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Business Card Company: CPM Braxis Capgemini Posted on Jan. 13, 2012 07:52 AM in Emerging Technologies , Enterprise Portal , Java Programming , On Demand and Software as a Service On demand is the "next big thing": every product, every solution has to be available as an on premise and an on demand version. www.topix.net | 1/25/12 5:35 PM Board Your Plane with Your Smartphone
Near-field communication will help shorten wait times at the airport, as companies continue to experiment with the capabilities of the technology in mobile devices. Orange Business Services and the air transport research lab SITA are integrating NFC into SIM cards for mobile devices, which will allow users to check-in, open gates and more easily access airport lounges by placing their phone on an electronic reader. The technology developed by OBS and SITA does not require an actual NFC chip to function. Instead, the companies' innovation allows boarding pass data to be written directly on an NFC-enabled SIM card, which will likely lead to greater consumer adoption. Customers won't have to purchase an NFC-capable phone to use the technology, and the card will be readable even when devices power off. NFC-enabled SIM cards will allow users to ditch traditional paper boarding passes so they don't have to worry about misplacing them or accidentally leaving them at home. However, identity checks will still be necessary before users can board their flights. The new technology will not debut right away, but SITA is a part of the aviation industry, making it likely the SIM cards will be an alternate way to board in the near future. SITA is currently in negotiations with a major European airline to begin a trial run of the technology this summer. If successful, airports across the world will take steps to prepare. NFC is one of the emerging technologies in today's smartphones, and has typically been associated with its capabilities in the mobile payment arena. Now, as more developers get their hands on NFC-enabled devices, the potential of the technology is widening. NFC may also help track shipments of goods, for example, forming a valuable part of the growing "Internet of things" in which objects share and transmit information to one another directly. OBS and SITA's new SIM cards are still in development, but if the companies have successful pilot run with the technology, users could use their smartphones and NFC technology to board planes in the near future. Board Your Plane with Your Smartphone originally appeared at Mobiledia on Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:47 pm. www.mobiledia.com | 1/24/12 11:10 PM SNC name not explicit
Business Card Company: Siteco Beleuchtungstechnik GmbH Posted on Sep. 29, 2006 04:59 PM in ABAP , Application Server , Interoperability , Java Programming , SAP NetWeaver Platform , Emerging Technologies Secure Network Connection is the SAP technology provided for Network and Transport Layer Security. www.topix.net | 1/22/12 1:21 PM Very good stuff
Business Card Company: CPM Braxis Capgemini Posted on Jan. 13, 2012 07:52 AM in Emerging Technologies , Enterprise Portal , Java Programming , On Demand and Software as a Service On demand is the "next big thing": every product, every solution has to be available as an on premise and an on demand version. www.topix.net | 1/14/12 4:56 PM Siri Takes Its Place in the "Smart Home"
The IPhone 4S will soon control thermostats, lights and home theater systems, as Apple's voice assistant Siri debuts in the "smart home." Custom home automation installer Carnes Audio Visual released a YouTube video showing Siri communicating with various home appliances and systems. The video features Siri dimming lights to 50 percent, setting the thermostat to 70 degrees and turning on a home theater system using voice commands. The system uses AMS-AIP home automation equipment from Creston and an intermediary proxy server to help Siri communicate with home appliances and systems. The Little Rock, Ark.-based company created the promotional video to showcase its own capabilities on the forefront of home automation. However, it also highlights how Apple's voice assistant can venture beyond iPhone 4S functionality. The "smart home" is one of this year's up-and-coming technology innovations, with several recently unveiled products aimed at controlling a full array of appliances and systems using a smartphone as the hub. For example, LG debuted a connected refrigerator at this week's Consumer Electronics Show that will help people stick to their diet plans and manage food storage needs. Home improvement retail chain Lowe's will release kits later this year to control thermostats, alarms, lighting and other home systems with a cloud-based home network. Apple's rival, Google, also hinted at its own smart home strategy this week. Speaking at a CES panel discussion on smart home technology, chairman Eric Schmidt pointed to his company's open-source Android platform as key to his company's future success in the connected home, and hinted Android will soon connect every household electronic and appliance via a cloud platform. Carnes Audio Visual's Siri-enabled smart home system puts Apple in the race alongside Google, but with the added twist of voice recognition. Last year's 4S release gave Apple an edge over rivals because Siri pushed the boundaries of voice with its intelligence-based search capabilities and intuitive voice recognition. Now that Siri is also capable of controlling appliances and systems in the home, Apple stands at the intersection of two popular emerging technologies, voice and the smart home, and has the chance to become a forerunner in both. Siri Takes Its Place in the "Smart Home" originally appeared at Mobiledia on Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:56 pm. www.mobiledia.com | 1/13/12 11:42 PM CES: Ears-on with Tritton's $99 Xbox 360 Headset
Although CES focuses largely on flashy and expensive emerging technologies, it's also a great time to see some of the more practical, cost-effective devices that many of us will end up buying later in the year. www.topix.net | 1/11/12 10:56 PM New year, new science
Nature looks ahead to the key findings and events that may emerge in 2012: NASA’s car-sized rover, Curiosity, is set to arrive on Mars in August to study its watery past. Six visionary research proposals will vie for huge grants from the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship scheme for studies of graphene, robot [...]
