Immersion 2Q 2010 Earnings Preview

Immersion (IMMR) will be reporting 2Q 2010 results on August 5^th.

The Company surprised on the upside in the 1Q, for a combination of factors that included a stronger than expected performance in product sales, and also some seasonality (as royalties on products like mobile phones and gaming, that are sold in higher volumes in the Christmas holiday period, are recognized in the subsequent quarter).

Immersion is transitioning toward a licensing model only.

The Company recently completed the sale of its medical division to CAE Healthcare (CAE), and for this reason it will not recognize any product sale, from this segment, in the quarter. It must be noted, however, that due to the delayed timing of royalty recognition, it will not recognize any license revenue stream from CAE, too, in the 2Q.

In our opinion, it is important to remind that it would be fair, for a real apple to apple comparison, to analyze 2Q results against the 1Q excluding product sales (that accounted for about $2 Million in the 1Q), and keeping in mind that seasonality and the lack of royalties from the medical division sold to CAE will certainly play an important role in the final numbers. We are obviously hoping that management will give out as many details as possible on the matter to help investors get a proper understanding of the Company's performance.

During the last conference call, Immersion guided for revenues in the $6.2 to $6.7 Million range (from Seeking Alpha 1Q conference call transcripts):

Victor Viegas - CEO

In terms of our near-term outlook, we would expect total revenues in Q2 to be in the range of $6.2 million to $6.7 million, down on a comparative basis sequentially, reflecting our transition to a licensing model as well as typical downward seasonal trend based on our revenue recognition.

Analysts estimate revenues of $ 6.5 Million, and EPS of ($0.07).

On the cost side, the Company should start showing much lower operating expenses, due in part to the reduced headcount, following the transaction with CAE Healthcare, and also to lower legal and administrative fees.

Immersion ended the 1Q with $ 64,6 million of cash and cash equivalents, and while we do expect some cash burn in this quarter, it is a Company's target to reduce costs in order to be cash flow positive with revenues of just around $7 Million a quarter.

During the quarter, the Company issued a limited number of press releases, mainly related to the Medical segment.

Immersion announced a license agreement with SOFAR S.p.A., a leading Italian manufacturer of medical devices for minimally invasive surgery, and, probably more important, the conclusion of a litigation with Simbionix USA Corporation, the world's leading provider of simulation and training products for medical professionals and the healthcare industry, that has now become a licensee, too.

As the official flow of information from the Company was relatively quiet in the quarter, we will be looking for more information about the sectors Immersion is targeting from some of its licensees.

As we write, one of Immersion's partners in the semiconductor segment, Cypress Corporation (CY) reported 1Q results. Some of their comments may be worth a quote (from Seeking Alpha transcripts, our comments in Italic):

Brad Buss – CFO

We expect record revenue for PSoC in TrueTouch in the third quarter and for the entire fiscal year 2010. (see: Next-Generation Cypress TrueTouch™ and CapSense® Solutions Enable Innovative Products with Tactile Feedback to Improve User Experience)

Ashish Rao – Credit Suisse

Could you update us on where the TrueTouch revenues were for the quarter and if you’ve gone past the customer pick up that you saw in the March quarter and also as you look ahead to 2011, how do you view the tablet opportunity versus the predominantly handset smartphones today?

Norm Taffe

Hi, Ashish. This is Norm. So, I think the second part of your question was related to what kind of momentum we’re seeing in terms in the March quarter and going forward on touch. My answer to that is we continue to see great momentum there. In fact, we said another design win record in Q2 as far as wins in the touch space.

It is also interesting to note that both Immersion and Cypress seem to share the same interest as far as new segments to pursue for their products (emphasis added):

T.J. Rodgers

Lucky Gold Star put our CapSense into their new flat-panel TV. That’s a big trend right now. When you have a sleek black flat-panel TV, you don’t want ordinary knobs and buttons sticking out of the bottom. So we’re getting a lot of CapSense business on that.

In addition, we’ve gotten automotive qualified PSoC is capable of doing can and win, PSoC 3 can and rest are the win, which are the automotive bus standards, and that means that we allow quick integration of touchscreens into automobiles. We’ve been qualified, automotively qualified and our biggest win is the Chevrolet Volt, the new electric car where we are in the center panel of the car.

The mention of the Automotive market is interesting, as Immersion has been working with Visteon (VSTNQ) for quite some time.

For those who love speculations, we could mention that Brad W. Buss, Cypress Corporation's CFO, is also sitting on the BoD of Tesla Motors (TSLA), another car producer who might implement Immersion's product in its new Model S (this quote is taken from Immersion's 1Q 2009 conference call):

Clent Richardson

And Road and Track Magazine just gave a sneak peak at the new 2012 Tesla Model S highlighting its use of Haptics, noting a 17 inch touch screen entertainment system in the center console with Haptic interface.

Turning back to Cypress Semiconductors, a few more quotes about the trends in touchscreens, which confirm a good momentum in general and new customers' wins in the mobile phone arena for Cypress (emphasis added) - will Immersion benefit from this?

Adam Benjamin – Jefferies

Got you. And then Norm, a question for you on TrueTouch. You’ve kind of talked about $100 million as a number for this year. Based on what you’re seeing now plus or minus what do you think?

Norm Taffe

Based on what we’re doing right now, we’re still on track to more than double what we did last year. It’s not clear yet whether we’ll look to get all the way up to the $100 number but we’re certainly on our plan more for than double this year.

Brad Buss

And I think importantly, we added, we received the first significant orders from two more of the top eight handset suppliers this quarter, which are going to ramp for us in Q3 and Q4. So now we are shipping volume in Q3 at five of the top eight handset suppliers on touch and so the backlog is really starting to ramp for us.

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The second technology looks much more promising however. It is called "XIP" and it comes from InterNAP, the same company that currently connects us to the Internet. XIP dynamically adjusts the low-level settings that control how data flows across the Internet. It works best when transmitting large items (such as a chart) across long distances. The bigger the object and/or the longer the distance, the more XIP helps.

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At this point we've completed our internal testing of XIP and the results look good. In our tests, XIP reduced the time it takes to send out our charts by 30 to 40% in most cases. That said, we now need your help. We want to make sure that if we switch to XIP it won't cause any problems for our users.

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Equinix 2Q 2010 Earnings Preview

Equinix (EQIX) will be reporting 2Q 2010 results on Wednesday, July 28th.

This call will be particularly interesting as Equinix completed the acquisition of Switch and Data in the quarter - while we do not expect that the two Companies might have already developed significant synergies, we are sure that the conference call will be useful to give investors additional color on the status of the integration.

According to its updated guidance given on May 7^th, Equinix expects revenues to be in the range of $296.0 to $298.0 million, with cash gross margins of about 64%. This forecast reflects a closing date of April 30, 2010 for the Switch and Data acquisition, which therefore will contribute to Equinix’s results from May 1, 2010 onwards only.

