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Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level

MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-17

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Repairing genetic mutations with lasers?

German researchers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel CAU think they've proved that genetic information can be controlled by light. The group studied the interaction between the four DNA bases -- adenine A, cytosine C, guanine G, and thymine T -- by using femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The researchers think that...

Tags: DNA, Laser, CAU, Adenine Femtosecond, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-12

N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability

N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...

Tags: Databases, N-Tier, tier, Wintel Scalability, Rube Goldberg, Wintel

Discussion threads 2008-05-05

PDA Stadtplandienst Kiel 3.5.5 (Mobile)

PDA Stadtplandienst brings the city maps of stadtplandienst.de to your PDA. Including a quick search, GPDS support and address lookup. High display speed Many details, buildings, public places, house numbers and more High font quality easy panning on the display lookup for street sections or house numbers addressbook lookup GPS...

Tags: Mobile, Digital Zoom, Lookup, PDAs, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-04-21

Are SOA-related business concerns outside the IT 'comfort zone'?

Those folks at Burton Group really know how to rattle our cages. A few weeks back, Anne Thomas Manes declared that she has yet to see any solid SOA success stories, and reportedly is still looking for one. When the subject of SOA business value came up,...

Tags: Information Technology, Business, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-18

IT departments don't have time for SOA

A couple of months ago, we reported on Ron Schmelzer's observation that a major source of SOA resistance may be IT departments themselves.Paul Kiel gets into the head of IT, and makes some astute observations about why IT may be perceived as SOA spoilers.First and foremost, IT may actually like...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-08-24

Does moral intelligence lead to business success?

There is a powerful correlation between strong moral principles and business success, or so the authors of Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success would have us believe. In this chapter download, investigate this possible connection. Learn about the specific competencies that constitute "moral intelligence" and why...

Tags: Wharton School, Leadership, Management

Download resources 2007-08-08

Auto-generated services okay in model-driven SOA

Theres been an interesting industry give-and-take around the "generated services" debate that weve had going at this blogsite. A number of industry observers say that automatically generated services (a "code-first" versus a "contract-first" approach) have hooks too deep in legacy systems or specific languages to be made available for reuse...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, reuse

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Web 3.0? But what happened to Web 2.1?

Theres been plenty of eye-rolling over The New York Times christening of the "Web 3.0" moniker, but perhaps theres something to be said for assigning version numbers formerly reserved for software releases to entire trends at large. Its techy, its edgy, it demands immediate action. We know anytime a new...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2006-11-19

Study: the public sector 'gets' SOA, or at least 'shared services'

Study: the public sector 'gets' SOA, or at least 'shared services'who decides SOA?Another good article Joe. I am interested in this:"SOA (or a shared-services model) isn't an IT decision for most respondents, however. Sixty-four percent of respondents say the decision rests with political leaders or C-level board members."Of course...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-11-16

Apple faces suit over iPod-related hearing loss

Apple faces suit over iPod-related hearing lossWHAT? HUH? WHAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY? HUH?Sorry. It just had to be said. ;-)HEARING LOSS.... must be Loverocks' dad !!!I'm very pleased that iPod is LOUD. Don't ruin it!I use my iPod on extensively on my all-too-frequent air travel. I first put...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Huh

Discussion threads 2006-02-02