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IBM acquires mobile enterprise developer Worklight

By: Brian Dolan | VIA:mobihealthnews.com.

IBM has acquired Israel-based mobile platform developer Worklight for an undisclosed sum. Worklight offers mobile application management to companies in a number of sectors, including healthcare. According to the acquisition announcement, Worklight is set to become a key component of IBM's mobility strategy. IBM will leverage Worklight to help enterprise clients "speed the delivery of existing and new mobile applications to multiple devices" while ensuring "secure connections between smartphone and tablet applications with enterprise IT systems," the announcement stated.

With the Worklight acquisition IBM certainly has mobility solutions for the healthcare enterprise in mind:

"For example, a bank can create a single application that offers features to enable its customers to securely connect to their account, pay bills and manage their investments, regardless of the device they are using. Similarly, a hospital could use Worklight technology to extend its existing IT system to allow direct input of health history, allergies, and prescriptions by a patient using a tablet," according to the announcement.

IBM also noted the growing importance of mobile in the overall enterprise: A recent IBM survey of more than 3,000 global CIOs found that 75 percent pointed to mobility solutions as one of their top spending priorities. IBM also pointed out that last year, for the first time, shipments of smartphones exceeded total PC shipments.

IBM also claims that "every day more than one billion mobile phone subscribers are touched by IBM software."

More on Worklight and its acquisition by IBM in the press release below:

PRESS RELEASE: ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 31, 2012 - In a move that will help expand the enterprise mobile capabilities it offers to clients, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight, a privately held Israeli-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms were not disclosed.

With this acquisition, IBM's mobile offerings will span mobile application development, integration, security and management. Worklight will become an important piece of IBM's mobility strategy, offering clients an open platform that helps speed the delivery of existing and new mobile applications to multiple devices. It also helps enable secure connections between smartphone and tablet applications with enterprise IT systems.

In a recent study conducted by IBM of more than 3,000 global CIOs, 75 percent of respondents identified mobility solutions as one of their top spending priorities.* In fact, for the first time ever, shipments of smartphones exceeded total PC shipments in 2011.**

"Our clients are under increased pressure to meet the growing demands of a workforce and customer base that now treat mobility as mission critical to their business," said Marie Wieck, general manager, IBM application and infrastructure middleware. "With the acquisition of Worklight, IBM is well-positioned to help clients become smarter mobile enterprises reaching new markets."

Worklight accelerates IBM's comprehensive mobile portfolio, which is designed to help global corporations leverage the proliferation of all mobile devices - from laptops and smartphones to tablets. IBM has been steadily investing in this space for more than a decade, both organically and through acquisitions.

As a result, IBM can offer a complete portfolio of software and services that delivers enterprise-ready mobility for clients - from IT systems all the way through to mobile devices. This builds on IBM's deep understanding of its clients and their evolving IT needs over the last several decades. Today, the world's top 20 communications service providers use IBM technology to run their applications, while every day more than one billion mobile phone subscribers are touched by IBM software.

Worklight supports consumer and employee-facing applications in a broad range of industries, including financial services, retail and healthcare. For example, a bank can create a single application that offers features to enable its customers to securely connect to their account, pay bills and manage their investments, regardless of the device they are using. Similarly, a hospital could use Worklight technology to extend its existing IT system to allow direct input of health history, allergies, and prescriptions by a patient using a tablet.

Worklight Builds on IBM's Comprehensive Mobile Software and Services Offerings

Ubiquitous connectivity provides businesses with unique opportunities to better connect with their customer base, interact with external users and employees in more efficient ways, drive productivity and reach new audiences. IBM's strategy is to offer its customers a complete set of the software and services they need to effectively bring mobile devices into their business infrastructure. These capabilities include:

Build and Connect Mobile Applications: The explosive growth of mobile has created a fragmented landscape for enterprises to support, often with limited budgets and skills. IBM's development and integration tools, complemented by Worklight, help clients to develop mobile applications and their supporting infrastructures for a variety of platforms just once ¨C including Apple iOS and Google Android ¨C while offering capabilities to securely connect to corporate IT systems.

