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Last call for Mobile Travel – “Planes, Trains and Automobiles!”
The Travel industry’s interest in mobile-apps is already clear to see – Most airlines have launched apps covering all stages of a passenger’s flight. Similarly online travel-agents and hotel-chains have all embraced mobile as a new engagement channel. At the same time completely new travel industry business models are being developed thanks to social-media (eg [...]
Nexthink Recognized by Computerworld as a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate
IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program today announces Nexthink® as a 2013 Laureate. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. “Technology continues to play a pivotal role in transforming how business and society functions. For the past 25 years the Computerworld Honors Program has had the privilege of [...]
Mobility Visualizations of Geneva, Zurich & San Francisco awarded
The Urban Data Challenge Awards were given on Saturday April 6th at Swissnex San Francisco. The “Dots on the Bus” prototype wins the Grand Prix. Launched during the Lift Conference in Geneva, the Urban Data Challenge offered the opportunity to more than 200 contenders from all over the world to use the mobility data sets [...]
senseFly and EPFL Lab awarded euRobotics TechTransfer Award
The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) and senseFly S.A. win the 10th euRobotics Technology Transfer Award, which was presented during the Eurpean Robotics Forum 2013 in Lyon, France. The European Robotics Forum 2013 was a meeting point for several hundred scientists, companies and robotics officials from the European Commission. The program is designed to provide [...]
Sands Research and nViso announce partnership
Two of the market research community’s leading technology companies announced today a partnership for the combination of their advanced software on a single platform / service offering. nViso, a leading provider of emotion recognition software that interprets human facial micro-expressions and eye-movements captured on video, join Sands Research, a leader in EEG (brainwave) and eye-tracking [...]
Silp sees partial exit and joins forces with x28
Silp and x28, a leading technology provider in the online recruiting industry, have entered into a strategic partnership. The management team of x28 invests in the social recruiting startup and Cornel Müller and Christian Hanisch, two seasoned industry experts, join Silp’s board of directors. Silp (www.silp.com ), an Internet startup from Zurich, focuses on talent [...]
nViso wins 2013 IBM Beacon Award for Smarter Computing / Best Cloud Application Provider
nViso is delighted to announce that the company has won the 2013 IBM Beacon Award for Smarter Computing for best Cloud Application Provider (and finalist for Analytics and Big Data Innovation) last week in Las Vegas! This honor is awarded each year in recognition of a select number of IBM Business Partners who have delivered [...]
Important new agreement for Lotaris in China
Lotaris today announced the conclusion of a comprehensive agreement with AliPay to provide extensive coverage of local China payment methods for the Lotaris Platform. Lotaris CFO, Mr. Jerome Lepeu, stated that whilst Lotaris already supported credit cards in China, this agreement extends coverage to local China debit cards and AliPay wallet holders. “It is also [...]
International Create Challenge ICC’2013 – Call for participation open
The goal of the 2013 International Create Challenge (ICC’2013) is to foster the creation of start-ups within the framework of Human & Media Computing. The ICC’2013 is an initiative supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2, www.im2.ch ), via its association (AIM2), and the Idiap Research [...]
Aptarism, Staging your Future Events with Innovation
Imagine that by scanning artful stickers during your train commute you can dive in a virtual world and interact with it. Imagine that every sticker scanned in the train lets you discover another feature or participate to a quizz. Wouldn’t this make your daily commute a lot more fun? Well this is just an example [...]
Coteries: Taking the Fan Experience to the Next Level
Founded in December 2012, Coteries the young and dynamic startup based in the Jura bernois wants to take the fan experience to the next level in our mobile connected world. Coteries focuses on building social networks in the music sector, with the goal to give fans innovative ways to engage with artists and listen to [...]
Memoways: Creating Storyworlds for New Experiences
In this age of transmedia storytelling, user experience personalization, engagement by storytelling and participation by “User Generated Content” have become of crucial importance for content providers such as big brands and destinations. MemoWays the startup founded in 2011 and based in Geneva has developed a software toolset to create interactive videos in a playful and [...]
Faceshift: Driving your virtual avatar with your emotions
How cool would it be to slip into the role of your favorite 3D character and control its facial expressions with your own? Just imagine how such a technology could impact the next generation of movies and games. Founded as a spin-off of Lausanne’s EPFL, now based in Zurich, swiss startup faceshift has developed the [...]
Everdreamsoft & Tegona: Crafting the future gaming experience
Everdreamsoft & Tegona, two innovative swiss startups share one common mission: to bridge the gap existing between virtual and real life gaming. Card games, in their traditional form, have been around for a long time. Their online versions brought many advantages to gamers such having the possibility to play at any time of the day [...]
Domaines d'expertises
Cloud computing
- nViso wins 2013 IBM Beacon Award for Smarter Computing / Best Cloud Application Provider
- Invitation to the Tech Tour Cloud & Big Data Summit 2012
- NEXThink Lands $5.5 Million Funding
Green IT
- IT for Green: Western Switzerland Smarter Energy Solutions
- Ecowizz: Saving energy has never been so easy!
- EcoCloud: innovating, economical and environment-friendly ICT
ICT Systems and Networks
- Nexthink Recognized by Computerworld as a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate
- senseFly and EPFL Lab awarded euRobotics TechTransfer Award
- Call for Startups: Lift Up your Innovation
Man / Machine Interface
- At EPFL, Mother Nature meets the Motherboard
- Call for papers: 5th International Advanced Mobility Forum
- The man who wants to change books into machines
Mobile Services
- Mobicamp: Finalists for the Dragon’s Den competition selected
- The Original Fontself fonts now available on the iPhone
- Lotaris Partners with Ericsson IPX
Security
- Crossing-Tech selected by Gartner among the 2013 worldwide Cool Vendors
- KeyLemon reinvents the Login with your smile
- Keylemon’s Facial Recognition Solution Pre-installed on Fujitsu’s PCs
