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Taking the temperature of investments venture capitalists (VCs) is also evaluating the financing young technology companies and thus support innovation. Reported in our previous shipments, the finding was the decline of gross investment VCs [1]. As we trusted John Piret, banker owned Newbury Piret [2], during the financial crisis, investors, especially venture capitalists, were in a position to wait.
During the first quarter of 2010, the trend is quite different since the investment venture capitalists are on the rise over the same period of 2009 (41%) to reach a total of 4.1 billion. According to notes from Venture Deal [3] which relate to the investment of VCs in the first quarter of 2010, the science of life totals $ 1.4 billion representing a decrease of 19% over first quarter 2009. Startups in the field of medical instrumentation are preferably supported ($ 597 million) at the expense of the startups in the pharmaceutical field (432 million dollars) and biotech ($ 373 million). The report is as follows: VCs have shifted to safe securities whose return on investment is faster, ie medical equipment.
In contrast to this downward trend, the area of “software, Internet and e-commerce” during the quarter totaled a decline of 1.8 billion or -27%. In this same trend, the sector of the telecommunications, mobile telephony and communications (wireless, etc..) “Encompasses a total investment of 614 million dollars, an increase of 46% over the first half of 2009 and 166% over the fourth quarter of 2009. Two states stand out and buy up the stake: the Colorado and Illinois with ExteNet Systems, based in Chicago.
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The Russian company Navis presented at the International Forum on satellite navigation held in early June 2010 in Moscow , the first chip mixed GLONASS / GPS to locate themselves using both satellite systems.
The advantage is that the chip Russian navigation devices receive signals from satellites belonging to different systems – the Russian GLONASS and U.S. GPS. Eventually , they may also receive signals from Galileo (European) and COMPASS ( China) . The accuracy of the reception is drastically improved. In addition, the chip – Russian NV08C MCM -M consumes less energy than its foreign analogues GPS .
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The hearing “Architecture and standards of the Smart Grid [1 ]: assessment of the coordination and promotion ” was held at the Congress in the Committee for Science and Technology [2 ] on 1 July 2010 .
Witnesses called to the hearing were:
- George Arnold , National Coordinator for Interoperability of Smart Grid [ 3 ] at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ) [4 ]
- Emmet Mason , Associate Director in the office of innovation and energy policy at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) [ 5]
- John McDonald , director of technical strategy and policy development at General Electric Energy ( GE Energy ) [6 ]
- Conrad Eustis , director of technology development for retail sale in Portland General Electric ( PGE – supplier of electricity ) [7 ]
- Lillie Coney , associate director of the Think Tank Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) [8 ] which deals with issues of protection of privacy .
These helped us to have a fairly accurate inventory on the process of standardization of Smart Grid in the United States of America .
In the “rgy Indep Eneendence and Security Act ( EISA ) [9 ] of 2007 , Congress mandated NIST to coordinate the development of a structure (framework ) including protocols and standards to ensure interoperability of different systems and materials constituting the Smart Grid . The law states that the interoperability framework must be flexible, consistent and technologically neutral. It also states that he must live with the traditional system of production and centralized distribution of electricity , while facilitating the integration of new technology, the Smart Grid such as distributed power generation or energy storage .
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ESI- Tecnalia participates in the European Smart DIY Experiences ( DIYs ), ICT-based and focused on transforming the everyday lives of people through control of their environment, much of your own home and abroad. In total the project involved 40 international organizations , among which are Philips , Thales and Alcatel- Lucent, and various universities and research institutes in Europe. DIYs has a budget of almost 25 million euros, and in the same seven countries participating .
The base DIYs project is to combine objects in areas where there is a person and online services , and the combination of both data allow users to make their own custom applications based on their needs at all times . The system requires no special technical skills. Thus, your entire environment will be adapted , creating personalized experiences that can be shared with others.
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The National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca (ENSP), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), recently launched in Rio de Janeiro, a “map of conflicts involving environmental injustice and health in Brazil.” This map is the result of a project jointly developed by the NPHS and Fase (Federation of organs for the welfare and educational), with support from the Department of Environmental Health and the Ministry of worker Brazilian Health.
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The authority for research and development of the energy of the state of New York (NYSERDA [1]) provides financial assistance for projects to renovate existing data centers aimed at improving their energy efficiency. The amount of aid, which ranges between $ 10,000 and 5 million dollars per facility, however, must not exceed 50% of the total project cost. 60% of the grant is paid upon approval of the project, the remaining 40% are paid after an audit of the facilities renovated.
Approved projects may relate to various organs of the data center but can be classified into two broad categories:
- Plans for the equipment housed directly (servers, racks, etc..), Such as virtualization [2] servers or servers with renewed energy efficient models.
- The projects on infrastructure in the datacenter. This one, which includes power systems (PDU [3], UPS [4], etc..) And the cooling system consumes an average as much energy as the equipment housed. To improve efficiency, projects can be to renew supplies by energy-efficient models, or to the cooling system, the introduction of Free Cooling System [5]).
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On May 11, 2010 has started the initiative of cooperation “during initiations Internet” (Internet Initiative erfahren) for a period of one year. The action, supported by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) and German Postal Bank (Postbank), aims to facilitate Internet access for seniors through volunteer referrals. As those familiar with the Internet will transmit their knowledge to the elderly who can access it in a secure future. Entrants were invited to a preparatory session at home Gustav-Heinemann Bonn (North-Rhine – Westphalia), during which they attended lectures, watching movies and participating in working groups .
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The U.S. company Hewlett Packard (HP) has chosen the town of Wynyard, north-east of England, to build its new data center by about 33,500 m2. This is EDS, which was originally the project before being acquired by HP in May 2008 for a total of 13.9 billion USD. EDS chose this region for its climate: the fresh air of Wynyard keeps a constant temperature of 24 ° C in the complex.
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A new technology for access to wireless Internet is probably required to compete throughout Russia WiFi: WiMax seems to collect many votes, and notebook manufacturers offer machines incorporating this system.
Comstar-OTS, Russian operator of integrated telecommunications services, provides and develop networks for fast wireless access to the Internet for mobile phones in the region near Moscow. Moreover, the Internet operator Yota 4G recently signed an agreement with the giant Sony nippon to offer notebooks with the sale of cards supporting not only WiFi, but WiMax. It is through WiMax that users can connect to networks fourth generation. These new aircraft were to appear in stores beginning in March.
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The Tyndall National Institute is a research center affiliated with the University of Cork in southern Ireland. The Institute is the largest Irish electronics center, which employs nearly 370 people. A team of researchers from the Tyndall led by Jean-Pierre Colinge, has just developed a new type of transistor. The results were published in Nature Nanotechnology.
Traditionally transistors using junctions (juxtaposition of semiconductors with different doping). Reducing the size of transistors required now to produce junctions smaller than 10nm, resulting in concentration gradients of doping and high technology manufacturing increasingly complex.
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