Zagada Waagstein Global Outsourcing 100 Index (ZAWA100) Calculated by S&P Selects Cisco and Genpact in Index Change

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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Miami, Coral Gables, FL /Goteborg, Sweden (PRWEB) October 30, 2007 -- Zagada Markets and Swedish based Waagstein Research (ZagadaWaagstein) today announced that Avaya Inc. and Xansa Plc have been replaced by Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Genpact (NYSE: G) in its ZagadaWaagstein Global Outsourcing 100 Index (ZAWA100). Calculated and administered in real-time by Standard & Poor?s (S&P), the ZAWA100 is the first investable benchmark on the estimated US$1.3 trillion information technology outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry.

The ZAWA100 Index, which includes companies across the Asia-Pacific, Americas and European regions, is 1% equally weighted and is rebalanced on a quarterly basis for consistency. Its current notional market capitalization value is now US$875 billion. Launched on June 12th, 2007 the ZAWA100 yielded a 33.19% annualized return on its five ? year back tested period (2001-2006) performed by S&P.

Cisco and Genpact have also been added to the ZAWA Americas 30 Index (ZAWA30) which captures the 30 largest market capitalization and best performing Americas listed companies from the ZAWA100.

Cisco replaces Avaya, which was acquired by private equity firms? Silver Lake Partners and TPG and is scheduled for delisting at the end of October. Genpact replaces U.K. based Xansa which was acquired by Sternia Group SCA, a listed company on Euronext Paris. Cisco?s inclusion was based on the index committee?s decision to consistently include a major company driving connectivity enablement in the service globalization sector. Genpact, a pure - play BPO spin off from General Electric, and one of the sector?s largest operators, required two quarters of trading to meet the Index committee?s selection criteria.

For information on the ZAWA100 and ZagadaWaagstein Indexes please go to: www.zagadaWaagstein.com. For more information on licensing a single index or the entire index family please send emails to ZWIndex @ zagada.com or call 786 348 7531.

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