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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。