Saturday, January 22, 2011

Mobile phones in "Runner" and "technical" target

Currently, mobile devices with support for Java is a good opportunity to target a "mobile" advertising campaign. This allows clients to customize the advertising service ads to owners of mobile devices with certain software.


Based application platform Java, currently used in many models of modern phones, and PDAs smartafonah - it could be an e-book, game, dictionary, directory, or newsreader.

The proposed "Runner" is a new option will certainly be useful for the category of manufacturers whose products and services are designed primarily for owners of mobile devices with specific functions. Using the new option will increase the relevance and effectiveness of their advertisements.

Targeting a new type designed for all customers, "Runner" is used to advertise the mobile Internet. In order to activate the option to perform a few simple steps. The first thing you need to do is select the new interface "Runner" section "Services". In this section, select the option "Manage advertising on mobile devices, then you choose the" Settings "-" Device Capabilities "and notes para Java. Everything. You have installed a new option.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Mobile version of the WiFi access point - HUAWEI E583C

HUAWEI company presented a new solution for WiFi access, this time a mobile. This access point E583C, providing reliable and fast broadband access to the Internet without using a connecting cable. To access the 3G network uses a communication protocol HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access), which has already become traditional. But the distinguishing feature HUAWEI E583C is the ability to automatically create a safe access to the Internet five WiFi devices. However, if the novelty is connected via a USB cable to a desktop or laptop, then the number of users can be increased to six. Either way connection E583C provides maximum download speeds up to 7.2 Mbps and upload speed up to 5.76 MB / sec. The advantages of HUAWEI E583C include a compact and stylish design, defined by smooth lines, rounded corners, user interface, as well as a silver-black color scheme. E583C weight is only 90 grams. At the 1 "OLED display shows informative icons that can be used to determine the signal strength, connection status WiFi, and battery level. HUAWEI E583C supports Apple iPod / iPad, multimedia centers, netbooks, communicators, gaming consoles, digital cameras, as well as desktops and laptops. A slot for installing a flash memory card up to 32 GB Standard microSD, which allows to use the new device as a USB flash drive. Cost HUAWEI E583C in Hong Kong is about $ 177.


Accelerator 3G modem

The rapid development of mobile technologies has created a set of standards and technical tools that are used in modern networks. A huge number of confusing acronyms, such as 3 or 4g, LTE, HSDPA, WiMax or CDMA, used to refer to various mobile communication standards, introduce the uninitiated into the technical details of the person in the state of sustainable inferiority complex. Sooner or later, when confronted with the need to purchase equipmentto access the Internet, or we trust this matter experts (that are not so stupid), or use their vague perceptions and knowledge about mobile technology, or go in the wake of intrusive, often not very honest advertising. Unfortunately, the result of unskilled approach in many cases become wasted money, poor or no signal, low-speed connections and shattered illusions about the possibilities of modern communication systems. At this time the commissioning of new networks last 4G communication standard for the most part only planned (we're talking about the Russian Federation). Separate networks of mobile broadband LTE or WiMAX are more exotic than common. At the same time, more widely across the country are network the previous generation, which is conventionally called third, or 3G. Mobile Communication 3G (third generation - the third generation) is based on the transmission of data packets. Different technologies of formation of these packages and rules for the use of different channels to access the network and cause the presence of different standards from within the 3G. In total there are five standards, but only two of them most commonly used - is a UMTS (W-CDMA) and CDMA2000 (IMT-MC). They are based on technology - CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access - code division multiple access channels).
Technical details and differences in standards of interest only to specialists - in any way affect their average user is unlikely to be able to. If your district is only one network of 3G, which uses a certain standard, then choose the particular do not have to - it is necessary to use what is there. But the vast horizons for creativity opens up another aspect of mobile communications - the very fact of a network at radio frequencies. 3G networks are concentrated in the frequency range of 2 GHz. These frequencies are subject to the ordinary laws of propagation. Passage of the signal at such frequencies has its advantages and disadvantages, dependent on many external parameters and can be strikingly different in two adjacent, seemingly completely identical sites. The whole point is that radio waves that range consistently apply only to the extent of direct optical visibility. Any obstacle, whether it be a wall of the building, leaves and tree branches, metal, plastic or weaken the signal in the hundreds or thousands of times. So it turns out that the same 3G modem can work with your neighbor is several times faster than you.
The resultant imbalance velocities one is trying to decide differently. Ways to speed up the quality of 3G connections, there are several. Some of them can really help, some are practically useless in certain circumstances, some are simply fraudulent attempts to extract more money from you. In fact, all methods can be divided into hardware, when to increase the connection speed used different hardware and software - to increase the speed using a program-accelerator compound - a so-called "Accelerating 3G modem. Separately, you can select Internet services that offer to increase the speed of the connection using their servers as intermediaries.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

