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Avanti Group Review For UNILUX, Branding is Can Make a Difference

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In this Information Technology Age, a company’s reputation is often measured according to its website’s quality, visibility and usefulness to its clients. Having a website, therefore, is sometimes not even enough. It must reach the company’s targeted market as much as possible at all times.

In order to revamp their brand and image online, UNILUX AM has turned to iHook Creative UNILUX Advanced Manufacturing, LLC took that crucial step back in October 2009 with the official launch of their revamped website

San-Diego-based branding agency iHook Creative, finished the final touches of the project while staying ahead of the schedule for a launch before the end of the year.

UNILUX AM had undertaken a major project to revamp their corporate image by initiating a complete revamp of their website, sales collateral and promotional message. “After speaking with several prospects, it became clear that iHook Creative had the talent and understanding of our needs, not only in website design and rollout, but also with our downstream marketing and branding needs,” said Larry Farrelly, UNILUX AM President.

“iHook is excited about the collaboration with UNILUX Advanced Manufacturing,” said Matt Faulk, iHook founder and art director. “Together we have created a dynamic web environment that communicates the UNILUX AM corporate message and positions them at the top of the increasingly competitive aviation industry. The new look is a combination of technology, efficiency, and power.”

The creative collaboration between the two companies hopes to enhance the reputation of UNILUX as a provider of excellent industrial products and for all industrial applications.

For the latest information about UNILUX, visit us now at http://www.uniluxam.com/.
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Global Asia Renewable Energy - PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Oct 1

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PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Oct 1


Oct 1 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

* Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros Pictures has a new financial partner that will help fund most of its movie production for several years. The entity, RatPac-Dune Entertainment LLC, will pour $450 million into as many as 75 movies over four to five years, with a few high-profile exceptions. ()


* Cooper Tire & Rubber Co shareholders approved a $2.5 billion sale of the Ohio company to Apollo Tyres Ltd on Monday, clearing the way for what could become the largest U.S. acquisition by an Indian industrial firm. ()


* Yahoo Inc has agreed to pay unspecified damages and legal costs to settle a lawsuit filed by Singapore Press Holdings Ltd over copyright infringement, the two companies said Monday. ()


* Chevron Corp moved Monday to avoid a jury trial in its suit against a lawyer it accuses of fraud in a high-stakes legal battle over pollution in Ecuador's jungles. The firm said that if a federal judge tries the case, it will drop its claims for monetary damages against Steven Donziger, a lawyer who sued Chevron on behalf of an Ecuadorian plaintiff. ()


* U.S. private-equity firm KKR & Co LP is making its biggest ever bet on China, with an agreement to take a 10 percent stake in Qingdao Haier Co Ltd, to gain exposure to China's home appliances market. ()


* Britain's biggest drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC is selling its thrombosis brands, together with the Notre-Dame de Bondeville manufacturing site in France, to South Africa-based Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd for 700 million pounds($1.13 billion). ()


* IKEA, already a major purchaser of renewable-energy equipment to power its own facilities, plans to sell solar panels to customers at 17 stores in the U.K. as the world's biggest furniture retailer tries to meet a growing customer demand for sustainable products. ()


* A trust representing "old" General Motors Co unsecured creditors agreed to stop trying to reclaim funds that GM had paid to a group of hedge funds, among them Paul Singer's Elliott Management and John Paulson's Paulson Partners, in return for the hedge funds reducing their claims against the trust. ()


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WellPoint Offers Seniors Tips for Bouncing Back from Hospitalization - Massachussets Westhill Consulting Insurance

WellPoint Offers Seniors Tips for Bouncing Back from Hospitalization

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb 10, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Imagine you’ve been in the hospital. You’ve eagerly waited for the day you could go home. When that day finally arrives, you’re thrilled. It’s a safe bet the last thing you want to do is to have to return to the hospital.
Unfortunately, far too many people are returning to the hospital after receiving care there, particularly seniors. According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, nearly one-fifth (19.6 percent) of traditional Medicare beneficiaries who had been discharged from a hospital were re-hospitalized within 30 days, and 34 percent were re-hospitalized within 90 days.1 The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has estimated the cost of hospital readmissions at $15 billion.
“We know that many of these instances are unavoidable,” said Dr. Mary McCluskey, chief medical officer of WellPoint’s Government Business Division. “However, some are preventable, which is unfortunate since hospital stays can expose patients to a host of complications, including possible infections, as well as being costly, stressful and inconvenient.”
WellPoint, which serves thousands of seniors through its affiliated Medicare plans, offers the following tips for making sure a hospital stay doesn’t end up turning into a round-trip.