As a side note, the strength of the US dollar (or, said in a different way, the recent weakness of the Euro, which represented about 16% of revenues for the former stand alone Equinix) might have negatively impacted Equinix's non-US results for the quarter, as guidance was given using, for example, $1.36 dollar to the Euro.

On a same currency basis, we expect Equinix's performance in Europe and Asia to show very good strength, in spite of currency conversions.

Analysts estimate revenues of 295.9M on average, slightly below Company's guidance, and EPS of $ 0.24.

The strategic importance of the Switch and Data merger deserves spending a good part of this article reviewing, once more, the reasons behind the acquisition and its potential impact on Equinix numbers/synergies going forward.

Equinix's recent “Update Call on Closure of Switch and Data Acquisition” comes handy to resume several information:

Steve Smith - Equinix Inc. - President, CEO

The strategic rationale for this acquisition centers around five key elements. Gaining a quick entry in new markets, securing additional capacity in our existing markets, enhancing our core focus on network density and interconnection services, and producing strong financial synergies to enhance the accretiveness of this transaction. Finally this transaction continues to distance Equinix from other data center providers, and further establishes us as the only global network neutral data center provider, and clearly with the largest North American footprint.

The comment about the additional capacity is interesting, as Equinix, with this acquisition, has basically doubled the number of cabinets available for sale in the North American market.

We believe that the impact of this new inventory will start producing positive effect mostly in the second half of 2010:

Steve Smith - Equinix Inc. - President, CEO

Secondly, we will drive top-line growth with a strong focus on achieving revenue synergies across both sales organizations. An early sign of success over the past week is that we have already identified several Equinix customers that are interested in the Switch & Data inventory, and we have also started to receive inbound lead opportunities to cross-sell Switch & Data customers into Equinix's global footprint.

In our opinion, the New York metro area will strongly benefit from the combination of the Switch and Data inventory and the great success that Equinix is achieving within the financial vertical (comment added in Italic):

Steve Smith - Equinix Inc. - President, CEO

In the New York metro area, we have now acquired three data centers in New York City, two of which are located within key telecom landing points. Additionally, the capacity gain from their sizable new data center in Bergen County, will supplement our existing footprint in New Jersey, which we expect to be important in meeting the demand from our financial services customer base.

Given our historical fill rates in this metro, we are very excited by the additional capacity in both New Jersey locations (the former Switch and Data Bergen facility and the new Equinix NY4 third phase expansion).

Equinix has recently been in the news for several wins within the financial community, like Deutsche Börse Systems, selecting Equinix as strategic data center provider in Frankfurt, Germany and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), operator of the Australian futures market, deploying its new hosting solution within the Equinix Chicago (CH1) data center. Several networks have also announced connections to different Equinix's data centers worldwide, targeting the low latency needs of financial institutions. As a reminder, Equinix is the only colo provider with a presence at all major exchange markets worldwide.

Focusing on the New York market, Direct Edge has just converted its trading platforms to formal Exchanges, and is now operating from the Equinix NY4 data center, a move which could represent an important catalyst for the financial community.

These comments are taken from Securities Technology Monitor:

In 2,500 square feet of space, you can house a typical Radio Shack store, with hundreds of electronic products, ranging from smart phones to car security systems to MP3 players to weather radios to cables and batteries.

Or, in roughly the same amount of space, you can house a stock exchange. Or two.

Such is the case with EDGA and EDGX, the two newly approved stock exchanges owned by Direct Edge, which formally debut Wednesday in Secaucus, N.J. As competition in securities trading venues goes up, so does the drive for speed and “scalability,’’ the ability to expand rapidly and reliably.

…

Unlike the New York Stock Exchange, you won’t see a monster-sized flag draped over where Direct Edge operates the new trading platforms that will power EDGA and EDGX. The two exchanges sit side by side, in a black wire cage inside a nondescript industrial building that could just as easily hide a distribution warehouse.

Spare servers in this cage provide immediate backup, in case of failure. A second cage with copies of the entire EDGA and EDGX trading exchanges sits in another nondescript building in North New Jersey, just in case.
...

From the get-go, the new system will be able to handle 220,000 messages every second, while keeping up the pace of acknowledging each order in less than half a million. Each of the two exchanges can handle 2.5 billion transactions a day. “That is four times the capacity of even the days surrounding the Flash Crash,’’ said O’Brien. “So there is significant head room there.”
...

“There is no theoretical limit” to the amount of transactions Direct Edge will be able to handle each day, Bonanno said, at these speeds.

More information about the Direct Edge Exchange come from wallstreetandtech.com:

Direct Edge Chief Executive William O'Brien said the company is not about to venture into unfamiliar territory with its exchange status, which means tighter regulatory oversight.

But he said a new data center launched during the conversion opens a new battle front with competitors in selling trading data to increasingly hungry investors.

"That's something we view as a way to broaden our competitive footprint," O'Brien said in an interview. "As great as this company has progressed so far, I still feel like it is still getting started."

Just hours before ringing the exchanges' opening bell in Jersey City Wednesday, O'Brien told Reuters Insider that Direct Edge "could potentially" list its shares in an initial public offering. The IPO plan was originally set for this year.

From an interconnection stand point, Equinix has increased the number of networks and ISPs connected to its data centers from 410 to 575. Switch and Data's success in network density was unparalleled in the industry, and approximately 31% of revenues were represented by interconnection services, or more than double Equinix numbers. Switch and Data Palo Alto and Equinix Ashburn represent the two most important peering points on the West and East Coast of the USA, and both Company’s regional data centers will benefit from the wider offer of ISPs and networks that they will now be able to offer to their existing customers base.

From a financial point of view, Equinix will take advantage of Switch and Data'S NOLs, and expects to generate about $20 million of synergy savings within one year, which is quite a substantial amount, if we consider that it does represent about 10% of Switch and Data cash costs.

Equinix is also estimating acquisition costs of about $23 million for professional and legal fees, that will be split between 2009 and 2010. Integration costs will also be substantial:

Keith Taylor - Equinix Inc. - CFO

For each of the quarters through the integration period, we will provide you an estimate of what we believe the integration costs to be, and compare those costs against the savings attributed to our synergies. For 2010 we expect the integration costs to be $2 million greater that the cost savings relating to the synergies. But as we looked at the entire integration period, as Steve mentioned, we expect to receive a minimum of $20 million in annual cost savings from this transaction, half of those annualized savings should be realized by the end of the year. The restructuring costs associated with this deal will primarily be incurred over the next three or four quarters, and will be expensed to the income statement on a separate income statement line. The restructuring costs will not affect our adjusted EBITDA metric.

As some key operating metrics were used in slightly different ways by the two Companies, Equinix provided a reconciliation sheet on its web side for Switch and Data's recent quarter.

