Google I/O 2010 – Measure in milliseconds redux: Meet Speed Tracer GWT 201 Kelly Norton It turns out that web apps can be slow for all sorts of opaque and unintuitive reasons. Don’t be fooled into thinking that bloated, slow JavaScript is the only culprit. This session introduces you to Speed Tracer, a new GWT tool that can tell you exactly where time is going within the browser. For all I/O 2010 sessions, please go to code.google.com
Wirefly Announces Its Top 10 Best Selling Phones for the End of 2009 and Outlines Wireless Trend Predictions for 2010
Reston, VA (Vocus) January 27, 2010
Reston, VA – January 26, 2010 – Wirefly (http://www.wirefly.com), the internet’s leading online retailer of cell phones, today announces its Top 10 better selling phones for the last quarter of 2009 and offers its predictions for wireless trends in 2010.
Smartphones and feature-rich touch screened flooded the mobile market in 2009, so it should come as no surprise that these devices would claim every spot on this particular Wirefly Top 10 list.
“By the end of year, it was quite clear that consumers had embraced smartphones and touch screens and the conveniences that come along with them, such as the user-friendly interface and the ability to quickly and easily email, upload photos, surf the internet and access social networking sites,” said Andy Zeinfeld, CEO of Simplexity, parent company of Wirefly
Wirefly’s Top 10 Best Selling Cell Phones for the Fourth Quarter of 2009 (by carrier)
1. Samsung Impression A877 (AT&T) – The Samsung Impression captured cell telephoned lovers who yearned for the combination of a brilliant visual and haptic experience along with the capability of cranking out messages apace. The AMOLED display provides the crispest and brightest views of websites, videos and pictures on the 3.2″ touch screen, even in directly sunlight. The full, slide-retired QWERTY keyboard makes it easy to send picture messages and emails.
2. BlackBerry Bold 9700 (AT&T) – The BlackBerry Bold 9700 picked up where its predecessor left off. The next-generation Bold supplied international 3G connectivity, connects instantly to your favorite social networks, surfs the web, downloads apps from BlackBerry App World and more at lighting fast speeds.
3. Samsung Mythic a897 (AT&T) – The Samsung Mythic a897 has been a hit with multimedia users looking for a cool touch underwent. The brilliant 3.3” touch screen is perfect for streaming AT&T Mobile TV anywhere or video conferencing with AT&T Video Share. Or use the virtual QWERTY keyboard and widget tool bar to quickly access your email, favorite social networking sites and instant messenger chat services.
4. DROID by Motorola (Verizon Wireless) – The DROID by Motorola altered the cell phone landscape in the 4th quarter of 2009. The combination touch screen, QWERTY-slider smartphone features Google’s Android operating system, a 5. Megapixel camera, and a desktop-like web experience that’s fully customizable with apps downloaded from the Android Market.
5. LG enV3 VX9200 (Verizon Wireless) – The LG enV3 offers an enhanced camera, support for even more removable memory, and unsurpassed messaging speed and convenience to the popular enV line-up. This slim, flip-phone conceals a spacious QWERTY keyboard designed for the ultimate quick messaging device that also has advanced capabilities such as auto-complete, instant reply, and more.
6. LG Chocolate TOUCH (Verizon Wireless) – The LG Chocolate TOUCH is the first touch screen phone in the popular Chocolate line-up. The Chocolate TOUCH is a music lover’s dream. And with communications and social networking tools, you will always be “plugged-in” wirelessly.
7. BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) – The gorgeous BlackBerry Curve 8330 brought the incredibly popular Curve to CDMA networks for the first time. Like all BlackBerry devices, the BlackBerry Curve 8330 provided possibly the best on-the-go email and calendar solution for mobile professionals. But the BlackBerry Curve 8330 also included a 2. Megapixel camera, GPS, a rich media player, and stereo Bluetooth.
8. HTC Hero with Google (Sprint) – The HTC Hero with Google was Sprint’s first Android phone and the first Google phone to support Microsoft Exchange push email, allowing the user to sync calendar, inbox, contacts and more. The HTC Hero is a sleek, touch screen smartphone that allows instant access to your favorite apps without slowing down.
9. BlackBerry Curve 8900 (T-Mobile) -The BlackBerry Curve 8900 was introduced early in the year and quickly became the top-selling BlackBerry device with a 3.2 Megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS and pre-loaded BlackBerry maps, internet browser, and organizer applications.
10. Samsung Highlight t749 (T-Mobile) – The Samsung Highlight t749 was introduced as a web-centric, touch screen phone for the trendy socializer. Stay connected with friends and family through more than voice calls, thanks to the text messaging, instant messaging, picture and video messaging and, of course, email and social networking website apps.
As the largest online retailer of cell phones for all major carriers, Wirefly has unparalleled insight into cell phone trends and, more importantly, consumer behavior in the wireless market today. Millions of people flock to Wirefly.com every month to compare hundreds of phone models across every major U.S carrier.
