Related Links: Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?" Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order. Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not (yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve, December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!   In alphabetical order the nominees are:   Tim Berner... (more)

How American Century revolutionized their investment platform with R

American Century Investments is a top-20 mutual fund company with more than 125 billion dollars of assets under management. The quantitative investment group manages 22 funds, and takes an objective, systematic and disciplined approach to determine which stocks to buy and sell. Real-time data and carefully calibrated statistical models are the foundation of this quantitative approach. This group formerly had a disparate blend of closed third-party financial software systems that the found to be costly, cumbersome, and functionally limited. By switching to a Revolution R Enterprise based solution, the quantitative investment group created a scalable, end-to-end system based around R. Multiple teams now use and contribute to an internal R package "rACI" as a way to collaborate and distribute the latest methodology from research to production. With access to the inno... (more)

Luminary Micro Anuncia Disponibilidad de Trece Nuevos Microcontroladores de 32-bit Stellaris(TM) Basados en el Núcleo Cortex(TM)-M3 de ARM(R)

AUSTIN, Texas, 25 de julio /PRNewswire/ -- Luminary Micro (http://www.luminarymicro.com/ ), una compañía de semiconductores, sin instalaciones de manufactura, que diseña, comercializa y vende microcontroladores ARM(R) sobre el procesador Cortex(TM)-M3 y que fue la primera en ofrecer los ARM a US$1,00 a desarrolladores integrados, anuncia hoy la disponibilidad de 13 nuevos microcontroladores de 32-bit (MCU) de la familia Stellaris(TM) y sus kits de desarrollo asociados. Los 13 dispositivos están disponibles de inmediato y ofrecen hasta 64K bytes de flash en un ciclo, 8K bytes de SRAM de un ciclo, velocidades de hasta 50 MHz, y hasta 8 canales para convertidor análogo-a-digital (ADC) de hasta 1M de muestras por segundo en tasa de prueba. Dos de los nuevos dispositivos también ofrecen capacidades para Quadrature Encoder Input (QEI) en la unidad de control de movimien... (more)

WAYPORT zeichnet sich durch starke Performance aus und Hotels schliessen sich seinem Netzwerk an, das mit zuverlässigen Service und guten Ideen glänzt

KOPENHAGEN, October 19 /PRNewswire/ -- WAYPORT wird zur führenden, ersten Wahl für Geschäftsführer führender Hotels in Europa bei der Bereitstellung von Internetdiensten für ihre Gäste. WAYPORT, der krisenresistente Anbieter von Internetdiensten macht die System-Zuverlässigkeit, Benutzerfreundlichkeit, gute Markenentwicklung und Bereitstellung von massgeschneiderten Lösungen für seinen Erfolg verantwortlich. Oder einfacher ausgedrückt: Herausragender Kundenservice und gute Ideen. "Die 20 % an neuen Hotels in unserem WAYPORT-Netzwerk zeigen, dass WAYPORT über die richtige Erfolgsformel verfügt", erklärte Daniel Lister, Leiter des Marketings bei WAYPORT EMEA. "Einheitsgrössen passen eben nicht jedem", fügte Lister hinzu. "Wir können verfolgen, dass ständig neue Hotels von ihren traditionellen Serviceanbietern zu unseren massgeschneiderten Lösungen wechseln, da ihre ... (more)

athenahealth Chooses Monolith Software to Increase Transparency in Support of Its National Physician Network

ST. CHARLES, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 11/10/09 -- Monolith Software, a software provider with the industry's most flexible and versatile infrastructure management solution, today announced that athenahealth, Inc., (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of Internet-based business services to physician practices, has deployed Monolith Software to provide transparency and to ensure the highest levels of performance of its healthcare applications and IT infrastructure that support thousands of daily users nationwide. Over 20,000 medical providers rely on athenahealth's centrally-hosted practice management and electronic medical records (EMR) platform, athenaNet®, in addition to payer and clinical intelligence, to radically improve control over their billing and clinical operations. athenahealth chose Monolith Software for its comprehensive availability, fault and performance ... (more)

LynuxWorks to Be Featured on Virtual Networking and Security Panel on November 12