As far as revenues, Equinix hasn't really included any synergy in its forecast:

David Barden - BofA Merrill Lynch - Analyst

But no revenue synergies in the guidance at all?

Keith Taylor - Equinix Inc. - CFO

At this stage we haven't.

Clearly there is some expectation, again, as Steve alluded to, that we are already starting selling into their assets, and I understand from our sales team we are getting leads from the Switch and Data team into our (global) assets. So I think that there is going to be a strong opportunity for us. I think it will create some synergies, but we have not made that assumption today.

The combined business would be already in a position to generate about 1.8 billion of revenues, excluding further expansions that the now combined Company might need to take into consideration quickly:

Mark Adams - Equinix Inc. - Chief Development Officer

Yes, they actually, they do have a couple of projects that they have had under review, and we need to make decisions pretty much in the next 30 to 60 days, but given the commonality of the businesses and the markets we are focused on, they are projects we are very interested in, and we would like to pull right into our portfolio. So we see some good opportunities for expansion.

Uncaged: Direct Edge Bares its Exchanges

from Securities Technology Monitor:

>>In 2,500 square feet of space, you can house a typical Radio Shack store, with hundreds of electronic products, ranging from smart phones to car security systems to MP3 players to weather radios to cables and batteries.

Or, in roughly the same amount of space, you can house a stock exchange. Or two.

Such is the case with EDGA and EDGX, the two newly approved stock exchanges owned by Direct Edge, which formally debut Wednesday in Secaucus, N.J. As competition in securities trading venues goes up, so does the drive for speed and “scalability,’’ the ability to expand rapidly and reliably.

...

The economic benefits (see “Benefits, and Costs, in the Life of an Exchange”) and the prestige may be big factors. And the transformation of its alternative venues into full-fledged exchanges and the technology transformation that has gone with it may just be the price of keeping up with rivals.

...

Unlike the New York Stock Exchange, you won’t see a monster-sized flag draped over where Direct Edge operates the new trading platforms that will power EDGA and EDGX. The two exchanges sit side by side, in a black wire cage inside a nondescript industrial building that could just as easily hide a distribution warehouse.

Inside the cage are 80 racks of Hewlett-Packard ProLiant servers and related memory storage units. Anywhere from two to 14 servers sit in each rack. About 200 servers, per exchange. By H-P’s estimate, this generation of “convergent” servers -- which include processing capacity, mem ory storage, networking features and energy efficiency – puts the same amount of computing power in a single box as was found in 21 boxes four years ago.

Spare servers in this cage provide immediate backup, in case of failure. A second cage with copies of the entire EDGA and EDGX trading exchanges sits in another nondescript building in North New Jersey, just in case.

...

From the get-go, the new system will be able to handle 220,000 messages every second, while keeping up the pace of acknowledging each order in less than half a million. Each of the two exchanges can handle 2.5 billion transactions a day. “That is four times the capacity of even the days surrounding the Flash Crash,’’ said O’Brien. “So there is significant head room there.”

...

“There is no theoretical limit” to the amount of transactions Direct Edge will be able to handle each day, Bonanno said, at these speeds.

Lexus HS 250h – an Easy to Like Hybrid

from Canadafreepress.com:

>>Lexus HS 250h – an Easy to Like Hybrid

...

One thing that was pretty cool about the interior of my test HS was the Remote Touch feature, which comes with the optional navigation system. It’s a mouse-like cursor control thingy mounted on the center console, nicely at hand. It features a kind of force-feedback “detent” that lets you know by feel when you’ve moved the cursor over something clickable, which can help you keep your eyes on the road.

This Remote Touch is a lovely alternative to those knob-like cursor control thingies that are rearing their ugly heads in more and more cars these days and I hope it catches on. It may take up more real estate on the console than a knobby thing, and they need to work on the clunky on-screen interface, but I like it anyway.

Direct Edge's Trading Platforms Convert to Exchanges

from wallstreetandtech.com:

>>Direct Edge's Trading Platforms Convert to Exchanges

* EDGX, EDGA trading platforms convert to formal exchanges

* Direct Edge gains equal footing with NYSE, Nasdaq

* New exchanges' opening bell in Jersey City, New Jersey

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The conversion brings new stock symbols to trading screens across the country and puts Direct Edge on equal footing with NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq OMX Group Inc and BATS Global Markets -- rivals it has aggressively and successfully taken on in the hyper competitive market for order flow.

Direct Edge Chief Executive William O'Brien said the company is not about to venture into unfamiliar territory with its exchange status, which means tighter regulatory oversight.

But he said a new data center launched during the conversion opens a new battle front with competitors in selling trading data to increasingly hungry investors.

"That's something we view as a way to broaden our competitive footprint," O'Brien said in an interview. "As great as this company has progressed so far, I still feel like it is still getting started."

Just hours before ringing the exchanges' opening bell in Jersey City Wednesday, O'Brien told Reuters Insider that Direct Edge "could potentially" list its shares in an initial public offering. The IPO plan was originally set for this year.

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Direct Edge opens new front in battle for US market share

from finextra.com:

>>Direct Edge opens new front in battle for US market share

Direct Edge has opened a new front in the battle for US exchange market share by converting its two alternative trading systems into formal exchanges and completing the migration to a new technology platform.

Effective Wednesday, the EDGA and EDGX Exchanges are now trading all Tape A, B, and C symbols out of a new data centre at Equinix's NY4 facility in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Direct Edge Says IPO Possible as Its Markets Become Exchanges

from businessweek.com:

>>Direct Edge Says IPO Possible as Its Markets Become Exchanges

...

The company’s market share for equities trading this month was 8 percent, down 1.8 percentage points from last month, according to a Macquarie report. Bats, which accounted for 11.2 percent so far this month, surpassed Direct Edge’s volume in May and June. Direct Edge’s share of trading outpaced Bats in the second half of last year.

The decrease in market share this month is “acceptable,” O’Brien said. “It’s because of the enormity of the transition,” he said. “What we did is something no stock exchange has done before -- completely migrating its technology to a new platform and moving into a new data center at the same time.” Direct Edge this month moved its systems to a data center in Secaucus, New Jersey operated by Equinix Inc.

“We’re excited by our ability, with the new platform and technology architecture, to deliver new products that are innovative,” O’Brien said. “That will help Direct Edge stand out.”

Jeff's story

Regarding CyberKnife radiosurgery: “The treatment was wonderful. No side effects, no problems, and, per my urologist, no cancer,” said Jeff.
Click to read his story: http://cyberknife.com/all/jeff.aspx

CyberKnife::Jeff's Story

Jeff Hamilton, a NASA engineer and golf enthusiast, found himself working for the Apollo Space Program in Houston, Texas forty-five years ago. Jeff was involved in all of the Apollo/Saturn space launches up until the now infamous “Apollo 13” mission.

Opening of the New Chinese Data Center: Telehouse Shanghai

Telehouse expanding in China: same partner as Equinix.