Manage and Secure Mobile Devices: As Bring Your Own Device or "BYOD" gains popularity, IT departments are looking to find an efficient and secure way to enable employees' use of mobile devices in the work place. Rather than implement a separate infrastructure solely for mobile devices, IBM's offerings are helping customers deliver a single solution that effectively manages and secures all endpoints. These unified capabilities can now extend from servers and laptops, to smartphones and tablets.

Extend Existing Capabilities and Capitalize on New Business Opportunities: The rapid adoption of mobile computing is also creating demand for organizations to extend their current business capabilities to mobile devices, while capitalizing on the new opportunities that mobile devices uniquely provide. For instance, IBM's software, services and industry frameworks offer clients the ability to use mobile to engage with their customers around growing business opportunities such as analytics, commerce and social business applications.

"In the last year, we have seen surging demand from enterprises for mobility solutions that will support the unique set of challenges introduced by new smartphone and tablet platforms," said Shahar Kaminitz, CEO and founder, Worklight. "Building on our existing partnership with IBM, the acquisition of Worklight further enhances IBM's broad mobile portfolio. Now it will be easier than ever for our clients to offer secure and connected applications to their customers, business partners and employees."

In addition to Worklight, IBM today is also unveiling IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices, a new software system that will enable corporate users to manage and secure their mobile devices these applications are running on. For more details, visit: http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36661.wss

The acquisition of Worklight is expected to close in 1Q12. Worklight will sit within IBM's Software Group.

About Worklight

Today Worklight delivers mobile application management capabilities to clients across a wide range of industries including retail, financial services, technology, travel and hospitality and manufacturing.

This enables organizations to efficiently create and run HTML5, hybrid and native applications for smartphones and tablets with industry-standard technologies and tools. Worklight's unique capabilities provide a complete and extensible integrated development environment (IDE), next-generation mobile middleware, powerful management and analytics. Worklight dramatically reduces time to market, cost and complexity while enabling better customer and employee user experiences across more devices. By enabling organizations to only develop and integrate the applications once - for any platform - it frees up time, resources and skills to focus on other business opportunities.

IBM is a world leader in the development of open standards critical to the web and mobile enablement, and co-chairs the W3C HTML5 working group. For more information on IBM's mobile software and services portfolio visit:

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/mobile-enterprise/.

*IBM CIO Study, 2011.

**The Economist, 2011.

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Developers Learn How OpenGL is an Essential Tool for 3D Computer Graphics for Android.

New York, NY (PRWEB) February 01, 2012, VIA:prweb.com.

Android Developers: Harness the full power of OpenGL ES with "Pro OpenGL ES for Android"-just released by Apress Media.

The Android platform is one of the fastest growing segments in the mobile industry. Already developers have been creating apps and games to be sold on these devices since it exploded onto the market. Many experienced Android developers are now starting to see the value in learning 3D graphics to give them a leg up in creating better apps and more in-demand games. To help developers who want to enter the 3D world, graphics experts and authors Mike Smithwick and Mayank Verma created "Pro OpenGL Es for Android" as the go-to guide book for the open platform, published by Apress Media.

Pro OpenGL ES for Android offers everything a programmer needs to know about 3D graphics -from basic mathematical concepts to advanced coding techniques. Authors Smithwick and Verma walk readers through the process of building a fascinating 3D solar system simulator using the fundamental concepts.

While working on the solar system project example in the book, programmers will learn how to incorporate a variety of graphic and animation techniques and how they fit into application development. "Pro OpenGL ES for Android" begins by explaining the basics of 3D math and then orients the reader to the native Android 3D libraries that will be used in building the solar system project-and of course in creating 3D games. This essential resource will also teach how to create 2D interfaces within the 3D world and how to develop animation and 3D movement. The authors cover topics such as lighting, texture mapping, modeling, shaders, blending modes and several more advanced concepts.