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1/4/12 1:56 PM
Emerging technologies for amino acid nutrition research in the post-genome era
Amino acids are not only the building blocks of proteins but are also key regulators of metabolic pathways in cells. www.topix.net | 12/24/11 11:53 PM Thanks for this excellent blog
Business Card Company: SAP AG Posted on Oct. 06, 2008 10:49 PM in Duet , Emerging Technologies , Business Server Pages , Enterprise Portal , Java Programming Not only in Duet, but also in other scenarios you will often want to access backend systems where you do not want to have the user to authenticate himself / herself again. www.topix.net | 12/20/11 5:53 PM The Next 5 in 5 — innovations that will change our lives in the next five years
In the latest Next 5 in 5 multi-year forecast, IBM examines market and societal trends expected to transform our lives in the next five years and emerging technologies from IBM’s global labs: Energy: People power will come to life Imagine being able to use every motion around you — your movements, the water rushing through [...]
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12/20/11 3:12 PM
Keeping Up with the Despots
One columnist wondered whether democracy was nimble enough to compete with tyranny. Can an open democracy develop and adopt new technologies as well as an authoritarian state can? It's a question we might ask today, given China's transformation over the past decade into the leading manufacturer of solar panels and other emerging technologies (see "
Password Era to End, IBM Predicts in Five Years
It's that time of year again. IBM has just released its sixth annual "IBM 5 in 5." It's a list of innovations that Big Blue bets have the potential to change the way we work, live and interact over the next five years. This year, IBM is focusing on market and societal trends, as well as emerging technologies from its research labs.
IBM predicts, first of all, that people power will come to life. In other words, anything that moves or produces heat has the potential to create energy that can be captured. As IBM sees it, advances in renewable energy technology will allow individuals to collect this kinetic energy and use it to help power our homes, offices and cities. "Imagine attaching small devices to the spokes on your bicycle wheels that recharge batteries as you pedal along," IBM said. "You will have the satisfaction of not only getting to where you want to go, but at the same time powering some of the lights in your home." The Real James Bond IBM's second prediction is around passwords. Big Blue predicts in the next five years our biological makeup will be the key to safeguarding our individual identity. IBM says we will no longer need to create, track or remember multiple passwords thanks to multi-factor biometrics, which will match our unique biometric profile. If that's not 007 enough for you, how about this: IBM scientists are researching how to link your brain to your devices, such as a computer or a smartphone. If you just think about calling someone, IBM said, it happens. It's all part of IBM's bioinformatics research, and within five years we'll see the early applications of this tech in the gaming and entertainment industries. Fourth, IBM predicts unsolicited advertisements may feel so personalized and relevant it may seem spam is... www.cio-today.com | 12/19/11 9:38 PM How much are you really paying for cable sports
Because of channel bundling, TV subscribers pay $100 a year, on average, for sports programming, no matter how much they watch. But emerging technologies may offer subscribers more options to avoid ...
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12/19/11 7:01 PM
FBI Contacted Carrier IQ About Software
A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software that was secretly installed on 141 million cell phones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed. The disclosure came one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents "neither sought nor obtained any information" from the company, Carrier IQ.