>>Opening of the New Chinese Data Center: Telehouse Shanghai

On Monday, July 19, 2010 KDDI, Telehouse’ parent company will launch Telehouse Shanghai, providing colocation services in Shanghai, China. This will be KDDI's second Telehouse branded enterprise in China following the opening of Telehouse Beijing. This move will see Telehouse data centers branch out into 9 regions, 12 cities and cover 18 sites worldwide with a global footprint of approximately 113,000 square meters.

Telehouse Shanghai is a high spec data center constructed in Shanghai’s Pudong district in cooperation with Shanghai Data Solution Co., Ltd., a data center that provides redundancy related services via career diversity in Shanghai.

...

Equinix Extends Operations into China Through Partnership With Shanghai Data Solution (SDS)

Equinix selects SDS as its Data Center Partner to further support Equinix customers' colocation needs in Shanghai, P.R. China

Foster City, CA – March 23, 2010 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Shanghai Data Solution Co., Ltd. (SDS), a leading systems integrator for network and communications services in Shanghai, P.R. China. The partnership allows Equinix customers to enjoy a similar level of availability and reliability of colocation services in China through the SDS data center, as they do within the 49 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers operated by Equinix worldwide. The partnership provides Equinix with a strategic entry-way into one of the world’s most sought-after and fastest-growing markets: China.

Internap works on next step of CDN service rebuild

from Tier 1 Research daily newsletter:

>>Internap Network Services continues to work on improving its standing in the CDN market with a plan for further improvements to its service offerings and a revamped marketing message.

New site, too.

Co-location, co-location, co-location: the role of the neutral data centre in 21st century trading

By Robin Manicom,
director of financial services,
Equinix

The complexity and volume of electronic trading has increased exponentially over the past decade as the financial industry continues to invest heavily in computer-driven technology. The Financial Information Forum reports that from 2006 to 2009 peak messages per second increased more than fivefold, leaping from 314,733 to 1,795,348 – and this growth rate continues its climb unabated.

read more at this link.

Telecity shares jump amid takeover rumours

rumor from Telegraph UK:

Rumours were circulating that Telecity, the data centre operator whose technology allows millions of people to watch internet videos of cats on skateboards and other inane curiosities, is engaged in takeover talks with its main US rival.

Shares in Telecity, Europe's largest data centre operator, jumped 7.4 to 403.3p on the back of chatter that it has been in in-depth buy-out talks. Sources suggested that Telecity has been in discussion with US business Equinix for about three months.

Piper Jaffray: Hospital And Freestanding Center Capital Spending Continues To Show Improvement

from Benzinga.com:

>>Piper Jaffray: Hospital And Freestanding Center Capital Spending Continues To Show Improvement

“Our provider panelists appeared more willing to commit capital to projects that drive revenues through increased patient volumes (i.e., throughput) and/or products that address new revenue streams than we have seen in recent years. Fortunately, LINAC manufacturers have stepped up R&D efforts in spite of weak capex trends and have released a number of products recently that meet these criteria, including TrueBeam (VAR), TomoHD (TOMO) and CyberKnife VSI (ARAY ). We believe recent product innovations, reimbursement clarity, the elimination of most health care reform concerns and an overall healthier economic backdrop (relative to a year ago) support a more optimistic outlook for large-dollar capital equipment purchases for the foreseeable future,” the analysts say.

Equinix CEO Stephen Smith on why he'd like to eat with Apple's chief.

If you could pick anyone in the world and have lunch with them... who would it be? In a videotaped interview with Forbes, Equinix CEO and President Steve Smith reveals who he would choose. We wonder whether there's an app for that? Just a hint...

Forbes.com Video Network | Technology: Lunch With Steve Jobs?

MD Buyline Announces High Impact Technologies that Hold Promise for Hospital Service Lines

post by yyy60:

MD Buyline Announces High Impact Technologies that Hold Promise for Hospital Service Lines


MD Buyline recently identified the top emerging technologies with the highest impact for 2010 as:

• Autologous Cell Therapy
• Alzheimer's Therapeutic Drug
• Sepsis Microfilter
• Non-Invasive Cardiac Radiosurgery

...

Non-invasive Cardiac Radiosurgery: This technique provides a non-invasive, more time-efficient alternative to catheter-based technology, using the robotic linear accelerator from Accuray®, the CyberKnife®.The technology uses radiation generated from outside the patient to target regions of the heart, forming lesions around the pulmonary vein.Once approved, CyberHeart offers the security of a fully-automated robotic technology capable of delivering reproducible results.

Cyberheart Inc's patents

background:

Accuray Enters Licensing Agreement with CyberHeart Incorporated

Sunnyvale, California, April 30, 2007 – Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with CyberHeart Incorporated under which CyberHeart will use Accuray’s technology to develop a non-invasive method for performing cardiac ablation. Cardiac ablation is used to destroy a small portion of the heart that is causing abnormal rhythms. Ultimately, the developed technology may have applications in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, a disorder that prevents the heart from beating properly and can cause blood clots and strokes.

CyberHeart has received commitments for independent venture capital financing to fund technical and clinical research and development of a cardiac ablation system that incorporates Accuray’s technology. In the event CyberHeart is able to successfully develop and commercialize such a system, under Accuray’s agreement with CyberHeart, Accuray will be the sole supplier of radiosurgery equipment to CyberHeart and will also be entitled to receive specified payments based on usage of the CyberHeart system.

a post by yyy60:

20100160775 System For Non-Invasive Heart Treatment - non-invasive method for treatment of arrhythmia 06-24-2010
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100160...


20100137709 Test Object For The Validation of Tracking In The Presence of Motion 06-03-2010
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100137...


20090257557 Radiation Treatment Planning and Delivery for Moving Targets in the Heart 10-15-2009
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090257...


20090080610 Radiosurgical Ablation of the Myocardium 03-26-2009
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090080...


20080317204 Radiation treatment planning and delivery for moving targets in the heart 12-25-2008
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080317...

Level 3 Connects New Transatlantic Route at Equinix London International Business Exchange Data Center

Press Release

Level 3’s new access node will offer customers in the Equinix LD4/5 campus direct connectivity to three transatlantic routes; Yellow, AC-1 and Apollo North, as well as provide access to its extensive North American footprint via the Level 3 facilities in New York. In addition, alongside the community of networks, content and digital media companies, enterprises and financial service providers already operating within Equinix’s LD4/5 campus, Level 3’s customers will benefit from a new route that bypasses central London. By locating the access node on the outskirts of London, Level 3 has improved the resilience and speed of connection between London and the U.S.

Is it time to place Ethernet exchange bets?

interesting article from Connected Planet:

>>There are a variety of things that define a new market as "real." Multiple vendors targeting it. Customers making purchases, not just kicking the tires. Money flowing in from investors. Big name executives willing to risk their careers on the opportunity.