Pro OpenGL ES for Android is the go-to guide for the Android developer who wants to start learning the world of 3D. Readers will learn all the skills needed to build their own incredible 3D applications based on the most powerful 3D libraries available. Smithwick and Verma's book gains a strong foothold in the rich and trending world of 3D -and until now there has never been easier or more comprehensive guide for learning this skill.

About the Authors

Mike Smithwick's slow descent into programming computers began when he first got a little 3-bit plastic DigiComp 1 computer in 1963. Eventually he graduated to programming NASA flight simulator graphics through the 1980s. He wrote and sold the popular Distant Suns planetarium program for the Commodore Amiga, old-school Mac, and Microsoft Windows while selling himself as a contract programmer on the side, working for Apple, 3DO, Sense-8, and Epyx. Eventually he landed a job at Live365, working on client software Windows and Windows Mobile 6, TiVo, Symbian and iPhone. After 13 years, he decided to go back to contracting, writing, and working on Distant Suns for mobile devices after it became modest success in the App Store.

Mayank Verma completed his master's degree in computer science from Arizona State University in 2008. During the program, he published several research papers in the area of security. Since then, he has been working as a software developer specializing in software application design and development. Mayank is passionate about mobile application development and became interested in Android programming when the platform was first launched by Google. When he's is not working on Android projects, he spends his spare time reading technical blogs, researching, analyzing, and testing mobile applications, and hacking gadgets.

About Apress Media

Apress Media LLC is a technical and business publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, programmers, and business leaders with more than 1,000 books in print and electronic formats. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content that helps serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success. For more information about the innovative approach Apress takes to publishing.

Picture Messaging App Zlango Hits 1 Million Android Users Four Months After Launch

By Sarah Perez, VIA:techcrunch.com.

Zlango, a goofy but fun icon-based text messaging app, just hit one million U.S. users on the Android platform only four months after launching. Backed by Accel and Benchmark Capital, the app originally arrived in the U.S. market in October 2011, following the opening of its San Francisco-based offices. In total, Zlango now boasts over 5 million users worldwide, the company reports.

The fact that Zlango is achieving this level of popularity on Android in such a short timeframe, is indicative of the type of apps Android users still seem to prefer ¨C apps that replace Android¡¯s core components. In Zlango¡¯s case, the app offers an admittedly silly take on the concept of text messaging, offering packs of icons that let you replace words with emoticons and pictograms. It clearly seems aimed at a younger audience, because, let¡¯s face it ¨C no self-respecting 30-year old is going to send out picture messages like this. But that fact, too, is interesting. Many of Android¡¯s success stories to date have been ports of popular iPhone apps, general purposes apps (like Any.DO) or utilities ¨C not those aimed at such a specific, younger demographic.

For comparison purposes, Any.DO reached half a million downloads in just 30 days. Meanwhile, Evernote¡¯s Skitch app for Android, an arguably more well-known brand, saw 3.5 million downloads in just 3 and half months post-launch. So hitting a million in four months, while not quite on those levels, is still indicative of some relatively decent traction. Even more so given its limited appeal to older users.

Zlango now supports over 25 languages, is available in over 20 countries, and has delivered more than 9 billion Zlango icons worldwide. It¡¯s currently seeing the most traction in Europe, Asia and the U.S. The app, which is also available for BlackBerry, Nokia and J2ME, is available here on the Android Market.

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Lithium battery hype value of geometry

The long-depressed stock market finally ushered in a wave rally last week, the harvest of five Yangxian the same time, the Shanghai stock market rebounded 6%, the Shenzhen market rebounded 17%. The major sections you Changba me play, highlights the market wave after wave of enthusiasm is risen. But to say that one of the most eye-catching plates, it is none other than non-new energy.

20, in the first half of 2010 the economic situation of the energy conference, the National Energy Board Planning Division river ice revealed the "new energy industry planning" related news, this positive impact of the new energy sector rose, while the development of new energy Auto is planning one of them. Among them, the lithium battery industry is undoubtedly the new energy automotive industry sector in the most promising sector.

