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IBM today announced plans to go online with its commercial cloud service for software development and testing. IBM, which already delivers a test and development cloud, is now allowing enterprise and government clients to test and develop on an IBM Cloud. Following a successful beta program, IBM is working with partners in cloud management, cloud security and software development and testing support to provide businesses with a unique mix of flexibility, scalability, enterprise-grade security and control for development and test on the IBM Cloud.
The average enterprise devotes up to 50 percent of its entire technology infrastructure to development and test, but typically up to 90 percent of it remains idle. IBM has seen that taking advantage of cloud computing within development and testing environments can help reduce IT labor costs by 50 percent, improve quality and drastically reduce time to market. IBM's new Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud allows enterprise clients to expand on internal development and test efforts with instant access to resources through IBM's secure, scalable cloud delivery model, IBM software and application lifecycle management capabilities. IBM's enterprise-friendly approach to cloud complements clients' current data centers and traditional development efforts, helping clients:
PayPal, the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online, is extending its global payments platform, PayPal X into the cloud. PayPal is working with the IBM Cloud Labs to allow its ecosystem of developers to not only innovate on the IBM cloud, but to quickly monetize new applications developed and made available via smart phones. "We want to provide a very simple way to make payments available on all platforms including mobile applications," said Osama Bedier, PayPal's vice president of platform and emerging technologies. "The IBM cloud provides a platform for developers to come together as a community, to create, develop and test new applications. We look forward to seeing the payments innovations our developers create through the IBM cloud and bringing the wallet into the cloud."
The Collaborative Software Initiative is a company that engages the power of communities to develop and deliver new high value enterprise software. CSI has developed an advanced new collaboration portal product for its partner Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations (STCI). Together they deployed the system as the Department of Education's new Open Innovation Portal -- an online community connecting teachers, administrators, education experts, and charitable foundations to request, propose, and refine ideas to improve public education in the United States. "We used IBM's cloud environment to develop, test, and now deliver this very visible application because of its focus on open technology and its inherent scalability," said Evan Bauer, CTO, The Collaborative Software Initiative. • March 2010
New Universal File System Driver Eliminates the 4GB Barrier AND Delivers High Performance File Transfer Rates –Both Critical for HD Video Playback
Paragon Software Group (PSG), announced the release of Paragon NTFS for Windows CE to tackle the incompatibilities of Windows CE-based multimedia systems with NTFS-formatted portable storage devices. The announcement is in concert with Microsoft’s initiative to promote its Windows CE family of products to designers and manufacturers of embedded systems and mobile devices as well as home and automotive multimedia systems.
Paragon NTFS for Windows CE provides a stable, high performance solution to address the growing end-user demand to access a wide range of multimedia and data content from portable storage devices.
From entertainment systems to GPS navigators, mobile phones/smart handheld devices and other portable products, Paragon NTFS for Windows CE was developed to allow such Windows CE-based devices to access stored content that otherwise would not have been possible with the previous standard FAT32 file system, which capped file size at 4GB –not enough storage to hold a single movie, let alone one of High-Definition Video or Blu-ray quality.
With its deep focus on cross-platform technologies for operating systems and embedded kernels, Paragon is recognized as the first software developer to provide full read/write access between incompatible file systems. According to Tom Fedro, president, Paragon Software Group, “There is no question that the popularity of Windows CE devices is growing; however file system incompatibility can be a pacing issue for a wide range of consumer products. Delivering support for NTFS under Windows CE bridges this gap, and our technology will become a catalyst for unleashing a whole new range of applications.”
The new NTFS for Windows CE is based on Paragon’s unique Universal File System Driver (UFSD) technology, which was specially developed to provide full high performance access (read/write, format, etc.) to volumes of the most popular file systems (NTFS, FAT, Ext2/3FS, etc.) under various platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, DOS, etc.) where these file systems normally are not supported. NTFS for Windows CE allows silicon chip designers and manufacturers of automotive and home multimedia centers, as well as other mobile and embedded devices, to make their products more user-friendly and meet the market demand for high performance access to large data files such as HD video.
