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Acronis: backup & data recovery
Devastating floods, deadly earthquakes, near apocalyptic tsunami, typhoons, storms, Arab spring, and economic downturn lets Acronis dub 2011 a year of disasters, yet Acronis GM Northern Europe and MEA, David Blackman comments that businesses around the world have grown in confidence about their ability to back up and then recover data and IT systems following a disaster.
COMSOL Multiphysics
Initially of the workshop provides an overview of COMSOL Multiphysics V4.2a - capabilities, new abilities and functionality enhancements, and its new, more efficient, user interface the COMSOL Desktop.
Software to exploit multicore
Why must a programmer care for the hardware architecture when writing embedded applications for multi-core? At HiPEAC 2012, Professors Nikolaos Voros and Jürgen Becker explain how the ALMA Consortium comprising French, Greek, Netherlands and German based academic and business organisation aim to turn 'must' into 'may'.
LiDAR geodata comes online
A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so!
North China brewer uses Telemetry
China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer has hired British company Telemetry to serve and audit its online video advertising in China. Telemetry being the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand, within China not unjustifiably claims a major achievement.
Of robots, earth from space and bullfrogs
Gaberlunzie has always had an enormous fondness for robots from the earliest Ridiculous ElectronicDevice which he was warned never to stand near unless he had personally programmed.
NISIC wipes out NBII
The USA National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is being terminated A new database, the National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC), has been added. If you wish to receive NISIC Alerts access your Alerts account and add it to your selected Alerts source
Girls lock-up quantum security
Quantum computers, besides offering substantial computational speedups, are also expected to preserve the privacy of a computation.
Data Analysis: Google lure for data journalism
Last November, Google announced its support for a new Data Journalism competition, organised by the Global Editors Network. The competition is now open to submissions and a London event detailed on how to compete and win a total of six prizes worth €45,000. Hopefully even if the UK makes a poor fist at it this time, it will encourage higher teaching associations specialising in journalism to push at data analysis and social network analysis tools and skills.
Cloud growth forecast as steady
The rising use of online storage and infrastructure systems to support services like Apple Inc.’s iCloud, cloud servers will enjoy robust prospects in 2012 and then move on to become the fastest-growing segment of the server industry within three years. Shipments of cloud servers are projected to reach 875,000 units in 2012, up a notable 35% from 647,000 in 2011 and nearly double the 460,000 in 2010 in IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms report
Flexiant: new bosses and £1m
Having moved offices and with work on EU projects 4CAAST, Cumulo Nimbo, and Optimis,cloud automation software company, Flexiant has now secured £1m investment and appointed John Pocock and George Knox as chairman and CEO, shedding Laurence Blackall, with co-founders Alex Bligh and Tony Lucas moving to COO and CTO respectively.
Liberating ICT for schools
Hot on the heels of Raspberry Pi, the UK Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) curriculum is to be scrapped says education secretary Michael Gove, as the UK will introduce new courses of study in computers, with the emphasis on science. The development is being hailed wholeheartedly by industry experts. ScotlandIS executive director Polly Purvis welcomes the move by schools scrapping outdated ICT in favour of computing science technology.
Craneware to ride out storm
Software house Craneware Inc despite having its Bill Analyzer solution was named #1 in the Revenue Cycle - and its Chargemaster Toolkit ranked first in the Revenue Cycle Chargemaster Management market category for the sixth consecutive year in the "2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services" report, is having to ride out the storm when when its trading update for the six months to December 31, 2011 predicted revenue increase by more than 12% from the $16.6m reported the previous year, only to produce earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) likely to be flat at around $4.6m.
Scottish Waterways goes with Amor Group
British Waterways Scotland is to develop a new ICT system over the next three years choosing Amor Group in a deal worth £2.3m. This comes in light of the organisation’s imminent separation from waterways organisation in the rest of the UK.
Hobby computing: Raspberry pi
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC with an ARM processor and Linux OS which can be used for many of the things your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. Most important it can be used by kids all over the world to learn programming.
IBM's global beaver into analytics
To address growing market demand for analytics savvy graduates, IBM is working with world universities to bring advanced analytics training directly to the classroom. It is expanding its academic initiatives for business analytics with new programs in China, India, Ireland and Scotland, to helping students keep pace with today's competitive job market by gaining skills in this fast-growing field of technology.
Tablet tech: tiering education?
University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies embracing the latest tablet computer technologies to help students get the most out of off-site study trips feels photocopied handouts and clipboards may become a thing of the past.
Apps from purring fur to mad lip words
Gaberlunzie delighted to see Let it snow is still there today, on screen but thankfully not on window!
Virtual snow and season's greeting
Gaberlunzie was fossicking around for things to amuse hard working technologists, wising them the best over the festivities and the happiest leap into 2012 yet looking for some small doodling plaything for your stockings.
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