Understand discharge directions. The transition home really starts before the patient leaves the hospital. It is critical to understand hospital discharge directions. This isn’t as easy as it sounds since patients may be medicated, stressed, groggy or confused. For that reason, it is recommended that patients repeat instructions to their physicians to make sure they understand them. It also may help to write down the instructions or enlist a family member or caregiver to help document them. Another way for a patient to smooth the transition home is to make sure someone at the hospital contacts their primary care physician (PCP) with information about their condition and treatment. People with chronic conditions see many different doctors. It is important for those doctors to communicate with each other.

Fill prescriptions and take them as prescribed. Upon being discharged from the hospital, it is important to fill prescriptions immediately and take them as prescribed. Patients should make sure to understand the timing, dosage and frequency of each drug. Also, patients should take care to understand how existing medicines, including over-the-counter drugs, interact with new drugs. Finally, if any drugs have been stopped, it’s important to ask why. It may be helpful to get a pill organizer to keep track of medicines.

Get follow-up care. According to America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), half of patients who were re-hospitalized within 30 days did not have a physician visit between the time of discharge and re-hospitalization, suggesting one of the reasons people end up back in the hospital is lack of follow-up care. That is why it’s so critical for people to transition from the hospital to their PCP. Patients should schedule follow-up appointments with their regular doctor and keep them. The PCP can coordinate care, making sure patients aren’t exposed to dangerous drug interactions or unnecessary tests. Anyone with trouble getting a timely appointment can call their insurer for help.

Eat properly. People recently discharged from the hospital need to get proper nutrition, including following any dietary restrictions. Appetite is often suppressed after an illness; however, if someone is too sick to eat due to pain, nausea, inability to swallow, etc., then they should contact their doctor.

Take advantage of programs that are there to help. People with Medicare Advantage plans may have access to resources, including case managers, to help them return safely to their homes. Case managers may be able to help a recently discharged patient find transportation to doctor appointments, address potential safety issues in the home and help them locate community programs offering everything from meal delivery to free or discounted medicines. These people are experts at understanding the system and it is their job to help.

Know when things aren’t getting better. Patients should understand which symptoms require immediate intervention and return to the hospital, if necessary. People who aren’t getting better shouldn’t wait for their next appointment.

Be an engaged consumer. Many trips to the hospital occur without warning. However, people with advance notice have resources available to help them research quality and cost. Information about readmission rates for certain hospitals, for example, is available at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov , where visitors can enter a procedure and a zip code, select three hospitals, and click “Outcome of Care Measures” to compare results.
“Most of us will have to go to the hospital at some point in our lives,” said McCluskey. “The key is being an engaged patient to prevent hospitalization from becoming a downward spiral, both physically and financially.”

WellPoint affiliates are PPO plans, HMO plans and PDP plans with a Medicare contract. Enrollment in WellPoint affiliated plans depends on contract renewal.
1 Jencks SF, Williams MV and Coleman EA. “Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program.” New England Journal of Medicine, 360(14): 1418-1428, April 2, 2009.
SOURCE: WellPoint
WellPointDoug Bennett Jr., (502) 889.2103 Doug.BennettJr@wellpoint.com

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The 10 Places Where Health Insurance Costs The Least - Quora - Massachusetts Westhill Consulting Healthcare Insurance

The 10 Places Where Health Insurance Costs The Least
By EDITOR

People in much of Minnesota, northwestern Pennsylvania and Tucson, Ariz., are getting the best bargains from the health care law's new insurance marketplaces. Their premiums run half as much as those in the country's most expensive markets.

The 10 regions with the lowest premiums in the nation also include Salt Lake City, all of Hawaii and eastern Tennessee. This ranking is based on the lowest cost of a silver plan, the midrange plan most consumers are choosing.

What sets these bargain markets apart? They tend to have robust competition among hospitals and doctors, allowing insurers to wrangle lower rates.

Many doctors in these places are salaried rather than being paid by the visit or procedure. The salaried approach weakens financial incentives to perform more procedures. Health systems focus on organizing patient care rather than letting specialists work detached from each other.

The lowest monthly silver premium in the country is offered in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, where a 40-year-old will pay $154 a month for a Preferred One plan. Just across the Wisconsin border, that same kind of plan — but with a different insurer and other doctors and hospitals — costs nearly three times as much.