Shine on the concept of the lithium battery when it appeared in a particular listed company, which is announced on Wednesday announced its withdrawal from lithium battery industry Magicstor [7.52 -1.83%] (600 920). Why is the market in both good policy case lithium batteries Huiton opt out? This exit will move on Magicstor what impact? Future developments in the field of lithium batteries how? On this series of questions, the reporter conducted some interviews and surveys.

Lithium long-term business losses

July 21, Magicstor company held its third Board eighth meeting, and at the meeting examined and adopted the company's lithium business exit the motion, which Magicstor all held to be transferred outside Guizhou Aerospace Power Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to aerospace power) shares. Notice that in Magicstor, Magicstor made this decision mainly because of poor management aerospace supply company, in 2009, operating income was 87.66 million yuan, loss of 17.46 million yuan. A large number of losses down the company's profitability. And this situation has not been significantly improved this year, aerospace power in the first quarter operating income of 20.66 million yuan, loss of 1.46 million yuan. Long-term loss of leisure finally loss Magicstor patience of lithium battery business, the company determined to sell their entire stake aerospace power. The company currently holds a 37.81% Huiton equity and loan guarantees to provide 12.9 million yuan.

Reporters on the matter of Magicstor company conducted a telephone interview, the company insisted that all parties a message to notice. Magicstor recently announced that, due to space power losses, the company improve profitability, the company decided to transfer all the shares. This transfer of shares of aerospace power in line with company's development strategy will help the company improve the efficiency of resource allocation, focus on core business unit strategy, enhance core competitiveness. After the transfer, the company is no longer a shareholder of space power, space power will no longer be included in the consolidated financial statements of the scope of the company, will help improve the company's overall operational efficiency, aerospace power will lift 12.9 million in loans to provide security, help reduce the company's operational risks. This is in line with company's development strategy, is consistent with the interests of all shareholders.

Transfer of ownership is indeed a wise

How should we treat Magicstor that this approach? State Securities [14.49 1.05%] New energy analyst Mao Rui believes that this is a very normal behavior.

As the current long-term space power loss, in the performance of Magicstor had not a small negative impact, although the policy is expected to support visible, but for space power is not necessarily able to enjoy preferential policies. Aerospace power is the main business of lithium batteries for mobile phones in the domestic production, as has been weak competitiveness of domestic mobile phone market share has been limited, space power perennial losses, coupled with very low threshold for cell phone lithium battery production, small start-up capital, technical low level of market competition is very fierce. The recent capital market is very hot lithium battery concept is aimed at the car battery and other battery. Type of battery R & D costs are very high early on capital, technology requirements are very high; with aging facilities and space power, capital and technology are difficult to compliance, the transition difficult, transfer of shares refused to concede defeat.

Generally believed that the share transfer is indeed able to eliminate the operating loss of aerospace power's negative impact on company performance, but due to the current lithium battery concept is very popular in the market, which to some extent, reduce the operation of the subject company's share price space, this approach is There are double-sided nature. The share price has not sued GS for its hot and blew out the lithium battery, 21 after the announcement, although the company's share price all the way to shock, but Friday's closing price is still 7.52 yuan, compared with the opening price of 7.72 yuan 21 only at least two cents.

Mao Rui pointed out that this phenomenon is very normal. Although the Shanghai Stock Exchange last week, out of 5 with Yang, but mainly for the disk in the oversold rebound plate, is a kind of oversold stocks valuation. The concept of short-term speculation is not much, but the concept as a long-term lithium hot topic as the state's new energy policy implementation and continue to be market speculation. In fact, even the concept of lithium-related stocks, the recent trend is not satisfactory, simply follow the broader market rebounded only synchronous, not too many bright spots. Market for lithium battery industry, "good-looking does not make money" should be more clear understanding.

Still need to develop lithium industry

Li-ion battery business for the mobile phone market year-round losses, and that for the lithium battery in the battery business then? It also looks like a mirage just beautiful? Correspondents have made the following investigation.