A new generation of technologies for drug development

Technology application that will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the world market for new drugs and computer applications for the biotechnology sector. Computer technology drastically reduces time and costs to develop new drugs and is the first of a new generation of software products for the biotechnology industry. Such results were possible thanks to recent advances in physics and mathematics to molecular modeling.

Large pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, spending up to 15% of their revenues on developing new medicines Research & Development (R & D), which provide them a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Companies conduct their own research, and acquire the development of small firms, often with the firms.
Typically, the process of developing new drugs begins with the identification of proteins responsible for the appearance or progression of the disease in the body (target protein). The task of the next stage is to identify or obtain the substance (inhibitor) that blocks the biological function of protein and pathogen responsible still a number of requirements such as compliance with standards acceptable toxicity, the possibility of obtaining a commercial scale, etc. Here, researchers are faced with the need to operate with huge amounts of information about possible molecular structures of the potential inhibitor and its properties. One key issue is the identification of an inhibitor, which has the lowest energy binding protein. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies solve this problem by searching libraries of chemical compounds (high throughput screening) by means of special machines for chemical and biological screening, processing hundreds of thousands of substances. The alternative is calculated on the super-computer clusters. Even the most advanced techniques used by market leaders in these calculations are based on empirical models that lead to unavoidable errors. The size of the error of such calculations is comparable with the calculated value, which leads to significantly expand the range of search inhibitors. All that takes the bulk of the financial and time resources that stage. This stage of drug development is delayed by an average of three years, expensive for pharmaceutical companies and is an independent business for many companies (Lead Identification and Lead Optimization). But more importantly, the need for new drugs have to wait "until it appears in drugstores (those who can still" waiting ").The Russian company Quantum Pharmaceuticals, uniting the world's leading scientists in the field of theoretical physics and computer science, has achieved unparalleled in the world of the speed, precision and productivity in defining the parameters of interaction of inhibitors and protein targets at the molecular level through the use of radically new approaches to the calculation. The basis of computer technology Quantum Pharmaceuticals became the latest methods of molecular, quantum and statistical physics. The technology has successfully passed the so-called verification principles, allowing scientists to develop a fundamentally new drug candidates against AIDS (HIV-1), Alzheimer's disease, tuberculosis, COPD, Hepatitis C and many others.Besides search problem substances that may eventually become drugs, the technology solves a number of other all-important tasks in drug development. One of them is to evaluate the possible toxicity of new drugs at an early stage, when the developers have not yet spent for a particular substance years of work and investment. Failure pharmaceutical industry to effectively address these issues is illustrated in the figure of $ 8 billion, the industry lost in 2003 due to problems with toxicity of drugs and a fall of 25% of the course in one day Merck shares in connection with the withdrawal from the market of their blockbuster drugs Vioxx. With the use of technology Quantum, simply put, a researcher can learn how the new drug will interact with each of the proteins of the organism, whose three-dimensional structure is known to mankind and to choose only those substances that do not form in the body of "dangerous contacts".
The largest players in the market of computer programs to develop drugs, such as Tripos, Accelrys and other spending huge budgets on marketing their products. Quantum Pharmaceuticals is not very concerned about this fact: the potential customer need only once to try out the free demo version of Quantum, available on the site, then he has never come the idea to use other programs, simply because ... Quantum what really works and the results of his calculations in terms of accuracy are not even close competitors. The main problem of the market of computer applications for drug development is that during the time of its establishment, the reputation of computer methods was undercut by the fact that it seems the market solutions for scientific problems of technological backwardness and the level of development of computer technology could not effectively solve applied problems, in best case, acting as a coarse filter prior to use chemical and biological experiments. Therefore, all the words at the expense of a technology are perceived in the industry and science with enormous skepticism, however, researchers must take a demo and check around for yourself. To test the computational power applications Quantum enough to go on the corporate website www.q-pharm.com and download the demo software module that allows you to perform calculations of the binding constant (inhibition) of the complex protein-ligand (therapeutic target - the candidate drug).Development and application of the advanced world of technology is a planned step in the development of ambitious plans to Quantum Pharmaceuticals. Specialists Quantum Pharmaceuticals is actively engaged in the development of algorithms for solving complex problems drug discovery using quantum computers. According to the forecasts, the first full-fledged quantum computer, a revolutionary higher performance than currently existing computing power on the planet, will be built within the next 2-3 years. Currently, there are already devices that perform some operations of a quantum computer to solve simple problems. The strategic setting for use in the near future quantum computers to develop new drugs and gave the name of the company «Quantum Pharmaceuticals». "Few outstrip its time, it is this philosophy combines the company's founders.Taking into account the universal character of the Quantum technology for finding inhibitors for each protein with an open three-dimensional structure with the best in the world of precision and speed the introduction of technology in Russia will be a turning point in the development of Russian science and the pharmaceutical industry. Besides pharmaceuticals, the algorithms used in the Quantum Fund, can be used to develop new substances for agricultural purposes (crop protection), cosmetology (development of new cosmetic products), chemical industry, oil and gas sphere (eg catalysis), environmental protection and many other industries that are unresolved to date problems in the field of molecular modeling. At the moment in Russian scientific institutions is not just this stage of drug development, researchers have knowledge about promising target protein, have the opportunity to test a limited number of candidates for the drugs in vitro and in-vivo, the possibility of ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism , Excretion and Toxicology) studies.Quantum Pharmaceuticals Company announced its readiness to participate in collaboration with scientists in grants and state programs through the use of their computational technologies to enable scientists and promising candidates for drugs for further research. Quantum also invites scholars to apply the calculations in their development and co-publish and otherwise use the research results.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Chemical computers - computers of new generation

