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I visited Alpha networks in Hsinchu.

Bison farm in Salisbury.

This year Joe was kind enough to invite me to visit CeBIT.
IT industry:

• IT mittel stand Price: Euro 3.00 IT business relevant subjects. Almost no tech know-how. Contains some general information on cloud, but also other technologies.
• Chefbuero doesn’t seem very deep in any respect (but I only glazed)

Banking:

• Banken+partner Price Euro 8.50
• Bankmagazin seems a bit lighter than Banken+partner
• Temenos German banking software company

Health, life sciences:

• Ehealthcom is a magazin fuer gesundheitstelematik und telemedizin. It has a big list of relevant companies and a good review of some books (e.g. Practical imaging informatics)
• Erfolge der Gesundheitsforschung is not very impressive booklet (books@bmbf.bund.de). (Referat Gesundheitsforschung)
• Bodytel has a good idea about connecting home medical devices through mobile to online medical servers. (To see if it can be used with Femtocells.)
• Med-o-card implements API for medical software which reads any important information about patient from the Med-o-card (which is a card, if not guessed by now)

Science, technology:

• Wissen Heute is very good technical magazine with very useful technical explanations (e.g. optical networks, Mobile internet, Presence services). Price Euro 6.00
• Pearsons has a very nice catalogue to a good looking books. (I’ve seen some good textbooks from botanic, biotechnology, geophysics, etc.)
• Nanopartikel-kleine Dinge grosse Wirkung (Referat: Nanomaterialien: Neue Werkstoffe) A simple introduction to Nanotechnology by Bundesministerium
• GIS business has made a nice reference on GIS related companies (GIS software, consulting, research, facility management, mapping, logistics, navigation and hardware). They also issue two more magazines: GIS science and GIS trends – markets. Price Euro 89 per year for students.
• Zyxel might be chosen as NEC’s HNB supplier so I checked their catalogue. They have: MSAN – Multi service access node, DSLAM, Auto configuration server (TR-69, TR-104 IP phone,m TR-98 gateways, strange they don’t have TR-106 for devices), network managers, EMS, GEPONs (Giga ethernet passive optical networks), ONU (optical network units), OLT (network line terminations I didn’t see.) , Metro switches, VDSL2 gateways, ADSL2+ gateways, Symmetric HDSL gateways, Set-top boxes, WiMax equipment (including MIMO) CPEs – routers, all kinds of GigE switches, Security gateways, IP PBXs, IP phones, all kind of Wi fi equipment, powerline ethernet and wi-fi routers. All that with nice network diagrams (too big to scan, but no-one stopping me to try).
• Wissens management doesn’t seem very deep. Price Euro 13.00
• Impuls das Magazin des Bundesministeriums fuer Bildung und Forschung is mostly not good.

RFID

• ISIS AutoID/ RFID Special has a very good industrial overview with a bit of technical information. Information at info@nomina.de
• Canadian Posh has multiple card readers including RFID reader. Also nice keyrings for RFIDs.
• Deister from Germany is an RFID company. (As any German factory, looks quite tidy.)

House, workshop automation

• Beckhoff is issuing PC control magazine. Beckhoff’s catalogue CD has been collected, which covers: industry PCs, embedded PCs, I/O busses, bus endings, ethernet, fibre-optics, switches, engine control, motion control, SPC – statistic process control?.
• Tainet offers ONT and ONU. (To scan diagram.)
• One of the Synology‘s solutions is controlling IP TV cameras (hundreds of them).

Knowledge management, e-learning

• Copendia offers market place for e-learning modules
• RichCast Vision has some tools for VideoMagazine/ VideoBlogs/ WebTV
• Tom Sawyer is offering visualisation software. Though not very impressed by their solution, no doubt it’s the field that will continue to develop.

Thin clients

• Wyse is a Thin client company. Seems Microsoft, Citrix, Novell and vmware are good in Thin clients.

Other

• Primera and Acronova are offering solution for printing/ issuing own CDs/ DVDs
• LPS cocoon are a bit “crazy” and offer a stone/ sand like zen garden to foster business/ management processes
• MSI (not very impressive) and (better) and Asus (really great Eee family) offer laptops.
• Portwell offfers a good Industrial service platform.
• and have very good GPS modules. Telit has also all kind of other wireless modules.
• Power-tech keyboard switch makes membrane keyboards.
• Pierre Cardin (from Hong Kong 🙂 ) offers leather etuis for tablet PCs.
• InnoDisk offers great mini nanoSSD solid state disks (pun intended).
• Q3 technologies are Gurgaon based company which showed a great interest after I asked them if they could provide 500 programmers on demand. (To scan the field of their operation – or wanted operations.)
• Server labs from High Wycombe among other affiliate sites offers HPC (high performance computing) services, although not clear exactly what’s there to offer.
• Tom Sawyer is offering visualisation software. Though not very impressed by their solution, no doubt it’s the field that will continue to develop.
• Informit is a German bookshop