Mao Rui pointed out that the lithium battery industry started late, Although the increase of national policy support, but the new energy automobile market, the process has developed slowly, so far, no large-scale emergence of listing; combined with policy implications, have power over many lithium battery project, which to some extent exacerbated the lithium battery industry, market competition, resulting in a structural overcapacity, oversupply, leading to widespread downturn in corporate marketing lithium batteries.

The final analysis, our core technology, the lack of lithium battery, lithium battery industry in China is leading to poor operating levels, the root cause of competition is too low. Lithium battery industry chain mainly consists of three parts: the upper reaches of lithium ore resources, lithium raw materials (including cathode material, anode material, separator, electrolyte) and battery manufacturing and packaging. Technically, the lithium battery materials, the highest threshold of thin film technology, now basically dependent on imports. Currently, only domestic Fosugufen [12.27 -0.65%] (000,973), a subsidiary of Jinhui High-Tech, Dongguan Star-source technology, Henan Xinxiang Douglas.Ryan, the parties and other subjects to provide a small lithium battery manufacturers have to use the diaphragm. Lithium carbonate and lithium is lithium material in the upper reaches of the key raw material, is currently the oligopoly structure of foreign companies.

Proposed the establishment of Jiangsu province mechanism for joint prevention and control of air pollution

Jiangsu provincial government has issued "on the implementation of projects to improve the atmospheric environment of the Blue Sky" and proposed the establishment of the province's air pollution mechanism for joint prevention and control, specifically the province by 2015 air pollution control objectives and tasks, make scientific research in a comprehensive, defense joint control, improve the policy and specific arrangements such as facilities management by objectives. One that will petrochemical and coatings, inks, adhesives, coating and other manufacturing enterprises to carry out compulsory clean production examination, strictly control the process of fugitive emissions of organic gases; encourage producers to implement environmental labeling product certification, the phasing out high content of volatile organic compounds in paints, coatings products.

Solar inverter market is about to start

Solar power generation system is composed of AC solar panels, charge controllers, inverters and batteries composed of. Solar inverter which is a key component of the entire solar system. Because of direct solar energy output are generally 12VDC, 24VDC, 48VDC. If you want to 220VAC to provide electrical power, solar power system needs to be issued by the DC can be converted into AC power, which

When you need to use one inverter. In addition, it can be a variable DC output of photovoltaic cells convert into a clean sinusoidal current at 50 or 60Hz, but also very suitable for the commercial power grid or local power grid to provide power. With the development of solar PV market, solar inverter market will inevitably bring a new spring. Isuppli's 2012 solar inverter shipments will reach 723,300, an increase of 13 times more than in 2008.

AMAT decided to withdraw from thin-film silicon solar cell business

U.S. Applied Materials (Applied Materials, AMAT) open a consecutive operating deficit of energy and environmental solutions sector (Energy and Environmental Solutions: EES) of the reorganization plan. The company sets out to provide thin-film silicon solar cell production line of integrated solutions business (Turnkey Solution), instead committed to crystalline silicon solar cell and LED business. However, CVD equipment, and sputtering devices with thin-film silicon solar cell manufacturing equipment business will continue.

Previously, AMAT has been "SunFab" thin-film silicon solar cell to carry out the overall solution for the core business of solar cells. The provision of total solutions, and promoting the popularization of solar cells. On the other hand, the business is also vulnerable to governments to develop energy policy impact. And the need for user support, ongoing business to bear the "heavy burden" (Applied Materials Japan). The business is difficult to obtain the resulting profits. In fact, with the recovery of the economic situation, sales and other departments have expanded in operating profit, only the EES department continuous deficit.

AMAT that the restructuring will take $ 375 million to 400 million cost of $ 25 million, but the EES department can cut operating expenses over $ 100 million. After the reorganization, EES department began to become available from the 2011 annual profit sector. The company will continue to provide support to existing SunFab. In addition, CVD will continue to carry out sputtering devices, equipment and manufacturing operations in a single device, so will continue to improve efficiency and productivity for the purpose of research and development. In addition, set up in China's solar cell R & D base will change the direction of R & D is committed to crystalline silicon solar cells and other products.

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