January 2013
How Algorithms Changed The World →
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One Year Later and IBM's Social Business is Still... →
In an article I wrote last year titled “Why Every Company Needs to be More Like IBM and Less Like Apple”, I compared the cultures of both companies and how over the past 25 years they had flipped: “Today’s Big Blue is the antithesis of Big Brother. It’s ‘Big Open’. A transparent, nimble, collaborative organization known more for listening and engaging customers than for dictating to them. While...
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The IPSO IoT Innovation Contest « Wireless Sensor... →
The IPSO Alliance is announcing the Internet of Things 2013 Innovation Contest that invites people and companies from around the world to submit new Internet Protocol enabled Smart Objects that demonstrate the power of the Internet of Things. The goal of this contest is to bring forth exciting new concepts and devices that use the Internet Protocol in interconnecting embedded sensor and control...
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The State Grid Corporation of China Is Running a... →
As well as making the grid more reliable and efficient, the technology could deliver high-speed Internet, TV, and telephony.
hina has begun testing smart-grid technology that could eventually be deployed nationwide to make the delivery of electricity more reliable and efficient. It might also serve as a way to deliver high-speed Internet, TV, and telephony to the farthest reaches of the...
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Blogging the Singularity » 10 fascinating facts... →
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is quickly becoming mainstream and we’re are rubbing our hands with glee at the prospect. But what’s so exciting about a technology, which some say has the potential to be as important as the Internet?
1. Well, for a start, it can print cars! The makers of the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, got German 3D printing company, Voxeljet, to knock up three 1:3 scale...
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Storing data in individual molecules near room... →
The new data-storage molecules are known as “graphene fragments,” because they largely consist of flat sheets of carbon (which are attached to zinc atoms). That makes them easier to align during deposition, which could simplify the manufacture of molecular memories. (Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT)
An experimental technology called molecular memory could store data in individual molecules has...
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Creating a Culture of Social Influence is Big for... →
Stephen O’Donnell, CEO, S1NED Inc.
By Stephen O’Donnell
As a child I noticed how small businesses relied on personal relationships and trust to thrive. The local butcher, banker, and physician knew instinctively that what they needed to do to be successful: win the respect of their local community.
Today, as business has globalized, the need for close connections between merchant and...
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Nonprofit Common Crawl Offers a Database of the... →
Common Crawl supplies a database of over five billion Web pages in the hope that it will inspire new research or online services.
Google famously started out as little more than a more efficient algorithm for ranking Web pages. But the company also built its success on crawling the Web—using software that visits every page in order to build up a vast index of online content.
A nonprofit...
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FCC pushes for gigabit broadband in all 50 states... →
FCC’s Julius Genachowski challenges service providers and local communities to build such networks, saying communities would turn themselves into innovation hubs that would create valuable jobs.
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WatchAmiigo, the Smart Wearable Sensor That Knows What You’re Doing
Wearable sensors or fitness-tracking bracelets, such as the Nike+ FuelBand or Fitbit Flex, are starting to go mainstream. But now, there’s a new competitor in town — the Amiigo.
The team of entrepreneurs behind this new wristband claims their product is better than the others because it can automatically tell what kind of...
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Talk to IBMblr
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IBM Was Here
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s orbiter avionics data processing system came from a patented IBM innovation. (Thanks for the photo, Britt!)
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“While the predictable nature of tides makes them an ideal renewable energy...”
– New research to support the huge potential of tidal power
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Rob van Kranenberg's comprehensive global Internet... →
*I don’t get that many comprehensive global plans for tech development on the ol’ blog here.
*It’s a press release, in the sense that I’m press and I got it released to me today.
Action Plan IoT
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Tim O'Reilly on The Endarkment →
Tim O’Reilly is a very smart guy, and even though he is a dyed-in-the-wool technophile, he hasn’t let that blind him:
Tim O’Reilly, The Rise Of Anti-Intellectualism And The End Of Progress
For so many in the techno-elite, even those who don’t entirely subscribe to the unlimited optimism of the Singularity, the notion of perpetual progress and economic growth is somehow taken for granted. As a...
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Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Evolution toward a... →
I recently read an excellent article, 2012: The Year in Payments - A Look Back At The News And The Noise In Payments by Karen Webster, CEO of Market Platform Dynamics and founder of PYMNTS.com. In the article, Webster reviews some of the major developments in digital payments over the last year, and gives her opinion of what is likely to happen in 2013 and beyond. Beyond her detailed reviews...
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To Change A Company, You Need Intrapreneurs |... →
It can be hard to get a big, slow company to change its ways. It’s the efforts of courageous intrapreneurs that can change their trajectory. The key is to make your company a place where intrapreneurs can thrive.
Multinational corporations aren’t always known for their agility. Organizational change, product evolution, or rebranding—just some of the many ways in which a business has the...
“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground...”
– Dee Dee Myers, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
(via freshtracksinc)
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The emergence of mobile-supported national health... →
A major challenge for national health information systems in developing countries is their scalability and sustainability at the lowest levels where primary health care is delivered. This paper contributes to the discourse on how national health information systems can scale to the lower levels and how mobile technology is supporting the collection, handling and dissemination of data. But can...
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CES 2013: The Break-Out Year For The Internet Of...
Robin Raskin is founder of Living in Digital Times, which produces conferences and expos at CES and throughout the year focusing on how technology enhances our lives.
Robin Raskin
CES, like Las Vegas where it’s held, has always been about big. Big announcements like the DVD, Blu-Ray, the Xbox, the VCR – that’s the magnitude of stuff that’s been announced at CES events of years gone by. At the...
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In a World of Devices, the User is Central -... →
Roger Kay of Forbes recently opined that the world is becoming more and more user-centric. He explains, “User-centric computing is a theme we can expect to hear articulated in many ways next week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The simple view of the shift from device-centric to user-centric computing goes like this: when all we had was one device — a PC, first to do our...