The company's statement probably will inflame suspicion about the monitoring tool and its usefulness to the U.S. government. Andrew Coward, vice president of marketing for Carrier IQ of Mountain View, California, told The Associated Press that the FBI is the only law enforcement agency that has contacted the company. Coward would not say when, why or how often the FBI had reached out to Carrier IQ, but he said the company is not working with the bureau. "There is no relationship between us and the FBI," Coward said. During an oversight hearing Wednesday, Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI "neither sought nor obtained any information from Carrier IQ in any one of our investigations." Mueller was responding to a question by Democratic Sen. Al Franken, chairman of the committee's privacy and technology panel, who has said collecting personal information from people's cell phones could violate federal law. FBI spokesman Michael Kortan said in an emailed statement that the bureau's technical staff "communicates routinely with many technology companies, including Carrier IQ, relative to new and emerging technologies and capabilities." The company's technology is designed as a diagnostic tool that gives mobile telephone companies the ability to gather and analyze information that helps them improve the performance of devices that operate on their networks, Carrier IQ said. The software typically is installed by the phone company or the manufacturer of the handset. Most cell phone users were unaware the company or its software existed until... www.cio-today.com | 12/19/11 4:29 PM 2nd FCC Workshop on PSTN Transition Streaming Live Today
Today, December 14, 2011, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding the second of two workshops on the transition of the PSTN to new technologies (described previously). The workshop started streaming live this morning at 9:30am US Eastern at: The FCC's note about the workshops mentions that people watching the live stream can send in questions to panelists using either of two methods:
Given that a video recording was provided for the first workshop, hopefully a video recording of this second session will also be made available. Today's sessions look to be quite interesting and contain quite a range of participants. The full schedule and list of participants is available on the FCC's web site (click on "Expand" in the lower right corner of the page), but here is the brief list: * * * 9:30 a.m. — 9:40 a.m. - Welcome Remarks by Zachary Katz, Chief Counsel and Senior Legal Advisor, Office of the Chairman, FCC 9:40 a.m. — 10:45 a.m. - Impact of the Transition on the Technology and Economics of the PSTN 10:45 a.m. — 11:45 p.m. - Policies of the PSTN (e.g., accessibility, reliability, affordability, and public safety) 1:00 p.m. — 2:10 p.m. - Implementing the Transition to New Networks 2:10 p.m. — 3:20 p.m. - Syncing Expectations, Emerging Technologies and the Public Good 3:20 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. - Economic Rationales for PSTN Transition Written by Dan York, Author and Speaker on Internet technologies for over 20 years www.circleid.com | 12/14/11 6:39 PM Well Done
Business Card Posted on Dec. 12, 2011 01:23 AM in Emerging Technologies , On Demand and Software as a Service , SAP Business ByDesign In my last blog , I examined SuccessFactors' technical architecture. www.topix.net | 12/13/11 6:31 PM The Enterprise is Untagged and At Risk
The more research I read, the more I realize that the enterprise is barely holding it together. Sure, some of the dysfunction can be attributed to trying to keep up with emerging technologies or changing demographics of their workforce or customers. But when new research reveals that most organizations can’t leverage existing work, enterprise knowledge, and institutional memory, I only have two words: face palm. Read full story... www.cmswire.com | 12/9/11 8:20 PM Is Write Once Run Anywhere Ever Going to Be a Reality?
The interest in mobile applications started towards the end of last millennium! Since then, as the saying goes, lot of water has flown under the bridge. The technology scenario has changed beyond recognition. None of the platforms which are popular today was in existence when we started our mobile journey. In fact, if you look back, you will find that every three years there is a churn in among the popular platforms. One of the top 3 popular mobile platforms will lose out to an upstart and a new leader also emerges.
Three Year Technology Churn Cycle
Three years back we were still talking about 5 platforms (iPhone, RIM, Symbian, Windows and JME) apart from mobile web. Though iPhones had started becoming popular, features phones accounted for majority of the market. In the enterprise Blackberry (RIM) still ruled. Outside the US, Symbian based Nokia devices were by far the most popular devices. Android was still in the realm of emerging technologies with interesting possibilities but no market share. HTML5 was something that was expected to happen somewhere in the distant future. iPad simply did not exist! wireless.sys-con.com |
12/6/11 1:00 PM
Is Write Once Run Anywhere Ever Going to Be a Reality?
The interest in mobile applications started towards the end of last millennium! Since then, as the saying goes, lot of water has flown under the bridge. The technology scenario has changed beyond recognition. None of the platforms which are popular today was in existence when we started our mobile journey. In fact, if you look back, you will find that every three years there is a churn in among the popular platforms. One of the top 3 popular mobile platforms will lose out to an upstart and a new leader also emerges.
Three Year Technology Churn Cycle
Three years back we were still talking about 5 platforms (iPhone, RIM, Symbian, Windows and JME) apart from mobile web. Though iPhones had started becoming popular, features phones accounted for majority of the market. In the enterprise Blackberry (RIM) still ruled. Outside the US, Symbian based Nokia devices were by far the most popular devices. Android was still in the realm of emerging technologies with interesting possibilities but no market share. HTML5 was something that was expected to happen somewhere in the distant future. iPad simply did not exist! dotnet.sys-con.com |
12/5/11 12:30 PM
Is Write Once Run Anywhere Ever Going to Be a Reality?