The Ethernet exchange market looks to be checking off all those boxes one by one. The latest: AT&T's Sanford Brown, a key player on the service provider side of the Ethernet movement, taking the reins today as the CEO of Ethernet exchange CENX.

Inside the Equinix San Jose data centre

iTnews takes an exclusive look at SV1 and a sneak peek at the forthcoming US$145 million SV5 facility.

>>“SV5 is a special design,” Equinix’s senior director of IBX operations in Silicon Valley Jerry Collier said.

The building itself will be constructed according to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building specifications.

...

“SV1 is the hub of Silicon Valley,” Collier said.

The Equinix Exchange located in SV1 encompasses peering points that serve other Equinix centres in the Silicon Valley area – SV2, SV3 and SV4 – via a diverse fibre ring connecting the facilities.

SV1 has an average rack density of 1.75 kW. SV5 will support an average 4 kW per cabinet, according to Collier, although higher densities are possible, as long as customers are willing to pay for the space.

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Equinix President and CEO, Stephen Smith explains why more CIOs are choosing to outsource

Equinix President and CEO, Stephen Smith, recently sat down for a videotaped interview with Brian Caulfield of Forbes. In the interview, Stephen explains why more CIOs are choosing to outsource and shares his insights around the high cost of building data centers, colocation, carrier neutrality, and the growth in mobile and cloud computing.

Forbes.com Video Network | Intelligent Technology: High Data Center Demand

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Equinix CEO Stephen Smith on why more CIOs are choosing to outsource.

Equinix added to short-term buy list at Deutsche Bank

from theflyonthewall.com:

>>Equinix added to short-term buy list at Deutsche Bank

Mt. Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital touts new $6-million CyberKnife

from the IV MB, by yyy60:

>>Mt. Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital touts new $6-million CyberKnife

Mt. Carmel St. Ann's is home to a new $6.3-million cancer treatment machine – the first of its kind in central Ohio.

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The CyberKnife will add to St. Ann's current cancer center, which has had a conventional radiation machine since 2001. The machine was purchased by Mt. Carmel in cooperation with U.S. Radio Surgery. A physicist, a medical director and two therapists trained at another CyberKnife location for a week and for an additional two weeks at St. Ann's before the machine was made available for patients.

Chi-X Expects to Launch in Japan By End of July

from Securitiesindustry.com:

>>Chi-X Global said it expects to begin trading on its Japanese venue for trading in stocks by the end of the month.

The subsidiary of electronic trading pioneer Instinet said that Chi-X Japan Limited has been granted a proprietary
trading system license by the Japan's securities regular, the Financial Services Agency.

Interoute provides financial institutions with ultra low latency direct connectivity into Equinix LD4 International Business Exchange data centre in L

Interoute Press Release

Interoute provides financial institutions with ultra low latency direct connectivity into Equinix LD4 International Business Exchange data centre in London

Trading hub boosted by the arrival of algorithmic connectivity service

London, 6 July 2010 – Interoute, owner and operator of Europe’s largest next-generation network, has increased its UK footprint with direct connectivity to Equinix’s LD4 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre located on the outskirts of London. Financial institutions can now utilise Interoute’s Fast Trade service to connect to both the major and emerging Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) and trading venues located within the Equinix IBX data centre and other key financial exchanges throughout Europe.

As electronic trading grows, new MTFs have emerged to address the specialised needs of high frequency algorithmic trading. Equinix’s LD4 IBX network-neutral data centre has become a key UK location for these execution venues and is also home to a critical mass of buy and sell side firms, market data and technology providers. This diversity provides firms with maximum choice over which of their peers to partner with and also enables participants to quickly establish operational relationships with one another for the development of new opportunities, latency reduction and to decrease a firm’s time to market.

Financial institutions located in the Equinix LD4 IBX data centre now have the choice to use Interoute’s Fast Trade service to quickly connect to numerous exchanges across Europe with guaranteed low latency and stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Interoute’s growing pan-European network offers extensive levels of connectivity to the leading MTFs.

“We are already connected to 11 of Equinix’s IBX data centres in Europe, as well as many other key facilities. With our on-net presence in 100 cities, we are working to directly connect to as many leading and emerging exchanges as possible,” said Lee Myall, UK Regional Director at Interoute. “The increase of algorithmic trading across Europe has been huge and we are matching demand from financial institutions looking to trade across Europe competitively.”

Interoute is seeing increasing demand from financial firms for direct, high availability bandwidth into Equinix‘s LD4 IBX data centre. By connecting through Interoute’s Fast Trade, organisations are able to benefit from Interoute’s premium SLAs. The bandwidth allocated via the Fast Trade product is entirely dedicated to the customer’s use and thus maintains consistent low latency. Before it’s delivered, each Fast Trade route is tested for its exact round trip delay, to the nearest 100 microseconds, which is then guaranteed in the SLA for that specific service. Financial firms are provided a predictable high quality, ultra low latency service. Furthermore, should the service be unable to meet the SLA’s guaranteed round trip delay the customer is free to cancel the service without any additional charges.

For further information, please click here to view a video titled ‘Algorithmic trading with the fastest bandwidth speeds in Europe” featuring Interoute’s Director of Wholesale Products and Services, Jonathan Wright.

Haptics brings a personal touch to technology

from BBC:

>>Haptics brings a personal touch to technology

Research In Motion

from peeringdb.com:

Company Information
Company Name	Research In Motion
Also Known As	RIM, BlackBerry
Company Website	http://www.blackberry.com

Public Peering Exchange Points
Exchange Point Name	ASN	IP Address	Mbit/sec
AMS-IX	18705	2001:7f8:1::A501:8705:1	10000
AMS-IX	18705	195.69.145.234	10000
Equinix Chicago	18705	206.223.119.80	10000
Equinix Chicago	18705	2001:504:0:4:0:1:8705:1	10000
Equinix Dallas	18705	206.223.118.50	10000
Equinix Dallas	18705	2001:504:0:5:0:1:8705:1	10000
Equinix Paris	18705	2001:7F8:43::1:8705:1	10000
Equinix Paris	18705	195.42.144.46	10000

Canada's 3rd CK at Ottawa Hospital - starts treating patients in Sept

from the IV MB, by yyy60:

>>The Canadian Business Journal
July 2010

Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre - World-class cancer treatment

Once underserved, cancer patients in the Ottawa region now have considerably more access to the treatment, privacy and technology they need. This April, the Ottawa Hospital celebrated the second opening of two cancer centre expansions—the first, at the general campus, and the second, at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital (QCH).

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‘Tough to beat’

With a state-of-the-art expansion comes state-of-the-art equipment, and the Ottawa Hospital is very excited about what they now have available.