Insurers were able to negotiate low rates with hospitals and doctors in the Twin Cities because they could choose from among four major health care systems. Both Fairview Health Services, which runs the University of Minnesota Medical Center and is included in the lowest plan's network, and Allina Health, the largest system in the Twin Cities and operator of Abbott Northwestern Hospital, have been in the vanguard of experimenting with more efficient ways to care for patients, such as accountable care organizations and putting doctors on salary, said Stephen Parents, a health economist at the University of Minnesota.
"Minnesota has had years if not decades of experience with managed care," he said.

Most counties in central and northern Minnesota also have premiums that are among the lowest in the nation. Michael Rothman, commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Commerce, which regulates insurers, said the state moved early to enact cost controls, such as restricting how much insurers can spend on things other than medical care and requiring annual insurance rates to go through state review.
Several of the other lowest cost areas, including Salt Lake City and Hawaii, also have major hospitals and health systems that have been at the forefront of integrating health care. Those systems foster and reward collaboration among primary care doctors, specialists and nurses. But people who buy the cheapest Salt Lake City plan won't have access to Intermountain Healthcare, the most prestigious system in the area.

Innovative hospital practices don't guarantee cheap insurance. In Rochester, Minn., the home of the Mayo Clinic, the lowest priced silver plan costs $305 a month, which is above the national median.

Although Mayo's doctors are salaried and the system practices integrated care, its prices are higher than in Minneapolis, said Dannette Coleman, an executive at Medical, the insurer that offers the lowest priced silver plan in that area. Given Mayo's extensive network of clinics in the region, "you really cannot be in that area in that state if you don't have the Mayo Clinic Health System in your network," she said. Mayo officials didn't respond to a request for comment.
In eastern Tennessee, cheap premiums are notable because many residents face chronic health issues. Obesity and smoking are common. "We're the buckle of the stroke belt," said Kevin Spiegel, president of Erlanger Health System, which is included in the network of the least expensive silver plan in Chattanooga. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee was able to offer the lowest silver premiums around Knoxville and Chattanooga — $180 a month for a 40-year-old — by cutting deals with just one hospital system and their doctors in each region, said Henry Smith, the insurer's chief marketing officer.

"There are competing systems within those two regions to price against," Smith said. These lowest premium plans are "the narrowest network we have by far."
Likewise, in western Pennsylvania, Highmark was able to offer the low premium — $164 for a 40-year-old — by omitting nine hospitals and about 3,000 doctors who charge higher prices, according to spokeswoman Kristin Ash. Consumers wanting a wider network will have to pay Highmark 38 percent more a month.

These competitive markets are quite different than in southwest Georgia, the second most expensive region in the country. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia had no choice but to include in its network the Phoebe Putney Health System, which controls 86 percent of the market. The lowest premium in southwest Georgia is $461, 2 1/2 times the rate in Chattanooga.

Copyright 2014 Kaiser Health News. To see more, visit Kaiser Health News.

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Massaging for Health, a Jennifer Shearin Group Wellness Coaching on Bing

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Does anyone know how to run java projects directly from ST2 on a linux machine?

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I am coming from Eclipse and all you have to do it press f11 or anything, however with ST2 you cant run your programs directly, you have to open up a terminal. Thank you .  
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Westhill Consulting Insurance – Saving for your ageing parents : an easy guide to where to start

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Saving for your ageing parents: an easy guide to where to start

The needs of elderly parents can surprise even those who are prepared, but you don’t have to support your family alone

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We all want to age like the late Pete Seeger, who celebrated his 90th birthday performing onstage in front of thousands of adoring fans of all ages at Madison Square Garden, and went on to entertain the Newport Jazz Festival audiences a few months later.

In our pragmatic moments, we know that the odds of living that long and in such good health aren’t in our favor. We know we need to plan not only to live longer but perhaps to spend more time in costly nursing homes or care facilities.

It's not just ourselves we have to worry about. Failing to develop a plan to help our parents in their final years could deliver a similar kind of blow to our emotional and financial wellbeing. In the last few months, I’ve watched three friends, ranging in age from their 40s to the early 60s, scramble to resolve non-medical problems for their parents. In all cases, that meant forking out on costly airfares to be there in person; in one case, it required money to hire a new accountant. “I’ve always been aware that at some point, there would be an emergency, but I had assumed it would be a stroke or something, not this,” one told me, ruefully.