The interest in mobile applications started towards the end of last millennium! Since then, as the saying goes, lot of water has flown under the bridge. The technology scenario has changed beyond recognition. None of the platforms which are popular today was in existence when we started our mobile journey. In fact, if you look back, you will find that every three years there is a churn in among the popular platforms. One of the top 3 popular mobile platforms will lose out to an upstart and a new leader also emerges.
Three Year Technology Churn Cycle
Three years back we were still talking about 5 platforms (iPhone, RIM, Symbian, Windows and JME) apart from mobile web. Though iPhones had started becoming popular, features phones accounted for majority of the market. In the enterprise Blackberry (RIM) still ruled. Outside the US, Symbian based Nokia devices were by far the most popular devices. Android was still in the realm of emerging technologies with interesting possibilities but no market share. HTML5 was something that was expected to happen somewhere in the distant future. iPad simply did not exist! java.sys-con.com |
11/28/11 9:30 PM
Can a supercomputer solve the EU crisis
Future and Emerging Technologies programme. His selection was based on Prof. Helbing’s proposal to build a supercomputer capable of modeling everything that might occur should Greece get ...
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11/24/11 10:52 PM
Picking the top 10: Technologies vs. trends
Prognosticating the future impact of today's emerging technologies is a game for gamblers, both the skilled and the lucky. InfoWorld's editor-in-chief explains the knack and the numbers behind IW's recently published Top 10 list.
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11/21/11 5:58 PM
How about a Mac laptop?
Business Card Company: SAP Labs, LLC. Posted on Oct. 19, 2011 01:46 PM in ABAP , Emerging Technologies , SAP Business Suite , SAP NetWeaver Gateway , SAP NetWeaver Platform Thank you for your interest. www.topix.net | 11/21/11 10:23 AM Where Is Mobile Technology Headed?
The interest in mobile applications started towards the end of last millennium! Since then, as the saying goes, lot of water has flown under the bridge. The technology scenario has changed beyond recognition. None of the platforms which are popular today was in existence when we started our mobile journey. In fact, if you look back, you will find that every three years there is a churn in among the popular platforms. One of the top 3 popular mobile platforms will lose out to an upstart and a new leader also emerges.
Three Year Technology Churn Cycle
Three years back we were still talking about 5 platforms (iPhone, RIM, Symbian, Windows and JME) apart from mobile web. Though iPhones had started becoming popular, features phones accounted for majority of the market. In the enterprise Blackberry (RIM) still ruled. Outside the US, Symbian based Nokia devices were by far the most popular devices. Android was still in the realm of emerging technologies with interesting possibilities but no market share. HTML5 was something that was expected to happen somewhere in the distant future. iPad simply did not exist! wireless.sys-con.com |
11/11/11 10:52 AM
Trick or Treat: 2011 IT Zombie Technology Poll
Warning: Do not be scared, however be ready for some trick and treat fun, it is after all the Halloween season.
I like new emerging technologies and trends along with Zomboe technologies, you know, those technologies that have been declared dead yet are still being enhanced, sold and used.
Zombie technologies as a name may be new for some, while others will have a realization of experiencing something from the past, technologies being declared deceased yet still alive and being used. Zombie technologies are those that have been declared dead, yet still alive enabling productivity for customers that use them and often profits for the vendors who sell them. soa.sys-con.com |
10/18/11 7:13 PM
Perry says Texas fund had oversight, created jobs
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us.rd.yahoo.com | 10/12/11 5:07 AM Searching for New Ideas
Google's head of research explains why artificial intelligence is crucial to the search company's future. If anyone can preview the future of computing, it should be www.technologyreview.com | 9/22/11 7:00 AM Demand for Specialty Rooms Drops Amid Continued Economic Concerns Around Housing Market
www.dexigner.com | 9/13/11 6:26 PM After Shock and Awe
Since the attacks of September 11, Congress has approved nearly $1.3 trillion for military spending. Much of that money has gone into mounting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. But some of the funds have been used to dream up and develop futuristic-sounding military devices such as exoskeletons. Scientific American looked at some of these new and emerging technologies. [More] www.scientificamerican.com | 9/12/11 12:18 AM Survey says: cloud computing, telecommuting still struggling for foothold in mid-market
The survey, administered by SWC Technology Partners earlier this year, found that cloud computing is still in its nascent stages and generally is viewed as a complement to traditional technology. Of the 210 people surveyed, 54.2 percent said their companies weren't pursuing a single cloud-computing initiative. and just 3.7 percent said their entire company had adopted a cloud computing solution. About 30 percent were testing the viability and value of a cloud computing solution, and 12 percent had select groups working with cloud computing solutions. As one respondent told SWC: "I don't foresee the cloud as replacing the traditional use model we have now, but rather augmenting it. The cloud is a way to share data across many devices, enabling a user to work anywhere at any time in the most efficient manner. It doesn't replace the need for high performing, well designed, and low latency local applications and end user support." The