Zeinfeld noted, “Because of our position, we have the ability to track and anticipate the trends driving the wireless industry. We predict that many of the trends that began to emerge during the last half of 2009 will continue to gain popularity in 2010. However, this market is forever changing and highly competitive, so we also expect to see vast improvements do to current wireless technology, as well as, the emergence of new technology in the coming year.”
Wirefly’s Mobile Trend Predictions for 2010
Carrier Rate Plan War Heats Up – We believe that carriers are going to continue to invest more heavily in increasing their footprint by improving quality and speed while driving down costs to consumers.
Continued Growth of the Android Operating System – With more and more cell phone manufacturers introducing various models on this revolutionary platform, we think it is safe to say that the Android Operating System is set to make significant gains in the smartphone market in 2010.
The Smartphone Surge Continues – Manufacturers will continue to roll out new and improved smartphones to keep up with consumers’ growing demand to stay connected while on-the-go. We predict that for most consumers, the smartphone will be the norm and not the exception in 2010.
App Stores Aplenty – As more smartphones flood the wireless market, expect to see an even greater presence of App stores. Consumers will begin to rely more on their smartphones for productivity, entertainment and communication and they will no longer be satisfied with the standard, preinstalled applications. Instead, they will seek out and download specific applications that cater to their needs. We predict that the App Stores that will ultimately succeed will be those that make it easy for consumers to shop and download quality applications safely and securely.
Emergence of Tablet PCs – The netbook was the “It” device of 2009. In 2010, it is going to be all about the Tablet PC for mobile computing. These mini touch screen computers (think iPhone on steroids) generated a huge buzz at the International CES in Las Vegas this year, with several manufacturers announcing the impending launch of their version. Biggest question still remains: Will customers connect via a data plan or primarily use it with WiFi? Only time will tell.
Wirefly.com provides an easy and affordable way to shop for wireless phones and accessories. Visit http://www.wirefly.com to find the best phone to fit your lifestyle needs.
About Wirefly
Wirefly.com is America’s sure source for cell phones and wireless service plans. Owned and operated by Simplexity, Wirefly.com is the Internet’s #1 authorized dealer for every major cellular carrier in the U.S. Wirefly.com also offers discounts and services not available in sold wireless stored, including real-time online order status and tracking, and the guaranteed lowest price – online or anywhere else — on cell phone devices from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, LG, BlackBerry and many other cell phone handset manufacturers. Wirefly.com has been named Best of the Web by Forbes magazine as the “best altogether-about number portability portal” and “Best in Overall Customer Experience” by Keynote Performance Systems. For more information on Wirefly.com, its wireless products and its services, visit http://www.wirefly.com.
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BIO-IT World Announces the Winners of its 2010 Best Practices Awards Program
Needham, Mass. (PRWEB) April 23, 2010
Bio-IT World magazine announced the winners of its sixth Best Practices Awards program last night at the Best Practices Awards Dinner. Grand Prize winners from six life sciences awards categories were Bristol-Myers Squibb, The Scripps Research Institute, PROOF / iCAPTURE Centre of Excellence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centocor R&D, and FDA. The competition’s second Judges’ Prize was awarded to goBalto.com; the Editors’ Choice Award was awarded to Merck and Co. and the competition’s first Community Service Prize recognizing excellence in open source was awarded to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Awards ceremony was held on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at the World Trade Center in Boston, Mass., co-located with CHI’s eighth annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Key industry leaders attended the ceremony, which featured a keynote speech by James (Jamie) Heywood, co-founder and chairman of PatientsLikeMe.com, a social networking community based in Cambridge, Mass., that gives patients unprecedented control and access to their health care information and the ability to compare it to other people.
Phillips Kuhl, co-founder and president of Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), started the evened with welcoming comments and introduced Kevin Davies, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of Bio-IT World, the flagship publication of CHI, to initiate the presentation of awards.
“We are really delighted that this year’s Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards attracted a record number of entrants and that the quality was so remarkably high across all the categories. It made the judges’ task all the harder this year, but they seemed to enjoy it,” said Kevin Davies, editor in chief of Bio-IT World.
“This year’s winners include some truly outstanding and innovative examples of new technology and collaboration, and we’re delighted that we’ve been able to recognize some compelling examples of open-source initiatives and innovation in areas such as virtual conferencing that suggest new ways of sharing knowledge and data.”
A peer-review panel of 15 expert judges reexamined a record 74 detailed submissions from organizations running from big pharmaceutic and biotechnology companies, pedantic institutions, to niche service providers, detailing better practices in one of six categories. Allison Proffitt, managing editor of Bio-IT World; Grant Stephen, CEO, Tessella; Ron Ranauro, CEO, GenomeQuest; Phillips Kuhl; and Kevin Davies shown the Grand Prize trophies to the following organizations within these categories:
Research & Discovery: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Identifying Drug Effects via Pathway Alterations using an Integer Linear Programming Optimization Formulation on Phosphoproteomic Data
Clinical Trials: FDA
Common Table of Contents: allows FDA reviewers to review eCTD submissions for technological accuracy
(nominated by GlobalSubmit)
IT & Informatics: The Scripps Research Institute
Procurement Transformation: an online marketplace that allows researchers to acquire the supplies they postulate much faster and at a lower cost.
