Kids 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.
A Cheap, Rugged Tablet Is Your Kid’s Next Fixation | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Forget phablets. Touchscreen Android devices designed expressly for kids with bright colors, durable cases and rubberized surfaces are making a big splash in the tablet space.
Tablets certainly are a hot-ticket item. Apple was projected to sell 62 million iPads in 2012, and Android tablet sales were up 177 percent this holiday season. But while some parents are only too happy to share their $500-plus tablets with the kids (or even buy the kiddos iPads of their own), some are opting instead to get a tablet designed specifically for their wee ones’ tiny fingers and eager minds.
7 Social Media Trends for Consumers New Research | Social Media Examiner Here are seven key findings from that report. #1: More Time Invested in Mobile The survey found that consumers are increasingly looking to their smartphones and tablets to access social media. While the PC is still the most widely used device when it comes to social media consumption, the study found that time spent on mobile apps and mobile websites accounted for a 63% increase (compared to 2011) in total time spent. Additionally, 43% of users said they use smartphones to access social media, while 16% connect using a tablet.
BBC - Future - Technology - Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years
As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150.
Michael Idinopulos is chief customer officer and general manager of Socialtext.
Michael Idinopulos
The business community faces immense pressure to embrace each new social network, keeping up with the pace that their employees have become comfortable with in their personal lives on sites such asFacebook and Twitter. Creating a community in the workplace where employees can share and engage on a real-time platform makes everyday communication and collaboration easier and more effective, delivering tangible business results.
When it comes to today’s fast-paced workplace, there’s no better place for social collaboration. But over time, our society has changed from an open setting of collaborative work to a closed, cubicle environment where work is isolated and trapped, confined by our digital domain. We went from verbally discussing and sharing information to doing our jobs secluded from the very people who we bounced ideas off of and who kept us informed on what was happening.
When technology advanced to facilitate and automate our tasks, it also gave us something to talk to each other about. But we became locked behind digital walls even though our cubicles had been dismantled. Thankfully, we have now come full circle and have the tools to once again collaborate and learn on the job with the use of advanced technology available in the workplace. Breaking down the “private office” has become easier than ever and has unleashed what can only be described as a productivity revolution.
In 2012, “social” was all about collaboration and mobility in the workplace, creating a physical and virtual community that brought in-house and remote workers together. It’s no surprise that businesses are racing to adopt enterprise-wide social, simply because it works. More and more companies are adopting social collaboration tools to provide employees the tools they need for immediate access to what is needed to get work done through interaction, connection and collaboration. This in turn provides a more embedded place within an organization.
IBM 2012 Tech Trends Report now available
IBM has published its 2012 Tech Trends Report: Fast Track to the Future based on a survey of over 1,200 IT professionals worldwide. Mobile is featured prominently in the report. Key insights from the study:
- lone inventors like Gutenberg and Edison
- corporate labs and R&D centers
- start-ups backed by venture capital
- TODAY - large companies like Apple, IBM and Sygenta
The State of Social Media [SLIDESHARE] 2H2012 by Esteban Contreras
Google plots the 20-year evolution of the Web | CNET News
As part of its Google I/O extravaganza, Google released an interactive visualization that tracks the evolution of the Web over the last 20 years in terms of user and data growth, as well as the core Web technologies that have driven the transformation of the Internet from plain old HTML to a rich, interactive medium.
Tablets ‘one of the fastest-growing technologies in history’ - Telegraph
One in four smartphone owners used a tablet between February and April this year, an increase of 14 per cent over last year.
“Once consumers get their hands on their first tablet, they are using them for any number of media habits,” said Mark Donovan, Senior Vice President of Mobile at market research firm comScore.
Remember how graphene, the single-atom thick layer of carbon was so slick it was 
going to change everything? Well it looks like silicene is here to steal the spotlight. Researchers have just made the first sheet of single-atom thick silicon.
Silicene has been a work in progress for years, but they think they’ve finally got it down now, and it represents a tremendous breakthrough. Graphene is awesome, but it’s proven a bit tricky to work it into components. Because silicene is made of silicon, which most chips are already made of, the integration process could be much simpler.
Patrick Vogt of Berlin’s Technical University in Germany, along side researchers at Aix-Marseille University in France managed to create silicene by condensing silicon vapor onto a silver plate to form a single layer of atoms. They then tested the sheet and found that it closely matched the properties silicene was theorized to exhibit. The next (challenging) step will be to grow silicene on insulating substrates so that it can be fully tested and evaluated for potential future uses in electronics. Looking forward to see what they do with this stuff. [New Scientist]
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The computing trend that will change everything | KurzweilAI
While the largest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is the power industry, the second largest is the more often overlooked cement industry, which accounts for 5-6% of all anthropogenic CO2emissions. For every 10 kg of cement produced, the cement industry releases a full 9 kg of CO2. Since the world consumes about 3 trillion kg of cement annually, this sector has one of the highest potentials for CO2 emission reductions. But while processes are being explored to sequester the CO2 from cement production, so far no process can completely eliminate it.
“Tablet adoption is increasing among corporate tech buyers. ChangeWave Research recently polled a group of 1,604 business IT buyers and found that 22 percent of them planned to purchase tablets for their employees sometime in the second quarter of 2012. Of those, 84 percent say they’re likely to buy Apple iPads — an increase of 7 percentage points from ChangeWave’s November 2011 survey.”
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