biggest concern with the cloud isn't anything new. In fact, I'm sure you've heard it or even said it before: Privacy and security. More than one-in-five respondents said it was the single biggest area of concern. Cost was cited just 9.8 percent of the time. The SWC Technology Survey 2011 took a broad look at technology; it was last conducted in 2009. Obviously, there's been some change in the IT landscape. In 2009, the top three priorities identified were security, business intelligence and storage. This year, security was still the top concern, but virtualization moved into the No. 2 spot followed by business intelligence. The cloud? SWC said that "despite strong industry focus on cloud computing at the production level, enterprise implementation of this technology model is lagging." Not everyone dismissed the cloud. "Cloud computing, web conferencing and the ability to work from home due to emerging technologies are very promising tools in relation to our business. So we have recently moved our Exchange & SharePoint from in-house to Microsoft's BPOS service, and I am also looking to possibly move our file server/backup to the cloud as well," said a respondent. As far as companies switching their entire IT operation to the cloud, respondents were split as to when it might happen. Well, not all of them. Some 42 percent, when asked if it could happen by 2015, said it "would never happen," 32 percent said only if many "currently unresolved issues get addressed," 20 percent said it would happen, but not by 2015. Only 5.6 percent said it would "absolutely happen." Despite plenty of stories to the contrary, SWC found only 14 percent of those survey described telecommuting as "the norm." That was down a percentage point from 2009, although larger companies-those with 2,000 employees or more--generally were more likely to use it extensively (20 percent). "During the recession technologies that support telecommuting, such as unified messaging and video conferencing were positioned as cost savers; specifically following the value proposition that remote employees reduced corporate rent and that remote meetings could reduce the cost of travel," SWC said. "Why the adoption didn't meet expectations is hard to conclude. One assumption may be that coming out of the recession business leaders had a desire to have a more concrete or physical interaction with their respective teams." Check out the full results of the survey here, and let me know what you think.--Jim P.S. Did you know that FierceEnterpriseCommunications is on Twitter, too: Follow@FierceEntComm www.fierceenterprisecommunications.com | 9/8/11 4:16 AM New Radio Program Highlights And Inspires Innovation
NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) are launching a national radio program and podcast series that features compelling stories of revolutionary ideas, emerging technologies and the people behind the concepts that are shaping our future.
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9/1/11 7:00 AM
Game Author's First E-Book 'The Making of Game's The R.E.D. Album.'
(AllHipHop News) California rapper Game will take advantage of a number of new emerging technologies with the release of a new E–book titled The Making Of Game's The R.E.D. Album.
In the book, Game reveals the process behind creating The R.E.D. Album and offers insight into the two year period It took to create the release.
"With my book The Making Of Game's The R.E.D. Album, I wanted to give my fans a behind-the-scenes look of how my new album came to be," Game said in a statement. "These are...(read more ) Channel Up-And-Comers: CRN's Next-Gen 250
This Next-Gen 250 list is a snapshot of solution providers who are zeroing in on lucrative and emerging technologies, among them cloud computing, mobility, virtualization ,unified communications, business analytics and business intelligence. AD: Improving products to stay ahead of competition is the norm. Developing a product that changes the game for your industry is rare. How did leveraging a cloud infrastructure enable Thomson Reuters to alter the legal research process so that customers report getting teary eyed? Read their story at
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8/19/11 11:00 PM
IBM's Irving Wladawsky-Berger Talks Linux Then and Now
The second day of LinuxCon North America 2011 kicked off with a key figure to Linux's success, Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Formerly responsible for IBM's response to emerging technologies, Wladawsky-Berger talked about the disruptive force of Linux then and now, and IBM's relationship with Linux through the years. www.linux.com | 8/19/11 1:19 AM Introduction to Nixu Software: End-to-End Software-Based DNS, DHCP, IPAM Solutions for Your Network
Nixu Software delivers software-based DNS, DHCP and IPAM solutions that offer the best value in the industry. This translates to virtualizable, dependable and easy-to-use DDI solutions at a reasonable cost coupled with great customer service. With thousands of Nixu DDI server installations in production, our customers are service providers, enterprises, educational institutions and government agencies who view their IP based business infrastructure as a strategic asset. Implementing Nixu DDI solution allows your organization to:
