Interesting post on Nanosolar who have create a 99c solar panel. Google and its RE<C initiative and others are behind this venture. Could this be part of the solution to the Solar Grand Plan ? Certainly a cheap solution for polluters participating in the Clean Development Mechanism

Lab49’s Daniel Chait provides SDTimes’ editor-in-chief David Rubinstein with his views on CEP, HPC, multi-core processing, WPF/Flex, etc, here.  Nice article, David.

Stephen Colbert covering Cramer’s outburst. Classic.

Lab49’s Daniel Chait gets some great coverage on the Microsoft’s Developer & Evangelism Platform - Financial Services blog: Building up to the Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference - The Chait Chat

The last few months and weeks have been a bit mad with a host of new client projects coming online, and a tidal wave of marketing activities.

On the project front, and despite some dodgy market conditions, we have been continuing to see (and have started) some interesting projects around automated trading: from market simulation environments to real-time pricing to risk management systems. We have also seen more projects on the buy-side where the level of innovation and adoption of the latest technologies is still impressive. In advanced visualization (specifically, WPF/Silverlight), we are starting to see interest across various trading businesses which is very promising going forward. We also continue to be involved in quite a few projects involving grid computing, distributed cache, etc.

On the marketing front, we have been busy publishing new articles, contributed to a number of features in various industry publications and are currently in the process of writing some thought leadership pieces for technology and finance publications. We have also been doing some great sales & marketing activities with some of our technology partners around, including working on some new client opportunities and developing some demos leveraging WPF and CEP platforms. (We will also be starting to talk a bit more openly about our various partnerships)

What’s great about the recent flurry of project and marketing activity has been the balance across high performance computing (grid, cache, etc), Java (J2EE, Spring, opensource), Microsoft (WPF, Silverlight) and other technologies (messaging, market data, visualization, etc), which really helps to show Lab49’s depth and breadth across the technology space. Some highlights from the last few months include:

• A cool new Lab49 WPF Contest to find the best WPF developers in finance - with various sponsors contributing over $15,000 in prizes.
• Luke wrote a special feature”Computation on Demand” for GridToday which discusses the world of virtualization, with specific references to Amazon’s EC2.
• Daniel has been pretty active in giving interviews across the board, and extremely involved in various Microsoft activities, including the new Financial Industry Council, including being a guest on their 2nd podcast
• Matt started his (hopefully regular) column for Dr. Dobb’s: “WPF and the need to visualize CEP/ESP“, with more already in the works.
• Not to be outdone (!), Marc also wrote a great article for GridToday entitled, “Grid in Financial Services: Past, Present and Future“

Lots more news, articles, features, partner updates, etc in the pipeline that I will post as they happen..