Archive for November, 2011
Behind the sensor web lies a cloud
November 30th, 2011
For the most part people are now connected, with 5.3 billion people having a mobile phone as of the end of 2010. That number should continue to rise, but most operators are focusing on the next lofty goal — connecting machines. Call it machine to machine, the Internet of Things, or a web that talks back, but once we start connecting devices and sensors, we’re adding complexity to a system that’s already highly complex.
There are companies trying to build better sensors, and those trying to make new ways of programming such sensor networks, but Axeda is trying to create the intelligence in the cloud to monitor and manage the sensors in real time. Axeda
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Virtual childbirth simulator improves safety of high-risk deliveries
November 28th, 2011
“The mechanics of the human birth canal make for a very complicated delivery process compared to other mammals,” said Olivier Ami, M.D., Ph.D., an obstetrician in the Department of Radiology at Antoine Béclères Hospital, Université Paris Sud, France. “We now have computer-simulated childbirth to identify potential problems.”
Using the new software, called PREDIBIRTH, Dr. Ami and a team of researchers processed MR images of 24 pregnant women. The result was a three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of both the pelvis and the fetus along with 72 possible trajectories of the babys head through the birth canal. Based on these simulations, the program scored each mothers likelihood of a normal birth.
“This goes beyond simple imaging,” Dr. Am
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Quick Hits: Facebook Opens a New York Engineering Office, Google Can Buy AdMeld, More
November 28th, 2011
In a press conference today, featuring big names like Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Facebook announced it’ll commence engineering operations from its New York office in early 2012. There are currently 100 Facebook employees based in New York City, but they work largely in sales and marketing — what the company announced is Facebook’s first engineering office on the East Coast (in addition to Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., the social network also has engineers working out of Seattle). Faceb Find more…
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IPCom Threatens Injunction On HTC In Germany, But HTC Brushes It Off
November 24th, 2011
The German courts have proven to be some of the most heated in the current rash of mobile patent suits, and here is one more case to cement that reputation even further: the patent-holding company IPCom says that it plans to execute an existing injunction on HTC to prohibit the company from selling devices as soon as it can—although HTC has already issued a statement dismissing the threat.
German patent owner IPCom says that its decided to enforce an injunction on HTC devices, which include both smartphones and tablets, running on both the Android OS and Windows Phone. The injunction order dates back from 2009 and IPCom today said it wanted it put into effect “in the shorted possible time”, according to a statement from the company (via Reuters). At th
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Innovations in CRM
November 23rd, 2011
I am pleased to announce the launch of TEC’s final software buyer’s guide of the year: Innovations in CRM. .
This buyer’s guide provides in-depth insight from Gabriel Gheorghiu, TEC’s analyst specializing in CRM, about the state of the CRM market, and includes solution overviews, links to CRM resources, customer success stories, and a directory of hundreds of CRM software vendors. The guide aims to educate readers about the CRM space and what vendors are doing to differentiate themselves from the competition through innovations such as cloud computing, social media, and mobile, to name a few.
We trust you will find this guide, as well as , insightful and helpful in your enterprise software research. The TEC
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