What Differentiates Nixu Software from the Rest? Companies from hardware appliance background have optimized their product and solution architectures for closed computing environments running on specific pieces of hardware, forcing customers' hand when it comes to platform selection. Deploying these products as virtual appliances often lead to performance and resiliency issues because their architecture has not been intended for virtualization. Having invented virtualizable software appliances in 2006, all products in Nixu DDI family are available as ISO images that can be used to jump start secure DNS, DHCP and IPAM servers in just minutes. Nixu supports virtualized computing environments by VMware and Citrix as well as general-purpose servers and blades from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and the like, providing customers with the freedom of choice not offered by our competitors. Thanks to the unique, patent-pending software appliancing methodology used in Nixu DDI, our products offer advanced security features such as built-in intrusion prevention and support for centralized traffic monitoring, at lower Total Cost of Ownership than competition. Visit our website to learn more about what differentiates Nixu DDI products. Nixu DDI Products Our Product portfolio includes the following building blocks that can be integrated together: 1. Nixu NameSurfer Suite is a virtualization-ready IPAM solution supporting multi-vendor environments (including Microsoft AD networks) and adhering to open networking standards. With its powerful collection of tools and automation, Nixu NameSurfer Suite slashes DDI OPEX while minimizing the chance of network downtime. 2. Nixu DHCP Server is a virtualization-ready DHCP software appliance that can be run as standalone or as failover clusters for high availability. On a suitable platform, Nixu DHCP server scales up to several hundred leases per second performance. 3. Nixu Secure Name Server (SNS) is a virtualization-ready DNS software appliance that can be operated as authoritative or caching DNS server. On a suitable platform, Nixu SNS scales up to 100,000 queries per second performance. 4. Nixu Network Equipment Extractor (NEE) is a virtualization-ready network discovery system that polls the active network equipment for information on network clients and dynamically integrates that information with subnets managed in Nixu NameSurfer IPAM. Nixu NEE allows administrators to pinpoint the exact physical location of each client connected to the network at any time, thereby dramatically improving network transparency. 5. Nixu Registry Server is a Domain Name Registry Solution (DNRS) for generic and mid-sized TLDs. Designed as a solution framework with modular architecture, Nixu Registry Server can be configured and tailored on per-installation basis to meet the exact requirements of the customer. White Papers Visa Adds Chip to Cards, Lays Groundwork for Mobile Payments
Visa is taking steps to increase mobile credit card security as it accelerates its push for a prominent place in the burgeoning mobile payments market. The San Francisco-based credit card company Tuesday announced plans to adopt dual-interface chips technology in the U.S., a move it says will help build the necessary infrastructure for securing NFC-based mobile payments. Cards with EMV chip technology, with a gold-toned chip on the front, contains information specific to that card. These types of cards are common in Europe and are slowly being adopted in the U.S. Visa says the technology secures payments through dynamic authentication, so even if hackers compromise payment card data, they won't be able to use counterfeit cards at the point of sale. EMV chip technology makes mobile payment data less attractive for would-be thieves, said Visa, and is "an important security layer and a critical step" toward smartphone credit card security, according to Visa. Eventually, Visa said, the chips mean customers will no longer have to sign a credit card receipt to verify a purchase if a merchant has machines that can read the chip. The switch will help the credit card company establish an infrastructure as it faces stiff competition in the mobile commerce market. Earlier this year, Google announced its Google Wallet service, which allows people to purchase items with NFC technology. MasterCard, Citigroup, First Data and Sprint plans to support Google Wallet. Arguably one of the biggest competitors in the mobile payments field is Isis, a joint venture from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and four major credit cards. Isis is similar to Google Wallet in that it uses NFC to turn smartphones into e-wallets, allowing users to pay for items both online and off. Users simply swipe their device in front of a NFC machine and the charge appears on their monthly phone bill. However, Visa's added protection of EMV technology may give it an edge, since it addresses sensitive security issues that may hold off consumers from adopting mobile payments widely. "There is no security silver bullet. But smartcards and smartphones using EMV adds a strong layer for payment transaction security as well as online banking, access to medical records and more," said George Peabody, director at Emerging Technologies Advisory Service. "This is a welcome step toward lowering fraud at the point of sale and online. It's time." The chip technology may allow Visa to easily accept more mobile payments from users, which may bring the credit card company more business than ever. Visa Adds Chip to Cards, Lays Groundwork for Mobile Payments originally appeared at Mobiledia on Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:28 pm. www.mobiledia.com | 8/10/11 11:42 PM ECRI Institute is Designated an AIA Approved Provider of Educational Courses
www.dexigner.com | 8/9/11 9:45 PM Flingo: Ashwin Navin Talks Smart TV And Why Google, Apple Missed So Far
NOTE: This is the second in a weekly August series called "Television in Fast Forward," where we talk to businesspeople currently standing at the crossroads between traditional television and emerging technologies. www.topix.net | 8/8/11 8:38 PM Realtime Data Pipelines
In life there are really two major types of data analytics. Firstly, we don’t know what we want to know – so we need analytics to tell us what is interesting. This is broadly called discovery. Secondly, we already know what we want to know – we just need analytics to tell us this information, often repeatedly and as quickly as possible. This is called anything from reporting or dashboarding through more general data transformation and so on.
