Increasingly, cities are using location-based technology to bring efficiency to their operations and improve the customer experience. They are using IBM software to get both a bird's eye view of their city infrastructure -- roads, buildings and waterways -- as well as insight into their operations underground or on the street of the pipes, wires, street lights, electrical meters, storm drains and other assets that make up a city's infrastructure. Some cities are using embedded sensors to detect faulty pipes or broken streetlights to automatically generate a work order for maintenance staff..

IBM and Nuance Communications, Inc. announced a research agreement to explore, develop and commercialize the Watson computing system's advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry.

The research and technology initiative will combine IBM’s Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning capabilities with Nuance's speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) solutions for the diagnosis and treatment of patients that provide hospitals, physicians and payers access to critical and timely information.  The two companies expect the first commercial offerings from the collaboration to be available in 18-24 months.

Arcplan announces the launch of arcplan Mobile, its BI solution for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android smartphones. With arcplan Mobile, users can create and distribute mobile BI applications quickly and device-independently to display detailed reports as well as interactive, animated dashboards. As a result, arcplan improves decision-making by enabling employees to have easy access to operational and financial data 24/7.

Faceon Systems, start up que desarrolla un algoritmo de reconocimiento facial, ofrece servicios de detección y reconocimiento facial para cualquier sector a través de dos productos: el software BioAccess y el software BioSuspect. Estas herramientas de última tecnología, no sólo se aplican en el ámbito de la seguridad industrial y ciudadana, como el control de accesos a recintos, centros de juegos, casinos, etc. sino que se pueden aplicar también a la seguridad informática (acceso a aplicaciones, validación de operaciones bancarias, login en portales, etc.) así como en los ámbitos del entretenimiento, automoción o marketing (segmentación de públicos por edad, sexo, etc.)..

La red de blogs Ocio Networks, que cuenta con más de siete millones de usuarios únicos mensuales, ha elaborado por segundo año consecutivo un Estudio de Hábitos de Internet, en el que se ha entrevistado a 1.875 internautas. Uno de los apartados de esta encuesta analiza el consumo de información, medios y redes sociales por parte de los usuarios, donde destaca que el 83% de los internautas ha utilizado, al menos, una red social para comunicarse en el año 2010, frente al 76% que lo hizo el año pasado. 

HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vertica, a privately held, real-time analytics platform company based in Billerica, Mass. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition of Vertica will enhance HP capabilities for information optimization, adding sophisticated, real-time business analytics for large and complex sets of data in physical, virtual and cloud environments. Vertica’s platform helps customers analyze massive amounts of data simply, quickly and reliably, resulting in “just-in-time” business intelligence.