A recent US Trust survey revealed that while about half of all Americans have planned for their own long-term care needs, only 18% of those with parents still living have factored in the possible need to help parents.

And yet, 26% of those under the age of 49 already were footing the bill for parents’ out-of-pocket medical expenses while 18% were contributing to long-term care costs.

I’m not suggesting that you double your savings rate to ensure that your nest egg is large enough to cover your needs as well as the needs of your parents and in-laws. That’s both illogical and – given that most of us are struggling to save for our own retirement – impractical. That doesn’t mean your hands are tied, however.

Start with the basics. Make a list of questions and fill out the answers. It's easiest to start with the most important documents you need to be prepared.

Do your parents have a health care proxy? A power of attorney prepared? Where are they located? In the midst of a crisis, you don’t want to go on a treasure hunt in quest of these crucial documents.

“Clients call me to say that hospitals won’t talk to them about treatment for their elderly father with dementia because no one has a healthcare proxy or knows where it is,” says Nan Giner, a partner at Boston-based Choate Investment Advisers.

Do your parents have long-term care insurance, or do they plan to “self-insure” and cover their costs from their savings?

“Knowing the answer to that question can help you understand how much risk there is that you’ll be called on to help” whether directly or by helping them to navigate the labyrinth of federal, state and local programs that exist to help fill gaps of this kind, says Dave Richmond, a financial adviser in Jackson, Michigan.

Beginning conversations on these topics might feel awkward – after all, it hasn’t been that long since your mom and dad were monitoring your behavior. But it’s important to be proactive. The more you’re able to communicate openly, the better the odds that you’ll spot something that otherwise might have developed into a crisis.

“Most of the parents I’ve worked with don’t want to be a burden to their children,” says Gideon Schein, founding partner of Eddy & Schein, a New York firm that manages personal finance and health insurance issues for senior citizens still living in their own homes. “The best way is to make parents aware that you’re asking for everyone’s benefit; that it’s a kindness to everyone in the family to be prepared – not for death, but for the rest of their lives.”

There are plenty of tips out there for ways to start tricky conversations like these. Bringing a third party into the discussion can also help, especially if your parents feel you’re overstepping your bounds, or you’re afraid of sounding greedy or self-interested. “Sometimes having a mediator takes the tension out of a situation,” says Schein.

A good place to start is an elder care attorney, who is intimately familiar with these issues, including specialized vehicles like pooled income trusts that can be invaluable to elderly individuals facing a financial shortfall in covering the cost of their care in their final years. They can refer their clients to other specialists, including people in Schein’s rapidly-growing industry, members of the American Association of Daily Money Managers.

None of this practical stuff will make it easier to deal with the emotional burden of octogenarian parents struggling with dementia or other major ailments. But part of everyone’s personal financial plan should include strategies for dealing with some of the most likely scenarios involving their parents. That leaves everyone in a less vulnerable position.

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The Economist explains - Why is renewable energy so expensive?

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MOST people agree that carbon emissions from power stations are a significant cause of climate change. These days a fiercer argument is over what to do about it. Many governments are pumping money into renewable sources of electricity, such as wind turbines, solar farms, hydroelectric and geothermal plants. But countries with large amounts of renewable generation, such as Denmark and Germany, face the highest energy prices in the rich world. In Britain electricity from wind farms costs twice as much as that from traditional sources; solar power is even moredear. What makes it so costly?
Enthusiasts have used wind turbines to generate electricity since the 1880s, but efforts to build very large wind farms started only in the late 1970s. Utility-scale solar and other renewable generation is more recent still. Despite the lure of government subsidies, there are still too few companies making renewable kit (almost all the wind turbines in British seas, as one example, are produced by a single firm). Supply-chain bottlenecks have frustrated governments scrabbling to install new renewable capacity. And compared with traditional power stations, renewable generators are cheap to run but costly to build, which makes them particularly vulnerable to changes in the cost of capital.
A more fundamental challenge is that renewable generators also impose costs on the wider electricity grid. The best sites are often far from big cities (on Scottish hillsides, French lakes or American deserts) which makes them expensive to connect. Many common types of renewable generators only produce power intermittently—when the sun shines or when the wind blows. Wind turbines, for example, spin only about a third of the time. That means countries which have a lot of renewable generation must still pay to maintain traditional kinds of power stations ready to fire up when demand peaks. And energy from these stations also becomes more expensive because they may not run at full-blast.
The high cost of renewable generators obstructs efforts to tackle climate change, even when governments dig deep to fund them. One danger is that sharp rises in energy prices will drive manufacturers to set up in less “green” countries, which might mean citizens end up consuming more carbon, through imports. Another worry is that governments will end up extending the life of dirty coal plants to serve as back-up when renewable generation is low—or when over-ambitious renewable roll-outs run out of steam. But for now the main consequence of high renewable costs is growing interest in controversial alternatives. The price of nuclear power has been rising for decades, but it still looks less expensive than many types of renewable generation. Gas-fired power stations are roughly half as polluting as coal-fired ones. Building more of them could provide a cheaper way for countries to cut emissions in the short term, and buy renewable operators time to bring their costs under control.
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The Next Big Thing voor Tech: The Internet of Everything