“We just got a CyberKnife,” Doering says. “It’s equipment that does radiosurgery, which allows for non-invasive treatment of tumours. It’s like a radiation treatment but it is very focused treatment. For a brain tumour, a patient would normally go in and have the have skull cut open. The recovery would be two weeks in the hospital, in the intensive care unit. With this CyberKnife, the patient comes in for three days in a row and receives a 45-minute treatment. There is no anaesthesia, no operating room and no overnight stay in the hospital. It’s painless. And it’s so precise, that it spares the healthy tissue and only focuses on the cancer.”

“The CyberKnife is also great for lung cancer, because surgeons don’t have to worry about the lungs moving as the patient breathes,” she continues. “Typical radiation is not as precise with the lung movement and it can radiate some other tissue around it. But the CyberKnife moves with the respirations, it adjusts.”

This new machine came at no small cost—it was a $3.5-million capital investment. Fortunately, the Ottawa community came together and fundraised for the CyberKnife, showing its support for sick neighbours. We have fundraised for this and I must say the community has been great.

Right now, the hospital is building the bunker for it at the general campus. “We hope to treat our first patient with the CyberKnife during the week of September 20,” says Doering. “We’re really excited about that. It treats spine, kidney, lung, brain cancers and so on. Our folks right now are getting trained on the equipment.” Speaking of which, Ottawa has the only trained neurosurgeon in Ontario for this type of equipment. “I believe when you look at the Ottawa Hospital cancer program, you will see we have the best facilities in the country, if not the world. When you factor in our equipment, facilities and specialists, we are tough to beat.”

Fight to secure CyberKnife device

from APN News & Media:

“The cancer journey is a bizarre one,” he said. Mr Mackinnon said he wanted to use the book to bring the CyberKnife device to Australia – but after years of banging his head against the Government's brick wall he was going for a more direct method.

If he could sell enough copies, he wanted to use the money raised by the book to buy a CyberKnife device and donate it to a hospital.

“As the Government refuses to act, it is left to the general public, again, to assist those in need,” he said.

CK Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Nonresectable Tumors of the Liver: Preliminary Results

from the IV MB, by yyy60:

>>CK Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Nonresectable Tumors of the Liver: Preliminary Results

HPB Surgery
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 309780, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/309780
Clinical Study

Cyberknife Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Nonresectable Tumors of the Liver: Preliminary Results

K. Goyal,1 D. Einstein,2 M. Yao,2 C. Kunos,2 F. Barton,2 D. Singh,3 C. Siegel,1 J. Stulberg,1 and J. Sanabria1

(1) Departments of Surgery, University Hospitals-Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
(2) Departments of Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals-Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
(3) Departments of Medicine, University Hospitals-Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

Received 24 November 2009; Revised 12 April 2010; Accepted 24 May 2010

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PURPOSE: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has emerged as a treatment option for local tumor control of primary and secondary malignancies of the liver. We report on our updated experience with SBRT in patients with non-resectable tumors of the liver.

METHODS: Our first 17 consecutive patients (mean age 58.1 years) receiving SBRT for HCC (n=6), IHC (n=3), and LM (n=8) are presented. Mean radiation dose was 34Gy delivered over 1–3 fractions.

RESULTS: Treated patients had a mean decrease in maximum pretreatment tumor diameter from 6.9±4.6 cm to 5.0±2.1 cm at three months after treatment (P<.05). The mean total tumor volume reduction was 44% at six months (P<.05). 82% of all patients (14/17) achieved local control with a median follow-up of 8 months. 100% of patients with HCC (n=6) achieved local control. Patients with surgically placed fiducial markers had no complications related to marker placement.

CONCLUSION: Our preliminary results showed that SBRT is a safe and effective local treatment modality in selected patients with liver malignancies with minimal adverse events. Further studies are needed to define its role in the management of these malignancies.


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GoGrid Continues Expansion with New East Coast Data Center

GoGrid Deploys Into Equinix to Meet Customer Demands

San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 30, 2010 -- GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, announced today the opening of a new GoGrid data center in Ashburn, Virginia. GoGrid has chosen Equinix, Inc (Nasdaq: EQIX), a leading provider of global data center services as its data center partner as it continues to expand operations.

"We’re pleased to announce that GoGrid cloud computing services are now available from within our Ashburn, Virginia campus," said Vince DiMemmo, general manager of Cloud and IT Services at Equinix. "Infrastructure on-demand is something our customers expect to be able to buy as they architect and deploy their Web and IT applications with us, and we’re pleased to add GoGrid as a cloud computing partner supplier."

We’re pleased to announce that GoGrid cloud computing services are now available from within our Ashburn, Virginia campus

Infrastructure on-demand is something our customers expect to be able to buy as they architect and deploy their Web and IT applications with us, and we’re pleased to add GoGrid as a cloud computing partner supplier.

The decision to expand GoGrid was a direct response to our customers and the market

We are successfully executing our expansion strategy and securing an East Coast presence is critical for us to scale and capture a significant piece of the fast growing cloud market. We are very excited to be partnering with a leader like Equinix and deployed within their customer-rich Ashburn campus to help fuel the continued growth of GoGrid.

The new GoGrid facility is a comprehensive end-to-end hosting environment solution, complete with state-of-the-art environmental controls, power and security systems, and access to more than 165 network suppliers. Multiple interconnection options enable GoGrid cloud computing services to be readily accessible by its customers.

"The decision to expand GoGrid was a direct response to our customers and the market," said GoGrid CEO & Co-Founder, John Keagy. "We are successfully executing our expansion strategy and securing an East Coast presence is critical for us to scale and capture a significant piece of the fast growing cloud market. We are very excited to be partnering with a leader like Equinix and deployed within their customer-rich Ashburn campus to help fuel the continued growth of GoGrid."

GoGrid customers who deploy GoGrid Cloud (virtual) servers in multiple data centers receive a single invoice allowing for simplified financial insight into multiple infrastructure locations. Usage by data center will appear as line-item details. Also, the GoGrid API has been updated to allow for programmatic control of objects and appliances in multiple data centers.

For more information about the new GoGrid 3.0 features and East Coast Datacenter, please visit: http://www.gogrid.com/software-update/.

Data Centers Continue to Grow in a Weak Economy

from Seeking Alpha, by David Gross:

>>Few industries have withstood the recession as well as data centers. Lease rates are still rising, capacity is being filled up, and new centers are opening every week. The industry's great recession was not in 2008 or 2009, but in 2002, when it was decimated by dot com overbuilding, and some facilities were turned back into warehouses.

This year the boom is back

from The Business Times Singapore:

>>Equinix to expand data centres in Asia

Nasdaq-listed Equinix will also use the funds - procured as loan from various banks, including DBS Bank - to expand in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Tokyo, apart from Singapore, Equinix's Hong Kong-based Asia-Pacific president, Samuel Lee, told BizIT in an interview.

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'We continued to experience strong growth within the Asia-Pacific region even during the global recession in 2009, and more so this year,' Mr Lee says. 'In fact, last year we opened a second DC in both Singapore and Sydney, and expanded our Hong Kong DC as well. This year the boom is back and we should see a strong surge in enterprise data. Much of that data would need to sit in DCs.'

