eBay and ChoDienTu Partner to pursue Vietnamese market

It was annouced today that eBay and ChoDienTu are partnering to pursue the Vietnamese Market. It looks like eBay is hoping that ChoDienTu can help clear the way in this market. ChoDienTu is a start up with a very small user base, but I guess every little bit helps. It sounds like the plan is to build a co-brand site.


More Information: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb20080617_221923.htm

Robotic Surgery - Successful in Calgary - Canada

Big News today in the Medical/Technology community. It looks like some doctors in Calgary Canada have sucessfully used a robot (neuroarm) to remove a brain tumor from a young 21 year old mom (Paige Nickason). The big benefits of a robot of course are the precision, miniaturization, and the wonderful bedside manner.

This isn't the first surgery done by a robot. A quick look at wikipedia revealed that the first robotic surgery was done in 1985 (a brain biopsy done with a needle by the PUMA 560), and there have been a string of other since then (More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_surgery) This is the first surgery to remove a tumor.

Here's the million dollar question that everyone is waiting to find out - When the robot successfully peformed the surgery, did it do the "Robot" dance?

More info: http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/may2008/neuroArm