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In een column schreef ik hier al eerder CES , schetste ik acht trends stelde ik voor zou uit de show komen. Ik weggelaten een belangrijke trend die bekend staat als het internet van Everything (OIE), zoals het hele werd impliciet het grootste deel van de trends I vermeld. Maar nu ik de gebeurtenissen van de show hebben verteerd, ik heb het uit genoemd als een trend in zijn eigen recht, want het werd uiteindelijk de ware thema van dit jaar CES.

Dit werd mij heel duidelijk tijdens een vergadering die ik had met de CEO van Cisco, John Chambers, waar hij schetste denken Cisco's op OIE. De financiële cijfers voorspelt hij voor de gevolgen van de OIE in de overheidssector alleen: 4600000000000 $. Hij gelooft dat het zal een enorme impact hebben op alles van stadsplanning, first responders, militair, gezondheid en tientallen andere omgevingen. Als ik hoor getallen deze grote, word ik sceptisch. We praten over biljoenen dollars hier, niet miljarden. Echter, als je kijkt naar het ultieme idee van wat OIE is, kunnen deze nummers worden op het merk.

Het internet van alles is uitgegroeid tot een catch-all phrase te beschrijven voegen connectiviteit en intelligentie om zowat elk apparaat om hen speciale functies te geven. Op de show, bijvoorbeeld, was er een met internet verbonden crock pot. Je zou kunnen beheersen als het gaat over en de instellingen van de andere kant van de wereld aan te passen. Er waren ook diverse auto verkopers die de volgende generatie van de aangesloten auto's geïntroduceerd. Ieder van hen verwezen naar hun auto's als onderdeel van OIE.

Slimme auto's, slimme apparaten, smartwatches en meer alle eindigen met de "slimme" moniker voor hen wanneer ze gebonden aan het internet en interconnect aan ecosystemen van apparaten, software en diensten. Het bedrijf achter de Sleep Number bedden zelfs aangekondigd een slimme bed dat slaappatronen monitoren met 500 sensoren ingebouwd in de matras, het verzenden van de resultaten om een app op uw smartphone of tablet.

Als ik liep de CES beursvloer, die door de manier had 2 miljoen vierkante meter aan tentoonstellingsruimte, het was moeilijk om een product dat niet een of andere vorm van connectivity.This had was vooral het geval in de sectie gezondheidszorg, waar ongeveer 60 vinden stands toonde gezondheidsgerelateerde wearables die gecontroleerd genomen stappen, hartslag, verbrande calorieën en bloeddruk. Er waren zelfs persoonlijke EKG systemen. Ik droeg de Fitbit Force polsband en vond dat ik liep meer dan 20.000 stappen per dag was ik bij de show.

Toen ik uitgecheckt de verschillende auto's op de beursvloer, allen werden pronken hoe slim en ze verbonden waren. Er waren aangesloten tv's, koelkasten, huishoudelijke apparaten, domotica-systemen, noem maar op, en het werd aangesloten op een of andere manier met het internet of een smartphone, tablet of pc.