Amazon might be offering virtual cluster building. I have followed “getting started” document and was able to setup one PC instance for a moderate price.
Amazon mozda nudi izagradnju virtualnog grozda: . Slijedio sam „getting started“ dokument i pošlo mi je za rukom pokrenuti jedno ostvarenje PCja, za umjerenu cijenu.
Amazonはビーチャルクラスタを作ることが上げてこられ。私が“getting started”文書を準じたそして一個パソコン例を設定することができた、値段は優しかった。

Also this year I visited Ce-bit Hannover fair. Generally, there were not great news (or I did not know where to look at), which puts into question motivation for next years visit.
I ove godine posjetio sam Ce-bit sajam u Hannoveru. Općenito, nije bilo velikih novosti (ili ja nisam znao gdje ih tražiti), što dovodi u pitanje motivaciju za posjet slijedeće godine.
Ce-Bit uses all of the 25 halls (Halle) in Hannover fair ground. They are all about the same size (Halle 1 being about 3 times bigger as any other). Below: Halle 2.
Ce-Bit koristi svih 25 dvorana (Halle) Hannoverskog sajmišta. Sve su otprilike iste veličine (Halle1 je oko 3 puta veća od bilo
koje druge.) Ispod: dvorana 2.

• mini PCs
• Very small and nice PCs MPC20 and MPC21 from Digital Logic.
• Graphics card, thin clients and Mini-itx manufacturer Giga-byte (which had nice game demonstration for graphics card: supreme commander).
• Car PCs

• Cartft has many solutions for car PCs.
  Rješenja za auto-PC (interesantna je bila raznovrsnost rješenja).

  

  

• Also fancy Car media PC was offered by Touchbase.
• financial software

• Russian company devexperts is writing software for some of the most popular web portals for FXs and options traders (and brokers). There I found information that thinkorswim Inc is the best option trader web site for 2007 according to Barron’s magazine. Magazine “Deloitte – Technology Fast 500” declared them the fastest growing technology company (I don’t know the magazine and I doubt the title). Related to FXs is GFT Global Markets UK and GFT FX.
  
• Bit informatik seems to be very big German financial software company. But their bit-MaGIC software for risk management left me unimpressed (it is only template for Domino database).
• Some not particularly interesting financial software companies: Fuzzy Logik and Senator software.
• clusters

• Thomas-Krenn AG was offering HA Linux clusters (server units and server blade solutions). Their software solution might be worth checking, especially Virtuozzo software.
  
• Transtec seemed to have a powerful cluster, but it was Microsoft based and I walked away. Interestingly it seems that 10 Gbit Myrinet and 10 Gbit Ethernet networks are available.
• Not very many cluster solution. Here is ASUS 1U server:
  Nije bilo previše rješenja za grozdove.
  
• telecommunications

• Asterisk and ISDN solution from Junghans.NET.
• Check company 2N Telekomunikace with a standard offering for small companies and call centres (GSM, ISDN, VoIP gateway).
• GPS

• On boring but expensive Croatian stand, the only interesting thing was EKG.NET where patients with cardiac disorder would wear GPS tracking device with EKG monitoring device. In case of trouble, Emergency team could be dispatched immediately to known location with known history of disease.
• One of many GPS tracking solutions was provided by daisy technologies. (I’ve also seen Bulgarian company being seriously asked about their products)
• mobiles

• AXIA – Fifth media has united card reader and PDA phone. It’s an idea that David had, although I think he was concerned about magnetic stripe… and I was wondering how it would work with the chip on SmarCard. The best solution seems to be RFID chip on SmartCard and RFID chip on mobile (the problem is… how safe it is. Maybe optical coupling is better?). Very kind gentleman of Malaysian company was complaining that they cannot sell the phone (and they don’t have money to follow development of the big leader as Nokia), so they were trying to sell phone card reader they developed.
• Simple although effective mobile commerce solution has been offered by Beijing Sunion Technology Co., Ltd. Encoded jpg picture is sent to the mobile, and than mobile’s display is used to pass optical reader gateway.
• Mobile voice encryption offered by Babylon nG and also by Bsure tech (English, Stansted based company).
• other

• Russian company Widisoft kindly provided CD which is offering realtime Audio to MIDI conversion. It seems it can be used as VST plug-in and will be tested with CuBase.
• Technical University Ilmenau had some interesting networking software (management) with Cell_FACH< –>Cell_DCH simulations (although now outdated).
• Voice Pro from linguatec can directly translate spoken words.
• Diamond aircraft, well known Austro-Canadian aviation company brought DA-20 airplane, that we enjoyed observing. They were trying to simulator for their airplanes.
• Not spectacular by look. The volume of sound was quite big, and clarity quite good.
  Nespekatkularan naizgled. Jačina zvuka je velika i kvaliteta prilično dobra.