Thursday 20 March 2014

IVF Australia to Official Support Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2014

IVF Australia declared today that they are an Official Supporter of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2014, and Presenting Partner of ‘Women Say Something’.

“The last year has seen a doubling in the number of same sex couples (now 36%) and an increase in single women (now 50%) accessing our donor program in order to create families. IVF Australia is hoping to raise awareness amongst gay men to consider this altruistic gesture.” said Dr Louise Fay, Fertility Specialist at IVF Australia.

Asia-Pacific IVF Market


Michael Rolik, CEO Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, said “each year, we see more LGBTQI families at Mardi Gras, especially at events like our annual Fair Day. It’s fantastic to see members of our community fulfilling their dream of becoming parents, with the support of IVF Australia.”

Women from various walks of life are brought together through events organized by women say something. The sponsorship take its root from past campaigns of IVF Australia and Pink Media Group to encourage gay men to donate sperm and lesbian ladies to make families through Australia's heading IVF association.

Steph Sands, Founder and artistic director of Women Say Something, said “Its great to partner with Australia’s no.1 IVF organization. Many LGBTQI women are interested in starting a family, and Women Say Something is proud to associate with a company that helps make this happen.”

Ben Mulcahy, MD of Pink Media Group, “It’s amazing to be measuring campaign success based on the number of lives created!”

As per allied market research, Australian IVF market was the largest revenue generator in Asia Pacific region. Australian IVF market was estimated to be worth $369.7 million in 2013.

Tuesday 18 March 2014

LG To Launch Affordable LTE Smartphones

LG, the South Korean electronics giant plans to launch "affordable" and fourth generation long-term evolution (LTE) smartphones this year. Long term evolution technology offers an amazing internet speed compared to 3rd generation technology. 

Bharti Airtel, recently launched the 4G service in Bangalore. Additionally, IPhone 5S and 5C also provide 4G services; however, they are expensive. LG is now rigorously penetrating the 4G market by providing efficient and cost effective 4G services. 




"Within the first half (of 2014), LG will bring three models of long-term evolution devices. LTE-enabled LG G2 with 32 GB inbuilt storage priced at Rs50, 000 will be first of the devices to be launched," he said. "The next launches will be more affordable. They will be little less expensive phones at between Rs20, 000 and Rs30, 000." LG India's managing director Soon Kwon told to ET.


LG’s current market share in Smartphone category is under5%, which it wants to expand upto 10% by the end of this year. Hence, it plans to spend Rs500 crore in marketing activities. "We want our smartphone business to contribute about 20% of overall business by the end of 2014. As of now, it is only contributing 10%," Kwon said. 


"A 2% reduction (in excise duty) may not be a big booster for foreign companies to invest (in manufacturing). It should be higher," Kwon said, referring to excise tax cut announced by the finance minister last month. 

LG is expected to generate a revenue of Rs22, 000 crore in 2014. Smartphone’s would contribute around Rs4, 000 crore. 

Surely, the LTE service providers can expect long term growthof the LTE technology and also be profitable. Similar conclusion is derived by analysts of Allied market research.

Innovative Digital Imaging Systems Helping In-Depth Analysis

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, Department of Transplant Pathology, are using modern digital imaging systems to enhance their research into the chronic rejection in solid organ transplantation  and  immunobiological mechanisms of tolerance.

ZEISS Axio Scan.Z1, an automated microscope, is a pivotal innovative tool developed by Carl Zeiss Microscopy. This tool allows researchers to convert cytologic specimens and fixed tissue sections using bright-field and fluorescence illumination into digital image files that can be analyzed on a computer screen instead of being tethered to the microscope. (It is the technical sentence)

digital pathology market


This form of study gives researchers “next generation pathology” capabilities, including functionality to compare images side by side, comparison, software algorithms for counting, quantification of specific tissue area,analysis etc to increase  the amount and type of data that can be collected from a tissue biopsy.

“ZEISS does not stop at building the tool; they work with investigators to ensure you realize the range of capabilities the tool provides in solving biological problems”.

“What sets ZEISS apart is that they understand some of the most challenging aspects of the image acquisition process and develop their technology to solve these problems.” Andrew Lesniak, Senior Architect for the department’s Pathology Informatics Group

Lesniak and his team members believe that the ZEISS Axio Scan.Z1 provides the best imaging and optical hardware, along with analysis software and innovative visualization, to maximize the data that can be obtained from a tissue image.

Hence, Digital pathology promises a bright future. We can expect many more breakthroughs in the field of Digital pathology.

Monday 17 March 2014

Horton works Becomes Center for Hadoop Solution

Hortonworks can be called as a offshoot of yahoo. Some of the original engineers who designed the search website, circulated architecture platform in order to spin out a company to support the open source Hadoop project. Hortonworks works similar to yahoo and open source Apache Hadoop code base. Every new code set from the Apache project is verified by Hortonworks on Yahoo's colossal 40,000-node cluster before releasing it as a Hortonworks distribution.

Hadoop Market


In the tech market, Hortonworks has gathered accolades. Recently Hortonworks has inked on some big name partners, including Microsoft, Teradata, Rackspace, and it even registered with the OpenStack Foundation. This decisions have legitimized not only this firm, but the larger open source Hadoop movement, industry pundits say.
  


"One thing we were trying to get away from are prepackaged vendors with proprietary stuff,” says Michael Peterson, Neustar's vice president of platforms and data architecture

For Neustar, Hortonworks proved a good decision. They acquired prepackaged open source Hadoop code. With the new platform, Neustarprovides customers long-term data set, historical analytics and trending visualizations all supported by Hadoop.

"The whole process has fit directly into the agile way we want to do things, it's allowed us to take calculated risks and do things quickly in a way where we can see the results," said Michael Peterson.

"Hortonworks is a company that will knit you into that community," he says. "If you're a company that's paying attention to the next generation of engineers and what types of teams they will build, going open source is what you need to do to energise that group." 

Well, looking at Hadoop Market trend and prospects, one would not be wrong to say that the technology is here to stay. Also, there was a comprehensive report published by allied market research which stated that the global Hadoop Market would reach $50.2 billion by 2020.