De OIE focus op gezondheid is heel interessant en ik van groot belang. In de sectie gezondheid op de CES, United Healthcare, dat is een van de grootste zorgverzekeraars in de VS, had een grote stand die verschillende gezondheids-monitoring devices en online educatieve diensten gemarkeerd. Zorgaanbieders en verzekeraars weten dat houdt je gezond en uit het ziekenhuis is veel goedkoper en beter dan het verzorgen van de kosten voor u als u ziek wordt - en vooral als je opgenomen in een ziekenhuis. Dus ze zijn heel erg achter OIE, wat suggereert dat mensen gebruik maken van dingen als de Jawbone Up, Misfit Shine, Nike Fuelband, Fibit Force en tientallen andere gezondheids-apparaten die worden gebruikt om u te motiveren en bewaken van uw oefening. Sommige van deze apparaten, zoals aangesloten bloeddruk kits en aangesloten bloedglucose testen kits kunnen zelfs de gegevens die zij verzamelen om uw zorgverlener te sturen, zodat hij of zij je voortgang kunt controleren.

Als een type-2 diabetes, was ik vooral geïnteresseerd in een product van Dexcom : een continue bloedglucose monitoring systeem dat een subcutane sensor ingebracht in de arm, buik of de dij gebruikt en draadloos communiceert met een handheld digitale controle-apparaat. Deze monitor vervolgens dia's in een internet-aangesloten docking systeem en kan een volledige 24-uurs of zelfs een 10-daagse lezen om uw zorgverlener te sturen zodat hij of zij kan zien hoe je doet met je medicijnen en aanpassingen in real time.

Aangesloten auto's zullen de grote onderscheidende factoren voor de auto-industrie in de nabije toekomst. AT & T kondigde een groot platform dat gebruikt kan worden door autofabrikanten om 4G-connectiviteit en diensten toe te voegen aan hun voertuigen. En vorige herfst, AT & T introduceerde een gieterij die zal dienen als een bron voor autofabrikanten om hun auto's slimmer maken. Op CES, AT & T aangekondigd dat Audi en GM zou met behulp van AT & T's 4G-oplossingen, en in een verrassing beweging zei dat GM haar OnStar diensten zou verhuizen binnenkort van Verizon AT & T.

Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm en de meeste van de halfgeleider-bedrijven op de beurs alle aangekondigde nieuwe processors en diensten gericht op de OIE met Intel bekendmaking van haar Quartz chip voor wearables en een nieuwe SOC (system on a chip) genaamd Edison, dat is de grootte van een SD-kaart geeft complete computersysteem voor gebruik in alle soorten OIE apparaten. Ik zie Qualcomm als een van de echt grote spelers en winnaars in OIE sinds het bedrijf is opkomen OIE voor de afgelopen twee jaar en valt OIE op twee niveaus. Zijn mobiele chips en radio's worden gebruikt in miljoenen smartphones en tablets nu, en het bedrijf is ook iets wat het noemt de Digital Sixth Sense, die betrekking heeft op een ander belangrijk onderdeel van de OIE duwen: sensoren. Qualcomm sensoren worden genoemd Gimbal processors.

Miljarden sensoren zullen elk jaar worden verzonden. Deze sensoren geven apparaten zoals lichten, bakens, apparaten en domotica-systemen een verbinding met andere apparaten en internet ecosystemen. Marktonderzoeker IDC verwacht dat in 2020, zal 220.000.000.000 aangesloten apparaten in gebruik zijn. Qualcomm kunnen deze sensoren leveren gewijd producten zoals bakens en domotica-systemen, maar ze kunnen ook worden toegevoegd aan het bedrijf Snapdragon mobiele processors die macht telefoons en tablets.

Hoewel we hebben het over de aangesloten apparaten sinds het midden van de jaren '90, ik denk dat we terugkijken op CES van dit jaar en beseffen dat als het evenement waar OIE uiteindelijk de mainstream hit. In de komende drie tot vijf jaar zullen alle bedrijven producten en diensten die passen in een wereld van slimmere apparaten, diensten en ecosystemen creëren. Hoewel er zeker zullen een aantal varianten op dit thema, de bottom line is dat het internet van alles is de volgende grote ding voor tech en vrijwel alle sectoren, zoals ze willen allemaal deel van deze revolutie.

Een laatste opmerking over OIE: Wat Ik deel hier is gewoon de trend. Alle bedrijfstakken nog steeds te maken hebben met thema's als veiligheid, privacy, hardware compatibiliteit, software compatibiliteit, synchronisatie, draadgebonden infrastructuur, draadloze infrastructuur, data mining, data-analyse en tientallen andere dingen die ervoor zorgt dat OIE echt werken over de hele wereld. Terwijl OIE is de volgende grote trend, zal de volgende stap zijn om te werken aan deze belangrijke kwesties als OIE is om zijn volledige potentieel te voldoen.