European scientists are launching a new project, which will create a "chemical computer. The project brings together the knowledge and technology in biology, chemistry and circuitry. The new computer will run the same silicon technology, but the composition of elements provided from organic compounds. The project is planned to invest about EUR 2 million. As a result, scientists promise to create a system that works as well as neurons in the brain.

Technology of the chemical computer is based on "stable cells, deposited on an organic coating. The same scheme of work is observed in the human brain, only as a "stable cell" are the neurons. To create a chemical computer required 2 platform. The first - "individual cells" - organic computing systems consisting of lipids that can carry signals within the molecules. The second platform - an intracellular compound that conducts chemical reactions occurring in the vibrational mode. As a result of these reactions vary periodically parameters - concentration, temperature, color, and others, which allows cells to "communicate" with each other and share certain information. Work "chemical machine" will be on electricity, but any changes will occur as a result of chemical processes.

In the future, based on new computing systems will be producing miniature computers that do not require refrigeration, consume less energy production to be considerably cheaper than computing the present time. When you create a chemical computers will be taken into account all the trends in software, therefore, these devices will work with any modern software applications.

Plans for scientists involved in the project are broad and ambitious. They are going to present to the world of molecular robot technology to create supertochnyh industries, the design of intelligent drugs and control of chemical processes in living organisms.