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Study Reveals New Factor that could Limit the Life of Hybrid and Electric Car Batteries

By Guest PostDecember 25, 2012Science, Technologyautomotive industry, battery electrodes, battery life, bharat bhushan, car batteries, cathode, current collector, electric car batteries, electrical system, electrodes, electron transfer, factor, giorgio rizzoni, gregory downing, hybrid, hybrid electric cars, life, limit, lithium ion batteries, ndp, neutron depth profiling, ohio state university, set of particles, sheet of copper, shrikant nagpure, suresh babu, yann guezennec

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of the batteries commonly used in hybrid and electric-only cars has revealed an unexpected factor that could limit the performance of batteries currently on the road.

Researchers led by Ohio State University engineers examined used car batteries and discovered that over time lithium accumulates beyond the battery electrodes – in the “current collector,” a sheet of copper which facilitates electron transfer between the electrodes and the car’s electrical system. (more…)

Argentina Ranks First in Worldwide Desktop Social Networking Engagement at Nearly 10 Hours per Visitor Each Month

By Guest PostDecember 20, 2012Technologyalejandro fosk, analysis, Argentina, ask, brazil, Chile, Comscore, Facebook, hi5, latin america, leading social network, level of engagement, linkedIn, market, Mexico, peru, slideshare, social networking activity, social networking markets, tumblr

Analysis of Social Networking in Latin America Shows LinkedIn Grabbing #2 Position with35 Million Monthly Visitors

Santiago, Chile, December 20, 2012 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of social networking activity in Latin America, which found that Argentina and Brazil led as the most engaged social networking markets worldwide with visitors spending an average of near 10 hours on social networking sites in November 2012. The study also found that LinkedIn, which has grown strongly in the past year due to both organic growth and the acquisition of Slideshare.net, is now the second most visited social network in Latin America. (more…)

Help Wanted: Millions of Cloud-Skilled IT Workers Needed

By Guest PostDecember 19, 2012Technologyadina mangubat, breeds of corn, certification program, cloud certified, cloud computing, cloud computing skills, cloud environment, cloud related, cloud training, cushing anderson, data, dna sequencing, employment, goodwill, idc, information technology forecast, international data corporation, it jobs, it skills, it workers, Johannesburg, kwenza khuzwayo, lutz ziob, Microsoft, microsoft it academy, microsoft learning, my dream, nikki barnard, office 365, pediatric cancer, private cloud, sequencing human genome, shack, south african, spiral genetics, Technology

A study released today by Microsoft and the International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that millions of cloud-related IT jobs are sitting open and millions more will open up in the next two years due to a shortage in cloud-certified IT workers.

REDMOND, Wash. – Dec. 19, 2012 – The information technology forecast for the next two years calls for increasing cloudiness – cloud computing job opportunities, that is.

One in four IT positions worldwide is currently unfilled, and 28 percent of those are cloud-related, according to research [1] released today by the International Data Corporation (IDC). The research also shows that an estimated 1.7 million cloud-related IT jobs are open worldwide right now, and there will be as many as 7 million cloud computing jobs available by 2015. (more…)

CU-Boulder Team Develops Swarm of Pingpong Ball-Sized Robots

By Guest PostDecember 19, 2012Science, Technology20 robots, behaviors, career, collaborating cells, colorado boulder, droplets, dustin reishus, fictional nanomorphs, intelligent robotic devices, joseph tanner, liquid that thinks, nick farrow, nikolaus correll, pattern recognition, pingpong ball, robot, robotic building block, robotics, sensor based motion, terminator films, university

University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them.

Correll and his computer science research team, including research associate Dustin Reishus and professional research assistant Nick Farrow, have developed a basic robotic building block, which he hopes to reproduce in large quantities to develop increasingly complex systems.

Recently the team created a swarm of 20 robots, each the size of a pingpong ball, which they call “droplets.” When the droplets swarm together, Correll said, they form a “liquid that thinks.” (more…)

German Manufacturer Reduces Energy Consumption by 80% with IBM Mainframe

By Guest PostDecember 18, 2012Technologyandreas dümmler, arburg gmbh, automotive, consumer goods, easy tier technology, electronics, energy consumption, ibm, ibm infrastructure, ibm system storage, ibm technology, ibm zenterprise, injection molding machines, made by arburg, made in germany, market, medical equipment, packaging, plastic products, san volume controller, sap application environment, solid state drives, ssds, storage, storwize v7000 systems

ARBURG selects IBM infrastructure to make better use of its data, stay ahead of the competition

Loßburg/Ehningen – 18 Dec 2012: IBM today announced that ARBURG GmbH + Co KG, a leading manufacturer of injection molding machines used to make plastic products, reduced its energy consumption for servers by 80 percent and for storage by 25 percent with its new IBM infrastructure.

ARBURG serves a broad range of customers across the automotive, electronics, packaging, medical equipment, and consumer goods sectors in some 100 countries worldwide. ARBURG’s IT environment grew along with its business, but was too complex and not able to support the manufacturer’s goals. (more…)

IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2012Technologyanatomy, antibiotic resistant bacteria, baby talk, bernie meyerson, cognitive computing systems, cognitive systems, ct scans, era, era of computing, five innovations, galway bay, hendrik hamann, human brain, human views, ibm, ibm scientists, ibm technology, ibm5in5, intuitive interaction, ireland, methicillin-resistant, modalities, mris, mrsa, noise level, pathologies, sensors, smartphone, speech recognition system, staphylococcus aureus, touch experience, ultrasound images, video, visual data, visual media, wedding dress, x-rays, YouTube

Breakthroughs will mark the era of cognitive systems when computers will, in their own way, see, smell, touch, taste and hear

ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Dec 2012: Today IBM unveiled the seventh annual “IBM 5 in 5” (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

The IBM 5 in 5 is based on market and societal trends as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s R&D labs around the world that can make these transformations possible. (more…)

The Teacher’s Apple

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2012Education, Technologyclassroom technology, education technology, innovation in education, teachers apple

A decade ago, electronics and cell phones in the classroom were considered little more than a distraction. Today, new devices such as tablet computers and smartphones are changing this perception. Educators are finding innovative ways to supplement their lectures with the newest technology, and students are beginning to see their devices as essential components of their college experience.

Naturally, major device manufacturers are now battling for dominance in the field. Below, we explore how Apple is winning the battle for education technology and what gives them the edge over the sizable competition in the market. (more…)

Got Food Allergies? Thanks to UCLA, You Can Test Your Meal on the Spot Using a Cell Phone

By Guest PostDecember 16, 2012Health, Technologyahmet f coskun, allergen concentration, allergens, allergic, almonds, andrew tey, aydogan ozcan, bioengineering, cell phone, colorimetric assay, data, delaram khodadadi, detect, eggs, electrical engineering, food allergies, food samples, function, geographic information, gluten, hazelnuts, itube, justin wong, peanuts, richie nagi, sensitivity, smart phone application, statistical allergy database, test tube

Are you allergic to peanuts and worried there might be some in that cookie? Now you can find out using a rather unlikely source: your cell phone.

A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a lightweight device called the iTube, which attaches to a common cell phone to detect allergens in food samples. The iTube attachment uses the cell phone’s built-in camera, along with an accompanying smart-phone application that runs a test with the same high level of sensitivity a laboratory would. (more…)

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