Typically we are using the same techniques to achieve this. We shove lots of data into a repository of some from (SQL, MPP SQL, NoSQL, HDFS etc) then run queries/ jobs/ processes across that data to retrieve the information we care about.
Now this makes sense for data discovery. If we don’t know what we want to know, having lots of data in a big pile that we can slice and dice in interesting ways is good. But when we already know what we want to know, continued batch based processing across mounds of data to produce “updated” results of data, that is often changing in constantly, can be highly inefficient.
Enter Realtime Data Pipelines. Data is fed in one end, results are computed in real time as data flows down the pipeline and come out the other end whenever relevant changes we care about occur. Data Pipelines / workflow / streams are becoming much more relevant for processing massive amounts of data with real time results. Moving relevant forms of analytics out of large repositories into the actual data flow from producer to consumer, I believe, will be a fundamental step forward in big data management.
There are some emerging technologies looking to address this, more details to follow.
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8/1/11 5:50 AM
Location Matters in Manufacturing
Research shows that regional and national differences in manufacturing practices help determine whether emerging technologies are economically viable. The migration of manufacturing from the United States to Asia could be having a significant impact on which advanced technologies are commercialized. Specifically, there is evidence that the shift in manufacturing is curtailing the development of emerging technologies in areas such as optoelectronics and advanced materials for the automotive industry. www.technologyreview.com | 7/22/11 7:00 AM Advanced Manufacturing and New Materials
The White House hopes to speed the development of manufacturing techniques that could turn new materials into products for use in energy, computation, and biotech. New materials are critical components of emerging technologies that promise to be major growth areas for the economy, such as less expensive solar power, electric-car batteries that can go longer between charges, lightweight portable electronic devices, and implantable medical devices for personalized medicine. But the journey from new material to product typically takes one to two decades. That's in large part because new materials require advanced manufacturing technologies that can take many years to develop. www.technologyreview.com | 7/11/11 7:00 AM Java.net Weblogs: Is Java Becoming an 'Emerging Technology'? Ask O'Reilly
 While Thursday's Java 7 Celebration Webcast, broadcast from Oracle's offices in Redwood Shores, California, was the signature Java 7 event that took place on 7/7/11, Java was also receiving significant attention at another location not too far up the California coast. On that day, the O'Reilly Radar site featured three new Java-related posts by Ed Dumbill:
Of course, it can't be claimed that O'Reilly ever stopped covering Java. Java.net itself was the joint creation of O'Reilly and Sun. And as late as May of last year, my java.net editorship contract was with O'Reilly. As with many things, the java.net boat rocked a bit when Oracle acquired Sun -- java.net is no longer formally associated with O'Reilly -- but, without O'Reilly, I doubt there ever would have been a java.net that functions both as a Java community entity and gathering place, and as a provider of infrastructure for Java open source projects. The new Java-centric energy emanating from O'Reilly should be readily apparent to anyone who follows O'Reilly, via Radar and the company's other endeavors. So, why is this happening? And why now?
Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies So now, the question becomes: does the fact that O'Reilly is giving renewed and significant attention to Java mean that they consider today's Java, and where Java is headed, to be representative of an emergent technology? Where the legacy foundation technology was Java as it existed several years ago, when progress in the language ground to a near halt due to Sun's collapse? Do Java 7 (and moreso Java 8 -- see our latest java.net poll), Java EE 6 and 7, the new JVM languages, platforms like Groovy and NetBeans and Android, projects like GlassFish, Hudson/Jenkins, the global growth of local Java communities as represented by Java User Groups and a host of new, smaller, local conferences and gatherings... Does all this put together represent a Java that is today a genuinely emergent technology? Another O'Reilly person, Mike Hendrickson, analyzing the 2010 State of the Computer Book Market, Post 4 - The Languages, noted: Java experienced the biggest gain in units, at 28,633 more units in 2010 than 2009... In 2008, we reported that C# surpassed Java as the number one language. But hold on, Java proved to be resilient in 2009 and experienced a resurgence in 2010 and is now the number one language from a book sales perspective.
