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Author Archives: Hellmuth Broda
Fraunhofer Sends Spiders to the Rescue
Silicon.de recently reported on a new robot for hazardous missions: The high-tech spider developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart (Germany). The spider is built using a 3-D printing technique and is extremely lightweight. … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Unusual
Tagged 3D printing, Fraunhofer Society, High tech, Robot, Spider
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QR Codes (Updated): From Urinals And Bus Stops to National Parks to Art, Shopping and Tombstones
We can observe more and more adoption of QR codes and their pervasiveness. In Asia you find these codes anywhere in the meantime and they allow quick responses usually by use of a smart phone’s QR reader. I have seen them … Continue reading
New EU Directive Might Reshape the Clouds
As reported in Silicon.de, in Experian.it and in other sources, the European Commission is planning to release a new directive on data protection, which will affect the Cloud Computing industry. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenships … Continue reading
Star Trek’s ‘Tricorder’ Device Coming Soon?
Star Trek’s Dr. “Bones” McCoy made no bones about the state of 20th Century medicine — invasive, primitive, “Dark Ages,” were a few of his pejorative terms for modern medicine. In the 23rd century, Bones and other starship crew members … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Star Trek, Telemedicine, telemonitoring, Tricorder, X Prize Foundation
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OSBF: Opening Clouds
The Open Source Business Foundation e.V., the European network for the Open Source Industry, just launched an “Open Cloud Business Initiative” (OCBI). The goal of the OCBI is to promote the principle of openness, which is responsible for the success … Continue reading
New Security Threat: Infected QR Codes
Tod Wasserman recently warned on “Mashable Tech”: “Be careful the next time you scan a QR code, because it might just cost you money and wreak havoc on your smartphone. “That’s the warning from Kaspersky Lab, which has noticed the first … Continue reading
Are you clueless when it comes to integrating social into your website?
A recent non-scientific poll done by Jeremy Victor, which he published on SmartBlog is titled “Are you clueless when it comes to integrating social into your website?.” He reports as results: 42.86%: “Our website has “Follow/Fan Us” links to our … Continue reading
Wireless Health Care
Just read a very interesting article on “ambient health monitoring”. Joseph M. Smith wrote in IEEE Spectrum an article on Wireless Health Care. Here a few passages from the article: “Imagine a world in which your medicine cabinet notices that … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Health care, IEEE Spectrum, Medicine, Telemedicine
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’10-Cent Medical Checkup’ Using Cell Phones?
Caltech runs a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program where students work on special projects. As part of a cell phone medicine project, the students have spent their summer developing and fine-tuning prototypes that could someday enable a 10-cent medical checkup for … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Cell Phones, eHealth, Mobile phone, telemonitoring
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New Human-Computer Interface: Stick-On Electronic Tattoos
Technology makes interesting inroads in medicine. Not only in electronic patient records and e-prescription but also in connecting patients to instrumentation and in tele-monitoring. “Researchers have made stretchable, ultrathin electronics that cling to skin like a temporary tattoo and can … Continue reading
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Gartner: Difficult Times For the CIO
Silicon.de reported on the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011 in Orlando: Gartners CEO Gene Hall warned the CIO’s of the four winds that blow at the CIO simultaneously. CIO’s will have to bundle up to weather the coming storm. The four winds Hall talked … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Management, Social Media
Tagged CIO, Cloud computing, Data Warehouse, Gartner, Mobile Computing, Mobility, Social media
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“You Have Zero Privacy Anyway — Get Over It” (Really?)
Scott McNeally has been quoted many times with this (in)famous phrase from 1999. But as Steven Cherry discusses is his podcast (mp3) The Car as Informant – IEEE Spectrum “even he (Scott) would be surprised at the extent to which we can now be tracked, … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, Identity Management, Internet, Security, Social Media
Tagged Federation, Information separation, Kantara Initiative, Liberty Alliance, Privacy
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Can We Trust Open Source Software?
Vieri del Bianco, Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca, and Davide Taibi published a survey on Open Software Trustworthiness. Computing Now | October 2011 | What’s New | A Survey on Open Source Software Trustworthiness. They write: “Over the past few years, … Continue reading
Posted in Open Systems
Tagged Free and open source software, Open source, Sun Microsystems
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Swiss ICT Award: And the Winners Are . . .
On October 18th 2011 the Swiss ICT Award ceremony took place at the Swiss ICT Forum in the KKL in Lucerne.
Greatest Threats to Cloud Security
Experts explain greatest threats to cloud security. (NetworkWorld) The article starts: Cloud security threats come in all shapes and sizes, so we asked eight experts to weigh in on what they see as the top threat to cloud security. The answers run … Continue reading
Daddy, Is this iPad Broken? (Baby Handling a Magazine)
Recently I discussed Digital Recluses, Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives (see picture below) in a blog. But what is shown in this video makes a new category necessary. Maybe “Digital Thoroughbreds?”
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Social Media, Unusual
Tagged Apple, Digital native, IPad, Touchscreen
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The Six Best Free Facebook Apps For Businesses
Jesse Stanchak published a blog on The 6 best free Facebook apps for businesses. He mentions some of the better free applications out there. Quoted from the posting: “Note — I’ve purposely left out custom development apps, e-commerce apps and coupon/contest … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged Facebook, Livestream, RSS, Social network, SurveyMonkey, Twitter
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Scott McNealy’s Startup “Wayin”: Social Media For Super-Fans
The former CEO and co-founder of Sun Microsystems Inc. (now part of: http://www.oracle.com) is the creator of a new startup. It provides a new social media service called Wayin. The service launched on October 5th and is a application in … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Social Media
Tagged Games, Gaming, Scott McNealy, Social media, Sun Microsystems
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Robot Birds and Octoroaches On The Loose at UC Berkeley
As mentioned in an earlier blog (Quadrotors Can Now Play Catch, All-Robot Baseball Team Closer to Reality) I have a weakness for flying robots and having studied insects for a considerable time during my research years I find the objects mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Unusual
Tagged Bipedal Ornithopter, Insect, Robot, UC Berkeley
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A Network for Wild Experimentation — 100 Gbit/s
A Network for Wild Experimentation – Technology Review. Quote from the article: “ESNet and Internet2 have built a networking test bed for ideas that are too disruptive for the networks that people actually use. “In a few unused back alleys … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, New and Noteworthy, Web
Tagged Computer networking, Energy Sciences Network, Ethernet, Internet2
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