“Paragon’s 15-years of expertise in cross-platform support of NTFS and other file systems has been proven with millions of installations around the world,” says Fedro. “We like to think of ourselves as problem solvers, and ensuring platform independence through file system compatibility is a core competency that has earned us valuable customer partnerships. Our technology also fulfills the need for performance – and high performance is absolutely critical for applications that require High-Definition Video playback.”
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Paragon Software Group is an innovative software developer focused on two dynamic growth markets. The company's comprehensive product line for the data storage market addresses the needs of data security, storage and management for PCs, servers and networks. A second portfolio of products focuses on mobile productivity applications for handheld devices. • 28-1-10
As flat as possible, energy-efficient and high-resolution – display manufacturers will focus on these attributes at electronica 2010, the world’s leading trade show for components, systems and applications. LED, OLED and AMOLED technologies are gaining ground in the areas of e-signage, smart phone displays and television sets, and are promising to create a real technical revolution. Samsung will present its new LED large-format displays in the hope of achieving great success on the e-signage market.
LEDs are light-emitting diodes which permit compact and energy-efficient lighting applications. The new LED large-format displays in Samsung’s EX(n) series, which will be presented at electronica this year, combine size and energy efficiency. Weighing just 15 kilograms and with a depth of 40 millimetres, they rank among the lightest in their class and also save up to 60% less energy compared with conventional displays. The new LED SyncMaster 400EX(n), 460EX(n) and 550EX(n) with screen sizes of 40 inches, 46 inches and 55 inches respectively are especially suitable for digital signage applications in airports, shopping centres or conference venues, and are very impressive thanks to their full HD resolution with a refresh rate of 120 Hertz.
Kingbright Electronic Europe GmbH will also present the first dome lens SMD-LED in a 0603 package. This new helios SMD LED has a 60° angle of radiation and supplies a typical brightness of up to 3000 mcd@20mA in the colour red. The industrial component complies with temperature specifications between -40°C and +80°C and was developed especially for the automatic “pick-and-place” mounting process.
dilitronics GmbH will present its innovative “controLED technology”, which prevents temperature-, age- and production-induced inhomogeneity of LEDs. Thanks to a freely programmable microcontroller, the parameters of every LED can be controlled precisely. The potential of LEDS is therefore exploited to the full.
Power Systems GmbH+Co.KG, Deutschland will present its brand-new PS-LPL0801-01 backlight converter at electronica 2010. With an output power of 9 Watts it can control a large number of TFT displays containing LED backlight systems. Thanks to flexible interconnection of up to 8 outputs, LED flows from 15 to 240mA can be attained. The converter (dimensions: 64 x 32 x 9 mm) can easily be integrated in customer applications. It is used in industry, medical electronics and lighting systems.
An OLED is an organic light-emitting diode which, compared with an anorganic light-emitting diode (LED), has lower current density and luminance. OLED displays also do not require any backlight because the diodes themselves emit light when a voltage is applied. This means that OLED displays are flatter and more energy-efficient and have a higher contrast than conventional displays.
In the area of OLEDs Data Modul AG will present passive-matrix OLEDs at this year’s electronica. One highlight will be the new 14 cm (5.5") PMOLED UG-5664ASGGF01 (UN10033). This monochrome (green) product has a resolution of 256 x 64 pixels and is currently the largest PMOLED available with dimensions of 146 x 65 x 2 mm. The application is used in medical monitoring monitors.
Under the motto “big sizes - low energy - 3D – touch”, the Display/e-Signage Forum on 9 November 2010 will feature innovations and future trends in the display industry on Stand A3.221. Unlike other forums at electronica, the Display/e-Signage Forum will contain both a talk area – a “speaker’s corner” with talks and podium discussions – and a presentation area where exhibitors can promote innovative products.
