Following the mid-term elections, a Pew poll found politically minded tech users tend to be male, young, financially well-off and educated. – Politics as usual? Not exactly, says the Pew Research Centers
Internet amp; American Life Project, which recently polled Americans
about their mobile phone usage during the mid-term elections. With
mobile connectivity becoming a growing feature in all communications
and exchanges of information…
Analogous to what happens when server virtualization is used in a data center, virtual power plants use intelligent software to make more efficient use of resources. The key to the operation of a virtual power plant is to use information about resource utilization to dynamically balance loads in real-time. In particular, virtual power plants use intelligent software to link renewable energy generation systems, batteries for energy storage, smart meters, and in-home demand response systems. The true benefit of this approach is that virtual power plants can potentially delay the building of new power plants even as energy demands go up in the future.
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IBM’s decision automation software from its ILOG acquisition is powering the securities settlement system for all the financial institutions in Mexico. – Mexico’s
central securities depository is using IBM
software that can settle securities trades in near real time, IBM
said Dec. 22. Rapid settlement means banks don’t need to have as much cash on
hand to cover trades, which reduces the risk of financial losses, according to IBM.
Indeval, Mexico…
Microsoft has started a beta program for its Dryad technology, its answer to Google MapReduce. – Microsoft has launched a beta program for its Dryad
Project, a set of technologies aimed at answering enterprise needs
around large data sets.
The company recently unveiled Community Technology Previews (CTPs)
of Dryad, DSC and DryadLINQ, technologies meant to support
data-intensive applica…
Boustead Singapore says it is not going ahead with the acquisition of redeemable convertible notes and shares of Bio-Treat Technology.
Earlier, subsidiary Boustead Knowledge, had agreed to purchase 100 million Bio-Treat shares from Giant Delight Holdings Limited (GDL) at the price of 4 cents each.
Boustead says it decided to scale down its investment after Bio-Treat announced a rights issue of up to 992,236,440 new shares at 4 cents each to raise funds.
In my experience the accountants which are most puzzled by the word are the ones that will be most benefitted by technology. This is so because these people have no idea about what cloud technology is and are most scared of it thus not benefitted by the technology at all.
NFC technology is headed for some “explosive growth,” says a new iSuppli report. Google includes the technology in its new Nexus S, while Nokia launched the first NFC phone in 2005. – Thanks to Google and Nokia, in particular, near-field communication technology is headed into a phase of “explosive growth” in 2011 that will pave the way for changes in the mobile payments business, iSuppli said in a Dec. 20 report.
The NFC technology, based on short-range wireless connectivity…
What cool technologies will 2011 bring? Check out Intel’s predictions including from CTO Justin Rattner and CIO Diane Bryant and share some of your own.
Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11, due out next year, features "vector machine learning" technology that will help organizations define their sensitive data. – Symantec is adding new machine learning technology to its data loss prevention
(DLP) product to ease efforts to
classify sensitive data and define policies.
The feature, called Vector Machine Learning, will be included in
Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11 when it becomes available during the fi…
Application experts in Java, .Net, mobile applications and those who bridge the technology and business gaps are hot commodities for 2011. Security is also still on the hiring agenda, though salaries are not gaining a lot of steam in the coming year. – There
is more evidence that recruiters expect to see an uptick in technology job
hiring activity for the coming year, finds a monthly report from technology job
board Dice, which surveyed 850 human resource leaders and hiring managers.
Forty-six percent of recruiters expect to see more hiring in…
Mainboard-listed Datapulse Technology, one of the leading total solution providers of CD and DVD services in the Asia Pacific region, reported its first quarter results for the financial year 2011.
For 1Q FY2011, revenue increased by 4.6% from $20.5 million to $21.4 million. The group continued to enjoy the usual higher level of business activities from year-end orders with the increase in revenue attributed to certain higher value kitting projects undertaken during 1Q FY2011.
Technological innovation mainly led to the technical developments that help each and every person in carrying out the related tasks very easily without causing any trouble.
Industry analyst firms, including Forrester Research, have ranked IBM No. 1 in services. The company has a varied services portfolio led by IBM GBS (Global Business Services) and IBM GTS (Global Technology Services). IBM GBS operates in more than 160 countries and provides clients with deep business process and industry expertise across 17 industries. IBM officials say their GBS is the worlds largest service provider in business consulting, system integration and application services. GBS helps clients implement solutions that deliver business outcomes with far-reaching impact and sustainable results, whether thats designing and implementing new service after sales business models, revolutionizing the business model for automotive insurance with innovative technology or becoming one of the leading logistics providers for supply chains. IBM works with its clients to identify the level of change that suits their needs and will result in actionable change and sustainable outcomes. Meanwhile, IBM officials said IBM GTS is the world’s largest IT services and consulting provider, with about 190,000 professionals in 160 countries. For instance, IBM’s GTS business in Greater China (Hong Kong, Taiwan, China) addresses the entire spectrum of its clients’ business needs, from business transformation and industry expertise of IBM’s consulting business to hosting, infrastructure, technology design and training services. GTS provides services such as business continuity and resilience, user services, integrated communication services, IT strategy and architecture services, maintenance and technical support services, middleware services, outsourcing services, security and privacy services, server services, site and facilities services, and storage and data services. – …
Recruiting plans for next year include an emphasis on filling technology-based positions with modest hiring goals next year, finds a report. While the IT hiring vibe is positive, the numbers may not necessarily impact the larger hiring picture. Highest on the jobs food chain in 2011? Application development. – Recruiters
are not afraid to smile and shake their jazz hands about full time technology
job openings they need to fill next year. Is it rainbows with gold pots in
2011? Well, lets not overstate the facts.
