Computer on a USB Stick-Turns Any Screen Into an Android OS-Can Plug Into a TV, Tablet and More - Instant Cloud Computing Has Windows, Linux and Mac Embedded

This is a pretty wild gadget with it’s own quad core processor and wireless capabilities with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.  It has a connection for HD graphics too.  In addition there are virtual operating system for Windows and Mac included.  This could be an easy way to get to your VPN with being able to plug in to any screen device or television.  The article said this should be out around the middle of next year.  Who would have ever thought they would cram processors into the USB stick, not to mention the wireless? 

Here’s the specifications…and you can visit the website to see more as this is kind of small here.  This could make some big changes around the hospitals and doctors office for access to medical records some day.  It has a gig of ram and seems to support all the media and audio support codecs that commonly used.  BD 

This gadget might seem familiar: It’s a dual-core computer on a USB drive, and its makers say it’s all about computing from any screen, anytime, anywhere.

The drive, called Cotton Candy, will turn any screen you connect it to into an Android station. You can plug it into a TV, a tablet, a laptop (PC or Mac) — you name it.

The device’s maker, FXI Technologies said in a statement that Cotton Candy was designed to “bring cloud computing to almost any screen.” In a word, it could help to make an “Internet of Things” more feasible than ever before.

Now, for the specs: The Cotton Candy prototype weighs just 21 grams and is equipped with an ARM Cortex-A9 (1.2GHz) CPU and an ARM Mali-400 MP (Quad-core) GPU. It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity options, as well as an HDMI output for HD graphics on any screen. The computer can be controlled via mice, keyboards, smartphones and other USB peripheral gadgets

http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/18/usb-android-computer/

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HP Buys Autonomy Machine Learning Software Technology for $11 Billion–More Debt and A Stake in Health IT

Autonomy is basically data aggregating and machine learning technology and there’s a medical division that has been around for a long time and you can see the AMA, Kaiser and Sutter and a few other are using the software.  There’s so much information out there and HP feels that $12 billion is a bargain?  Larry Ellison said it was way over priced.  In the video the CEO talks about the black box in the video and talks about how things change their meanings frequently.  Larry could take the software or a similar offering and place it all in the new Oracle clouds and is now pushing parallel computing.  BD

One other side comment, think we have any lawmakers that could appreciate this type of technology and better yet read how to use it:)

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(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard completed its $12 billion buy of British software firm Autonomy on Monday, the centerpiece of a botched strategy shift that cost ex-chief executive Leo Apotheker his job last month.

Autonomy

HP said its 25.50 pounds-per-share cash offer -- representing a 79 percent premium that many HP shareholders found excessive -- had been accepted by investors representing 87.34 percent of the company's shares, well ahead of the 75 percent threshold needed.

Buying the Cambridge, England-based firm, whose software searches unstructured data like emails, phone calls and tweets that do not fit into traditional databases, was one of a raft of surprise radical reforms announced by HP's Apotheker in August.

Apotheker also decided to close HP's Palm Web OS tablet and smartphone unit and sell or spin off its PC division.

The rushed announcements and concerns about the lofty price offered for Autonomy sent HP's stock, and Apotheker's credibility, plunging.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-hp-autonomy-idUSTRE79269E20111003

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