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/12/09 -- LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today announced its participation in the EE Times Connected Devices Virtual Conference: Entering a New Age of Embedded Design. Arun Subbarao, VP of Engineering at LynuxWorks, will be contributing security expertise on the panel "Networking/Security: Keeping Hackers and Malware Out" to discuss potential threats and attacks on different types of connected embedded systems. The panelists will address the current and future implications for embedded software developers, along with the tools, techniques and technology that organizations need to prevent these threats. LynuxWorks has been addressing security in the embedded industry for the last five years. Its LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor has been designed from the ground up for the highest levels of se... (more)

GETI Certifies the RDM SYNERGY II for Check 21+ Remote Check Deposit With Guarantee

DESTIN, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 12/08/09 -- Global eTelecom, Inc. (GETI), announced today that RDM Corporation's RDM SYNERGY II All-In-One payment terminal has been certified for GETI's Check 21+ solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. Now, RDM's powerful, all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) hardware is fully supported for all check processing standards, making it a valued option for both resellers and merchants. The RDM SYNERGY II certification includes the ability to process checks with guaranteed funding as well. Already capable of processing ACH check transactions, this added capacity makes the RDM SYNERGY II a flexible and robust payment solution choice. "We're delighted with the release of the RDM SYNERGY II to support GETI's Check 21 program," said Douglas Newman, CEO and president of RDM Corporation. "As long-term partners and industry pioneers in the field of... (more)

GENIVI Alliance to Demonstrate GENIVI 1.0 -- Its First Open Source-Based IVI Platform at International CES 2010

LAS VEGAS, December 30 /PRNewswire/ -- GENIVI Alliance, an automotive industry association driving the development and adoption of an open in-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference platform, will be publicly unveiling GENIVI Platform version 1.0 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 7th - 10th. The GENIVI Platform 1.0 represents the collaborative efforts of the core and charter members of the Alliance, including founding companies BMW, Delphi, General Motors, Intel, Magneti Marelli, PSA, Visteon Corporation, and Wind River. The platform, recently made available to its member companies, may be used by Tier One and OEMs to reduce the cost of developing IVI devices and greatly reduce the time to bring innovative, differentiated IVI devices to the consumer market. "The release of GENIVI 1.0 comes just ten months after the Alliance launch... (more)

Opengear Announces Growth and Industry Validation for Open Source Console Servers

SANDY, UT -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/10 -- Opengear (www.opengear.com), a leading provider of next-generation console server and KVM over IP solutions, today announced that it saw significant growth and industry validation in 2009. "We made great strides in 2009 expanding our open source product line so that we could bring better out-of-band management to remote offices and at the same time increase the availability of our products in the government sector through FIPS 140-2 and a GSA contract," said Todd Rychecky, VP of Sales and Marketing of Opengear. "Globally, it was an economically challenging year; however, we feel the development work our team invested in made 2009 a great success and we look forward to continued growth in 2010." Highlights of 2009 included: -- Opengear doubled North American revenue as well as global revenue with more than 200 new corporate e... (more)

Laminated and Advanced Solar Control Glass Prominent at 2012 North American International Auto Show

DETROIT, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Numerous vehicles on display at the 2012 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) tout available laminated glass and/or advanced solar control glass in applications beyond the windshield, reports the Enhanced Protective Glass Automotive Association (EPGAA). Those window positions include driver and passenger side windows, rear windows and roof glass. New adoptions of laminated glass demonstrate the value that automakers continue to place on the benefits of the product. Since the year 2000, when the technology began to appear on luxury vehicles at NAIAS, laminated glass has been adopted on many additional platforms, providing affordable quality while improving safety, minimizing exposure to cancer-causing UV rays, and even improving fuel efficiency/EV range through reduced A/C need in models which also include Advanced S... (more)

Release of OpenNebula 3.4 with the Most Powerful Open Cloud Solution for VMware

MADRID, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - OpenNebula 3.4 is the most feature-rich open-source alternative to VMware datacenter and cloud suite, delivering enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability with broader platform support and integration capabilities for KVM, Xen and VMware hypervisors OpenNebula is proud to announce the release of a new stable version of its widely-deployed open-source management solution for enterprise data center virtualization. OpenNebula 3.4 delivers the most feature-rich, customizable solution to build enterprise virtualized data centers and private clouds on Xen, KVM and VMware, providing cloud consumers with a choice of interfaces, from open cloud to de-facto standards, like the Amazon API. This new release brings countless valuable contributions from many industry members of its large user community, including Research i... (more)