Hiring will occur in technology in 2011, but the
movement to rent and lease technology…
With HP’s multicore PCs, Microsoft’s high-performance computing technology and Intel’s Parallel Studio 2011, Massachusetts General has shortened a virtual colonoscopy from 30 minutes to under 4 minutes. – Using technology from HP, Intel and Microsoft,
a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed an
algorithm to make colonoscopies less invasive, faster and less
expensive.
Hiro Yoshida, director of 3D imaging research in
the radiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital …
Businesses interested in wireless photo printing might consider these affordable models from Lexmark and others. – Wireless capability on many office appliances, including printers, is
becoming increasingly frequent in the marketplace and affordable for
cost-conscious businesses. At the same time, the onslaught of low-priced
digital cameras, also with wireless capabilities, has allowed small businesses
to pr…
Bio-Treat Technology says it has signed a water supply, wastewater treatment and recycled water contract with the Henan Province San Men Xia Industrial Zone Consultative Committee with a contract value of RMB500 million ($98.7 million).
The investment in the first phase of the project is estimated to be no less than RMB80 million. The funds required for these BOT projects will be financed through internal cash flow and domestic banks borrowing.
Analysts dissecting the technology hiring picture in 2010 see little growth and a lot of movement to rent or lease talent rather than hand out full-time salaries and benefits. Some see 2011 in the same light: Plenty of work and business for contractors, consultants and managed service providers. – With
the last month of the year in full swing and November hiring numbers flat,
analysts watching the five segments of technology jobs as categorized by the
U.S. governments Bureau of Labor Statistics find 2010 as a year of flat hiring
rather than growth.
“There has been a slight increase in…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 8, 2010 – AMD, Dell, Intel Corporation, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics LCD Business and LG Display today announced intentions to accelerate adoption of scalable and lower power digital interfaces such as DisplayPort and High-Definition Multimedia Interface® (HDMI) into the PC.
Intel and AMD expect that analog display outputs such as Video Graphics Array (VGA) and the low voltage differential signaling technology (LVDS) panel interface would no longer be supported in their product lines by 2015. HDMI has increasingly been included in new PCs for easy connection to consumer electronics devices. DisplayPort is expected to become the single PC digital display output for embedded flat panels, PC monitors and projectors.
DisplayPort and HDMI allow for slimmer laptop designs, and support higher resolutions with deeper color than VGA – a technology which is more than 20 years old. Additionally, as laptops get smaller and their embedded flat panel resolutions increase for more immersive experiences, the power advantages, bi-directional communications and design efficiency benefits of DisplayPort make it a superior choice over LVDS, the previous standard for LCD panel inputs.
Intel plans to end support of LVDS in 2013 and VGA in 2015 in its PC client processors and chipsets.
“Modern digital display interfaces like DisplayPort and HDMI enhance the consumer visual PC experience by immersing them with higher resolutions and deeper colors — all at lower power — to enhance battery life for laptops,” said Eric Mentzer, Intel’s vice president of Strategy, Planning and Operations for the Visual and Parallel Computing Group. “By moving to these new interfaces, Intel is able to focus investment on new innovations to enhance the PC experience rather than having to solve challenges of supporting legacy analog interfaces on our latest silicon process technology and products.”
AMD plans to begin phasing out legacy interfaces, starting with the removal of native LVDS output from most products in 2013. The company also plans to remove native VGA output starting in 2013, with expansion to all AMD products by 2015. This would mean DVI-I support will be eliminated in the same timeframe.
“Displays and display standards are rapidly evolving, with new features such as multi-display support, stereoscopic 3-D, higher resolutions and increased color depth quickly moving from early adopter and niche usage to mainstream application,” said Eric Demers, AMD’s chief technology officer, Graphics Division. “Legacy interfaces such as VGA, DVI and LVDS have not kept pace, and newer standards such as DisplayPort and HDMI clearly provide the best connectivity options moving forward. In our opinion, DisplayPort 1.2 is the future interface for PC monitors, along with HDMI 1.4a for TV connectivity.”
While the large installed base of existing VGA monitors and projectors will likely keep VGA on PC back panels beyond 2015, leading PC makers are in strong support of this transition. The DisplayPort connector interface provides backwards and forwards compatibility by supporting VGA and DVI output via certified adapters, while also providing new capabilities such as single connector multi-monitor support.
Moving to the latest digital standards like DisplayPort enables customers to preserve backwards compatibility with installed equipment while taking full advantage of the latest advances in display capabilities, configuration options, and features,” said Liam Quinn, chief technology officer, Dell Business Client.
“We live in a digital-rich world and display technology must keep up with the explosion of digital content,” said George He, chief technology officer, Lenovo. “By transitioning to digital display technologies like Display Port and HDMI customers can not only enjoy a better computing experience, they get more of what’s important to them in a laptop: more mobility, simplified design with fewer connectors, and longer battery life.“
Leading display panel manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics LCD Business and LG Display also are in strong support of this transition.
Samsung Electronics LCD Business is already supporting this transition with embedded DisplayPort notebook panels, which we have been shipping since March of this year,” said Seung-Hwan Moon, vice president of engineering, LCD Business, Samsung Electronics.
“LG Display is fully prepared for this future transition. We already have different sizes of LCD panels with eDP out in the market to fulfill various needs of customers.“ said Michael Kim, vice president of IT Product Planning Department at LG Display.
The strong value proposition of scalable and low power digital display interfaces for PC users coupled with industry innovation around these interfaces should accelerate overall adoption of the newer display technologies for PCs.
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Consumers are turning to smartphones and tablets PC to help them monitor their health. This is also leading to the consumerization of health care technology. – Consumers are increasingly using smartphone and tablet
PCs, such as the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, to monitor their own
health. This, according to a Dec. 6 report from research firm Ovum, is leading
to the consumerization of health care technology.
The report quot;2011 Trends to Wat…