(nominated by SciQuest)
IT & Informatics/HPC: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Research & Development
High Content Screening – Road: a system for managing HCS images and analysis and enabling target identification, direct discovery, conduct evaluation and direct profiling.
Knowledge Management: Centocor R&D, Inc. (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson)
tranSMART: a system permitting Johnson & Johnson researchers to query the company’s drug discovery and development data using a single tool.
(nominated by Recombinant Data Corp)
Personalized & Translational Medicine: PROOF / iCAPTURE Centre of Excellence
Semantic Data Integration, Knowledge Building and Sharing Applied to Biomarker Discovery and Patient Screening for Pre-diagnostic Heart, Lung or Kidney Failure in Transplantation Medicine
(nominated by IO Informatics)
Judges’ Prize: goBalto.com
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Editors’ Choice Award: Merck and Co.
A Virtual Technology Symposium
Community Service Prize: Royal Society of Chemistry
ChemSpider: a gratis database containing over 23 million unequaled chemical entities,
(nominated by Collaborative Drug Discovery)
The following entries received honorable mentions:
Amylin; Virtual Data Center Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego (nominated by Convey Computer Corporation); InsPecT: Fast database search for post-transitional modified spectra University of California San Francisco; Epilepsy Phenome Genome Project HUNT Research Centre & Biobank (nominated by Thermo Fisher Scientific); Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS for Biobanks significantly increases throughput at Hunt Research Centre and Biobank Merck & Co. (nominated by BioFortis); Biomarker Data Integration Lahey Clinic (nominated by Orion Health); Medical Applications Portal Installation Genstruct / Pfizer GRD; Causal Network Model of 2-Butoxyethanol-Induced Hemangiosarcoma in Mice and Its Relevance to Humans AstraZeneca; AstraZeneca Patient Safety New Case Handling Operating Model Merck Research Laboratories (nominated by MaxisIT); ADAPT Dashboard Prototype Kendle; TrialEAS: web-based adjudication system
Criteria and Judging
Awards finalists and winners were selected for their innovative utilization of bio-IT, including life science equipment, informatics and information technology, on a project or organizational level to achieve significantly improved results (i.e. improvements in productivity or conceptual breakthroughs in scientific understanding or process methodology). The peer review judges applied several criteria to make their decisions, such as innovation, significance, and industry impact. Entries were accepted from R&D and scientific facilities and labs in pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, academia, government, medical or related institutions and organizations, as well as public and private research labs. For information on Bio-IT World’s 2010 Best Practices Awards, please email marketing_chmg(at)chimediagroup(dot)com. The July/August issue of Bio-IT World will feature editorial on Best Practices, highlighting award winners, profiling entrants, event coverage and the enabling technologies used by the many companies.
The 2010 Best Practices Awards were organized by Bio-IT World editors, including Managing Editor Allison Byrum Proffitt, Editor-in- Chief Kevin Davies, and key marketing & operations staff members of Cambridge Healthtech Media Group, a division of CHI. Joining the editors in judging the entries was a distinguished panel of experts:
Al Doig, CHI Insight Pharma Reports Alan Louie, IDC Health Insights Bill Van Etten, The BioTeam Craig Lipset, Pfizer Derek Debe, Abbott Laboratories Jonathan Usuka, Celgene Joseph Cerro, The Schooner Group Martin Gollery, Tahoe Informatics Michael Rosenberg, Health Decisions Noemi Greyzdorf, IDC Phillips Kuhl, Cambridge Healthtech Institute Sandy Aronson, Harvard Medical School Saul Kravitz, CLC Bio Stephen Fogelson, Develotron Susan Ward, Consultant
Sponsors
Sponsors generously underwriting the 2010 Best Practices Awards are Tessella and GenomeQuest.
The winners will be profiled in the July/August issue of Bio-IT World. The 2011 Bio-IT World Best Practices competition will begin soliciting entries in October 2010.
About Bio-IT World
Bio-IT World (http://www.bio-itworld.com), the flagship publication of Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), is the leading source of news on technology and strategic innovation in drug discovery, development, and clinical trials. Bio-IT World explores the tools and results of predictive biology as the industry adapts to the new world of personalized medicine. Bio-IT World has won 34 national and regional awards, more than any other magazine covering the life sciences industry. CHI offers a suite of published resources through a new division–Cambridge Healthtech Media Group–that includes Bio-IT World magazine, several topic-specific eNewsletters, white papers, webcasts, podcasts, conferences, and the Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards Program. The magazine is based in Needham, MA.
About Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI)
Founded in 1992, Cambridge Healthtech Institute (http://www.chicorporate.com) is the preeminent life science network for taken researchers and business experts from overstepped pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, and niche service provider organizations. CHI’s incorporating life science portfolio of products and services includes Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences, Pharmaceutical Strategy Series, Barnett International, Cambridge Healthtech Associates, Insight Pharma Reports, Marketing Services, Meeting Planners, and Cambridge Healthtech Media Group, which includes several eNewsletters, Bio-IT World magazine, as well as Lead Generation Programs.
Contact: Kevin Davies (Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT World)
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