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 sajmiÅ¡ta. Sve su otprilike iste veliÄine (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. JaÄina zvuka je velika i kvaliteta priliÄno dobra.
