February 2013
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Internet of things Podcast – Almond ’s nutty idea:... →
Today’s podcast features the CEO of Secuifi where we’ll talk about how to connect your home and why. We’ll also talk about the standards battle making it hard for consumers to jump into the connected home.
What do you need for the Internet of things? It’s not entirely clear yet, but what we do know is that right now there are several ways to connect devices to the home network but a...
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WatchBreezing: Portable Metabolism Tracker | Indiegogo
Meet Breezing.
For the first time ever, a metabolism tracker that syncs with your smartphone. Brought to you by a team of dedicated researchers and engineers, Breezing combines innovative design with proven science.
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Y Combinator-Backed Thalmic Labs Introduces MYO, A... →
As stuff like Google Glass becomes mainstream, we’re going to see a lot more wearable computing devices around. But one thing that isn’t clear is how we’ll control them. One idea is to use gesture control, which would enable users to communicate with wearable computers without having to use a whole separate smartphone or other device to do so.
But so far, gesture control for most devices — like...
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Listening to the Voices of Social Business « A... →
Ethan McCarty, Director of Enterprise Social Strategy and Programs, IBM
By Ethan McCarty
The common view in the business world is that social media is simply a fun tool for checking in with friends and family – something that I, and millions of others, enjoy every day. However, this perception sells social media short and ultimately prevents many businesses from harnessing its true potential.
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I.B.M. to Take Big Step Into Mobile - NYTimes.com →
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Bioengineering cells for more efficient biofuel... →
In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates.
They contain more energy than ethanol and are also more compatible with existing gasoline-based infrastructure.
For isobutanol to become practical, however, scientists need a way to reliably produce huge quantities of it from renewable sources.
MIT chemical engineers and...
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Obama's Brain
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According to an article on the front page of this morning’s New York Times, the Obama Administration is planning to seek three billion dollars from Congress to map the human brain’s activity. Here, Gary Marcus looks at five of the most fundamental unsolved questions in neuroscience that this investment should address: http://nyr.kr/12YVXqL
“Complex business means we should be able to access not only collective...”
– ‘Social Business’ is Only Half of Enterprise 2.0 (via fredericwilliquet)
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Report: Making urban farming possible (and... →
This guide, a master’s paper from the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University, addresses the changing face of the agricultural industry, and supports farmers producing food in urban centers and on the urban fringe. It is a collection of topical factsheets including resources and…
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“We are about to repeat the amount of city-building we did in the last 200 years,...”
– Hey Cities Slowdown | Sustainable Cities (via smartercities)
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Element Blue Releases First Mobile App for Smarter... →
Element Blue, an IBM Premier Partner and leading Smarter Planet solution provider, has released the industry’s first mobile application for use with the IBM Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) platform.
“Our goal in developing the Intelligent Operations Dashboard for Consumers app was to make our real-time solution even more easy and efficient for our clients to use,” said Joey...
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How crowd-sourced work needs to change
The current system for “crowd work” leads to diminishing pay and skills for simply completing small, homogenous tasks:
A better system would draw on knowledge of organizational principles and distributed computing to support complex, creative and interdependent work:
Via Follow the Crowd
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A New Era of Computing Will Bring the Power of... →
Colin Parris, GM IBM Power Systems
By Colin Parris
Westside Produce, a harvester and distributor of fresh melons in California’s Central Valley, probably isn’t the kind of company that comes to mind when you think about cutting-edge computing technologies. Yet this outfit, with just a few hundred employees, uses sophisticated technology to predict how many melons will be ready for harvest on...
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WatchKids Use Coding Skills to Hack Online Games
Kids as young as 11 are using coding skills to hack accounts on social media and gaming sites, according to one report. Antivirus firm AVG says children are writing malware to steal data and virtual currency from friends.
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“In less than five years, tablets have attained 10% US market penetration, a...”
– Jean Louis Gassee, The Next Big Thing: Big Missing Pieces (via stoweboyd)
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WatchThere Are Now Six IBM Watsons, Here’s What They’re Doing | Mashable
IBM’s cognitive supercomputer, called Watson, famously won Jeopardy two years ago. That was just the beginning. IBM has built six Watsons in the last year, deploying them to do what the system was designed for: Give healthcare professionals fast answers to complex medical questions.
Both the Memorial...
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WatchNew Year, New World | New Voices for Our Path Forward (by The GBS Social Business Channel)
Using mobile devices and a new, novel collaborative video production process, millennial generation IBMers share their perspective on the path forward for IBM’s consulting organization, Global Business Services
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WatchSocialize Me: A Little About IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5
One of the biggest announcements is the upcoming IBM Connections 4.5 release which we are targeting for March, just 6 months after the huge release of IBM Connections 4.0 ! I also had the opportunity to present for the first time the roadmap for IBM Connections at the conference. The feedback from the audience was tremendous....
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“The best inventors do it because it is so much fun, they can’t stop doing it.” Bob Friedlander + James Kraemer 120+ patents, 350+ pending
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The Social Business: Poor leadership, technology... →
Gartner study finds that:
80 percent of social business efforts will not achieve their intended benefits through 2015 due to inadequate leadership and an overemphasis on technology .
The “push” approach that worked for ERP and CRM rollouts won’t work for social applications — people must…
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The Next Decade Is The Internet Of Things | ... →
Since 1980‘s and 1990‘s we were constantly talking about world globalization and how interconnected we have become, partially thanks to the internet. In todays world, I think we need to coin a new term “internetiolization”, if we can pronounce it that is.
You might think that you live in the world of the internet, where everything is connected. But in truth, you have no idea how interconnected...
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Partnerships Between Humans and Machines Will... →
Dr. James Hendler, Professor and Computer Science Department Head, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
By Dr. James Hendler
Every single student in the Department of Computer Science here at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has the potential to revolutionize computing. But with the arrival of Watson at Rensselaer, they’re even better positioned to do so.
Watson has caused the researchers in my...
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