In 2008, Singapore had a total of about 170,000 sq m of DC capacity, up 15 per cent over 2007. Not much capacity was added in 2009 due to the recession in 2008. But in 2010, demand may outstrip supply by up to 20 per cent, according to industry sources. Apart from Equinix, there are a slew of DC players such as SingTel, NCS, Tata Communications, ST Engineering and Fujitsu Asia.

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According to industry analysts, the demand for DC space significantly outpaces supply in the Asia-Pacific, including Japan (APJ) region, with 50 per cent of the demand being driven by government initiatives, and the rest by Internet media, telecom and IT companies.

'Demand for DC hosting currently exceeds supply,' research house Frost & Sullivan's analyst Wu Chengyu says. 'In fact, over 80 per cent of the major DCs in the Asia-Pacific are running at close to 90 per cent capacity, and space is at a premium.'

In 2009, the market for DC services in the APJ region was about US$8 billion. That's set to cross US$10.6 billion by 2011.

Immersion Corporation (IMMR) rated Buy

Immersion Corporation (IMMR) rated Buy with price target $7 by Dougherty & Company

The Future of Trading

You're invited to join our debate on The Future of Trading - Rewiring the Financial Market Fabric. This panel discussion will be hosted in London on July 14. It will debate how the global capital markets have raced ahead with staggering innovation to create an entrepreneurial revolution that is taking place before our eyes in these li...ghts-out, proximity trading centres where machines are talking to machines.

You will have the opportunity to network with industry peers and discuss what has been accomplished to date - and what has yet be achieved in today's increasingly competitive landscape of fragmented markets, dark pools, high frequency trading, and follow-the-sun strategies.

Agenda:
5.30pm - Drinks
6.00pm - Panel discussion
7.15pm - Networking Mixer/Party
9.00pm - Finish

Our Panel:
Moderator, Bob Giffords
Industry Analyst

Alasdair Haynes
CEO of Chi-X Europe

Eric Schwartz
President of Equinix Europe

Hirander Misra
CEO of ALGO Technologies

Dr Robert Barnes
Head of Market Infrastructure and CEO of MTF UBS

Valerie Bannert-Thurner
Executive Director of FTEN

The Future of Trading: Rewiring the Financia Market Fabric

Immersion Partner News

Date	Article	Partner
Jun 10, 2010	RIO® Robotic Arm System by MAKO Surgical Corp. Wins 2010 Gold Medical Design Excellence Award
May 14, 2010	Datel release Wiimote Contender - WildFire FX Controller with Rapid Fire
Apr 29, 2010	Nokia N8: Something Innately Good About It
Apr 09, 2010	Synaptics Fuse Concept Shows the Future of Smartphone Navigation
Mar 26, 2010	CNET's Best of CTIA Awards: Samsung Galaxy S
Feb 18, 2010	Synaptics Fuse hands-on [Video]
Jan 17, 2010	Visteon Haptic and Spacial Gesture Touchscreen - CES 2010 [Video]

http://www.immersion.com/about/news-room/partner-news/index.html

RIO(R) Robotic Arm System by MAKO Surgical Corp. Wins 2010 Gold Medical Design Excellence Award

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

MAKO Surgical Corp. (Nasdaq:MAKO) announced that its RIO^® Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System has received a 2010 Gold Medical Design Excellence Award. RIO^® is used to perform MAKOplasty^® partial knee resurfacing, a treatment option for patients with early to mid-stage osteoarthritis of the knee.

"It is an honor to receive this recognition," said Dr. Maurice R. Ferré, President and Chief Executive Officer of MAKO. "RIO^®, which was released last year, represents an important expansion to the previous generation of our robotic arm surgical system, incorporating enhancements such as improved dexterity and a more ergonomic configuration. Additionally, the RIO^® is an enabling platform for current and future applications."

The 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award winners were honored at a presentation ceremony on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, in conjunction with the Medical Design & Manufacturing East Conference and Exposition (www.MDMEast.com).

The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition (www.MDEAwards.com) is the only awards program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in the design of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions that improve healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that provide enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product development team to overcome design and engineering challenges so that the product meets its clinical objectives.

A comprehensive review of the entries was performed by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of third-party jurors with expertise in biomedical engineering, human factors, industrial design, medicine, and diagnostics.

New Challenges in Handheld Touchscreens

from Advanced Imaging Magazine:

By Dr. Andrew Hsu

The wide adoption of capacitive touchscreens has brought new considerations and challenges to designers. Interaction with handheld devices via gestures is gaining more attention.

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To enhance the level of physical feedback, designers can also incorporate haptics (touch feedback), also known as “rumble feedback,” “tactile feedback,” and “vibrotactile feedback.” Haptics solutions enhance user feedback to touch input by associating a tactile effect, achieved through an actuator such as a motor, to a particular touch or gesture. Today there are improved haptics solutions, such as Immersion’s TouchSense® technology, that provides a wide library of haptic effects, making it easy for designers to integrate. Imagine subtle exertion when you touch a button icon or scrolling with wheel-like rotation effects can make an interface both compelling and easy to use.

Software design around capacitive touchscreens is more art than science and simplicity is the name of the game. Since touchscreens are complex control systems, the challenge is how to make device interaction intuitive and obvious with clean and elegant design.

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Andrew Hsu has been the primary technical contact for Synaptics’ worldwide customers in the handheld space since 1999. He joined Synaptics in 1996 and led the company’s efforts into establishing a presence in the mobile handset market. Hsu developed Synaptics’ ClearPad™ technology, a transparent sensor that can be mounted under curved plastic and glass. He led the marketing for ClearPad, resulting in the first production phone with a capacitive touchscreen, the LG Prada. Prior to his current role, Hsu was a scientist and a design engineer that helped develop the first single-chip TouchPad™ solution for Synaptics. Hsu holds a doctorate in neuroscience and a master’s in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Cal Tech.

Immersion Corp. Started At Buy By Dougherty & Co

Chi-X to Connect North America to European Venues

from securitiesindustry.com:

>>Chi-X to Connect North America to European Venues

The service includes high-speed connections to trading venues in the United Kingdom and Europe from co-located data centers, as well as market data, hosting services, third-party applications and technical support. 

"We are introducing MarketPrizm to North America as an answer to the high cost and resource investment required for trading infrastructure and connectivity in Europe,'' said MarketPrizm Managing Director Nicolas Levy.

The MarketPrizm network and services are geared for all types of electronic trading, including high frequency, algorithmic and other speed-sensitive strategies.

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LD4 London Slough is Equinix’s first complete data center built from the ground up in Europe. Every detail was considered in design, planning, and build to ensure Europe’s most advanced data center environment, which hosts the UK’s Equinix Financial Exchange with Chi-X.