Especially in the area of AMOLED displays for smart phones, the market research company iSuppli is forecasting an average growth rate of 55.1% up to 2015 (source: iSuppli). Since an AMOLED display does not require any backlight, energy consumption is reduced and a normal display can be just a few millimetres thick. AMOLED displays can also be printed on nearly every material and are extremely elastic. Consideration is already being given to the integration of displays in items of clothing.
The quarterly “OLED Shipment and Forecast Report” by DisplaySearch shows that OLED displays will have a market volume of $5.5 billion with an average annual growth rate of 37% by 2015. Samsung is reacting in this respect and will invest a total of $2.2 billion in AMOLEDs and OLEDs up to 2012. However, market researchers do not regard smart phone displays as the most important source of income with OLEDs and AMOLEDs in the longer term. According to DisplaySearch, television sets will also account for a worldwide turnover of $1.92 billion in 2015 (source: DisplaySearch).
It is also anticipated that sales of LEDs will double by 2013 to €14.3 billion compared with $6.7 billion in 2009. Strong growth is expected in this segment, primarily on account of the wide range of applications of very bright LEDs (source: iSuppli). • 2-9-10
Croatian Pavilion at CeBIT 2010 was the largest Croatian booth so far: exhibitors ranged from Government agencies and institutions to ICT companies and clusters.
BeeSMART remote beehive monitoring, by Blancom
BeeSMART is a weight scale connected to the mobile phone network. It gathers beehive weight, outside temperature, time stamp, beehive ID and battery voltage. Data is automatically sent by SMS twice a day and enables you to know the exact situation of the apiary.
CADIAL search engine, by Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
The CADIAL search engine is an intelligent search engine designed for structured document retrieval with the support for morphological normalisation of Croatian language. The search engine can be used on documents in any language and the morphological procedures for any other language can be easily added.
Geanium, interactive chronological visualisation system by King ICT
Geanium® is a system designed to analyse, visualize and compare historical (or any other) time sequenced data by interpreting those data in a mathematical model. The data are arranged into timelines and the system can display events from multiple timelines on the map simultaneously.
Sounds complicated, but what this cutting-edge system does is visually attractive and immediately applicable in art (archeology, museums), education (history maps), media (info-graphics for print or online media) and social networks (www.ewhent.com). www.geanium.com
Abba: core banking software and Virtual Loan Committee software
Croatian software company Abba’s products (not to be mistaken with the Swedish group J ) are software for small and medium sized banks: core banking software “Novo Doba” and Virtual Loan Committees.
What makes them special and what makes them interesting to European markets is the exact opposite of their competition: small in size, Abba team is fighting the giants of banking software with the unique selling proposition. Quick return of investment, high level of customization and help desk personnel that is actually several hours drive away – not on another continent.
Brightcore by ELMA Kurtalj: intelligent building management
Brightcore is a technological platform that enables the control os building management systems by use of simple ICT tools. It enables ICT experts to manage, analyze and process data in order to answer the questions that matter to the Board: Mean Time Between Failure and Total Cost of Ownership. Brightcore aims to bring the infrastructure to the level of certainty that ERP provides to business process management.
Siinfonija, Interactive Information System, by Echo
'Siinfonija' is client-oriented interactive information system for official and unofficial documents and other material in digital form, primarily intended for use in public places.
Trillenium: 3D Shopping Mall
Trillenium is a unique combination of experiences: 3D online shopping mall, social network, gaming community and chat. Visitors use their avatars to walk around the mall, enter shops, look at products in 3 dimensions and chat with other shoppers. Trillenium is so far available on Croatian market but it has set its aim at Europe and North America. www.trillenium.com • March 2010
Telco Updates
Telco spots on TwitterCantabria infinita
Cueva de El Soplao • Turismo y gastronomía
Propuestas en Brasil
Cabo Frío: paraíso a 200 km de Río • Niterói: playas, arquitectura y agenda cultural • El camino de Niemeyer: recorrido arquitectónico
Propuestas en Argentina
Ruta Nacional 40: Recorrido por la parte Norte • Centro (Cuyo) • Sur (Patagonia)