[Note: in the chart above, that tallest bar is Java, with C#, Objective C, and Javascript being the next best sellers. Here's a fully readable, expanded view.] In other words, the data from O'Reilly's own core business (producing and selling computer books) told them that, even through the uncertainty of the Sun acquisition, Java was holding its own among developers who buy books; and that 2010, the year when Java's future (including if it realistically had one) became clearer, saw a resurgence in developer interest in Java. And book sales, I think, are indeed a good indicator, since that's a "vote" that is registered using financial currency. So, in conclusion (though, really, having written this, it feels like my thinking in this direction has just begun) -- anyway, from where we stand now, where we're headed: does everything that's new in today's Java make it an emerging technology? The folks at O'Reilly, who've historically done a pretty good job of sensing where technology is heading (their radar has been typically sharp), seem to think so. java.net WeblogsSince my last blog post, java.net Community Manager Sonya Barry and Frans Thamura posted new java.net blogs:
Our current java.net poll asks "What impact will Java 7 ultimately have on Java's future?" Voting will be open until Friday, July 22. ArticlesOur latest java.net article is Michael Huettermann's Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Java NewsHere are the stories we've recently featured in our Java news section:
Our latest java.net Spotlight is Tori Wieldt's post, Java 7 Celebration Begins: It was a glorious global gathering of the Java community today (on July 7), when Oracle hosted multiple events and a Webcast to celebrate Java 7. With contributions from Java users around the world, Java 7 is a testament to the vibrancy of the Java community and to Oracle’s ongoing commitment to the language and technology... We're also featuring Java Spotlight Episode 37: Michelle Kovac on the Java 7 Launch: Interview with Michelle Kovac, Java Brand Manager, on the Java 7 Launch and surrounding events... Subscriptions and Archives: You can subscribe to this blog using the java.net Editor's Blog Feed. You can also subscribe to the Java Today RSS feed and the java.net blogs feed. You can find historical archives of what has appeared the front page of java.net in the java.net home page archive. -- Kevin Farnham The future of chip manufacturing
Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have developed a way to get the resolution of high-speed e-beam lithography (commonly used to prototype computer chips) down from 25 to just nine nanometers, allowing for smaller, faster chips. Combined with other emerging technologies, it could point the way toward making e-beam lithography practical as a [...]
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Singularity Summit 2011 to be held in New York City Oct. 15-16
Singularity Summit 2011 will be a TED-style two-day event on October 15–16 featuring futurist Ray Kurzweil and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings on IBM’s Watson, economist Tyler Cowen on the economic impacts of emerging technologies, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel on innovation and jump-starting the economy. Other speakers include neuroscientist Christof Koch, MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, [...]
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6/28/11 12:04 PM
Researchers share useful lessons learned in evaluating emerging technologies
Most industry executives, military planners, research managers or venture capitalists charged with assessing the potential of an R&D project probably are familiar with the wry twist on Arthur C. Clarke's third law*: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
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6/22/11 12:37 PM
Nanotech Regulation - Fostering Innovation While Protecting Public Health
The White House Emerging Technologies Interagency Policy Coordination Committee has developed a set of principles specific to the regulation and oversight of applications of nanotechnology, to guide the development and implementation of policies at the agency level. www.topix.net | 6/10/11 4:47 PM Better Living - Anywhere on the Planet - Through Technology
Last week marked the beginning of a big experiment for me: first living and then retiring outside of the U.S. I figure there are a lot of boomers like me who are exploring this idea as we become increasingly concerned about the costs of living in our chosen country. Even thinking about living outside the U.S. would be difficult if it weren't for certain existing and emerging technologies.
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6/6/11 3:00 PM
Study: SMBs to spend $125 billion on advanced technology in 2011
Small- and medium-sized businesses are still facing challenging economic times and are still struggling to gain access to credit, but they've bounced back significantly since the low point of the recession and are beginning to be more aggressive in their acquisition of new technology. In fact, a recent study shows that IT spending growth by SMBs has returned more rapidly than expected, since the recession officially ended in 2009. The study also forecasts that emerging technologies will spur them to spend $125 billion in 2011, outside the normal spending paters established in the past. "SMBs account for an increasing share of overall corporate IT spending in the U.S.," said Justin Jaffe, a senior research analyst for Small- and Medium-sized Business and Home Office research at IDC, which conducted the study. "Vendors that understand how changing economic conditions and emerging technologies are affecting IT acquisition for different company size segments will have a considerable advantage in developing and marketing technology products and services for SMBs." Additional key findings of this study include the following:
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AP - Texas Gov. Rick Perry is defending his oversight of a state fund for emerging technologies.
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