3D printing for Health Care

I gave the link below about the Click on-line article about the 3D printer which recreated a smaller replica of a human face. There was a development brought to light today that is really comforting in that it actually serves a more practical purpose - creating artificial blood vessels for lab-made organs. A real world application no less. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14946808

Materialization Now Available. We Just Need De-materialization

BBC's Click online takes a first look at 3D printers and shows how to reproduce a human head (somewhat smaller).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9550469.stm.

Employee / Revenue comparison

Company	Number of Empoyees	Revenue in $ billions
Amazon	33,700	34
CA Technologies	15,000	4
facebook	2,000	2
HP	324,000	126
IBM	426,751	99

Is there any correlation?

Comparison of Views: Gartner and Wired

On Saturday I watched a very interesting 25 minute talk by Kevin Kelly from Wired which reduces the future of the Internet to six verbs, representing six large-scale Internet trends:

1. Screening
2. Interacting
3. Sharing
4. Flowing
5. Accessing
6. Generating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPfSrmzLo0

The Primary Verb = Sharing - Anything that can be shared will be shared.

This morning I came across an article that I had filed back in February in which Gartner highlights five long-term, overarching, and interdependent trends affecting the enterprise software industry:

• globalization
• implementation
• modernization
• socialization
• verticalization

It is not possible to compare the articles from the point of view of content as it would not be comparing apples with apples. Both are interesting in the environment to which they apply. However, from a linguistic angle it is interesting that Wired chooses verbs and Gartner prefers a suffix on the verb to give the noun which describes the act.

Vodafone Germany just announced its decision to launch of two devices under its own brand in the tablet market.

The operator said that the two tablets would be available to its German distribution channels in November but it declined to provide details on pricing or which hardware vendor was supplying the two devices.They said that the new Vodafone Smart Tab 7 (with a 7-inch screen) and Tab 10 (with 10-inch screen) will use the Android Version 3.2 Honeycomb operating system with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and memory of 1GB. The tablets will have internal storage of 16GB, which can be expanded via microSD card to 32GB. Full story.

awesome augmented reality application

Autonomy was founded in 1996 in Cambridge, UK. The company has witnessed meteoric growth and with market cap of $7 billion, is the second largest pure software company in Europe and has offices worldwide. It develops a variety of enterprise search and knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognitiontechniques centered on Bayesian inference in conjunction with traditional methods. Most recently the enterprise pattern recognition technology company has been active with an awesome augmented reality application. The New York Times reported Wednesday on a forthcoming iPhone app called Aurasma that has the power to turn ink-and-paper publications into interactive mine fields. I recommend this excellent short program from the BBC series ‘Startup Stories’ about them.

Google Refine Messy Data

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions. I've tried it and recommend it for cleaning up inconsistent data files when you need a consistent database (they can be in a number of formats including from Access or Excel). There is very little to download and you can be up and running in a realtively short time. Some small bugs exist, e.g. I discovered that I could not export to csv in Explorer - so I use Firefox! This tool considering that it is open a free is a little known secret.