DiData takes stake in Netforce to boost hosting prowess

from itnews.com.au:

>>DiData takes stake in Netforce to boost hosting prowess

NetForce boasts a Tier-2, 55-rack facility in North Ryde with an average of 4kVa of power allocated per rack.

Dimension Data will provide infrastructure-as-a-service from within the NetForce data centre alongside cloud computing services delivered from co-location facilities at Optus, Global Switch and Equinix.

The Value of Haptics

A summary of published findings on the value of haptic feedback in human-computer interaction

fatter and faster

In the low-tech world, fatter and faster reads like an oxymoron. However, Equinix's chief technologist, Lane Patterson, is appearing on a panel at GigaOM Structure 2010 Conference on Thursday, June 24 (11:20am) in San Francisco to help explain what this means to the cloud computing revolution. In order to reach its full potential, cloud computing is often dependent on one key factor: high-capacity broadband. As customers deploy the cloud they are finding they need ever-fatter pipes and lower latency than ever before. The panel investigates the perspectives from the broadband service providers and broadband technology providers. (See events for additional information)

Erlanger's Jim Brexler Announces 2010-11 Budget To Employees

from Chattanoogan.com:

>>Erlanger's Jim Brexler Announces 2010-11 Budget To Employees

"In the coming months, we will be adding the region's first dedicated pediatric CT scanner at Children's Hospital. We also have plans to introduce the first Cyberknife to the region - an important addition to our cancer program.

On the edge of medical technology -- St. Ann's first in area with 'revolutionary' cancer treatment

from snponline.com:

>>On the edge of medical technology -- St. Ann's first in area with 'revolutionary' cancer treatment

Cancer surgery without the surgery is coming soon to Mount Carmel St. Ann's.

CyberKnife, a $6.3 million robotic radiosurgery system, has been in use at the hospital since Monday, June 21. The system is one of only two in the state and the first in Central Ohio.

"In my (opinion), it meets the qualifications of revolutionary," said Doug Widman, medical director of Columbus CyberKnife and radiation oncologist at Mount Carmel.

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CyberKnife, which is made in Germany and described by Widman as looking like a robot used in automotive manufacturing, also has tighter treatment margins.

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Widman said St. Ann's expects to treat 200 patients in the first year of the machine, and most insurance carriers cover the treatment. Because of the high cost of the procedure, all patients most be preapproved.

Georgia's 3rd CK will be installed in Savannah

from the IV MB, by yyy60:

>>Georgia's 3rd CK will be installed in Savannah **

Georgia Department of Community Health approved Certificate of Need for two CK, in Savannah and Burnswick:

(1) 2010-004 Candler Hospital dba Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion
New CyberKnife Unit (BATCHING) Joined (005)
Filed: 2/20/2010 Deemed Complete: 2/20/2010
Joined: 2/20/2010 60th Day Deadline: 4/20/2010
Decision Deadline: 6/19/2010
Site: 225 Candler Drive, Savannah, GA 31405 (Chatham County)
Contact: John Salandi 912-819-2498
Estimated Cost: $6,263,060

(2) 2010-005 Southeast Georgia Health System
Acquisition of a CyberKnife (BATCHING) Joined (004)
Filed: 2/20/2010 Deemed Complete: 2/20/2010
Joined: 2/20/2010 60th Day Deadline: 4/20/2010
Decision Deadline: 6/19/2010
Site: 2415 Parkwood Drive, Brunswick, GA 31520 (Glynn County)
Contact: Carlton A. DeVooght 912-466-3391
Estimated Cost: $4,787,028

CK in Japan – expected to grow from 20 to 100 in 5 years??

from the IV MB, by yyy60:

>>CK in Japan – expected to grow from 20 to 100 in 5 years??

Japanese love robot and CK is one of their favorites. But they also have strict rules for CK. Although FDA approved CK for treatment of tumors in any location of the body in 2001, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare did not grant the approval until June 2008. Twenty CK (for head and neck) were installed in Japan at that time. There was a very high expectation for future sales after the approval. An old news from July 24, 2008 said: “CyberKnife units are expected to grow to about 100 over five years”.

At the end of 2008, CK in Japan increased to 21. No more were installed in 2009 and first half of 2010. Why sales stalled? Is “100 over five years” over expectation?

News on June 3, 2010 “First CK Treatments Using the Synchrony Respiratory Tracking System Completed in Japan” http://www.asianetnews.net/view-release?pr-id=39715
may answer some of the questions.

It said: “ In April 2010 fiducial markers that are compatible with the CyberKnife System were approved for use.”

June 2008 – Approved treatment in any location of the body
April 2010 – Approved fiducial markers

I think it is just a slow start, “100 in 5 years” is still a possibility, may be delayed a couple of years because of the recession. ARAY have received 3 new orders in the last two quarters. I hope the approval of fiducial markers has removed the last hurdle.

Georgia's 2nd CK will be operational in Nov 2010

from the IV MB, by yyy60:

>>Georgia's 2nd CK will be operational in Nov 2010

Southeast Georgia Health System's hospital in Brunswick will soon be one of only two in the state to offer CyberKnife technology, a robotic radiosurgery system designed to treat tumors without cutting a patient.

The health system said the Georgia Department of Community Health approved its Certificate of Need request to offer the CyberKnife.

It should be installed and operational at the hospital in November.

hearing about NY5 and (Possibly) NY6

from webhostingtalk:

>>

Quote:

Originally Posted by FHDave NY2 is still a better choice even for financial customers

Actually NY4 has the direct rings now to the NYSE and Nasdaq, cuts latency a few hundred of a millisecond ( which for most of us is nothing , but for traders or financials its pretty important)

And soon youll start hearing about NY5 and (Possibly) NY6 ( since NY4 is pretty much almost sold out)

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CyberKnife cartoon

Clicca sui volti delle persone nella foto per taggarle.

Cute CyberKnife cartoon to enjoy on your Monday. It compares the mobility of the CyberKnife with the rigid range of motion on other radiation therapy machines.

from FB

Essex Radez launches Normalized Multicast Feed

from Automated Trader : Co location News

>>As vendor-of-record for delivery of all North American exchange feeds through its Velocitick subsidiary, Essex Radez offers clients the ability to co-locate any number of servers at any of its five data centers: Equinix Secaucus, Savvis/NYSE Weehawken, NASDAQ Carteret, Equinix Chicago, and CBOE Chicago. Additionally, through its private network, the firm provides execution connectivity to all major trading venues and will be introducing a smart-order-routing service in July.

read more at this link.

Do It for Dad Event Raises $355-thousand

from cfra.com:

>>Do It for Dad Event Raises $355-thousand

Some of the money raised on Sunday will help develop a new "Check Em" Testicular Cancer Awareness Program, which will be launched this fall at St. Pat's High School.

The Do It for Dad event will also support prostate cancer research and treatment and the Cyberknife Technology.