright Eyes |
Back in 2004 two Nebraskan songwriters, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes and Jake Bellows of Neva Dinova brought their respective bands together to record an EP for indie label Crank!
The collaboration, One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels, had Conor and Jake dividing the songwriting duties. The original tracks were recorded by both bands in basements of houses on quiet, leafy streets in Omaha in the fall of 2003.
Six years later it has been given a re-working and a re-release by Omaha independent Saddle Creek. Bright Eyes and Neva Dinova reconvened in the fall of 2009 to write and record four brand new tracks at Mogis’ ARC Studios, creating an album-length work that includes the first new Bright Eyes material since 2007′s Cassadaga.
Back in 2004 both bands’ front men explained their collaboration:
Jake Bellows:
“I think it was 1996 when we met for the first time. We played a show with Norman Bailer and Commander Venus and I forgot the words to one of our songs. Conor was in the audience and hollered out the next line of the song. I couldn’t believe that someone in town knew our music. Maybe it was a year or two ago that we first talked about doing some kind of split or something. This was our first time collaborating with anyone and we wanted to see if we could make some music with our friends. We think Conor is a great songwriter and we were honored to work with him. Also, we had a shit-ton of fun.”
Conor Oberst:
“There’s a feeling I get when I hear Jake sing that is rather addictive. It runs the length of my spine and makes me feel as if I were living some wonderful life long ago… maybe the roaring twenties… smoking strong cigarettes in red a tinted parlor with a record player you have that winds like a watch by turning a crank, but the music beneath that voice is more familiar. It sounds like Omaha – a decade of house shows and warped seven inches and drunken band practices that we have all shared.
“Making this record was something Jake and I had talked about many times over the last few years but every time our schedules allowed we preferred glorious drinking binges and nonsense conversations over getting anything done… But finally we did it. Recording Jake singing one of my songs is one of the most special things that has ever happened to me musically. It was so much fun recording these songs. We seamlessly moved from Heath and Jake’s basement to mine to Presto! the whole time feeling motivated by the songs and having a great laugh along the way.”
Track Listing:
1. Rollerskating*
2. Happy Accident*
3. Someone’s Love*
4. I Know You*
5. Tripped
6. Black Comedy
7. Poison
8. I’ll Be Your Friend
9. Get Back
10. Spring Cleaning
* brand new song featured only on this release
Global engineering company JGC Corporation (JGC) of Japan and NewSpring Utility Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore-based membrane technology company Hyflux Ltd, today signed a joint venture agreement to jointly develop green field water projects in China.
The newly formed 50:50 joint venture company, to be called H.J. NewSpring Limited will be the investment holding vehicle for developing, investing and managing such water projects in China.
Intel Taiwan is working with Acer, Asus, Microsoft Taiwan, the Ministry of Education, Red Cross Society and Taiwan Association for Educational Communications and Technology to set up IT learning environments for schools and digital services centres for communities to support the Typhoon Morakot disaster relief. Through this program, Acer, Asus, Intel Taiwan and Microsoft Taiwan will donate a total of 4,500 notebook PCs, netbooks, and desktop PCs with OS and software to help expedite education and community rebuilding in the typhoon affected areas. The typhoon-devastated schools will gain support from this program which combines PC donation and teachers training courses for building the IT learning environments. The digital services centers at communities are intended to support the agricultural products e-marketing, tourism development, indigenous culture communication, and after-school education.
