It also has interests in 3D imaging, bio-informatics and connected devices.

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Ignoring accounting benefits, Accelrys will still need to prove to investors that it can extract value from being the early leader in chem-informatics and nanoscale modeling and simulation software.

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We also heard from the Renfrewshire company selling tea to China, we heard about the role of Edinburgh University's world-leading informatics department.

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Researchers from the University of Helsinki and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics created high-tech gloves that help you find what you're looking for by vibrating when you get close to the lost item.

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There is also stiff competition from Chinese manufacturers and low-cost Indian phone makers such as Micromax Informatics Ltd. in the South Asian nation.

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"We hope that this training initiative will be the start of an ongoing partnership between the University of Pretoria and the community of Zithobeni, where information and communication technologies could be more and more used for sustainable development, " says Kirstin Krauss, a PhD student from the Department of Informatics, who has piloted the previous UNESCO-funded ICT training project in deep rural Kwa Zulu Natal.

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The long, redundant process is extremely error-prone, says Subha Madhavan, director of biomedical informatics at Georgetown.

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Not only did this slow down time-to-discovery, but it also required heavy investment in informatics infrastructure.

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They also expect that American aid would benefit the private sectors -- and not the government -- in all areas, economic, cultural, educational, informatics.

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